September 29th - October 3rd : What's Happening in Kindergarten This Week?

Conferences will be Friday, October 10th during the teacher workday.  

Domain: Life Science

Theme: Using Our Senses

Essential Question:

How do our senses help us learn about the world?

Read Aloud: Listen, Listen

Big Book: My Five Senses

Poetry: Poem About Senses

Comprehension Skills:

Target Skill - Compare  & Contrast

- Text and graphic features

Target Strategy: Monitor / Clarify

High Frequency Word: see (words so far.....I, like, the, and)

Phonological Awareness:

Blend Onset and Rime (a word that is separated orally ex. /m/  /at/ they say mat)

Fluency: Pause for punctuation

Phonics: Letter/ Sounds Short a

(Andy the Apple)

Vowels and Consonants

Vocabulary Strategies: Context Clues

Grammar: Sensory Words

Writing: Informative Writing

Focus Trait: Word Choice

We will be writing about our five senses this week

Math: 

I know my numbers 0-10.  (must know 0-30)     

I can count 10 objects and write how many.  ( must count 1-20)

I can tell if a group has the same, more or less.

I can represent a number.  Ex. Using a ten frame.  

I can count to 100. 

Looking Forward to a great week in Kindergarten
K-Crew Teachers

September 22-26: What's Happening in Kindergarten This Week?

This past week in kindergarten we learned all about different kinds of jobs.  We talked about jobs that adults can have, and jobs that a child can have. Some jobs are inside and some jobs are outside. Some jobs are for money and some jobs we can do to be a volunteer.  Our students got to think about what they would like to be when they grow up and what they can do now.  We also talked more about nouns and began learning that an action is a verb.  It is amazing what a 5 year old can learn.  Our little K-Crew kids are all on a great voyage of learning.  Take a look at what we will be learning this week on the K-Crew ship.

ELA: Weekly Focus

Domain: Social Relationships

Theme: Helping

Essential Question:

How do tools help us do things with our hands?

Read Aloud: The Little Red Hen

Big Book: The Handiest Things in the World

Folk Tale: Stone Soup

Comprehension Skills:

- Details

- Cause and Effect

Strategy: Questions

High Frequency Word: I, like, the, and

Phonological Awareness: Beginning Sounds; Words in oral sentences

Fluency: Pause for punctuation

Phonics: Letter S

Vocabulary Strategies: Synonyms

Grammar: Action Verbs in Present Tense

Writing: Narrative

Focus Trait: ideas

Math:
Numbers: 0-10
Skills: less, more, equal
counting and writing how many
Number Identification 

Looking Forward to a Great Week of Learning!

The K-Crew Teachers

September 15-19 : What's Happening This Week in Kindergarten?

Last week in kindergarten we talked and learned about pets and how we take care of them.  On Friday we had a Kindergarten Pet Day.  Many pet friends came to visit us and the kids enjoyed every minute.  Take a look at just a few of the pets that  we had.  I missed taking the picture of some.  

Now take a look at the learning that will be taking place this week......................

ELA: Weekly Focus

Domain: Community

Theme: Jobs

Essential Question:

What kinds of work do people do?

Read Aloud: Pizza At Sally's

Big Book: Everybody Works

Fairy Tales: 

-The Elves and the Shoemaker

-The Lion and the Mouse

Comprehension Skills: 

- Text and Graphics Features 

- Genre

Strategy: Analyze / Evaluate

High Frequency Word: and (I, like, the)

Phonological Awareness: 

-Beginning Sounds

-Words in oral sentences (count the words in a sentence)

Math:

Numbers 0-10

Writing, Counting, Ten Frames, More, Less, Equal 

Looking forward to a great week in kindergarten

The K-Crew Teachers

September 8th - 12th: What's Happening in Kindergarten This Week

It is so hard to believe this year passing by so fast.  On month has flown by, and our K-Crew Kids settling into a voyage in kindergarten.

 We are excited to announce that on Friday, Sept 12th we will be having Pets in Kindergarten Day. Parents if you would like to bring a pet we will be so excited to have them.  Please bring them at a little before 9:30.  We will be set up in the shade behind the media center.  If there is rain we have an alternate location where all the animals, parents and k-crew kids can stay dry.   Please make sure your pet is in a cage or on a leash.  Please also make sure they are pets that are use to being around children.

ELA: Weekly Focus

Domain: Values

Theme: Pets

Essential Question:

Why do people have to take care of their pet?

Read Aloud: I have a pet!

Big Book: Please, Puppy, Please

Informational Text: Different Kinds of Dogs

Comprehension Skills: 

-Story Structure 

-Conclusion 

Target Strategy: Monitor / Clarify

High Frequency Word: the ( previous weeks words I, like)

Phonological Awareness: 

Beginning Sounds

Words in oral sentences (counting the words in a sentence)

Fluency: Reading rate

Letter Names: Uu, Vv, Ww. Xx, Yy, Zz

Vocabulary Strategies: Synonyms

Grammar: Nouns for Animals and Things ( we now know that nouns are people and places)

Writing: Narrative

Focus Trait: ideas

Envision Math:

Numbers: 0-10

Standards/Skills covered: 

A number is the same as the objects counted

counting objects and writing number

using ten frames

Looking forward to a great week in kindergarten

The K-Crew Teachers and Paras 

September 2-5: What's Happening in Kindergarten This Week?

Journey's Reading:

Last week in reading we learned about families.  Our question was "how are all families alike?"  The answer was that every family is special.  

This week we will be on the topic of going to school, and the rules we have in school.

ELA: Weekly Focus

Domain: Civics

Theme: Going To School

Essential Question:

Why do we have rules at school?

Read Aloud: Friends at School

Big Book: How Do Dinosaurs Go To School?

Informaitonal Text: My School Bus

Comprehension Skills: 

Understanding Characters

Author's Purpose

High Frequency Word: like (We have now had the words I, like)

Phonemic Awareness: Beginning Sounds (When we hear 3 beginning sounds, which 2 sounds are alike or words begin with the same sound)

Fluency: Pause for punctuation (When we read pause when we come to a punctuation mark.  Last week we learned that we read with expression)

Letter Names: Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss. Tt

Vocabulary Strategies: Antonyms (opposites)

Grammar: Nouns for Places

(Last week learned that nouns are people.  This week we will learn that nouns are places, and next week we will learn that nouns are things)

Writing: Narrative 

Focus Trait: Word Choice 

Labels (We are learning how to label items in our pictures)

Envision Math:

We will be finishing topic 2 this week.  We are still working with the numbers 0-5.  We are learning more about the terms fewer (less), more (greater) and the same (equal to).  Fewer is very difficult for our students.  Work at home with groups of items.  Ask them to tell you which is fewer, more, and if groups are the same as. 

Looking forward to a great week in kindergarten

The K-Crew Teachers