January 26- 30: What's Happening in Kindergarten This Week?

It's so hard to believe that we are in the 2nd half of kindergarten all ready.  Learning is going on everywhere.  Our students are reading or hopefully will be soon.  They are so excited to learn new things.  Please remember to work each day with your child on letters, sounds, and reading their sight words.  We are now adding 6 words a week, so they will need your help along with ours. 

Take a look at what we will be learning this week in kindergarten land........

 

This week's letter

 

Rr

( Help them by finding words that begin with r, and hearing the r at the end of a word)

 

Sight Words

will

into

your

be

that

who

 

Phonemic Awareness

Blending and Segmenting Phonemes

 

Books

We will be reading books that start with Letter Rr

Winter Books

 

Math

Adding and subtracting with number stories

(Work with your child on different ways a number can be made.....

Ex. 5

2+3=5

4+1=5

1+1+1+1+1=5

5+0=5

Find ways to represent the number using counters, pictures, drawings,,,,,,,

 

Looking forward to a great week in kindergarten

The K-Crew

 

 



January 12-16: What's Happening in Kindergarten This Week?

What's going on a Smith Elementary?

This week we are having a competition of all the grades.  We buying purple feet for $1.00 for Relay For Life.  The grade that purchases the most will get a grade level party. 

All proceeds will go to

The American Cancer Society

 

 

A look at what we are learning this week:

 

Domain: Earth Science Lesson Topic: Testing Ideas

Essential Question: What kinds of things do Scientist study?

Read Aloud: Dear Mr. Blueberry
Big Book: What is Science
     Informational Text: Benjamin Franklin,  MLK

High Frequency Word:   is, how, many, of, so, where                                                       Phonological Awareness: Blend Phonemes
     Phonics: Review: Short i Blending Words Building Words     
     Writing: Narrative Writing Focus Trait: Word Choice

 

Math:

Number Talks

Counting to 100

Addition and Subtraction

 

Looking forward to having a great week in kindergarten

The K-Crew