February 9-13: What's Happening in Kindergarten This Week?

This week is full of lots of learning, fun and activities.  It's going to be a busy week in K-Crew land.  Take a look below.

Progress Reports go home on Thursday

We are having our first Daddy Daughter Dance on Thursday, February 12th starting at 6:30.  It doesn't have to be a daddy, just someone important in our little girls lives.

On Friday, starting at 10:00 our K-Crew will be having I Love Math followed by our Valentine's Day Party.  We hope to see all of you in our classrooms Friday, for a day full of love and learning.

What are we learning.......

This week's Focus wall for Reading.

This week is a review week for Reading for our Sight Words.  As you see above, we have learned many, many words. Please practice with your child each night their words.  It will help them so much in the classroom.  We have completed all the words through Unit 4.

Letter: Ii

Practice with them listening for Ii at the beginning and middle of a word.  i and e are so easily confused with our kindergarten kids.

Stories and Writing:

Along with the stories listed above we will be reading Valentine's Day books and making Valentine's Day Crafts.  We will be writing I love sentences and making cards.  

Math:

In math we will be review and assessing.  Please continues to work with your child on counting to 100, writing numbers, counting sets and adding and subtracting.

Looking forward to a great week in Kindergarten.

The K-Crew

January K-Crew Fun and Learning

January was filled with lots of fun and learning.  We celebrated the 100th day of school, learned all about the Martin Luther King Jr and how  hoped for peace, dreamed of snow.  Take a look at some of our K-Crew fun and learning from our K-Crew Classes.

Thanks for stopping by

The K-Crew

February 2-6: What's Happening in Kindergarten This Week?

Our Focus Wall for this week in kindergarten.

This week is another exciting week in kindergarten.  

There is so much learning going on in all of our K-Crew classrooms.  

Our students are growing and becoming more independent.  

They are reading or starting to read. They are beginning to add and subtract like pros.

Please work with your little one 

each night on their 

letters and sounds, sight words, 

numbers and counting to 100.  

I know you have noticed that we are adding 6 new sight words each week 

with our Journey's Reading Series.  

I know this may be overwhelming for some of our kids. 

 Please just work with them starting from the beginning words.

we will keep practicing at school with them.  

Letter Focus: Dd

New Sight Words: 

go, here, soon, for they up

Groundhog Day: 

Monday is groundhog day, we will learning all about the groundhog 

and doing some really fun activities.  

Math:

We are adding and subtracting to 10

Making numbers using 10s and ones

Demonstrating different ways to represent a number with Number Talks

Coming Soon in K-Crew Land:

We Love Math

Friday, February 13

10:00

We will be doing a short Number Talks lesson with our kids followed by our Valentines Day Parry.  We hope to see all of you there.  

LOOKING FORWARD TO A GREAT WEEK IN KINDERGARTEN

THE K-CREW

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

December 1-5: We are dreaming of Gingerbread in kindergarten this week.

Read Aloud: Gingerbread books

Gingerbread Boy

Gingerbread Girl

Gingerbread Man

Gingerbread Baby

Gingerbread Friends

Gingerbread Cowboy

And many other Gingerbread bookds

Comprehension Skills: 

Target Skill 

- Author's Purpose

- Text and Graphic Features

-Compare and Contrast

-Beginning, Middle, End

-Retelling a Story

High Frequency Word: you, what 

Phonological Awareness: 

Blend Phonemes

Final Sounds

Phonics: Letter/Sound: f /f/

Blending Words 

Word Building

Vocabulary Strategies:

Context Clues

Grammar: Complete Sentences

Writing: Narrative Writing

Gingerbread Writing

Looking Forward to a great week in kindergarten!

The K-Crew

November 17-21: What's Happening in Kindergarten This Week?

This week we will be reviewing and learning all about 

Thanksgiving and it's traditions.  

We will be reading Thanksgiving books, learning about long, long ago and making Thanksgiving crafts.

On Thursday we will be dressing up for our Thanksgiving feast at lunch.

On Friday we will be making butter and tasting other things in our room.  

Please take this time this week to work with your child on the items that are listed on the progress report.

It's going to be a great week in kindergarten.

The K-Crew