It's a Nautical Kind of Year in Kindergarten

Welcome to our kindergarten blog for Smith Elementary. Stop by often to see what is going on at Smith Elementary and in Kindergarten. We will post each week what we are learning and let you see some of the great creations. Stop by as often as you would like.

Sunday, August 24, 2014

August 25-29 What's Happening in Kindergarten?

Journey's Reading 
We are starting Unit 1 of reading this week.  We are still quickly moving through the letters of the alphabet, but will go back and slow down after completing.  You will notice this week that there is so much more added to what we are learning now in language arts.  Don't let it overwhelm you, because our K-Crew Kids will be little troopers and move along with us.  

Letters
Kk-Oo

ELA: Weekly Focus
Domain: Social Relationships
Theme: Families

Essential Question:
What is the same about families?

Books
Building With Dad
Families, Families
What Makes a Family
Brothers and Sisters

Poems and Songs
Frere Jacques

High Frequency Words
I

Concepts of Print
Book Handling

Skills
Listening comprehension
Ask & Answer questions about text.
- Main Idea
- Genre

Strategy
Summarize

Fluency
Read with expression

Grammer
Nouns for People
(ex. boy, girl, mom, dad......)

Vocabulary Strategies 
Classify and Categorize
(Our kids will be  hearing and learning lots of new vocabulary this week.)

Phonological Awareness
Rhyming Words
(Can they pick out two words that rhyme? If given a word, can they name a rhyming word?)

Writing
Narrative Writing

Invision Math
Topic 2
More, Fewer, Same as
(one more, two more...
one and two fewer....)
Zero means None
Numbers 0-5
Counting objects
Writing numbers
Matching number and sets


Looking forward to a great week in Kindergarten!
The K-Crew Teachers

2 comments:

  1. Terri Lynn SurrencyAugust 24, 2014 at 3:21 PM

    Thanks for leading the blogging charge at our school. This is a fantastic resource for parents!

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  2. This is great! Thanks so much for doing this.

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