Thank you for coming to our KG meeting on Thursday!
Check out what we learning about this week:
Reading: We will read/listen to Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.; Alphabet Mystery by Audrey Wood; Alphabet Tree by Leo Lionni; Shiver Me Letter by June Sobel; and ABC Animal Jamboree by Gail Andrae.
Reading Strategies:
- Identify front cover and back cover
- Identify the title
- Role of an author, role of an illustrator
- Where to begin reading
- Retell: characters, setting
- Prediction
- New vocabulary- using context or picture clues to figure out unknown words
Sight Word: see (review: I, am, at, a)
Letter of the week: Oo (review: Aa, Mm, Tt, Dd)
Writing: Labeling- we will label all the pictures with guidance and connects pictures with text.
Math: We are orally practice counting number 0-20. We are focusing on writing number formation correctly for numbers 0-10. We are also making sure amounts match with the correct numbers 0-10. We are checking what numbers come before and after within 10. We are practicing to count backwards and identifying missing numbers going backward as well. Examples include:
0,_,2, 3, 4, 5, _, 6, 7, 8, _, 10
10, _, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, _, 1, _
Science: What can help things move? How does height effect speed and direction in motion? These are driving questions we will investigate with the kinders this week. We will look at things with wheels and things that are flat. We will learn about ramps and how it effects objects in motion. We will also discuss how different types of force can effect things that move.
Reminders:
- Library check out is every Thursday. Make sure your child has their library book in their backpacks or they will not be able to check out a book.
- Mondays and Wednesdays are Gym days. Please make sure your child has gym shoes or they will not be able to participate in Gym.
- Homework and reading bags will start this week. Homework will be due on Monday because there is no school on Friday for KG only. Usually homework will be due on Friday.
- No school for KG only on Friday, September 28th.
Have a wonderful week!
-Ms. Mohamed