READING-Our theme is The Amazing Ocean.  We’ll discuss what kind of animals live in the ocean, what kind of animal has fins, a shell, claws, tentacles…

WRITING-Descriptive Sentences   Students will be writing about different fish and using descriptive words.  Students should be writing at least 3 sentences by now on a given topic.

For example, “Whales are huge animals that live in the ocean.

Whales have gills.

Whales have a blow hole.”

If you have any books that you would like to share on this topic, please send them in with your child.

SPELLING WORDS- has  look  fish  pot  cot  hot  got  plot     

***Please note*** Kindergarten Spelling words will now be 8 practiced words (HOT WORDS) and 2 unknown words (COLD WORDS-from the word family of the week.)  As you can see, we will be working with the “ot” word family next week.  To get ready for the “COLD WORDS”, use the “ot” chunk and form new words.  Have your student spell the words.  This will help solidify the word chunk family for the week.

LETTERS-X  x  V  v

MATH- We will review time to the nearest hour. We review function machine. We will practice adding and subtracting through a number talk model. Each child will receive a double ten frame and build numbers presented and will add and subtract within teen numbers. Students will also talk about the $1 bill and how 4 quarters equals one dollar.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES-We will continue with our Plant Observations and recording our findings.  We are Scientists!

We also will begin discussing Earth Day.  We will discuss ways to save the earth. We will create group poster projects with slogans to identify issues that need to be addressed in our environment.