Week of December 11th

Dec11

Can you believe it? Ten more days and then Winter break begins! We will be wrapping up our unit about transportation. This week in kindergarten we will:

Reading: A duck on a bike; How do I get to school?; The Singing Wagon; The two frogs

Strategies: 

  • Retelling a story in sequence (order of the story) key vocabulary: first, next, last
  • Expanding on a topic (Always what else can you ad about what you heard/know? Any other details?)
  • Beginning, middle, end sounds of 3 letter words (cvc words-consonant vowel consonant: pig, dog, cat, man, pot, pen etc.)
  • Blending cvc words: c-a-t >>> cat
  • Segmenting cvc words: cat>>> c-a-t
  • Practice short vowels: a,e,i,o,u
  • Practice recognizing and producing rhymes
    • cat, bat
    • pan, fan
    • dog, log,
    • mouse, house
    • fox, box
    • top, pop

 

Letters: Kk, Uu

Sight words: play, ride

Writing: We are revisiting narrative writing using transitions: First, Next, Last. We will focus on if you ride a bike where would you go? The sentence stems will be: First, I ride my bike. Next, I will ___. Last, I will ___.

Math: We will focus on a couple of concepts this week. We will review addition problems of adding one. We will practice writing the number sentence horizontally and vertically. We will practice counting backwards and explore subtraction by 1. We write number sentences that match horizontally and vertically. We will also solve story problems as they will be presented in the NWEA coming in January as practice. I will model how to answer a story problem using paper and pencil. We will also review surveys and graphs. We will create graphs based on favorite cookies, favorite specials to attend. we will build graphs based on amount of certain things we find in a picture. We will also analyze and interpret graphs. Questions your child may encounter will be: Which has the most __? Which has the least? Which is fewer or greater? How do you know? When your child brings home the graphs, please ask these questions.

Examples of horizontal number sentences:

4 + 1= 5

6-1= 5

Examples of vertical number sentences:

4                                    5

+  1                            –      1

____                     ______

5                                    4

Social Studies: We will discuss how to trade/exchange. We will discuss the barter system.  A barter system is a trade an item for an another item. We will also discuss how money is used as a trade for a good or service. We will model and role play trade.  You could practice role playing with your child at home. pretend you work at a restaurant. Your child is the customer etc..

Next week reminders:

  • Late start on Dec. 20
  • Winter break begins on Saturday, December 23-January 7th

Have a great week!

Ms. Mohamed

Week of December 4th

Dec4

We will continue our unit of Transportation. This week we will discuss places we can travel to.

Reading: On the go; Poems: Subway Train; Monster Trucks;

Strategies:

  • Students will recall information about vehicles from the story and categorize it.
  • Students will recognize and produce rhymes
  • Blending words: c-a-t => cat
  • Segmenting words: cat=> c-a-t
  • Practice beginning blends: sh- (sheep, ship, shop);  ch- (chip, chop, chin); th- (three, thumb, thick)

Sight words: my, away

Letters: Vv, Yy

Writing: We will write a narrative. Our question is if you would like to go anywhere, where would you go and how would you get there? Our sentence stems will be: We can ride on my __. We can go to ___.

Our title will be: Away we go!

An example will include:  We can go to the moon.We can on my rocket. It goes in the air.

Students will learn how to revise and edit their writing by following a class created writing checklist. This rubric will change as your child learns more skills from lessons about writing.

To be star writers, your child should always check for:

  1. Does your writing have an illustration?
  2. Did you spell your sight words correctly?
  3. Do you have space between your words?
  4. Can you read your writing? Does it make sense?
  5. Can your friend read your writing?

As we learn more ideas about writing this student checklist will change. So when your write with your child, go through the above checklist.

Math: We are learning more about doubles. Practice: 1+1=2, 2+2=4, 3+3=6 etc. We will continue practicing tally marks. We will continue to make  a graph and look for patterns. We will construct a bike graph. We will also analyze and interpret data on a graph. We will answer questions such as

  • What do you notice?
  • What pattern do you see?
  • Which has the most?
  • Which has the least or fewest?

Science: We will continue to graph the weather for the month of December.

Social Studies: We will learn what a good and service is. Goods are items people produce and sell. Service is a type of work a person can provide. Examples include:

  • Goods: food (pizza, ice cream, candy etc ); clothes (jackets, pants, shirt, dress, shoes, etc); appliances (stove,fridge, blender etc); cars, toys etc
  • Services: hair dresser-cuts hair, waiter- serves food, teacher-teaches, librarian-checks out books, doctor-checks for sicknesses, pharmacist- provides medicine, lunch lady-serves lunch

Have a great week!

Ms. Mohamed

 

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Batteries for Puerto Rico Donations

Nov27

Batteries for Puerto Rico will begin today! Many months after the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is still in crisis! Over 60% of the population has no power. It is estimated that it will take months to restore the power grid in the entire Island. Let’s help! Our school will be having a battery drive starting today and ending Wednesday, December 6th. These batteries will help operate flashlights, lanterns, blood pressure machines, blood sugar monitors, radios, and other battery operated resources. Most needed battery sizes are C and D.

The class that donates the most batteries will win a donut breakfast! Please have all batteries turned in to the box outside the office labeled “Batteries for Puerto Rico.”  Place batteries in a bag labeled with the child’s name and teacher.

Thank you!!!

 

Week of November 27th

Nov27

Welcome back! Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!

New Unit: Transportation

Reading: A bus for Us; Ways to travel; Forms of transportation (video without speaking- just vehicles sounds); How a partridge built their canoes

Vocabulary: vehicle, transportation,

Strategies:

  • Identifying details in pictures to connect with text
    • examples: color of vehicle or objects in story, size etc.
  • Categorize ideas (sort ways of travel):
    • Air: plane, helicopter, jet, rocket
    • Land: bus, taxi cab, car, train, van, truck, subway train, bike, motorcycle, tricycle, scooter, roller skates/blades.
    • Water: ship, sail boat, canoe, submarine, jet ski, tug boat, paddle boat
  • Rhyming: recognize and produce rhymes.

Letters of the week: Qq, Rr (review all letters we have learned so far and their sounds)

Sight words of the week: ride, on, in

Writing: It is all about descriptive informational writing. It is all about the DETAIL. We will write about certain vehicles and then describe their colors and possible shapes found on the vehicles.  Sentence stem will be: I can see a _(shape)_  on a  _(color)_  _(type of vehicle)_. EX. I can see 4 circles on a green truck.

Math: We are still practicing counting and writing numbers:

  • by 1’s to 100
  • by 10’s to 100
  • by 5’s to 100

We are also using spinners to count and graph amounts. We will be comparing groups using the academic vocabulary: greater than, less than, equal to, fewer and more. We will be looking at numbers 0-20 in different modalities (or ways of seeing numbers) such as 12 can be 10 fingers and 2 toes; a double ten frame and 12 spots filled in;   1 ten base block  and 2 ones unit equals 12; 12 tally marks represents 12; a group of 12 dots on a mat represents the number 12; 10 + 2 = 12; 5 + 5 +2= 12 and so forth. We will also practice how to add with doubles. We will use a ten frame and unfix cubes to aide with this process.

  • EXAMPLES: 2+2= 4; 4+4=8

Also, we have been practicing a chant to help us remember putting the numbers in the correct order to avoid the reversals.

Here is the chant:

A   1   and   a   1   make 11 fun

A   1   and   a   2   tell twelve what to do

A   1   and   a   3   send 13 up a tree

A   1   and   a   4   make 14 shut the door

A   1   and   a   5   keep 15 alive

A   1   and   a   6   make 16 pick up sticks

A   1   and   a   7   send 17 to heaven

A   1   and   an   8   make 18 great

A   1   and   a   9   make 19 shine

A   2   and   a   0   make 20 the hero

Science: We will continue to graph the weather for November and start  December graph.

Social Studies: We will dive into what a need is again this week and compare it to a want. We will create a sort.

Have a great week!

Ms. Mohamed

Week of November 20th

Nov20

2 days of school this week!

Reading: we will read stories and identify the main characters. We will use the text and pictures as evidence to support what is happening to the character.

Writing: We will write about what we are thankful for. We will create a web of ideas and use the sentence frame: I am thankful for__.

Sight words: review all we have learned:

 

I

 

 

can

 

see

 

the

 

 

we

 

like

 

a

 

 

am

 

go

 

to

 

 

it

 

is

 

have

 

 

red

 

blue

 

yellow

 

 

Letters of the week: Xx, Jj

Math: we will learn about tally marks. We will practice counting by 10’s to 100, count by 5’s to 100.

Social Studies: We will discuss what people need to live:

  • clean air
  • food
  • water
  • shelter
  • clothes

Science: We will continue to graph the November weather.

Reminders: No school Wednesday November 22-Friday, November 24, 2017. Students will return to school Monday, November 27.

Have a wonderful holiday and break!

Ms. Mohamed