Friday, November 8, 2013

November 11th-15th


                             November 11th- November 15th

Kindergarten News

 

**Next week in Phonics we will be learning the vowel I i and its short sound as in igloo and inch, and its long sound as in ice.  Please review sounds and writing of all letters learned so far.  Boys and girls get ready for another tough week for Show & Tell.  We will always have show and tell on a Friday unless I tell you otherwise.

 

**In Math we will be identifying a missing piece in a matrix. Also we will learn to identify, create and extend the AB sound and movement patterns.

 

**In Reading we will begin the book “Bear Snores On” by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman.  We will review the letter Cc and the /k/ sound, and we will be learning about patterns in nature.  The comprehension skill is “realism and fantasy” and the genre is “animal fantasy”.  The new high frequency words are: we, my, and like.  We are also working on the words- one, two, have, was, of, are, and into.

 

**Next week we will be beginning to learn about the “first Thanksgiving”, and closer to Thanksgiving we will be making pilgrim and Native American costumes, and discussing about the things that we are truly grateful for.

 

**I introduced some magnets this week, and next week one of our learning centers will revolve around them.  We packed a lot of learning in for the letter “M”.  We used real Mini marshmallows to graph, sort, count, pattern, and eat, and that was the best part!!!!!

**We read Laura Numeroff’s book “If You Give a Moose a Muffin” and then we did a story recall activity which was a nice challenge for the children.  One of our kidwriting centers is a painting center and the children are painting seasonal pictures.

         

Remember:

No school for students on Monday, November 18th due to a scheduled ACT 80 day.  Look for the verification of your scheduled conference time in your child’s folder today.

 Monday November 11th is day # 2 on the special class schedule.  We will begin the week with gym class so don’t forget your sneakers.

 

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