The Zoo Trip is coming...
Please be sure to dress your child appropriately, to put sunscreen on him/her, to pack a disposable lunch and to hope for good weather!!!
ABC Countdown
For ABC Countdown this week we shared a couple of jokes, wrote what we like most about kindergarten, shared our favorite letter, and listened to music while we worked! We enjoyed the week.
Reading
Identify rhyming sounds
Isolate beginning, middle and ending sounds
Identify letters in random order
Connect sounds to letters
Write all letters from memory in random order
Match all uppercase letters to lowercase letters
Recognize the following popcorn words: who, what, where, there, say, away, play, they, eat, please, want, with, came, make, ate, ride, was, saw, are, well, pretty, funny, under, find, blue, yellow, red, pink, black, orange, white, brown and all
Writing
Form letters correctly
Math
Count by 1's and 10's to 100
Read, write and compare numbers to 20
Add and subtract to 5 with fluency
Identify and describe 3d shapes: cube, cone, cylinder, sphere
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| We will need to know 94 popcorn words by the end of kindergarten |
IMPORTANT!!!
We put popcorn words from our last three quarters in the "To Be Left At Home" section of our folder. Please keep those words at home for practice. The children were given a new bag for the fourth quarter words. Please look for the words who, what, where, there, say, away, play, they, with, want, please, eat, came, make, ate, ride, was, saw, are, well, pretty, funny, under, fine, blue, yellow, red, pink, orange, black, brown, purple, all in the new popcorn bag. We will continue to add this quarter's popcorn words to the new bag.
Next two weeks: Review all words
POPCORN WORDS are adding up!!! Please be sure to continue to practice popcorn words with your kindergartner. There are quite a few now and we will be adding four words a week soon. See ideas below...
Words We Know (1st-3rd quarter words): I, a, it, in, like, see, big, my, up, run, is, but, can, am, did, not, we, me, on, at, on, ran, for, yes, and, little, so, go, no, the, you, down, he, she, one, come, soon, went, two, three, be, come, went, soon, get, help, now, our, out, will, must, have, here, into, that, this , and new
Some ideas to do with popcorn words: write them in shaving cream, rainbow write, write them in rice, use magnet letters to spell the words, stamp out the word using letter stamps, play memory using the words (you will need to make two sets of each word in order to play), write using chalk, find the words in books or magazines, use letter stencils to make the words, use play dough to make the words. These are all ways to help reinforce these popcorn words.
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| FOCUS and LISTEN...use your attent-o-scope!!! We need to use our eyes, ears and brain when we focus attention on something. We say "Eyes are watching. Ears are listening. Bodies still. Voices off. Or Mrs. Riadi rings the bell. Or we say attent-o-scope. These are all ways we remember that it's time to FOCUS and LISTEN. |
POSITIVE BEHAVIOR!!!
Our Good Job PAWS BIN!
Every Wednesday I will be picking three names out of the Paw Jar. These three students will be able to choose a prize from our GOOD JOB PAWS BIN! The more paws they earn the more of a chance they have of getting picked! Ask your son/daughter how he/she can earn paws!
In order to maintain a positive atmosphere at this age, we need to constantly reinforce expected behavior; therefore, I'm asking for your help to build a classroom treasure chest. I am looking for small items such as stickers, pencils, erasers, small toys (McDonald's Happy Meal toys), items that five/six years would be excited to get!
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| Box Tops!!! |
BOX TOPS: Don't forget to send in Box Tops!!!
We started the week with a book called Me First . We learned that when animals are given characteristics of people it is called personification. In the story Me First, we met a pig named Pinkerton who found out that you don't always have to be first. We made a pig to remind us of Pinkerton's lesson. We also enjoyed the book Pigs to the Rescue. The kids enjoyed the ending to this book. We realized at the end that it is a circle story. We also shared our I like Kindergarten...writing sample from our ABC Countdown. The kindergartners also enjoyed a Weekly Reader with our substitute and they learned different ways to say thank you. They also enjoyed the book Pigs A Plenty Pigs Galore. We also worked on the -un family. We brainstormed words that belong to the -un family. ***Please continue to practice building fluency with your child. Make flashcards with the letters on them (mix uppercase and lowercase together). Time your child to see how many letters he/she can produce sounds for in one minute. Fluency with letters will eventually help with fluency in reading. We do this in the classroom so the children are familiar with this. ***
This week for math, we reviewed 3-D shapes (sphere, cube, cylinder and cone). We made a book including pictures of 3-D shapes. We will read it this week and then send it home. We continued to use Touch Math to add. We will continue to use Touch Math the next few weeks. We talked about how this is one strategy to use when adding. Other strategies include our fingers, counters and pictures. We are also continuing to explore the teen numbers reviewing how many tens and ones in each one. We are continuing to count to 100 by 1's and 10's
Please continue to practice addition and subtraction at home.
