It's April!
Instead of sending home a homework calendar this month, our entire school will be using the same calendar for the 4th quarter. On Monday, check your child's folder for the new calendar. On the back of the calendar is a menu of options for students to complete at home. Mark what your child chose to do on the calendar and send it back to school each Friday to celebrate all the reading and writing they have done! Feel free to leave the calendar in the plastic insert in your child's folder to help keep track of it :)
Upcoming events:
Instead of sending home a homework calendar this month, our entire school will be using the same calendar for the 4th quarter. On Monday, check your child's folder for the new calendar. On the back of the calendar is a menu of options for students to complete at home. Mark what your child chose to do on the calendar and send it back to school each Friday to celebrate all the reading and writing they have done! Feel free to leave the calendar in the plastic insert in your child's folder to help keep track of it :)
Upcoming events:
- Dress-up days April 4th-8th for KAT Week (See above)
- April 8th: Knowledge-A-Thon
- April 12th: Family Night
- April 18th: No School
- April 20th: Earth Day
What’s happening in Kindergarten this week?
Reading: Readers will celebrate the end of our unit by choosing a book about a topic they love. Then, each student will write something they learned about the topic on a sentence strip. The readers will present their book to the class and teach the class what they learned. It might sound something like this, "This book is called Owls, and it taught me that owls can't turn their eyes so they have to turn their whole head!" Ask your child to tell you some things they are learning or still wondering about a topic while you read at home!
Writing: As our All About unit continues, writers are challenged to write longer books by revising and elaborating. They will work with partners to ask questions like who? what? when? where? how? and why? to add even more to the page. Writers also learn that they can make their writing even more interesting by adding how they feel about the topic!
Math:
We will rotate through the following centers:
We will rotate through the following centers:
- Students will use cards to play Busted! They will pick a card with a number 1-10. Then they will name the partner that will add up to ten. If the student picks a card that says Busted! All cards need to go back in the bucket.
- We will create a Partners of 7, 8, and 9 book. Students are encouraged to make the picture match the equation.
- Students will work to create teen numbers and put them in order. They will work with addition problems using 10+extras.
- Students will hear math story problems, after listening to the stories, students will need to hold up a plus or minus sign. They will have to explain their thinking and write the equation. Then students can create their own story problems using the same equation.
Students have been working in short vowel sorts. This week, students are sorting words with -ad, -ed, and -ab endings.
Here are our sight words.
Social Studies: As a culminating activity for our self study, students will create a page to put in our classroom "yellow book". This page tells about what each student can do and likes, much like how the yellow pages in a phone book help you find experts on certain things. We will finish up the following centers this week:
- Books—Students will read All About Me books. Then they will write their own!
- Photographs—We will sort pictures on a timeline. Then students will create their own timelines.
- Collage—Kindergarteners will look through magazines and cut out things that represent them. They will glue these onto a poster. We will share these at closing circle.
- Starfall.com—Students will work with partners on Ipads to “write” about themselves.
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