Schedule for the Week of December 15-19

We have such an exciting week ahead of us!  Your Kindergartener will get to "travel" to all sorts of countries (other Kindergarten classrooms) to learn about winter holidays that are celebrated all around the world.  They will get the opportunity to learn about Germany, Holland, Sweden, Japan, Mexico, England, Israel, and the United States.  Every student was issued their very own Kindergarten passport and will complete many different art projects that they will share with you at the end of the week

Reading: Lesson 12 (continued from last week)

• Phonemic Awareness: middle sounds in words
• High-Frequency Word: review, review, review
• Use graphic organizers
• Review beginning, middle, and end of stories
• Build -it and -ip words
• Robust Vocabulary: squabble, anxious, uproar, mischief, idle, productive, moans, glum, tend, scrumptious, feast, soggy, huddle
• Poems: read and write them together
• Working on word choice
• Centers on Tuesday and Wednesday

Reading Homework

• Lesson 12 Homework (Due Back Friday, December 19), can keep it over winter break if you'd like to continue working on it

Guided Readers

• Lesson 12 Red (introduces -ip, -in, and -it words)
• Lesson 12 Blue (includes short sentences that focus on -ip, in, and -it words)
• Lesson 12 Green (includes more complex sentences using -ip, -in, and -it words)

Math: Unit 3

• 3.6: Explore Partners Through 6 with Pennies (continued)
• Objectives: find partners of numbers 2 through 6; write numerals in a repeating pattern; show teen numbers as a group of ten and extra ones
• Vocabulary: pattern, teen number, switch the partners

• 3.7: More Addition and Subtraction Stories: Park Scene
• Objectives: establish links between math and the real world; tell addition and subtraction stories; solve story problems; draw numbers 6 through 10 as 5-groups
• Vocabulary: calculator, 5-group

• 3.8: Use a Balance Scale to Graph Weight
• Objectives: make teen numbers using 5-groups; explore weight using a pan balance; graph to compare two weights
• Vocabulary: balance, weight, heavy, heavier, light, lighter, up, down, predict, weigh

• Math Homework: 
• Monday: 
• Tuesday: 3.7
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday: 3.8 
• Friday: 

• Math Challenge (Optional)
• Monday: 
• Tuesday: 3.7
• Wednesday:
• Thursday: 3.8
• Friday:

Social Studies:

• Introduction of Maps (continued)
• Finding the United States on a World Map
• Finding Minnesota on a US map
• Introduced to Continents/Oceans
• Exploring Google Maps

Science:

• Learning About Seasons
• Observing Trees in the Winter

SPECIALS: (December 15-19)

Monday: Music/Art (Day 1)

Tuesday:  Media/P.E. (Day 2)

Wednesday: Art/Music (Day 3)

Thursday: P.E./Media (Day 4)

Friday:  Music/Art (Day 1)

MEDIA (Library): check out/return books every other Day 4! Bring back books by Wednesday (1/7/15)

COMPUTER: Every Tuesday @ 10am