Welcome Back and Happy New Year!! Here is what our first week back will bring! ......
Reading: Lesson 13
- Phonemic Awareness: review final and middle sounds in words
- Letters: Bb, Kk
- High-Frequency Word: for, me
- Continue to use graphic organizers
- Work on formulating questions after reading a story
- Robust Vocabulary: fading, perhaps, prefer, warn, whirl, property
- Questions: work on writing questions together and independently
- Read What Will the Weather Be Like Today? By Paul Rogers and When A Storm Comes Up by Allan Fowler
- Centers on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
Reading Homework
- Lesson 12 Reading Homework (Due Back Friday, January 9)
Guided Readers (I will be reading these with students in groups of 4-5 throughout the week)
- Lesson 13 Red (focuses on recognizing words that begin with the letter B and K)
- Lesson 13 Blue (includes short sentences that focus on our new sight words, me and for)
- Lesson 13 Green (includes more complex sentences with lots of new words that we haven't learned in Kindergarten)
Math: Unit 3
- Unit 3:
- 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
- 3.9: Partners Through 6
- Objectives: show partners of numbers 2 through 6; develop spatial concepts; visualize squares as sides of cubes
- Vocabulary: cube, square, light, heavy, forward, backward
- 3.10: Explore Attributes: Shape, Size, and Color
- Objectives: sort by shape, size, and color; generate shape patterns; draw numbers 6 through 10 as 5-groups
- Vocabulary: rectangle, circle, triangle, square, pattern
- 3.11: Practice 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: 5-group
- Math Homework:
- Monday:
- Tuesday:
- Wednesday:
- Thursday:
- Friday: 3.11
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 (continued)
- Observing Trees in the Winter
SPECIALS: (January 5-9)
**Please note that Kindergarten does not participate in ice skating in P.E., they will start that in First grade, thank you!
Monday: Media/P.E. (Day 2)
Tuesday: Art/Music (Day 3)
Wednesday: P.E./Media (Day 4)
Thursday: Music/Art (Day 1)
Friday: Media/P.E. (Day 2)
MEDIA (Library): check out/return books every other Day 4! Bring back books by Wednesday (1/7/15)
COMPUTER: Every Tuesday @ 10am
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