Kindergarten News March 28-April 1, 2016 We hope that you all had a happy Easter and a wonderful Spring Break. Now it is time to get back to work! Please make sure that your students are well-rested and at school on-time. We have lots to still learn! Thank you to all the parents who chaperoned our walk to the Nursing Home. The students did a wonderful job helping the residents welcome spring. A big “thank you” also to the NBH SGA for giving our students a wonderful Easter Egg Hunt. This was such a special treat for the children! Dates to Remember Report Cards Sent Home – Friday, April 7 Save the Date – Spring Carnival – Friday, May 13 What Your Child is Learning This Week: Language Arts: Wonders Unit 8: From Here to There Week 1: On the Move Essential Question: What can help you go from here to there? Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Isolation Phoneme Blending Phoneme Segmentation Phonics Review: /j/j, /kw/qu Oral Vocabulary: transportation, vehicle, journey, wide, fierce Listening Comprehension: Genre – Fiction Strategy – Make Predictions Skill – Character, Setting, Plot Category Words: Vehicles Handwriting: Jj, Qq Writing Trait: Sentence Fluency Grammar: Sentences with Prepositions
Reading: High-Frequency (Sight) Words: here, me High-Frequency (Sight) Words Review: I, can, the, we, see, a, like, to, and, go, you, do, my, are, he, with, is, little, she, was, for have, of, they, said, want, red, yellow, blue, green, orange, pink, brown, black, purple, white, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten Math: Calendar Math including: counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, months of the year, days of the week, patterns, tally marks Pearson: Topic 12 – Measurement Social Studies / Science: Transportation Compare children of today with those in the past
Spelling Words –it Family bit, fit, hit, kit, lit, pit, sit Test on Friday.