Week of October 1

We have another fun week coming up in Kindergarten!! Our Resources this week are: Mon~ART, Tues~ MUSIC and Wed~ P.E. On Friday we will have Hat Day. You can wear a silly hat, a comfy hat or branch out a decorate a plain hat! Zoe will be bringing Fun Friday Snacks for the whole class. 

MATH

This week we are finishing up our unit 1 on numbers 0-5. We will continue to practice counting forward and backwards, writing our numbers, using our counting strategies to count one to one. We will continue to work our buddies using our math tools to help us visualize numbers and match them to the correct number. Towards the end of the week we will take our end of unit assessment. Please continue working on our Quarter 1 goals as  the end of the quarter approaches.

WRITING

We are still working on detailed settings and characters. We are discussing what area we are in. Then we discuss what we see in the sky or the ceiling. Followed by what is on the floor or the ground.

  We will be assessing on this next week, so be sure to get all the practicing in!!

SAXON/READING SKILLS

Saxon has really immersed us in coding words. We have learned the rule for using a breve~ If there is a vowel followed by a consonant, code it with a breve and the vowel makes the short sound. Please look at your child's Saxon papers that are going home, the breve is a mark that looks like a smiley face and it should only be written above the vowel.

Our focus letter this week is Pp. Make sure you child is making the sound correctly. We do not want them saying, "Puhhh." If this occurs, we have to mark it wrong. 

Our Sight words this week are: three, four, it & go.

Make sure to practice with this slideshow and all of the others. Sight Word Testing will be starting out soon and the students are expected to read 20 words this quarter.

READING

We are continuing to work on predicting, inferring, retelling and giving our opinions on stories. This week our story is Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes. 

This is one of our favorite stories!! If you aren't familiar with the book, check it out. It's about a little mouse named Lily who gets very upset with her teacher and she lets him know by writing a letter.

**We will begin Module Testing on the weekly stories. We read through the story every day in class, however if your child is absent you will want to watch the Youtube video with them and discuss the story.**