Week of Jan.22

It's going to be a busy 4 day week! We've got lots of lessons planned, three Resources, an Early Release Day, a Sight Word Picnic and on Friday... we've got Sunglasses Day! Also, Arianya will be bringing in Fun Friday Snacks. :) 

MATH

We are going to be continuing our lessons this week on Measurement more specifically using the vocabulary words taller, shorter, and starting point. Towards the end of the week we will begin learning about weight and using the words heavy and light. Students will have the opportunity to use the vocabulary while using scales for different items in the class. Along with measurement we are continuing practicing counting to 100 with a focus to 75. Our fluency activity this week is practicing learning and using the different combinations to make 5. 

WRITING

Our writing lessons this week continue to piggy back but we've been doing the past few weeks... writing sentences that match the given picture. Please make sure to be practicing at home. We've noticed that the students are doing better looking at the Word Wall to find the sight words they need for their sentences. However, unknown words that they need to chop up and write are lacking. 

Example~ mittens. We expect the students to write the sounds they hear when they "chop" the word up. Which means we would expect to see *mitns*, or something similar like *mits, mtns, etc. These are all acceptable at the current time. 

SAXON/ READING SKILLS

You'll notice there is a ton going on with reading skills!! Third quarter in Kindergarten really expects the students to be using their sounds in all aspects. So we have blends, word families, ending sounds, rhyming... make sure to be practicing!

Our blend is fr-: french fries, Friday, freedom, etc. Our Sight Words are: part, time, how & or. Our word family is the -at family; bat, flat, pat, etc. ("at" is not an acceptable response as a word for the word family. )

Many of the students are having difficulty with rhyming. This quarter they are expected to give a response for a word that rhymes with the word they are given. Our hope is that the word family practice will help with this skill. So make sure to practice. :) 

READING
We are focusing again on the story from last week! Snowmen at Night. We will work on retelling the events in the order that they happened. We will do this with pictures, make sure to discuss the story at home. :)