Week of November 7

Here's to another great week in Kindergarten! 

This week our Resources are: Monday~ ART, Tuesday~ MUSIC and Wednesday~ P.E.Thursday Gabriel joins the 6 Year Old Club!! Friday there is NO SCHOOL due to Veteran's Day.
Also, don't forget to bring in your canned and non-perishable food for the Food Drive. I can't wait to see Oliver the Owl surrounded by food. 

**If you have not signed and returned the Zoo Permission Slip, Please do so soon. If you need a new form, write a note or email me. Thank you!**

MATH

We are finishing up Module 2 Shapes! We have a Pete the Cat book that will help us review position words. The words we've focused on and the ones that the students will be assessed on are: in front, behind, above and below.  We will review 2D and 3D shapes by discussing their properties. We will discuss the straight sides and vertices of 2D shapes. Then the sides, vertices and faces of 3D Shapes. Please review this information with your child. 

The test will be administered on Monday, November 14. 

Veteran's Day

I am skipping our Science Lesson to focus on Veteran's Day. If you or anyone in your family has served in the Military, please email me a picture of them. Also, please include their relationship to your child and the branch they served or are currently serving in. I want to make a class slideshow for Thursday's lesson. **Make sure to email the picture by Wednesday evening at 6:00 or it will not make it into the slideshow.** The purpose of this lesson is for the class to see that hero's aren't just the "Super Hero's" they see in cartoons. They are real people!  We will watch the Youtube video below ( I will probably cry the whole video... so don't be surprised if your child tells you I did. haha) and complete a Veteran's day book. 

Writing

I have decided to take a break from How To writing and focus on getting the students to use their sight words and sounds. Our class knows A LOT of letter sounds!! We will be writing sentences like~ I like to ______. I can make ______. If this writing is easy for your child, they will be working on expanding their sentences~ I like to ________ outside with my __________. I can make ________ inside my _________. If it is still easy for your child, they will begin writing their second sentence. 

I will still be checking to see if their picture matches the sentences. However the picture time will not be given until the end. I want them to get the most time using their sounds and sight words to write.

Reading

Our reading stories this week focus on the hero Johnny Chapman or better known as "Johnny Appleseed," Deciduous trees and  Evergreen trees. We will take two days to discuss the seasons and make pictures to show how a deciduous tree looks during each one. We will then discuss evergreen trees with their needles for leaves and how they stay green year long. Finally we will compare and contrast the two types of trees. (This is one of my favorite lessons! The students sound so grown up discussing the trees with each other.)

Click on the title to read your child the stories and don't forget to discuss the vocabulary listed.

Johnny Appleseed

~eventually, hero, orchards~

Deciduous Trees

~bare, deciduous, dormant, habitat, sheds~

Evergreen Trees

~cones, conifers, evergreens, needles~

Our Sight Words for this week are: you, had, more & made. 

Saxon is increasing with difficulty! You may not notice it just yet on the worksheets I send home, but the lesson part I teach is changing. :)

The students learned a new way to code, we discussed coding a double consonant. You'll see in the picture below, Saxon has taught them to write a slash through the second consonant so that they only produce the sound one time. Try it with your child and if they are showing difficulty remembering, go over it with them. :) Also, the students will be introduced to letter s and how it can sound like a /s/ or a /z/. As in the word has. We will review consonant blends. We have touched upon them three previous times in Saxon. They remind the student how a blend is two consonant sounds that slide out of your mouth together so nicely you almost don't even notice that it's two letters. This week we will discuss: ST, SN, SP. SM and they even touch on SPL.