Week of April 3

I'm publishing this early, because I don't want to bring the laptop home... I want a computer free weekend! haha

WOW! I can't believe it's April... My little Kindergarteners are growing up fast! 

This week we have a lot to do and we have an Early Release Day on Wednesday. :) Our Resources are: MONDAY~ P.E., TUESDAY~ MUSIC, WEDNESDAY~ MEDIA and THURSDAY~ MUSIC. Friday is Sunglasses Day and Komarea is bringing in Fun Friday Snacks for the class. 

**Last week Resources were canceled due to the Upper Grades Testing.  We have approximately 10 more days of Testing before the school year ends. So there is a huge chance of Resources getting cancelled again. I explained to the students this was not my choice and I even gave extra Recess Time, but I know they love Resources!**

MATH

We are continuing on with teen numbers! I am hoping the tiny confusions some of the students are having can be cleared up with the "Hide Zero Cards" and breaking the number apart with a Number Bond.  Also we are using the vocabulary of 10 ones and _____ ones / 10 ones and ____ more. (We do this so the students are repeatedly being reminded that 10 is actually a group of ones. This helps in First Grade with double digit addition and subtraction. 

Also, if your child is having trouble finding a group of ten to circle. PLEASE remind them of the little X strategy that my brother James taught me. :) This would clear up a lot of the silly mistakes going on because they are trying to visualize the group and circle it. 

SAXON, SIGHT WORDS, BLENDS and MORE!!

Saxon is continuing to work on CVC words. This is great practice for the students and they are writing the words like PROS! We're even using our long vowel sounds and Magic E to write CVCe words. The children love it!! They get so excited and are so proud of themselves when they can do it.

Our Sight Words are: could, by, who & see.

Our blend for the week is DR-. This is a tricky one, but I've noticed when reading books the students are having trouble with comprehension because of the dr words~ drinks, drags, dragons, draws, etc.

Our Word Family is the -ine family and our medial vowel this week is i. 

Just when you thought we had enough Skills, we are also practicing rhyming! The assessment for this quarter is for students to come up with five rhyming pairs by themselves. I know with all of our Word Family practice they will do great! 

READING

We are continuing on with our Eric Carle study. The students did great last week retelling The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear. I'm hoping for even more success this week! Our stories we will be using to practice retelling are~ Pancakes Pancakes and The Very Busy Spider. :) You can check out both books below...

WRITING

We are beginning our Animal Reports. We will begin with a class report on Cheetahs. We will read a book and watch Youtube clips to gather information about Cheetahs. Together we will write 3 sentence facts. Then we will move on to Elephants. The students will be expected to write at least two sentence facts. 

The students are all writing at different levels. Some may write~ Elephants are gray. While others may write~ Elephants have long tusk that lets them drink and blow water. All of this is okay. As their confidence grows they will expand their sentences. With that being said, regardless of their level~ All sentences need to begin with an uppercase letter, spaces between all the words, sight words written correctly, unknown words stretched and written with a beginning/middle/ending sounds and punctuation at the end. 

SCIENCE

Due to my absence last week, we did not get to the phases of the Moon. So we will do that this week! :)