This week in Literacy we will be finishing up unit 2 week 3
which is a review week although we did get to read a wonderful story called "I Love Bugs" and we also got to talk about the different kinds of bugs we know about. The vocabulary words we learned about were curious, observe, attaches, process, and slender. As kindergarteners we know all there is to know about being curious!
This week we will be starting Unit 3 and will be talking about the rules we have to
follow in different places. We will be reading “How Do Dinosaurs Go To School?
“ “Be Safe” and “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”. In our crabby books we will read “Can
I Pat It?” and “Tim Can Tip it”. We will be learning about the letter “i” and
the sound it makes and will also be learning the word “to”. We are learning so
much all the time in kindergarten! Our vocabulary words this week will be rule,
cooperate, guard, prank, and responsible. I just know that we will be having
some great collaborative conversations this week! I am also super excited
because we will be learning about another great strategy that readers use – for
the past few weeks we have been talking about how readers ask and answer
questions while reading stories, and this week we will be introduced to a new
reading strategy “visualize”. We will begin talking about how sometimes we can
use the words and pictures in a story to make pictures in our minds of what is
happening. Every week we read a story that only has four pictures so this will
be a great strategy to use!
In math we will continue to tell addition and subtraction
stories. We will also keep working on finding patterns and extending them! We
learned about the equals and not equals signs last week and will keep working
with them when we do our counting mats! Did you know that we are already
learning about algebra in kindergarten? We also LOVE shapes and will keep
working hard on describing shapes, drawing them, and finding them in the world
around us. We will even get to make patterns using shapes this week! Ms.
Kristen will also be teaching us a math lesson this Thursday on how to write
the number 8! We are working hard everyday on writing our numbers and will keep
practicing how to make them correctly.
In writing we will be introduced to the writing trait of
conventions… which means we will learn about the CAPS man who helps us remember
the conventions of writing. We will read the story “Caps for Sale” and talk a
lot about the CAPS Man – we have a picture of him to help us remember what the
conventions are. The C stands for capital letters at the beginning of the
sentence, the A stands for artwork, the P stands for punctuation marks, and the
S stands for spaces. We are becoming writers and will start using these
conventions when we are writing! I promise we will be introducing these
conventions slowly – remember we are just learning how to write so it might
take us awhile to learn all of these!
During unit studies last week we were able to go around and
check out other classroom doors and then we finally got to decorate our door!
We had so much fun making our jackolanterns! This week we will continue to talk
about staying healthy, making good choices and being drug free. We will start
to work on our Drug Free books this week too. Friday, Oct. 24th is
another spirit day were students are asked to wear Meadow Lane colors because
we will be having an all school assembly at the end of the day to get us ready
for Red Ribbon Week – please make sure to ask your child about this! Please
check out the picture of our door! I just know we will have another great week
in Kindergarten!
We really do say NO to things that can hurt us!
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