This week we will keep on
learning - although we really don’t ever stop learning in
kindergarten! In Math I am super excited because we are going to start
exploring with patterns. We will find patterns, make patterns, and extend
patterns. We will use paper, manipulatives and ourselves to make different
kinds of patterns –just wait I am sure your kindergartener will be finding
patterns everywhere – although please help me teach them that patterns repeat
over and over again and a pattern is not just two things in a row! We will also
be focusing on the number 6 and will continue to tell math stories using
addition and subtraction! Also did your child tell you about the five finder?
It was crazy in my classroom that afternoon! The five finder took over my body
and burst out of the back room and was finding the number five and groups of
five everywhere – I guess she had on a cape, glasses, and carried a special
wand - all of which had the number 5 on them! I don’t remember anything my
friends just told me all about it! We are sure hoping the five finder comes
back to our room soon!
In Writing we will
continue to sound out the words we are wanting to write using our alphabet
chart and start using finger spaces! Leaving spaces is a tricky thing but I
know with some practice we will get them into our writing! We will also be
learning about the CAPS man – he helps us remember the conventions of writing:
C stands for capital letters at the beginning of a sentence, A stands for art
work that matches our story, P stands for punctuation marks at the end of a
sentence, and S stands for spaces in between our words.
In Literacy we will be
talking about how shapes are all around us! We will continue to use the “ask
and answer questions” strategy while reading our stories this week. My friends
are getting really good at asking questions before, during, and after we read
our stories. We will be reading “Shapes All Around”, “Kites in Flight”, “Find
the Shapes”, “We Like Tam!” and “I like Sam” this week. Our vocabulary words are
materials, nature, decoration, games, and world. We will also be learning the
word “like” and focusing on the letter “t”. We will continue to practice
blending sounds together to make words and sorting words that start and end
with the “t” sound!
We will also be working
on our five senses unit and will focus in on our smell and tasting senses! I hope
your kindergartener has been telling you about the fun things books and
activities they are doing with their senses.
This week we will
continue to do some assessments to find out all of the wonderful things your
kindergartener has learned already this year! It is sure to be a great week!
A reminder that
conferences are this week on Tuesday and Thursday night! Please turn in your
forms and letters if you haven’t already and bring your kindergartener to your
conference. I am very much looking forward to conferences this week and can’t
wait to see all of you!
Remember Friday, the 9th,
we don't have school so it will be a fast, fun packed week!
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