Well…I hope my kindergarten friends are ready for a wild, crazy, fun week in kindergarten!!! Of course, we will be learning lots of stuff and we will be getting ready for our program next week!!
In literacy we will be starting a brand new unit called “Wonders of Nature.” Our theme this week will be “Watch It Grow!” Our essential question will be “What do living things need to grow?” I know it is a silly time of year to be talking about this…but we will be learning more about this in the spring too!! We will be singing the song “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary.” The stories we will be looking at are called, “ My Garden” and “Growing Plants.” We will also be looking at some poetry….can you believe we do that in kindergarten? As we read we will continue to look at the concepts of print, genre, and we will start to talk about the reading strategy of rereading. We will continue to blend words and we will be using this strategy as we read “Hop Can Hop” from our crabby books. We will continue to learn about the letter ‘H’ and we will be sorting lots of picture cards and trying to decide what they start with!! This is so easy for us now:) Can you see we have a lot to do!?!
In writing this week we will be talking a lot about poems - we will make a class poem and maybe even a few poems of our own if we are lucky!! In grammar we start to learn about pronouns! Which is crazy!!!
In math we continue to learn about teen numbers and the number of tens and ones each teen number has!! We are recognizing and writing numbers 1-20….this can be tricky!! Some of us like to get the ones place and tens place mixed around. We will also be looking at shapes and practicing sorting them by their attributes.
In unit studies we will finish up talking about Celebrations Around the World and we will be doing lots of projects!!!! We have been having so much fun learning about different cultures and their celebrations! We can't wait to show you our suitcases and passports!
Please remember our program will be next Tuesday, Dec. 22nd at 1:00 in the auditorium. This should last until about 1:30. Please bring your families so they can see all of the work we have been doing!!
Also, this week we will be giving lots of assessments to close out the 2nd quarter. Please make sure your child is rested and has ate a great breakfast!! I want them to be fully ready to show me how super smart they are!!
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