Week of August 21

 

We have a busy, busy week! This week we begin Resources and we start the Kindergarten Curriculum. :)  Due to the Solar Eclipse on Monday ~ the students can wear a hat all day!! In the hallways, classroom, even the Cafeteria! I'll be wearing my Tampa Bay Buccaneers hat. :) 

Our Resources for the week are: MONDAY-Computer Lab, TUESDAY-Media, WEDNESDAY-Art, THURSDAY-Music and Friday- Computer Lab.  On Friday it is Character T-Shirt Day. (Last week, Friday was BUSY!! I will do my best to take the pictures early in the day and make a blog post of the photos.) And Lucas will be bringing Fun Friday Snacks for the whole class!! ooh We will also have a Code of Conduct Assembly with the Administrators in the Multi-Purpose room. 

***If your child is staying home on Monday or any day that your child is absent from school, please discuss with them what we are learning in class. I will not reteach the lesson, but I do a quick recap  the following school day. ***

MATH

We will be working on Math Skills~ counting to 100, writing 0-10 and making groups to 10. Our Math Module will be sorting objects by similar characteristics into 2 and sometimes 3 groups.  To grab the kids attention and get them talking about how the items in the groups are similar, but not exactly the same we will check out Sid the Science Kid's Sorting Game. Here's a link for you to visit it with your child, just click HERE.  Also, below is a quick 30 second Youtube video for sorting.  Our Math series offers Home Learning Sheets that review the skills taught in class. Look for them in the Red Daily Folder. They won't go home every day, but most days and can be completed in jut a few minutes!

WRITING

We will be focusing on character drawings. We'll discuss that necks are very important for holding up our heads, that arms come our of the body below the neck, that arms and legs have muscles- not sticks, that our faces have a ton of details and so much more!!   If you are not an illustrator, check out the video below. The man in the video goes into great detail with his drawings and forgets necks haha, but I use it to show the students that drawing people takes time and we don't rush. 

READING

We are continuing the Module on Nursery Rhymes. This week we will work on Jack Be Nimble~ Little Jack Horner~ Jack and Jill~ Little Miss Muffet~ This Little Pig Went to Market~ 1,2 Buckle My Shoe~ Star Light, Star Bright~ and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.  We will discuss the characters in each and the students will be asked questions after each reading. A few examples of questions they will be asked are: Why does Jack need to be quick? , Are there other ways to explain what the word crown means? , How would you react if a spider came near you?

Our Sight Words for the week are orange, brown, I & the. We didn't get to work on 1-1 word matching with our predictable chart as much as I would like to... so we will be working with the We Like Colors chart again. 

SAXON

This is our District Wide Phonics Program. Every day we review the letters of the alphabet and the sound that each letter produces. We discuss which letters are vowels and which are consonants. Then we focus on a particular letter. We discuss the formation for writing the letter and words that begin with the letter. We also discuss any names in the class that have the letter in them.   Saxon begins with letter Ll. It's easy to write and recognize, however the sound can be a tricky one for students to produce. (I noticed from the Kindergarten Screenings that many of the students said, "luh.") Below is a Jack Hartmann letter video that focuses solely on letter Ll.