Week of September 21

 

Our Resources for the week are: Monday #1-18 ART & #19-36 MUSIC, Tuesday #1-18 P.E.& #19-36 in the classroom, Wednesday ART, and Friday MUSIC. Tuesday September 22 is the last day to submit a T-shirt order. If you lost the order form, no worries! You can find a link to print one off of the blog. :) Wednesday is an EARLY RELEASE DAY! Friday is Sunglasses Day!! Please send them to school in your child's backpack, we will wear them outside during Recess. :) Zavion will be bringing Fun Friday Snacks and Caydein will be joining the 6-year-old Club!

Handwriting/Writing

We have noticed many of you are practicing writing your names at home. We are seeing appropriate letters: Uppercase first and the remaining letters lowercase. :) The letter formations we are working on are: Jj, Uu and Ll.

We will be reviewing setting up our writing paper with our name and the date (ex. 9-20-15). Then focusing on our pictures telling a story and our words matching the picture. We will work on a class piece for the playground. We will discuss all the different things we see in the setting: slides, swings, tunnels, grass, sidewalks, etc. We will discuss the different things the characters are doing: boy running, girl sliding down the slide, boys bouncing the balls, etc. Then we will write a story that matches the picture. :)  Here is a fun sound video we watched in class last week. It really gets the students to sing along and make their letter sounds. 

Math

We are moving into exploring numbers 6-10. A concept we are practicing repeatedly is "one more." For example: if there are 5 apples, how many are there if we add one more? Also, ordering numbers is becoming daily practice for us. Making it more advanced by ordering backwards and presenting missing numbers in an order is really challenging our Kindergartners thinking. We play a game called "Beep." I count, "5, 6, BEEP!, 8." The students have to figure out the beep number. :) They love it!! Give it a try at home.

Science

As we finish exploring hearing this week, we will enjoy listening and watching an Eric Carle story, Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? Below is the video for you to enjoy at home. :)

Later in the week we will explore the sense of taste. Everyone enjoys this sense because we all love to eat!We will use vocabulary to describe foods as sweet, salty, sour and bitter. Give it a try at home! Can your identify how foods you are eating for dinner taste. :)

Reading

Sight words for the week are: purple, pink, and & to. We will focus on the senses for smell, taste and touch. We will discuss  retelling key details about each topic. Ex Our taste buds allow us to figure out if our food is salty, sweet or bitter. Our nerves carry messages to our brain and allow us to figure out what we are touching. We will be completing a few journal entries: one about foods that make our mouths pucker :) and another about different textures. On Friday we will listen to a story about the remarkable musician Ray Charles. We will learn how his blindness may be his disability, but his ears are his opportunity! :) Here is a fun Sesame Street video of Ray Charles singing with Bert and Ernie.