Week of November 16

Our Resources for the week are:Monday #1-18 Guidance and #19-36 ART, Tuesday P.E., Wednesday ART and Friday MUSIC. Wednesday is an Early Release Day and Friday is Hat Day!! Juelz will be bringing in snacks for the class on Friday. And... we have another student joining the Six-Year-Old Club: Reese joins on November 21st.
 *Please send your child's hat to school in their backpack. We will be wearing them outside during Recess.Thank you!*


Our Fall Festival was a huge success!! Thanks to everyone that showed up and supported Chimney Lakes. We loved seeing all of our students. :) Also, thanks to everyone that sent in donations for our Dog Basket. In case you didn't see it... here is a picture of the front and back.

Handwriting/Writing

We will review how stories have a Beginning, Middle and End by writing our very own stories about our hand print turkey's. :) The students made the turkey's last week when Ms. Lori came to visit. (They are adorable!!!) We are really stressing to the students that they can use the sounds and sight words they know to write. Make sure when completing the writing homework you are not having your child copy your adult writing. Students are not expected to spell every word the adult way. Their writing uses a lot of invented spelling and that is OKAY! :)
Our Grammar Lesson is on spaces~ making sure we put spaces in between words and not just individual letters.

Math

This week we begin exploring comparisons of Length, Weight, and Capacity. This unit will continue all the way into January when we will begin comparing numbers. This is a very "hands-on" unit which Kindergarteners always enjoy! The focus vocabulary will include: longer than, shorter than, equal to, compare, length, height, heavier, lighter, and enough. Our topic this week is length and height. This "Texas-sized" song was too fun not to share!

Science
Our question to explore this week: What is matter? To answer this question we will be sorting, observing and learning about the properties of matter. Our focus standard is : SC.K.P.8.1
Sort objects by observable properties, such as size, shape, color, temperature (hot or cold), weight (heavy or light), and texture. Our little scientists will be busy exploring their world this week!

Reading

Sight words for the week are: all, will, this and had. Our Word Family is the -ad family. Practice having your child make words that would belong in the family~ had, sad, mad, etc.

We are reading a story about George Washing Carver and his love of plants and then we are taking our Module Assessment!!! Woohooo it is time to see how much our Kindergarteners have learned. :)

They have worked very hard throughout the Module and we want to reward them with two fun Culminating Activities. We will read The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein and Our Tree Named Steve by Alan Zwebel. If you aren't familiar with these stories, enjoy the Youtube video's below. The stories are both adorable!