Kindergarten
Week 9
A Note From Kindergarten
Hi Kindergarten Eagles,
We are so very proud of all of you for all the hard work you’ve been doing during this time. It’s been the best year watching you grow as Kindergarteners and we can’t wait to watch you continue to grow in first grade. We hope to see you during our Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony that we will have in a drive thru format. Graduation will be on Wednesday, May 27th in the car rider line at Giesinger. We hope you will join us from your car in celebrating your awesome Kindergarteners at these times:
9:00 am - 10:00 am - Gorsalitz & Major
10:00 am - 11:00 am - Wieghat & Andrada & Garrison
11:00 am - 12:00 pm - Medina & Vanckhoven & Pitt
Thank you for an awesome year!
Love,
Ms. Gorsalitz, Mrs. Major, Mrs. Wieghat, Mrs. Medina, Mrs. Andrada, Mrs. Vanckhoven, Mrs. Pitt
Fun Fact: Butterflies have a special body part called a proboscis, which is like a long straw that butterflies use to drink nectar from flowers.
Weekly Checklist
Reading
Reading
For this week we will focus on Nonfiction, or informational texts
Activity 1
Read your student the text "Hermit Crabs".
Activity 2
Students will respond to reading by completing the Hermit Crabs response paper. You can also use any paper to write and draw a picture about what the text taught you and what you learned.
Parents/Guardians : Here are a few questions to help your reader think about the text.
What type of text do you think you are reading? How do you know?
Why do you think the author wrote this text?
What does the text tell or teach you?
What do you think the purpose of this text? How do you know?
Please make sure your child is reading everyday for 20 minutes. Reading can be online books or books you have at home. Happy Reading!
Word Study
- Practice sight words
Activity 1: Practice your Kindergarten sight words this week by reading your sight words in your own made-up silly voices. (Example: squeaky voice, deep voice, spooky voice, whisper voice, teacher voice)
Activity 2: Color by sight word using the key on the “Color By Sight Word” sheet.
Writing
Writers Plan Narrative Stories using Pictures.
This week writers will generate ideas and plan a new narrative story. Writers will plan to write across pages using pictures to plan the story.
Focus: Writers plan a story like they look through a book and take a picture walk.
WHAT WRITERS DO
Writers think about the story they want to write.
Writers thing about what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Writers practice telling the story.
Writers use pictures to plan the story.
Writers write words to match the pictures.
This week work with your writer to plan a new narrative story. Use pictures to plan the story across pages. Once planning is done you can transfer your story and add the words.( Make sure your child is writing phonetically, It is ok for words to be misspelled.)
Math
Addition & Subtraction- Story Problems All Types
Lesson Focus: This week we will work on addition and subtraction problems. The focus on this week is for students to make decisions about which type of problem is being presented and how to use their math tools to represent and solve. Encourage students to draw pictures, write number sentences, and use spoken words to describe their thinking.
Activities:
Story problems: Have student make decisions about what type of problem is being represented. Ask questions to help with students thinking. Have students represent and solve in different ways- draw a picture, write a number sentence, use ten frame.
Addition Bump It: How to play: Roll two dice and add those numbers. Cover that number with your marker. If your partner’s marker is on the space, you can bump them and take their space! If you already have a marker on that space, then stack a second marker on top of it. You have locked that space and can’t be bumped off. The player to use all ten of their markers first is the winner!
Science: Plant Life Cycles
Watch and learn about the life cycle of plants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YETcAv_gRLE
Students will watch video about the life cycle of plants
Students will put the life cycle in the correct order: attached, this is what you will turn in.
Social Studies: Oral and Visual Communication
Student can describe and explain the importance of family customs and traditions
Activity:
Ask your student to review the family celebrations in the pictures included in the lesson. Ask your student to pick a family celebration they remember and to talk about why it is important to have family celebrations.
Ask your student to list what should be included in a family celebration and to explain why.
Social/Emotional Learning
Weekly Theme: Resilience
DEVELOPING RESILIENCE: HOW TO USE PAST SUCCESS TO CONFRONT CURRENT CHALLENGES
Self-efficacy is a major component of resilience. When students believe they can succeed, they’re more likely to attempt tasks perceived as challenging.
Watch the following video:
Sesame Street - Persistence David Beckham - can’t give up
Complete the following activity: I Can Train My Brain. This is a sorting activity. You can talk about how each way of thinking can be positive or negative.