April
Week of 4/8-4/12
Important Information . . .
If you have signed up to bring a snack for the 3D Shape Party, please have those items in by Wednesday, April 10th.
We are having a school-wide vocabulary parade on April 26th. Please sign your child up for a word using the link sent out by your child's teacher. Once your child is signed up, design a costume and display the word and definition on the costume. Please reach out to your child's teacher if you have any questions!
We are already making plans for next year! Please reach out to your teacher and let us know if your child is not returning to Shades Mountain next year. If you have a friend or a neighbor who will have a Kindergartener next year, please let them know that Kindergarten registration packets are in the office. We would like to get a head start on our numbers for next year.
We have learned all letters of the alphabet. We will also continue to work on forming letter correctly when writing. Please continue to practice identifying them by sight and sound and writing both the uppercase and lowercase letter for each. Remember to ALWAYS start at the top when forming letters or numbers. Please also make sure letters are facing the right way.
Other important reminders:
- Follow the Shades Mountain Elementary Facebook page.
- Please practice tying shoes at home.
- Practice writing first and last name- only the first letter should be capitalized.
- Please send a quick, healthy snack and a water bottle to school each day.
- Please make sure your student is on time to school each day. If eating breakfast, they need to be here by 7:20am.
Mark Your Calendars . . .
- April 12: E-Learning Day (no school)
- April 19: 4th 9 Weeks Progress Reports coming home
- April 26: Vocabulary Parade
- May 22: Early Dismissal (11:30)
- May 23: Last Day of School, Early Dismissal (11:30)
We Are Learning...
Reading
- Identify important details
- Asking questions
- Identifying text features
- Using illustrations and text to determine word meaning
- Retelling stories (beginning, middle, end)
Math
- Counting to 100
- Counting to 100 starting at any number
- Counting by 10s to 100
- Identifying numbers 0-20
- Identifying greater than and less than
- Counting up to 30 objects
- Writing numbers up to 20
- Math games
- Addition facts to 5
- Subtraction facts to 5
- 2D and 3D Shapes
Writing
- Writing can look many different ways
- Making lists
- Labels
- Adding captions to describe their sketches
- Describing words
- Beginning, middle, ending sounds
- Sentence conventions (begins with a capital letter, finger spacing, ends with punctuation)
- How To
- Opinion Writing
Skills to Practice at Home . . .
High Frequency Words
Reading Skills
- All letters and sounds
- Digraphs (th, ch, sh, wh, qu, ck)
- Word families (-at, -it, -in, -op, -ug, -et, -ot, -an, -ick)
- Please read to your child each night.
- Ask questions before, during and after reading.
- Play I Spy with words or letters in the book you are reading.
- Retell the story in the right order.
Math Skills
- Count to 100 by 1's and 10's
- Count up to 30 objects
- Identify and write numbers 0-20
- Comparing groups of objects/numbers to determine greater than and less than
- Addition facts to 5
- Subtraction facts to 5
- Identifying 2D shapes (circle, triangle, square, rectangle, hexagon)
- Identifying 3D shapes (sphere, cube, pyramid, cone, cylinder, rectangular prism)