Keeping up with Kindergarten vol. 5
Mrs. Van, Mrs. Weber, Mrs. Nunes, Ms.Beasley Oct. 21
Reading focus for the next 4 weeks
Big Idea: Children will use familiar storybooks to expand their ability as storytellers by paying close attention to the repeated words/phrases, the pictures in the books, and then rereading them to prepare for conversations about the stories.
I can:
•Identify fiction books.
•Identify characteristics of fiction, including characters, setting and events.
•Recognize that pictures hold meaning.
•Retell a fiction story in sequential order using pictures.
•Approximate reading using pictures, meaning, and patterns.
• Use storybook language and vocabulary to retell the story.
•Ask questions as I read.
•Find answers to my questions as I read.
•Make personal connections to the books I read.
•Describe characters in a story.
•Explain why characters act in a certain way.
•Discuss the purpose of reading fiction books.
•Read independently by reading the pictures, words, or retelling a story heard.
•Work independently in anchor stations.
•Talk with a partner about my book.
Writing focus for the next 3 weeks
Big Idea: Through a combination of direct-instruction, guided practice, and independent practice, students will work to write more and more about familiar objects and places. Students will begin by drawing and labeling and move into planning and writing books. Students will progress from writing labels to writing patterned sentences.
I can:
•Choose a familiar object or place to write about.
•Draw a picture to match what I want to say.
•Use inventive spelling to label my drawings.
•Add more letters to my inventive spellings.
•Plan books by deciding what will go on each page.
•Write more and more words to go with my pictures.
•Use high frequency words to write sentences.
•Write across pages by using patterned sentences.
Math focus
Counting Objects
- I can count, read, write, and represent numbers to at least 20 with and without objects and pictures.
Subitizing
- I can recognize the quantity of objects up to 5 in organized and random arrangements to count objects and compose & decompose numbers.
Comparing numbers
- I can use comparative language to compare numbers and sets of objects.
Generate a number that Is one more and one less
- I can generate a number that is one more or one less than a given number.
Number sense
- I can connect one number with one object when counting.
- I can realize the last number said represents the number of objects we count.
- I can learn that the number of objects stays the same even if they are rearranged.
- I can count, read, write, and represent numbers to at least 20 with and without objects and pictures.
Reminders
- Please remember to send your child with a water bottle everyday- the water fountains are turned off. Make sure to send a reusable water bottle that has a non-spill lid.
- Tennis shoes need to be worn on PE days.
- Please put names inside coats and jackets so it will be easier to return lost ones.
- Parents are responsible for sending a snack each day.
- Please remember to send library books back each Thursday so your child can check out a new one.
- Please remember to have your child wear shorts under their dresses because we do quite a bit of climbing and hanging upside down at recess!