Keeping up with Kindergarten vol. 8
Mrs. Van, Mrs. Weber, Mrs. Nunes, Ms.Beasley Dec. 3rd-16th
Reading focus for the next 6 weeks
Big Idea: Children will develop transferable strategies to help them cross the bridge between emergent and conventional reading. In this multi-genre unit we introduce students to concepts about print, one-to-one matching, text-picture correspondence.
I can:
•Use my finger to track all the way through a word and also to track word by word.
•Reread to learn more about a topic or story.
•Use my partner to help me check tricky parts.
•Use pictures to check my understanding.
•Use high-frequency words to understand more in each sentence.
•Use my sounds to match the letter at the beginning of a word.
•Talk about my book, share my thoughts, and point to important parts of a story.
•Keep trying to understand words and sentences even when they get tricky.
Writing focus for the next 4 weeks
Big Idea: Children will use the writing process to write about topics they know all about.
I can:
•Name topics I know all about, for example: things I have, places I go, and things I like to do, etc.
•Teach information using pictures.
•Ask and answer questions about a topic.
•Reread to distinguish between true and untrue information.
•Add details to my pictures and writing.
•Use common sight words in sentence building.
•Use phonological knowledge to write words.
Math focus for the next 4 weeks
I can
- model and solve word problems through the action of joining and separating and explain
I can
- Move from concrete to pictorial models
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!