Keeping up with Kindergarten Vol. 2
Mrs. Van, Ms. Wanczyk, Ms. Beasley, Mrs. Nunes
Reading focus for the next 4 weeks
Big Idea: Students will learn characteristics of the fiction genre and learn comprehension strategies that support understanding of fiction.
I can:
•Identify fiction books.
•Identify characteristics of fiction, including characters, setting and events.
•Retell a fiction story in sequential order with adult assistance.
•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.
•Recognize that letters have sounds.
•Recognize the difference between a letter and a printed word.
•Work independently in anchor stations.
Writing focus for the next 4 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 for the next 4 weeks
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.
Rote counting
- I can count to 100 by ones and tens beginning with any number.
Composing & Decomposing Numbers
- I can compose and decompose numbers up to 10 with and without objects and pictures.
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
- Don't forget to send 5 of your child's favorite fiction books to school by Tuesday, September 12th. We will use these books in our reading lessons. Please read the email from your teacher with more information about this.
- Please remember to send your child with a water bottle everyday. Make sure to send a reusable water bottle that has a non-spill lid.
- Tennis shoes need to be worn on PE days.
- Parents are responsible for sending a snack each day.
- Please remember to have your child wear shorts under their dresses because we do lot's of climbing and hanging upside down at recess!
Dates to remember
Fall pictures- September 13th
Dot Day! Wear polka Dots- September 15th
ABC fashion parade- September 22nd (more information coming soon)