Kindergarten Newsletter
May 3rd - 7th
What we're learning this week...
Phonics: Phonics Review (focusing on digraph review)
Book: The Bad Seed by Jory John
Reading Strategies: Making a connection, retelling the story, writing and drawing our opinion
Math: Addition and subtraction word problems, 2D and 3D shapes, numbers to 100, number handwriting practice, fluency of addition and subtraction within 10, partners of 10 (how to make 10)
Writing: Using a graphic organizer to organize our thinking and plan our writing, informational writing: animal research projects, letter formation (handwriting practice), 5 star writing rubric (finger spaces, proper punctuation, capital letters at the beginning of the sentence, spelling sight words correctly, does my writing make sense?)
Social Studies: American Legend: Cesar Chavez
Science: Mystery Science: Force Olympics
Religion: We celebrate Jesus' gift of Himself, Jesus unites the Church, Church as community, building church community, staying connected to Jesus, Vine and branches prayer
Social Skills: Following directions and using an appropriate voice tone
Virtue: Gratitude
Social and Emotional Learning: solving problems: children discuss the last two steps in solving problems (think, try), practice generating solutions to problems presented in scenarios, and then problem solve with a peer during collaborative play.
May Crowning
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Learning practice at home
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