Practice: Decodables for this week (Unit 1, Week 2) are found on pages 104-109 and 112-117 of the Reading/Writing Companion.
Looking Ahead:
- Last few days to sell Cookie Dough and Beef Jerky (ends Sept. 26) Thank you for helping to support our school (and our class)!
- Tuesday, September 26: Picture Day
- Friday, September 29: Dollar Dress Down Day
- Friday, September 29: Scholastic Book Orders Due: Scholastic Reading Club (use class activation code: Y8WGR)
- Friday, October 6: Station 63 Firefighters Visit Kindergarten
- Wednesday-Friday, October 11-13: NO SCHOOL Fall Break
- Friday, Nov. 3: Ice Cream Party (Keep up the Great Work! We are already seeing amazing improvements in Letter Naming and Sounds)
Here’s a quick overview of what we learned this week:
Comprehension strategy/skill: “Ask and Answer Questions” and “Characters”. We read a fable, a fantasy and a non-fiction selection to go along with our theme “How do baby animals move?”
New High Frequency Word: “we” (please continue to practice “I”, “can”, “the”, “a”)
Phonics: Sound and Spelling of Aa.
Phonemic Awareness: How to produce the sounds: /u/ /d/ /g/ /sh/ and long /o/. We learn how our mouth forms these sounds including what our tongue, teeth and lips are all doing. We work all year on rhyming words, chunking words into syllables, first, middle and last sounds we hear in words, adding and taking away and replacing words in compound words, and blending 3 sounds to make a word (consonant-vowel-consonant or CVC words).
Math: Unit 1 Math in Action (Review position, length, height, and sorting) and we’ve continued to practice writing our numbers. Reversals are still very common and we praise when students write the correct number, even if it’s backwards, and then have them fix it because we’ve learned that fixing our mistakes helps us learn and grow.
Science: We heard a story about a little boy who watched a thunderstorm with his grandpa from the front porch of his house. Just before the storm, the little boy noticed that the wind was making the tree branches move! After hearing the story, your child made a Breeze Buddy to hang outside. A Breeze Buddy moves in the wind, showing which way it’s blowing! If you have a spot outside, you can hang up the Breeze Buddy and encourage your child to pay attention to the wind and the weather. Watch for changes in wind direction. Sometimes a change in wind direction indicates that the weather is about to change!