Looking Ahead:
- Thursday, December 19: Free Dress Down Day. Students are welcome to wear comfy pajamas today!
- Thursday, December 19: Discovery Gateway comes to Quest Kindergarten classes
- Friday, December 20: Class Winter Party and Free Dress Down Day. Students are welcome to wear an “ugly” sweater today!
- December 23-January 5: Winter Break- No School
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Here’s a quick overview of new things we learned this week:
Comprehension strategy/skill: “Ask and Answer Questions”/Characters and Setting . We read different stories to go along with our theme “Who are your neighbors?”
New High Frequency Word: “do”
Phonics:blend and isolate sounds in CVC words. New sound/spelling: /d/ Dd
Vocabulary: cultures, appreciate, prefer, tradition, proud
Math: Lesson 17 “Count within 100″ (by 1’s and 10’s) continued.
Science: This week, students learned a key idea about forces: how pushes can change the direction and speed of an object’s movement. We learned how some mountain towns in danger of landslides can build structures to protect themselves from falling rocks. Students designed and tested their own solutions to re-direct falling boulders away from their town and toward a waiting dump truck.