Our class will have the opportunity to eat lunch in the lunchroom to prepare for 1st grade on Thursday, May 29. We will be introduced to the lunchroom procedures, practice going through the lunch line (if choosing school lunch), eat at the tables, and clean up. Please indicate lunch choice and sign up to volunteer here.
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In Kindergarten, students need to be able to solve math facts within 10 and fluently within 5 (1+4, 2+3, 0+4, 5-2, 3-1, etc.)
Timings we’ve been working on in class:
Math Facts Fluency within 5
Math Facts Fluency within 10 (for students who have passed off fluency within 5)
Flashcards Within 5
Flashcards Within 10
Our goal is to accurately complete 25 facts/minute
Looking Ahead:
Here’s a quick overview of new things we learned this week:
Comprehension strategy/skill: “Make and confirm predictions”/”Events: Sequence”. We read several different texts to go along with our theme: “Problem Solvers: What can happen when we work together?”
High Frequency Words (Power Words): good, who
Sound, spelling: introduced long /a/ (spelled a_e)
Vocabulary: opinion, decide, grateful, marvel, ragged
Math: Lesson 23: “Compose and Decompose Teen Numbers with Tools and Drawings”
Science: This week we’re learning about the four classic “seasons.” Your child was given a series of drawings and looked for patterns to figure out the seasons’ order. We also discovered which season our birthday occurs in.
Students will begin taking end of the year assessments this week. A few things that will help the students during this time:
1- Sleep
2- A nutritious breakfast
3- An “I can do it” attitude– encourage them to do their best
We really appreciate your help with this! It makes a big difference to your student when they are well rested and not hungry for testing. We want every student to have the best shot possible at performing well on all end of year assessments. 
We are now beginning Unit 10 in Language Arts. Below are the sight words, oral vocabulary words, letters, and sounds we will be mastering during the next 3 weeks. In addition, we continue to read decodable books and passages. You can encourage us to read the passages we bring home each week. We are also writing sentences about the texts we read.
Looking Ahead:
Here’s a quick overview of new things we learned this week:
Comprehension strategy/skill: “Reread” and “Details: Time Order”. We read several different texts to go along with our theme: “Our Natural Resources”
High Frequency Words (Power Words): where, look
Sound and spelling review: all consonants and short vowels
Vocabulary: natural resources, create, weave, designs, knowledge
Math: Lesson 23: “Compose and Decompose Teen Numbers with Tools and Drawings”
Science: This week our class is keeping track of the weather and how it changes. Each day, we noted three things about the weather. Is it sunny, cloudy, or partly cloudy? Is it hot, cold, or mild (somewhere in between)? Is it rainy, snowy, or dry? In our Read-Along lesson, we listened to an illustrated digital storybook. In the story, Kevin becomes a weather detective to figure out why he keeps losing his warm clothes.
Sending this as a reminder (not many students have taken advantage of these free books so far)! 🙂
Looking Ahead:
Comprehension strategy/skill: “Reread”/”Events: Cause and Effect”. We read several different texts to go along with our theme: “Good Citizens”
High Frequency Words (Power Words): play, has
Sound, spelling and handwriting review: e, f, g, h and introduced long /i/, (spelled i_e)
Vocabulary: citizen, respect, hauled, tidy, necessary
Science: We started our new unit on weather patterns. The anchor phenomenon for this unit is the amazing cycle of changes an arctic fox’s fur undergoes throughout the annual cycle of seasonal weather. During the introduction today, students generated observations and questions about the phenomenon and created a list of possible explanations for the phenomenon.