April 28: Funky Friday (dress as silly as you want)
May 4: Action Figures/Sci Fi Day
May 22: Family Night
May 26: No School
NOTES:
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Fang Reading Program:
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A peek at our week:
Reading: Readers learn to be problem solvers! Even when they get to unknown words in their books, they can use lots of strategies to figure out a word. Here are some of the ways we solve words:
Writing: ATTENTION! Writers will be having a writing boot camp this week! As we head into the last part of the year, we will push ourselves to do what strong writers ALWAYS do: make writing easy to read and write more and more. We will make our writing easy to read by making sure we have a vowel sound in every word and checking to see words are on the line and sentences have spaces. In order to write more, writers ask questions to add more sentences to the page and set goals of how much writing they can get done in a day.
Math: Here are a few highlights of what students will be doing in math this week:
Word Study: It is important for Kindergartners to keep practicing sight words so that they can read and write them in a snap. One way we have been working on that in our room is to practice writing sight word sentences. For example, I would say "I like to play with my dog." Students would them practice picturing each sight word as they try to write it automatically.
- Telling, retelling, and writing equations for addition and subtraction stories
- building partners of 10 in many different ways to build fluency
- Practicing showing partners for 7-9
- Building numbers 1-20 with different tools and looking for patterns within the model
Word Study: It is important for Kindergartners to keep practicing sight words so that they can read and write them in a snap. One way we have been working on that in our room is to practice writing sight word sentences. For example, I would say "I like to play with my dog." Students would them practice picturing each sight word as they try to write it automatically.
Science: Students have been LOVING our research on balls and ramps so far. After looking at videos, books, and pictures, we have come up with three questions to guide our inquiry:
- What makes a ball move?
- What is the ball made of?
- How are balls the same and different?
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