Kindergarten
News for the week of February 25th – March 1st
This week in phonics we will be learning the letter Jj as in
jar. We will be identifying the vowel
sounds heard in words. They will begin a
new take-home reader called Pig’s Jet. We will begin to discuss what an accent is
and how to find it in a word. I will
test word list 16. For “Jj” show and
tell this week your child can bring an item or they can learn a joke. (Joke begins with “j” and kindergarten
children really enjoy telling jokes!)
In math this week we will be making an ABBC pattern with
pattern blocks, divide by sharing, comparing numbers through 10, identifying
left and right, and beginning to explore tangrams.
In reading this week we will read the story Max Takes the Train. The main
character of this book is Max, from Max and Ruby. This is an animal fantasy book. We will review the comprehension skill of
realism vs. fantasy.
We will be having a visitor from Bloomsburg University teach
us a lesson for Read Across America day! (Dr. Seuss’s Birthday!) We will also have guest readers. Ask your child if they remember any of our
readers. In March we will be learning
about St. Patrick’s day, reading some leprechaun stories and Irish tall
tales.
The children did a really great job doing their dinosaur
projects! They will hang in the hall for
a few more days. We also did a dinosaur
kidwriting story.
You may notice sentences that the children have been writing
on their phonics pages. They began this
by copying sentences from the board.
Next, I dictated sentences and they wrote them the best that they
could. Now, the children choose one of
the high frequency words and write their own sentence! I can really see progress! In the next few weeks the children will be
reading stories and giving their opinions about what they’ve read.
