DATES TO REMEMBER:
-Wednesday, January 15th—Library
-Thursday, January 16th—Early Dismissal (1:45)
-Friday, January 17th—Early Dismissal (1:45)
-Monday, January 20th—Delayed Start
-Friday, January 24th—Report Cards Home
ASSESSMENTS:
The end of the marking period is fast approaching; we will be assessing many skills and concepts during the next two weeks. Students will also be reassessed on DIBELS (letters, sounds, segmenting, & blending) and AIMSWEB (math concepts) to monitor their progress. Please be sure that your child is well rested and remind them to ‘always’ do their best at school. Also, attendance is so important; in Kindergarten so much of what we do is hands-on and oral instruction, and they miss out on so much when they are not here! Report cards will be sent home Friday, January 24th.
READING:
Our focus text for this week is Ginger which we will use to practice determining ‘cause and effect’ relationships. Our focus letter for this week is Ii and our new sight words are do & not. Since our letter of the week is a vowel, we will be using Chunky Monkey to practice reading and writing words with the ip, it, in, & ig chunks/word families. We will also learn that ck makes the /k/ sound with short vowels and we will introduce a new Beanie Baby for Accuracy—Flippy the Dolphin. Flippy reminds us that vowels have both a long and a short sound and if we come to a tricky word, while we are reading, we can ‘flip’ the vowel sound and try both the long and short sounds to see which one makes sense.
WRITING:
We will continue to work on writing Pattern Books; this week we will begin ’I like . . .’ books. We will work on following directions as we ’Draw a Rhyme Snowman’ together and discuss the importance of ’details.’ We will also complete a couple of journals related to snowmen.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
This week we will read several books related to Snowmen and begin learning about ways to keep our bodies healthy. We will also read several informational texts related to freedom & equality in anticipation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day next week.
MATH:
This week we will work on creating patterns using pattern blocks and play several patterning games. We will practice counting on from any given number and we will learn how to use a calculator.
We have been using a new app called iXL Math, if your child has a mobile device at home I would recommend downloading it; it has great math activities by grade level. You can also go to their website www.ilx.com and click on Kindergarten to do the same activities.
Check it out!
