KINDERGARTEN NEWS
Monday, January 10th is Day 3 and we have Music.
This week is Bb week as in bells, bears and boys. We will practice this consonant and the sound all week in Phonics. Due to the 4-day week, there will be no Show 'n Tell on Friday.
In Reading we will start a new unit called "Watch Me Change." These stories will show how people, plants and animals change as they grow. We will start with an informational text called "Little Panda." Students will even get to watch a panda-cam on the smartboard so that they can watch a real panda at the San Diego Zoo. the panda's name is Hua Mei. We will review the consonant Nn and introduce the high-frequency words--me, with, she.
In Math we will be solving a problem by acting it out. We will test children on sorting shape pieces. We will start a new set of lessons beginning with the identification of a cube and counting with one-to-one correspondence. Next we will match number cards to a dot cube. Then we will work with the geoboards and geobands to make line segments, shapes and designs.
During this 4-day week we will also be testing the children on the skills they learned during the second marking period. Yes, that means that report cards will soon be coming home (January 22nd, to be exact!).
Children will also be doing the DIBELS test sometime this week. The Reading teachers give these tests and they give us a fairly accurate picture of the progress that your child is making with his/her reading skills.
Children will be tested on Reading word list #7 on Monday, Jan. 10th. We will send home list #8 on Monday too. Then next Tuesday, Jan. 18th students will be tested on that list.
HOMEWORK
Monday to Thursday: each night practice reading word list and complete the half-sheet of practice sent home in your child's take-home folder. When possible also practice sight words and/or counting by 1's or 10's to 100.
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