Newsletter Jan. 4th-7th

Here are a few things that my Kindergartners are going to learn this week!!!!!!

Math

· IXL Math

· Learning numbers 1-50, Learning how to add with manipulatives

· Lesson 20: Relate more and less to length

· Learning numbers 1-50, comparing length flower cut and paste

Reading wonders

* Essential Question of the week: How can people help to make your community better?

· Visual Vocabulary: community, improve, confused, harvest, quarrel

· Concepts of print, identify words, word building, adjectives, position words

·Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme blending, isolation, segmentation (review all sight words studied)

· Literature Big book/questions/answers

· Verbs, rhymes, identify sight words, picture sort, syllables, words to describe things

· Independent Writing, presentations

· Beginning to read books

Sight words:

I, can, the, we, see, a, like, and, to, go, you, do

Up-Coming Events:

· Jan. 8th- Family Game Night, 6:00 p.m.

· Jan. 10th- School Council Meeting

· Jan. 12th- Battle of the Books

· Jan. 17th- No School/Teacher Inservice

· Jan. 30th- Catholic Schools Week Begins