Hello, Kindergarten Griffins!
We have a busy two months ahead of us, so please make sure to read through the blog thoroughly and make note of important dates coming up!
This Week:
Spalding homework- Our scholars have been beginning to learn multi-letter phonograms. Homework will continue to follow the Written Phonogram Review format that you have been practicing on Thursdays, and we are adding spelling words this week. As a reminder, the homework paper with the Great Hearts logo at the top is for you only. Your student will write on the blank, lined Spalding paper. You will state the phonogram sound(s) and the spelling word(s), and then they will write it in his/her best handwriting once. This will help your student practice writing the phonograms and spelling words as they hear them, rather than just seeing them. Directions are provided at the top of the homework sheet. At this point, you are now doing both oral phonograms practice each night (with the Spalding flashcards) and written phonogram/spelling word practice each night. Both are equally important. Please help your student continue to work on handwriting as they write their phonograms and words each night. Please do not work ahead. It is very important that they learn the phonograms and words with us in class first.
Library:
KA and KB are Tuesdays.
KC and KD are Wednesdays.
Native American Instrument Project:
Papers will go home today with instructions for the instrument project that will be due next Wednesday, 11/20.
Looking Ahead:
Native American Celebration will be on Friday (11/22). A sign up went out on Wednesday (11/6) for celebration volunteer slots and supplies needed to make the day extra special for each class.
Fall Concert will be Friday (11/22).
This Week Academics
Math Skills
- Compare groups with the same number of objects.
- Compare to tell a number is greater than, less than, or equal to another number.
Language Arts Skills
- Spalding Phonograms: ay, ai, oy, oi
- Spelling Words: me, do, and, go, at
- Identify letter names
- Isolating sounds in words
- Identify phonogram sounds
- Identifying rhyming words
- Letter formation/pencil grip, writing phonograms on paper
- Distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters; naming letters
- Identifying rules and markings on spelling words.
Grammar
- Nouns
- Verbs
Literature
- Fairy Tales
- Story Elements (setting, characters, theme/big idea, problem/solution)
- Hero/Villian
- Retelling
Core Saying
Poetry
History/Science
- Science: Animal Unit
- How they move
- Ocean animals
- What they eat
- Animal Scientists
- Animal Unit Assessment: Friday, November 15th.
Homework Reminders
- Be sure to read daily for 20 minutes; 100 minutes this week. Reading Logs will be collected next Monday. Please record on the Reading Log page. If you miss a night, please record 0 minutes and initial rather than leaving it blank.
- Spalding handwriting practice. Spalding homework will continue to be in the Written Phonogram and Spelling Word Review format-please read the GH logo homework sheet for instructions. Monday-Wednesday scholars write the list of phonograms and words once; on Thursday in preparation for our spelling test the list is written twice.
- Memorize poem by Friday!
Upcoming Assessments
- Spalding Phonogram Assessment (WPR) – Thursday, Nov. 14th: Students will write the phonograms read aloud to them.
- Spalding Spelling Assessment – Friday, Nov. 15th: Students will write the spelling words read aloud to them.
- Science Assessment (Animal Unit) – Friday, Nov. 15th
Upcoming Events
- Nov. 15 ~ Early Release
- Nov. 22 ~ Early Release; Native American Celebration; Fall Concert
- Nov. 25-29 ~ Thanksgiving Break
