Hello, Kindergarten Griffins!
I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving break and are ready for the next few weeks! We have a lot of fun things planned and upcoming, so please make sure to read through the blog thoroughly.
This Week:
Reading Bags:
Reading bags went home today in your child's backpack. Please refer to the paper in your child's red folder about the new reading homework procedures. Reading logs still need to be signed and completed each night for homework. Please make sure that your child brings their reading bags back to school each day in their backpack. We will start reading with your scholars one-on-one in the upcoming weeks, our goal is twice a week per student, however, is vary by week. Thank you!
Library:
No library this week.
Grandparents' Day:
Grandparents' Day is this Wednesday, December 4th.
Independent Study Projects:
Packets will go home on Wednesday, December 4th. At the top of the packet, your scholar's assigned animal will be written. Please read through the packet, and have the project fully completed by Jan. 13, 2025, to be presented in front of the class. This will count as a test grade in science for next quarter.
This Week Academics
Math Skills
- Review: Identify and compare solid and flat shapes.
- Review: Compare and identify groups with more than, less than, or equal amounts of objects.
- Chapter 5 Cumulative Assessment: Tuesday, December 3rd
- Make and break numbers to 5.
- Make and break apart numbers 2 and 3.
- Make and break apart numbers 4 and 5.
- Make and break apart numbers from 1-5 using number bonds.
Language Arts Skills
- Spalding Phonograms: ear
- Spelling Words: can, see, run, the, in
- 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
- Adjectives
Literature
- Fairy Tales
- Story Elements (setting, characters, theme/big idea, problem/solution)
- Adjectives/Describing Words
Core Saying
Poetry
History/Science
- Science:
- Matter
- Properties of Matter
- Matter Assessment: Friday, December 6th
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
- Math Cumulative Assessment – Tuesday, Dec. 3
- Spalding Phonogram Assessment (WPR) – Thursday, Dec. 5: Students will write the phonograms read aloud to them.
- Spalding Spelling Assessment – Friday, Dec. 6: Students will write the spelling words read aloud to them.
- Science Matter Assessment – Friday, Dec. 6
Upcoming Events
- Dec. 4 ~ Grandparents' Day
- Dec. 20 ~ Gingerbread Boy Celebration
- Dec. 23- Jan. 12 ~ Winter Break
