Hello, Kindergarten Griffins!
I hope you all enjoyed your long weekend!
This Week:
Please start sending your child with empty paper towel rolls for our Tall Tales celebration (please no toilet paper rolls or other rolls, as these do not work well). Thank you in advance!
Reading Bags/Check-Ins:
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 have started reading with your child one-on-one, and our goal is twice a week per student, however, it varies by week when your child reads with their teacher and how often. Your child will receive a new list or book, as the teacher assess for fluency and comprehension when reading with each scholar.
Library:
KA/KB - Tuesday
KC/KD - Wednesday
This Week Academics:
Math Skills
- Learning about Measurement (Weight, Height, Length)
- Ch. 9: Measurement- Assessment (Friday, 2/21)
Language Arts Skills
- Spalding Phonograms: oe, ey
- Spelling Words: chance, change, little, are, ago
- 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
Literature
- Tall Tales
- Exaggeration vs. Fact
- Hyperbole
- Dialect
- Author's Purpose (inform/entertain)
- Virtue: Perseverance
Core Saying
Poetry
History/Science
- Science:
- History:
- Continents: Europe, Australia, Antartica
- Locate each continent on a map and describe and recall details about each continent.
- 7 Continents Assessment (Friday, 2/21)
Homework Reminders
- Be sure to read daily for 20 minutes; 80 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. On Tuesday-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 Assessment
- WPR Assessment – Thursday, February 20th
- Spelling Assessment – Friday, February 21st
- Math (Unit 9: Measurement) Assessment – Friday, February 21st
- History (7 Continents) Assessment – Friday, February 21st
Upcoming Events
- Feb. 21 ~ Fully Day Friday
- March 6 ~ Tall Tales Celebration
- March 7 ~ Teacher Professional Development Day/ No School
- March 7-16 ~ Spring Break
