Week 9: 09/30-10/04

Today was such a special day here at Arete. We had so much fun celebrating and making memories with our Grandparents. Thank you to all the Grandparents that were able to make it, and those that weren't able to be here know you were celebrated too! 

And can you believe just one week stands between us and Fall Break?! Here's what we will be up to until then. 

Spalding: This week we will finish out the first 26 phonograms by teaching w, x, y, and z. We will continue to review previous taught phonograms and our test on Friday will cover any of the first 16 phonograms. We will also continue to work on word sounds and syllables.  You can easily do this at home with your child as practice. Give your child a simple CVC (consonant/vowel/consonant) words; can, dog, mat, etc. Ask your child to give each sound of the word.  It is especially important that they are able to give you the beginning sound of the word, but we are working hard on identifying the middle and end sound as well.

Sight Words:We will take this week to review list #1. Please continue to practice each night with your child, thank you for your support in making fluent readers!

Literature: We continue to explore fables this week by reading the Tortoise and the Hare. We will learn the importance of the the moral “Slow and Steady Wins the Race,” and discuss the virtue of perseverance.  Our weekly poem will be Little Turtle.

Math: This week we will finish our unit on number order. We will be writing numbers in order forward and backward.  Students will be able to write the missing numbers 1-10. An assessment will be given on Friday.

Science:  Students will be able to identify parts of plant:  roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and seeds. They will also know that seeds of plants will only reproduce the same plant.  Students will be able to explain the plant life cycle and how plants grow. They will learn the needs of plants and identify what plants we eat.  Students will be able to identify animals and crops on a farm and name 3 products that come from a dairy farm.

Here's the fun from this week:

Slow and steady.....

wins the race!

Playing baseball in P.E.

Scholars!

Picture day.

Cheese!

Spalding Homework Change

This week we will begin our new Spalding homework.  Phonograms will be given on a cover page for parents only to view. Students will be given blank pages to write their phonograms each night.  Mrs. Worthy and I made a video with the help of Mrs. Woinarowicz to explain how the homework should be completed.

Please watch this video before Monday's homework: https://youtu.be/v4tVZMU8ErY

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to me, thank you for your continued support!

Week 8: 09/23-09/27

Happy Friday! What a great week we had learning and having fun. Here's a couple quick things for next week. Tuesday 09/24 is picture day, our pictures are early in the morning to avoid sweaty recess face! Friday 09/27 is Grandparents Day! The morning will begin in the gym with refreshments to be enjoyed with Grandparents. Following that, Grandparents will be escorted by their grandchild to their classroom for an activity. We hope you will join us in making some great memories! The Daddy/Daughter dance is this Saturday, I look forward to seeing you there from 5:30-8:30. 

Spalding: This week we will finish out the first 26 phonograms by teaching w, x, y, and z. We will continue to review previous taught phonograms and our test on Friday will cover any of the first 16 phonograms. We will also continue to work on word sounds and syllables.  You can easily do this at home with your child as practice. Give your child a simple CVC (consonant/vowel/consonant) words; can, dog, mat, etc. Ask your child to give each sound of the word.  It is especially important that they are able to give you the beginning sound of the word, but we are working hard on identifying the middle and end sound as well.

Sight Words:We will take this week to review list #1. Please continue to practice each night with your child. We will test over list #2 this week as well. Thank you for your support in making fluent readers!

Literature: We continue to explore fables this week by reading the Tortoise and the Hare. We will learn the importance of the the moral “Slow and Steady Wins the Race,” and discuss the virtue of perseverance.  Our weekly poem will be Little Turtle.

Math: This week will continue to work with numbers 1-10 focusing on number order. Students will practice counting and writing in ascending and descending order. We will work on finding the missing number in a sequence and identifying numbers that are 1 more/less. For example students will say, “ 4 is 1 more than 3; 4 is one less than 5.” 

History:  Students will be able to give two facts about Betsy Ross, George Washington Carver and the Statue of Liberty.  They will gain a better understanding of the Pledge of Allegiance.  Students will also be able to recognize and describe Mount Rushmore.

Here's a look at the week we had. 

This week students learned all about baseball in P.E.

Waiting to run the bases.  

Ready, set, go!

Brock wore the perfect "game day"socks for our day of baseball!

Our first library visit was a hit! 

Playing duck-duck-goose.

This week we got to learn all about Ryan! 

Week 7: 09/16-09/20

Friday, we made it! We are wrapping up week six of kindergarten and heading into week seven. A few reminders for this week. There is NO SCHOOL Monday 09/16 so that teacher can attend the Great Hearts Summit. Your child was sent home with a yellow book bag, in the coming month we will be sending their reading books home in it. For the mean time please keep their sight word lists in the book bag and have your child practice bringing it daily.

Spalding: This week we will learn the phonograms r, t, u, v while continuing to review all previous learned phonograms.  Please continue to assist your child with their nightly homework. Friday’s test will consist of the first 10 phonograms.   

Sight Words: are, as, with, his. In addition to Spalding homework please review your child’s sight word list. Their sightword lists should be kept inside their book bag and brought to school each day. 

Literature:  We will begin to explore Aesop’s Fables by starting with "The Dog and His Shadow.” We will identify the elements of a fable and examine the moral of each fable we read. The weekly poem will be Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone. 

Math:We are continuing our unit on numbers to 10. We will work on numbers 6-10 this week. We will incorporate numeral cards, ten frames, and an abacus. An assessment will be given on  Friday. 

Science:  Students will recognize the differences between a map and a globe.  Students will learn how to read a map. They will discover various mapping skills.  Students will be able to find Canada and Mexico on the map.

Here's what we did this week!

Weeee!

Giant chess!

Learning all about Aria!

Ms. Weddle with her friends Adagio and Allegro!

Week 6: 09/09-09/13

Happy Friday and what a wonderfully busy week we've had here in kindergarten! We had our first phonogram test today and I am so impressed by how well your kiddos did. This Wednesday 09/11 is Curriculum Q&A night. Come with any follow up questions you may have from our Curriculum Night a couple weeks ago. It's informal so you may pop in any time from 6-7. Thank you to all the families that sent in supplies for science this week. We enjoyed all types of apples and got to experience different tastes like sweet, salty, and sour! 

Congratulations to our August Virtue Award winner, Lucas, way to model responsibility!

Here's a look at next week.

Spalding:  We will introduce the phonograms “l, m, n, p.” Homework will be the phonograms we introduce plus review of previous taught phonograms to get ready for our second Spalding test on Friday. 

  

Sight Words: are, as, with, his, they, I

Literature:  We will continue to explore Tall Tales this week by reading about Casey Jones, Paul Bunyan, and Pecos Bill.  We will discuss the element of exaggeration by creating our own Tall Tale pets and imagining ourselves as Tall Tale characters. Our proverb of the month is “Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you,” and this will lead us into talking about the “Golden Rule.”  The poem of the week is Happy Thought. 

Math: We will continue our number study by exploring numbers to 10. Students will recognize numbers 1-10 in concrete and pictorial form and represent these numbers in writing using the correct Spalding number formation. We will introduce how to use a ten frame and practice identifying a number that is missing from a sequence. 

Science:  Students will be able to recognize and describe each season.  They will learn the meaning of the words:  hibernation, migration, blossom, seedling, autumn and deciduous trees.

Happy Birthday Sophie!

Trying our homemade applesauce.

Lots of Johnny Appleseeds!

Yum!

"Hey, take a picture of my drawing Mrs. Howard!"