Welcome back from Spring Break! I hope every child enjoyed their vacation. Monday is the field trip to Cagle Dairy Farm. See the previous post for details. I'm sad to share Sammy moved over Spring Break and will no longer be in our class. We will be receiving a new student, Isaac, next week. We are excited to have him join our school family! See below for more details on what studetns will be learning.
Reading
In whole group, students will be hearing homophone stories and share homophone examples. Homophones are two words that sound the same but mean different things. For example, son and sun. There is son like a child and sun like in the sky. By the end of the week students will be expected to illustrate a pair of homophones and give a definition or use the words in a sentence. I will assess their knowledge on Friday.
Students will visit literacy centers. Instead of pulling small groups, I will begin the final GKIDS assessment where I assess some standards from this quarter as well as revisit any standard a student didn't meet previosly. GKIDS will be ongoing through May 1st.
Writing
We will be revisiting the narrative genre this week. Students will be challenged to write a story with a beginning, middle, and end. Students should also include details such as who they are with, where they are, and what they are doing. These sentences should have spaces, capitalziation, and punctuation in addition to phonetically spelled words. Their final writing piece on Friday will be kept in their assessment portfolio and be passed onto their teacher next year. We will go through the writing process: brainstorming, rough draft, editing/revising (they love the red pens!), and a final draft. The topic this week is fun with friends. What do you like to do with friends? Pick one time you had fun with your friends and write all about it. This is a very kindergarten friendly topic!
Science
Our parent/offspring unit will continue. Students will match parents with baby animals and identify similaries/differences between them. I will assess their knowledge this week. We will also participate in shared research to find information to answer what students wanted to learn in our KWL a few weeks ago. Many of their W-want to learn responses were about baby animals. We will also research how to care for baby chicks/eggs since ours will be arriving soon!
Math
Students will be learning more about tens and ones this week. There are 2 parts of this topic. 1) Students will need to take a teen number (or more) and decide how many groups of ten there are and how many ones. 2) Students will use base ten blocks (ten sticks/towers and ones cubes) to make a teen number. For example, if I say 17 the student would use one ten stick and 7 ones. Students will practice these skills by playing memory, using the tens blocks in small groups, and completing worksheets. These skills will build on our work with tens frames before the break. This can be a hard concept for kinders which is why we left it until the end of the year. With their addition knowledge, it may be easier to understand 1 group of ten plus seven ones is 17 like 10+7=17.
Other
- Field Trip on Monday
- Tuesday morning students will have an extra Art class due to earning 80 stepping stones!
- May 8th Mother's Day celebration at 8am.
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