Kindergarten is the BEST place on Earth!

Reading: We will review all of the story elements we have learned this quarter: characters, setting, sequencing events, problem and solution. We will be using the books Napping House and The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything. We will continue practicing rhyming, blending, segmenting, phoneme deletion and language awareness. (Each of these items is done for about two minutes. Practice segmenting words at home. Use vegetable words, fruit words, color words etc. )
When choosing books to read with your child this week, pick books that you have read before and when you are finished reading ask your child to tell you the events in the order that they happened.
Here is a video for the Little Old Lady. :)
            
                                    
Writing: We will continue to discuss our Opinions. We will work on our pieces from last week (best lunch food and best resource). We will also write our opinions on why we liked the visits from the Firefighters and the Police Officer. 
When writing with your child at home, begin leaving them along to write for 3-4 minutes. Remind them how many sight words they know and how great they are at stretching words!! After that time frame, work with them and then leave them alone again. (I am really stressing independence this week when I'm visiting tables. I want to see what the students are able to do vs. what I am doing for them when I stretch the words.)

Science/Social Studies: We will be using our Science Workbooks this week. We are working on questioning, listening and reacting like a Scientist. Some of the worksheets they complete will be sent home for you to review with your child.  We will also spend a day discussing Police Officers and how they protect us.
After discussing the worksheet with your child, try the Home Activity listed on the bottom right hand corner.  On Friday, ask your child what they learned from the Police Officer.  :)


Math: We will spend one more day with Gus the Plus and then we are going to have a two question quiz. The students will be expected to listen to a story problem and draw the groups from the problem, plus combine them to tell the sum. (An equation does not need to be written!) After that we will focus on Linus the Minus and his taking away. (Students have a difficult time drawing the groups for subtraction and taking away only a certain amount. We will be eating a lot of mini m&m's and mini chocolate morsels to stress this concept. :) Feel free to send in an extra bag of either one. I'm sure it will come in handy!)
At home, begin to focus on all of the bolded words that are listed for Linus. Practice telling your child a story problem and then asking them how many are in the beginning group  and how many get taken away. Finally ask them what the difference is that you are left with. If this process is easy for your child, have them illustrate the story problems and write the equations. :) **You may want to make this a fun process by having your child wear the same scowl as Linus does on the poster. For extra flair, tie a ribbon/belt of a robe around their head. :)