Kindergarten is the BEST place on Earth!

Reading: We will continue to sequence the events in stories and work on our retelling. We will use the book Pete the Cat- Rocking in My School Shoes.  We will continue practicing rhyming, blending, segmenting, phoneme deletion and language awareness. (Each of these items is done for about two minutes. Practice rhyming words!! Say three words to your child and have them tell you the two that rhyme. Also tell them a "Dr.Seuss" word and have them tell you a real word that rhymes with yours.)
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 Pete the Cat. :)
                           
            
                                    
Writing: We will continue to discuss our Opinions. We will be working on a piece about Halloween. I will be stressing stretching words and spaces in between words. When students finish their piece, we will discuss editing and rewriting our piece with out any mistakes/ erase marks. (due to Resources and Picture Day... I'm thinking it's going to take all week to complete.)
When writing with your child at home, continue to leave them alone 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 continuing to stress independence when writing. 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 begin discussing Matter and sorting items by their properties. We will be using different feeling, weight, color and size words.We will also discuss how there is no Right or Wrong answer when we sort items, they just need to be able to explain!
At home you'll want to present your child with different items and ask how they can be sorted into  groups. After they sort the items and explain it to you, ask if there is a different way to sort the items.


Math: We will continue to focus on Linus the Minus and his taking away. (Last week some of the students tried to add, others weren't able to do the computation and would stop after they had drawn their group. I noticed some students made mistakes drawing the beginning group and X'd out their mistakes. Because of this we will NOT be X'ing what gets taken away. We will instead be drawing a ZIGZAG line threw the picture.  ) 
At home, continue to ask your child what words represent Linus is going to be in the story problem. 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. :)