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 books Skeleton Hiccups and Today is Halloween.
The Sight Words for this week are: day, get, on, said. We will continue practicing rhyming, blending, segmenting, phoneme deletion and beginning sounds of words. (Each of these items is done for about two minutes. Practice beginning sounds. Tell your child a word or point at a picture of an object. Then ask, " What is the beginning sound?" **The class wants to tell me a letter and I need them to produce the sound! The words we use are clear cut sounds. Examples: pig, baby, zebra, 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 book The Night Before Halloween and a video for the song Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate (your child will be bringing home the Five Little Pumpkins book to read with you. :) They sang the song in Music and it has become a class favorite!)

                                      
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Writing: We will begin Informational/ Procedural. We will be discussing topics we are an expert on: going on a slide, getting dressed, drawing a picture, etc. We will be sharing the steps by using the transition words: First, Next, Then, Last and Finally. I will not be stressing the writing for steps this week, as much as I will be stressing the process for ordering the steps correctly. *We will write the steps for creating a Jack o'Lantern as a class. I will put a picture of the steps on the blog for you to see.
At home you may want to focus on the steps as well. Make sure your child says the steps in order and get them incorporate the transition words. If they quickly pick up the steps, then begin writing the steps with the them about a topic of their choice.
Here is a video I will be showing in class to help tell the steps for going on a slide. (No volume is needed. We will be watching this without sound.)
          

Science/Social Studies: We will begin by week with Fun and Excitement!! We will be using our five senses to describe the outside and inside of a pumpkin. We will then transform the pumpkin into a Jack o"Lantern. EVERYONE will get a chance to scoop out the "guts."  then Ms. Godbold and I will carve out the face in the shapes the class agrees on. :)  The rest of the week we will continue discussing Matter and sorting items by their properties. We will be using different texture, 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, present your child with different items and ask them to sort the items by weight (light or heavy) On a different occasion present your child with items that are furry, smooth, rough etc. and ask them to separate them by texture.
Here is a fun little video to get them excited about sorting. Notice in the video they sort the apples one time, but after the News character eats one... they realize they need to sort them again. :)

                              

Math: We will begin working with the vocabulary equal and more this week.  I feel the students will have no trouble at all matching/ drawing groups to equal the group shown to them. But the 'One More' concept will be a little trickier. We will practice the concept two different ways: by the class looking at a number and telling a number that is one more. We will also practice with the class seeing a group and drawing a group that has one more object in it.
At home, work with your child on the 'One More' concept. If they do a great job figuring out the amount in the new group. Make it a little more challenging by asking them for 'Two More.'
**This type of question is on the CGA Test. Students only receive a point for getting the answer correct if they figure out the answer without recounting the objects.**