LITERATURE
Focus: Character Traits
- What is a character trait?
- Physical character traits v. internal character traits
MATH
This week's focus: Measuring and comparing weight and height
During the months of January, February, March students will work on the following skills:
· numbers 0-31 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)
· addition
· interpreting and analyzing graphs
· tally marks
· matching and sorting: 3-D shapes
· patterns : ABC, ABBA
· comparing, ordering, and measuring using non-standard units of measurement and with a ruler in inches
· Using a balance to measure weight
Throughout the year students will explore math through open-ended- problem solving journals, math stations, ipads/ipods, IXL, rekenreks, and a variety of math manipulatives.
HANDWRITING/WRITING
Students will be the authors of their own pattern books using books with a repetitive pattern as mentor texts.
CORE KNOWLEDGE
Animal Study- kindergarteners will learn about various animals {polar bears, whales, eagles, wolves} for the next few weeks. We will examine non-fiction text features such as diagrams, bold words, table of contents, captions, and headings.
