January 9-13

We are continuing our STEP testing this week.  Please make sure that your child gets plenty of sleep and has a nutritious breakfast!  Thanks.

LITERATURE

Inch by Inch
Kitten's First Full Moon

Focus:  Problem and Solution

MATH

During the months of November, December, and January students will work on the following skills:

• ·   numbers 0-20 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)
• ·   tally marks
• ·  matching and sorting: shapes
• ·  reviewing 2 -dimensional shapes
• ·  patterns :ABC and ABB
• ·  comparing, ordering, and  measuring using non-standard units of measurement and with a ruler in inches

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

We are working on thinking like writers and getting our ideas on paper using pictures and words.  We are also labeling, stretching out words, and using our vowels.  This week we are working on turning our writing and ideas into books and scrolls.  We are working on thinking about what we are going to write and planning it out across all of the pages in our story. Including details and labeling in our pictures is an important way to tell more about our story. 

CORE KNOWLEDGE

Geography:  We are learning...

·                     what a map and globe represent and how they are used

·                     what rivers, lakes, and mountains are and how they are represented on maps and globes 

·                     the location of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans 

·                     the location of the North and South Poles 

·                     the meaning of some basic terms necessary for working with maps such as compass                  rose, cardinal directions, symbols, keys, etc 

·                     the names and locations of the seven continents and some familiar associations with                  each continent

·                     the name location of the town, city, or community, and the state in which they live

·                     the location of North America, the continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii

January 3-6

Welcome Back

and

Happy New Year!!!

We have started STEP testing this week and next.  Please make sure that your child gets plenty of sleep and has a nutritious breakfast!  Thanks.

LITERATURE

King Bidgood in the Bathtub

Miss Nelson is Missing

Focus:  Problem and Solution

MATH

During the months of November, December, and January students will work on the following skills:

• ·   numbers 0-20 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)
• ·   tally marks
• ·  matching and sorting: shapes
• ·  reviewing 2 -dimensional shapes
• ·  patterns :ABC and ABB
• ·  comparing, ordering, and  measuring using non-standard units of measurement and with a ruler in inches

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

We are working on thinking like writers and getting our ideas on paper using pictures and words.  We are also labeling, stretching out words, and using our vowels.  This week we are working on turning our writing and ideas into books and scrolls.  We are working on thinking about what we are going to write and planning it out across all of the pages in our story. Including details and labeling in our pictures is an important way to tell more about our story. 

CORE KNOWLEDGE

Geography:  We are learning...

·                     what a map and globe represent and how they are used

·                     what rivers, lakes, and mountains are and how they are represented on maps and globes 

·                     the location of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans 

·                     the location of the North and South Poles 

·                     the meaning of some basic terms necessary for working with maps such as compass                  rose, cardinal directions, symbols, keys, etc 

·                     the names and locations of the seven continents and some familiar associations with                  each continent

·                     the name location of the town, city, or community, and the state in which they live

·                     the location of North America, the continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii

December 5-9

Kindergarten is need of some supplies/materials for our upcoming units in Core Knowledge and math. We also need a few supplies for our upcoming Polar Express Day (Tuesday, December 20th). 

If you are able to donate any supplies, please click on the link below and type your kinder's name next to the item you are able to donate. We greatly appreciate your support! 

http://www7.mysignup.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?datafile=cakindersupplies

Please send in the items listed on the sign-up by next Thursday, December 15th. I will gladly take any of the supplies for my classroom whenever!

Book Orders Are Due This Friday, December 9th!!


Interactive Read Aloud:

Focus: Main Idea and Details

Don't Wake the Bear

Hibernation

MATH

During the months of November and December students will work on the following skills:

·   numbers 0-20 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)

·   tally marks

·  matching and sorting: shapes

·  reviewing 2 -dimensional shapes

·  patterns :ABC and ABB

·  comparing, ordering, and  measuring using non-standard units of measurement and with a ruler in inches

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

Lucy Calkins--We are working on thinking like writers and getting our ideas on paper using pictures and words. We are also talking about "When we are done, we just begun" and revising and editing our work by adding words, labels, pictures, color, and details.

CORE KNOWLEDGE

Native Americans--This unit introduces students to the concept that indigenous people lived on the continents of North and South America long before European explorers visited and settled in this area.  Students will learn that there were many, many different tribes of Native Americans, and that each tribe had its own way of eating, dressing, and living, depending on where they lived.  Students will learn abou three tribes in particular:  the Lakota Sioux of the Great Plains region, and the Wampanoag and the Lenape, both of the Eastern Woodlands region.  They will begin to understand how different geographical regions influenced different lifestyles.  Students will learn that each Native American group has its own distinctive culture.