Notes: Friday, March 27 ~College T-shirt Day & OSA
LITERATURE
LITERATURE
Focus: Character Traits
- The Bremen Town Musicians; Folktale
- Momotaro, Peach Boy; Folktale
- The Story of Jumping Mouse; Folktale
MATH
This week's focus: Numbers to 100
During the months of April, May, June students will work on the following skills
- numbers to 100 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)
- addition and subtraction
- ordinal position: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
- patterns : ABA and shrinking
- capacity
- telling time to the hour
- money: identify coins and the coin’s value, counting coins with the same value
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.
