4/14/2015

Volunteer Appreciation

Attention CA Volunteers!!
If you have volunteered in any way to help support our school and students please attend our upcoming OSA so that we can recognize you for your dedication to Cologne Academy.

Friday, April 24th @ 2:45 in the Community Center Gym
                                                                                                                                                         

4/12/2015

April 13-17

LITERATURE
Focus: Nursery Rhymes
  • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
  • Hickory, Dickory Dock
  • Diddle, Diddle Dumpling
  • Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
  • Humpty Dumpty
MATH
This week's focus: ABA and Shrinking Patterns
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 begin their unit -writing for readers. Students will work on writing about true events in their lives focusing on making their writing readable to others and including a beginning middle, and end.

CORE KNOWLEDGE
Weather- kindergarteners will learn about the 4 seasons including the temperature and activities /proper clothing associated with specific seasons. 

4/06/2015

April 6--10

LITERATURE
Focus: Nursery Rhymes
  • Roses are Red
  • Ring Around the Rosy
  • It's Raining, It's Pouring
  • Rain, Rain, Go Away
  • Little Jack Horner
  • Jack Be Nimble
MATH
This week's focus: Subtraction
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 begin their unit -writing for readers

CORE KNOWLEDGE
Weather- kindergarteners will learn about the 4 seasons including the temperature and activities /proper clothing associated with specific seasons.