Saturday, April 28, 2012
Unit 5, Week 5 - On the Move!
This week our Focus Story will be On the Move! by Donna Latham. This story uses rhyming to describe the many means by which people around the world move from place to place.
Our Target Skill this week is identifying the main idea of a story. We will also continue to practice making predictions, retelling a story, and determining the causes and effects of certain events in a story. Noun recognition and identification will be reviewed as well. We will work to identify, form, and match the letters 'Vv' and 'Zz' to their phonemes--/v/ and /z/, respectively.
Amazing Words: travel, kayak, llama, dogsled, double-decker bus, submarine
High-Frequency Words: where, come (Please continue to practice all of our "Popcorn Words" at home!)
Letters: Vv and Zz
Subtraction Bowling
One of the fun ways that we have practiced subtraction over the past few weeks is through the game of bowling. To introduce the concept, we used a big bowling set and bowled for fun as a group. Then we discussed how we could make subtraction sentences to describe our results each time. We know that we will begin with 10 pins. The number of pins that are knocked down is the number that is subtracted or "taken away", and our difference is the number of pins that are left standing. For example, if I knocked down 8 pins, my subtraction sentence would be 10 - 8 = 2. I then divided the children into pairs and gave them a mini bowling set to practice making more subtraction sentences on their own. The kids loved it!
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Unit 5, Week 4 - The Little Engine That Could
This week our Focus Story will be The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper. This story is a classic, and is a wonderful means by which to teach children about optimism and the good things that can come as a result of hard work. In this story, a long train must be pulled over the mountain as it has toys and treats for the children there. The dolls and toys try unsuccessfully to find an engine willing to pull their train over the mountain. Finally, a little blue engine (the smallest of them all) decides that she will try to help, and with some hard work and encouragement is successful.
Our Target Skill this week will be learning to identify the plot of a story. We will also continue to practice making predictions, retelling a story, and identifying the characters in a story. We will again focus on learning to identify, form, and match the letter 'Uu' to its phoneme--/u/. This week we will focus on the long vowel sound.
Amazing Words: engine, tracks, passenger, roundhouse, mountain, valley
High-Frequency Words: what, said, was (Please continue to practice all of our "Popcorn Words" at home!)
Letter: Uu
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
Unit 5, Week 3 - Messenger, Messenger
Our Target Skill this week is comparing and contrasting information. We will also continue to practice retelling a story, making predictions, and drawing conclusions about the text. We will work to identify, form, and match the letter 'Uu' to its phoneme--/u/. We will focus on the short 'u' sound this week.
Amazing Words: messenger, delivery, radios, pickup, escalator, eyeshades
High-Frequency Words: what, said, was (Please continue to practice all of our "Popcorn Words"!)
Letter: Uu
Thanks to www.barnesandnoble.com for the cover image!
Monday, April 9, 2012
Unit 5, Week 2 - Mayday! Mayday!
Our Target Skill this week is learning to distinguish the cause and effect of certain events within a story. We will also continue to work on retelling a story, making predictions, and identifying the sequence of events in a story. We will work to identify, form, and match the letter 'Xx' to its phoneme---/ks/.
Amazing Words: rescue, pilot, yacht, sailor, mechanic, shimmering
High-Frequency Words: yellow, blue, green (Please continue to practice all of our "Popcorn Words" at home!)
Letter: Xx
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Friday, April 6, 2012
Easter Egg Hunt Pictures - April 5, 2012
Our Kindergarteners participated in an Easter Egg Hunt yesterday afternoon in celebration of the upcoming holiday. They had tons of fun and each collected baskets/bags/buckets full of eggs filled with treats! Once back in the classroom, we used the eggs to do a little math work. Each student counted his/her own eggs and recorded it on a piece of paper. We then compared the greatest and least amounts and subtracted the difference between the two to discover just how many more eggs the student with the greatest number had collected than the student with the least number of eggs. Then we added up each students eggs to come up with a total number of eggs (723 eggs) and used this data to make fractions (a.e. This student collected 59/723 of our class's total.).
Jellybean Sorting/Graphing
In celebration of both our study of the letter 'Jj' and Easter, we sorted jellybeans by color and graphed our findings. We then took our recorded data and used it to create and solve math problems involving addition, subtraction, number comparisons, and fractions. As is always the case with edible manipulatives, the kiddos loved it!
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
Unit 5, Week 1 - Max Takes the Train
Our Target Skill for this week will be Realism vs. Fantasy. We will also continue to work on retelling a story, making predictions, and identifying the plot of a story. We will work to identify, form, and match the letters 'Jj' and 'Ww' to their phonemes--/j/ and /w/, respectively.
Amazing Words: plane, jetway, subway, tunnel, ferryboat, sidecar
High-Frequency Words: yellow, blue, green (Please continue to practice all of our "Popcorn Words" at home with your child!)
Letters: Jj and Ww
Thank you to www.scottsboro.org for the cover image!
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