week of April 4, 2016

Week of April 4, 2016

Math- Our last few lessons in Topic 12 will be: More Comparing by Height, Comparing Capacities, and Comparing by Weight.  We will be taking the Topic 12 assessment at the end of the week and then be moving on to Topic 13. 

Science- We are tracking our seed growth in our science experiment.  Monday is the last day of the experiment and all 3 beans sprouted a little bit!  We will be looking at how people change, plants and animals that live on land, and plants and animals that live in water, and learning about an engineer that made soil for space!  We will be taking our Science assessment at the end of the week as well. 

Reading- We will be reading: Trucks Roll!.  We will comparing and contrasting in the story.  Our amazing words are: trailers, haul, truckers, cabs, steering wheel, headlight.  We will be reviewing poems and different types of literature.

Phonics/Grammar- Our new letters is Uu like in Umbrella and Unicorn.  We will be identifying them in the medial and initial position in words.  We will also be introducing prepositions.

Handwriting/Writing- We have completed our Handwriting book and now we will be working on reviewing our diver lowercase letters, road safety signs, sentence spacing, and review of numbers 1-10.

Our 5 Star Writing Checklist we use to double check our sentences is listed below:

*Capital letter to start my sentence

*Punctuation to end my sentence

*Use finger spaces

*Use neat handwriting

*My sentence makes sense

Important Information

***On April 16 and April 17, the NSE PTO will be hosting a Chinese Auction at the Elementary school for a fundraiser.  Please send in any donations for our basket as soon as possible.  Thanks for your participation.  Thanks for those of you who already sent in your donation!

***Our practice packets went home this week.  Any time that you may have extra time at home, feel free to practice these Kindergarten skills.  They include: writing words, counting to 100, writing a dictated sentence, nonsense words, segmenting words, and letter/sounds.  If you need any more information or tips, please feel free to contact us.

·        Graduation pictures will be taken on Wednesday, April 6^th

·        Every student will have their picture taken as part of the class photo even if you aren’t buying a package

·        Every student needs to wear a white collared shirt

·        Girls should not wear their hair up high since they’ll be wearing caps

·        When selecting a background, please note that, boys will wear a blue gown with a red cap, and girls wear a red gown with a blue hat

·        Thank you for your cooperation with Kindergarten Graduation pictures!!  It really makes the day run efficiently!

Important Dates

April 4- Day 10

April 6- Graduation pictures, please see info. Above

April 8- United States projects due, please see info. That was sent home