Kindergarten

We began a new unit this week about  “houses around the world.” We will be reading about how people around the world build their houses out of materials that are found in their part of the world and suited to their climates.  Our book this week  is 

We will be discussing different kinds of homes around the world, from roundhouses to igloos to yurts,  and what materials are used to build them. At the end of the week we will be pinning new pins on our “Learning Map.” Check it out!

Please read the next post and help your child relate “text to self” by taking a picture of his/her house and emailing it to me so that we may discuss how houses in Florida are constructed.

Our target skills this week include some concepts of print including captions and contents pages.  We will review some of our consonant sounds and their associated letters, review verbs and nouns, and continue the blending of sounds to make words, among other phonics skills. We will introduce adjectives and work with them in a variety of ways.

Our new amazing words are:

tools, city, country, home, roof, apartment

In Math this week:

We will be reviewing addition and subtraction and how they are related using number fact families. We are also reviewing “telling time.” Help your child find all the clocks in your house and notice how they are the same and different.  Some even have faces!

This week’s focus follows up on last week’s “how people travel around the world.” We will be reading about how “people around the world go to school.”  Our book this week  is  This Is the Way We Go to School  by Edith Baer among others.  

We will be discussing children around the world, where they live,  and how they travel. Take a look at “Our Learning Map” in the page above and notice how many new “pins” we have throughout the week!

Our target skills this week include drawing conclusions and plot.  We will also review the letter sounds for q (kw) and y (y) and their associated letters, review verbs and nouns, and continue the blending of sounds to make words, among other phonics skills.

Our new amazing words are:

cable car, trolley, horse and buggy, skis, metro line, vaporetto

Our new sight words are:

where, come

In Math this week:

We are beginning our unit on “Subtraction”  using manipulatives and other methods to better understand the concept. Take a look at one of the concrete ways we are learning how to subtract (bursting balloons)!

This week’s focus in our “Going Places” unit is on the way people travel around the world.  We are reading On the Move by Donna Latham among others.

We will be discussing various forms of transportation used around the world and in what country or continent they are used. Take a look at “Our Learning Map” in the page above and see everywhere our travelers have been!

Our target skills this week include main idea, review of cause and effect, and recall and retell.  We will also review the letter sounds for v and z and their associated letters, continue to learn about nouns, and  review two letters that blend to make an initial and final sound,  and the blending of sounds to make words, among other phonics skills.

Our new amazing words are:

llama, travel, double-decker bus, kayak, dogsled, submarine

Our new sight words are:

where, come

In Math this week:

We are completing our introductory unit in Singapore Math on “Addition”  using manipulatives, number bonds, and other methods to better understand the concept of addition. Take a look at one of many ways we have been learning how to add.

We are in our unit “Going Places” and have been reading about various forms of transportation.  This week’s focus is on vehicles that are used in rescue situations. We are reading Mayday, Mayday: A Coast Guard Rescue by Chris Demarest among others.

We will be discussing various rescue vehicles and how people are rescued at sea. We will focus on our target skills including cause and effect.  We will also review the letter sounds for j and x and their associated letters, continue to learn about the concepts of  two letters that blend to make an initial and final sound,  and the blending of sounds to make words, among other phonics skills.

Our new amazing words are:

 pilot, yacht, sailor, mechanic, shimmering, rescue

Our new sight words are:

what, said, was

In Math this week:

We are beginning our unit in Singapore Math on “Addition.”  We will be doing addition using our knowledge of number bonds that we learned last week. We will be using manipulatives, including a dice game, moving from concrete experiences to pictorial to abstract.