Week 9- October 1- October 5

Happy End of the Week! Thank you sooo much for all the sweet birthday wishes and gifts! I feel so spoiled and incredibly blessed to have such amazing families to love and support me! 

Spalding:  We have officially taught the first 26 phonogram and we will take this week to review what we have learned so far. Since we have taught the whole alphabet students are expected to know the names and sounds for each letter of the alphabet.  We are still working on identifying the sounds and syllables of words. The way homework is executed will be changing this week! Click here to watch how homework is performed. 

Sight Words: For the next couple weeks we will be reviewing sight word list 1-3. This week we will be reviewing all the words on list 1. Please practice at home in addition to the nightly homework. 

Literature:  Our story this week is another of Aesop’s Fables, the Grasshopper and the Ant.  Students have enjoyed hearing these stories and identifying the moral. Our poem for the week is Once I Saw a Little Bird.  Our Saying for October: The early bird gets the worm.  This week we will also begin pulling students to check reading levels for Reading Groups.  Books will be sent home after Parent Teacher Conferences. Reading groups will start after fall break and we will be sending out a Sign Up Genius for interested parents.  Reading Groups will be held on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

Math:

We will finish our unit on number order.  This week we will be writing numbers in order forward and backward.  Students will be able to write the missing numbers 1-10.  An assessment will be given on Friday.

History and Geography: This week we will continue to explore the continent of North America. Students will learn more about Canada and Mexico. We will get to try some snacks from these countries as well as make a craft and learn a dance! Later in the week, we will begin a unit on plants. The kiddos will plant their own bean seed and watch it grow over the coming weeks. They will be introduced to a famous botanist named George Washington Carver. 

Week 8- September 24th- September 27th (No School Friday)

Happy Sunday! We had another fun week in Kindergarten, complete with a birthday and Grandparents day! See below for lots of fun pictures from our week! Just a reminder there is no school on Friday this week. The teachers will be having and in-service and then a Summit event will all the other Great Hearts Schools! 

Happy 6th Birthday Nora!

Spalding: 

This week we will finish out the first 26 phonograms by teaching w, x, y, and z. We will continue to review previous taught phonograms and our test on Friday will cover any of the first 16 phonograms. We will also continue to work on word sounds and syllables.  You can easily do this at home with your child as practice. Give your child a simple CVC (consonant/vowel/consonant) words; can, dog, mat, etc. Ask your child to give each sound of the word.  It is especially important that they are able to give you the beginning sound of the word, but we are working hard on identifying the middle and end sound as well.

Sight Words: from, or, one, had

Literature: 

We continue to explore fables this week by reading the Tortoise and the Hare. We will learn the importance of the the moral “Slow and Steady Wins the Race.” Our weekly poem will be Little Turtle.  

Math: 

This week will continue to work with numbers 1-10 focusing on number order. Students will practice counting and writing in ascending and descending order. We will work on finding the missing number in a sequence and identifying numbers that are 1 more/less. For example students will say, “ 4 is 1 more than 3, 4 is one less than 5.” 

History: 

We will continue learning all about our home country, the United States. Students will explore various American Symbols such as the American Flag, the bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty and more!

We earned a LEGO party!

             

               

                  

                          

Math centers!

                   

                      

                      

Grandparents Day!