We are READING! We are so excited about the progress that all of the kindergarteners are making in being able to sound out words. It is tedious and slow at first, but the more encouragement and praise they receive from you, the more excited they will get once they realize that they CAN do hard things! We will be sending home "word fans" on Tuesday (short lists of short vowel words). These are great to use in the car or stick in your purse to work on sounding out short vowel words as you wait in line somewhere. We hope you find them helpful.
4. Mastered Objective: Can perform the objective easily without any help every time.
3. Met Objective: Can perform the objective most of the time, but may need a little reminder.
2. Approaching Objective: Can only perform the objective with guidance and help.
1. Struggling with Objective: Can not perform the objective or is not developmentally ready to perform this objective.
9/23 - Falcon Moms Meet Up 9-10 at Texas Taco Kitchen
9/25 - Fortis Lap-a-thon! This will be so much fun!
9/28 - Moms in Prayer 9-10 and Grammar Playdate 3-4
9/30 - Spirit Day/Pizza Day/DOGS day!
- We are really working on not only identifying and writing numbers 0-10, but also looking at different ways to form those numbers. In class, we do this through the use of subitizing cards, ten frames, etc. Although it may seem as though we are moving slowly, please know that our goal is to really give the children a strong foundation in number sense. Numbers are beautiful! They are everywhere! Mathematics is one of God's languages. Take a look around at His wonderful creation and see where numbers can be found.
- Please have your student bring his/her math journal to class each day.
Objectives:
1. To recognize all upper and lower case letters.
2 To produce all of the sounds of each of the first 26 phonograms.
3. To be able to blend together CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words using short a, e, and i.
- Remember to review previous lesson before moving on to new one!
- The "Mini-books" that we do during class are a great way to review and practice. You might want to keep them all in a zip lock bag to have a great toolbox of books your child can read on his/her own. There will be one coming home every school day!
Objectives:
1. To be able to hold a pencil using proper pencil grip.
2 To be able to form all upper case letters properly.
3. To get all upper case letters sitting properly on handwriting lines.
- Please keep working on pencil grip and making proper handwriting strokes! (generally left to right, top to bottom).
- Go over yellow phonogram cards and blue key cards at least twice a day.
- Please continue to review AAS steps 1-4. We will resume with step 5 in a few weeks.
- Continue blending and segmenting words (ex: cat=c/a/t, c/a/t=cat)
4. To understand how God used the Tower of Babel
Objectives:
1. To be able to name the planets in order.
2. To be able to name some distinguishing characteristics of each planet.
3. To be able to name the phases of the moon.
- Kindergarteners will be expected to be able to point to the Continents and Oceans on a map. Click here for the song we use in class. Due Thursday.
- "Jesus Died Your Soul to Save". Students will say title, author, and then recite poem on Thursday next week.
