What a wonderful blessing that we can continue reading and talking about the reason and meaning of Christmas in class this week. We pray that your Christmas is filled with the joy that is brought through knowing that He came for us! Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful and precious children with us. We love each one of them and will miss their smiling faces in the coming weeks. Snuggle them, love them, and enjoy this wonderful season with them. See you next year :)
It is a busy week! Please remember to send a wrapped, classically appropriate, new or gently used, gender neutral book by Thursday.
Math
Our 4 week break is wonderful, but also a long time to not do school work. In order to avoid any regression, you will definitely want to make sure your kiddo reads to you, reviews phonograms, and reviews some math concepts.
Here are a couple of resources to help you review with your child.
Poem copywork (watch their letter formation carefully) can be found HERE.
Word Fans with blends can be found HERE.
You've worked hard to get this far! Don't lose all the fruits of that investment!
Important Dates:
12/8 - Christmas Party and Ugly Sweater Day (Bring a book for the book exchange)
12/10 - End of 2nd quarter of kindergarten!
12/13 - 1/9 Christmas Break
Objectives:
1. To be able to identify "how many more/less" a group has compared to the reference set.2. To identify and name numbers 11-20
3. To make a group of tens within a set and count the leftovers to find a number.
3. To make a group of tens within a set and count the leftovers to find a number.
4. To understand that numbers higher than 9 consist of tens and ones, and identify each quantity.
- This week we are talking about tens and ones. When discussing numbers greater than 9, we learn that our numbers follow a pattern in the base 10 number system and have place value. That 1 in 12 is not just a 1; its value is 10. So, when we discuss teen numbers this week, we will be emphasizing "ten and 2" make 12.
Reading
Objectives:
1. To read and accurately blend words that end with consonant blend "nk".
2. To begin reading and accurately blending words with beginning blends.- We are spending this week on Lesson 53. Please make sure that you are reviewing previous lessons. Initial blends can take a bit longer to master.
Writing
Objectives:
1. To be able to form all upper case letters properly on handwriting lines.
2. To be able to form all lower case letters properly on handwriting lines.
3. To be able to write name properly using only 1 capital letter.
4. To begin writing last name properly on handwriting lines.- Continue to work on first and last name with proper capitalization as well as writing upper and lowercase alphabet correctly on lined paper.
Spelling
Objectives:
1. To be able to write short vowel a, i, o, and u. (CVC) words from dictation.
Objectives:
1. To be able to write short vowel a, i, o, and u. (CVC) words from dictation.
- You will be introducing three new phonograms - th, sh, and ch. We've also covered phonogram nk in Reading, therefore you may add it to your phonogram cards.
History
Objectives:
1. To be able to describe key events in the Bible and to learn from them.
2. To see God's hand in every event.Science
1. To be able to name all 8 planets in order. (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune)
2. To be able to give characteristics of each planet.3. Understands the phases of the moon.
4. Understands that night and day are caused by the Earth's rotation.
Geography
Objectives:
1. To be able to point to and say the eastern states of the US on a map.
2. To begin learning to draw the world map by drawing a compass rose, equator, and prime meridian.- Due 1/13. Students will be required to sing the names of the States only. However, we will be pointing at them on the US map at school and you are welcome to print the map and do so as well.
Memory Work
Objectives:
1. To memorize true, good, and beautiful pieces and recite to the class.- Please take a few minutes each homeschool day to review memory work! (Poem, Geography song)
Merry Christmas!
