Important Dates:
10/10 - Spirit Day (no pizza)
10/15 - No School (Teacher/Co-teacher/Parent Conferences)
10/31 - Historical Dress Up Day (details coming soon)
**Here is a link to sign up for conference times if you would like to get together. Conferences are optional. If your child is receiving 3's and 4's in Alma, it means they are on track and doing well. If you have any questions or concerns, I would be more than happy to meet on 10/15 (or before). I am also always able to answer any questions or concerns via email.
Objectives:
1. To be able to count and recognize the numerals 1-10
2 To be able to write the numerals 1-10.
3. To be able to represent the numerals 1-10 on a ten frame.
4. To understand that numbers have order and reverse order
4. To understand that numbers have order and reverse order
- Please go over "Introduction" and "One Step Further" at the bottom of pages 81 & 82 (Wednesday) and pages 84 - 88 (Friday/Monday).
- We are working on number order (1-10) and reverse number order (10-0). Please practice counting backwards from 10-0. Once they have mastered 10-0, start working on 20-0.
- Please print these TEN FRAME flashcards and Subitizing cards and add them to your daily routine. Your child should be able to say the number quickly, without having to count.
- Here is the link to a fun game we play in class called "Where's the Worm?" just in case you want to try it at home: http://www.kindergartenkindergarten.com/2010/07/wheres-the-worm-number-id-game.html. Start working on recognizing teen numbers since your child has mastered single digit numbers now. We also play this game using our phonogram cards and it is a huge hit!
Reading
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, i, and o.
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, i, and o.
- I will be sending home a manilla envelope with a "leveled reader" (book) in it. Please keep practicing with this book until your child can read it on his/her own. (at least 3x) Please read the books with them to ensure that they are reading the right words. This is not something for them to read to themselves. If it is proving to be too frustrating for your child please let me know and I can send home another book! Please initial the back of the folder when you are done with the reader and I will send your child home with another book to enjoy. Keep it fun and encouraging and stop when they are getting frustrated or overwhelmed!
- Try this phonemic awareness activity with your student this week - removing sounds. "Can you say cat without the /c/?" (Make the /c/ sound - do not say 'the letter c') Answer: "at". "Can you say sit without the /s/? Answer: "it". Try this with several other words!
- Keep practicing reading words with short a, e, i and o using the word fans.
Writing
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.
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 continue to monitor pencil grip and correct letter formation! Remember that the habits you establish now could last a lifetime!
Spelling
Objectives:
1. To be able to write the correct phonogram when given the phonogram sounds.
2 To be able to segment 2 and 3 sound words.
3. To be able to blend sounds together to figure out the given word.
- Go over yellow phonogram cards and blue key cards at least twice a day. Here is a video with almost 100 different ways to practice phonograms!
- Please continue to review AAS steps 1-4. We will resume with step 5 in a few weeks.
- Continue blending and segmenting words and alphabetizing the letters.
- Dictate the 26 phonograms for your student to write from memory!
Geography:
- Last week we introduced the song for the first region of the United States (Northern States). It will be due 11/7. Students will be required to sing the names of the States only. However, we will be pointing to them on the US map at school and you are welcome to print the map and do so as well. A copy of the US map is in your child's folder as well.
- United States Original
Memory Work:
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- Hymn of Joy will be introduced this week. You can find this poem in your child's blue folder or on the blog under "Curriculum/Poetry". We will be reciting this poem in song form. Here is a link to the song. We will only be doing the first stanza. This poem will be assessed on 12/3.
Hymn Of Joy by Henry Van DykeJoyful, joyful, we adore Thee,God of glory, Lord of love;
hearts unfold like flow'rs before Thee,
Opening to the Sun above,Melt the clouds of sin and sadness;
drive the dark of doubt away;Giver of immortal gladness,fill us with the light of day!
