Last Week of Kindergarten :(

 

"The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face shine on you
    and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
    and give you peace.”

What an amazing year we have had together! Your little ones have grown so much in so many ways. I give thanks to God for the privilege to teach along side you. I pray that you all have a safe, relaxing, joy filled summer. I am going to miss your precious children more than you know! I love them with all of my heart!


**Please send your child to school on Thursday with an EMPTY backpack, a full water bottle, snack, and a lunch** 

Attire: Students may wear spirit shirts and uniform bottoms or jeans. We have several outdoor activities planned (weather permitting) so shorts would be best.


Now that we are at the end of the school year, many parents have wondered what they can do to keep skills and knowledge up over the summer. Here are some optional suggestions for the summer months, but remember to have fun, enjoy your family time, and relax over the break!

• Read aloud daily. Choose a story that the whole family would like to listen to. It is great to read a few levels above your child's personal level so they are exposed to rich vocabulary. Let your child narrate the story or act it out using their stuffed animals to make sure they understood what they heard.
• Reading - READ, READ, READ...have your student read passages from the OPG book as well as books on their reading level. First grade will pick up where we left off in Ordinary Parent's Guide to Reading next year. Review the lessons that we covered this year and have your child read on a regular basis. Here are some online books that your student can practice with over the summer.  You can print them and have your student color them or they can read from the computer screen. This website https://portal.flyleafpublishing.com/  has free e-books as well that have full color pictures.  Work through the simple stories encouraging them to read with fluency instead of one-word-at-a-time  and sounding out words in their head :)
• Spelling -Keep reviewing the phonogram cards AND key cards.  They will forget them if they don't review them for 3 months!  Make it fun by having them jump, squat or do a jumping jack for each sound.  Dictate words, phrases and simple sentences that cover the spelling rules we have covered this year. Use dry erase boards, chalk on the sidewalk, handwriting paper, etc. 
• Handwriting - Write more complex sentences on handwriting paper and have them copy it using proper spacing, punctuation, and letter formation.  Have them copy scripture straight from the Bible if they are ready! Use the website,   https://worksheetworks.com/english/writing/handwriting.html  to make your own copywork.  Use the setting for print handwriting practice, 1/2 inch tall lines, remove the descender line, and use double spacing.  
• Math  - Continue oral counting and reading and writing numbers to 100 with gentle correction on backwards numbers. Count large groups of items by making groups of 10. Work on place value - tens and ones (p.143). Tell number stories - "John has 7 cats and 3 birds. How many pets does John have?"/ "Sam has some puppies. His mom gave him 3 more. Now he has 11. How many puppies did Sam have to start with?" Encourage them  to use their addition and subtraction skills, as well as the tools we have introduced (number bonds, number lines, ten frames). Have them count objects by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's.  Practice ways to make 10. 1st grade will start the year with this.  HERE is a link to some addition flashcards and HERE is a link to some subtraction flashcards (print them front to back). Play lots of card games and dice games to strengthen flexibility with numbers and to bond with your child!
• Review all of the geography songs that we have done this year, especially Continents and Oceans.
• Go outside and enjoy God's beautiful creation!

You have all been so amazing to work with!  Thank you so much for all of your hard work and your support!

K week 34	5/8/2023	5/9/2023	5/10/2023	5/11/2023	5/12/2023
Discipleship	Courage
Read Aloud	Read aloud or audio book for at least 20 minutes		Read aloud or audio book for at least 20 minutes		Read aloud or audio book for at least 20 minutes
Bible		Armor of God: Lesson 9 and Review		Last Day of School
Math	EM-B p158 and practice addition and subtraction math facts.	Review	Play Kindergarten Yahtzee link here. Make it a race between 2 people to see who can get each number first.	Rock Ceremony
Spelling		End of Year Spelling Assessment		End of the year activities
Writing	CB pgs 84-85	Oral narration and copywork	CB pgs 86-87	Outdoor Fun!
Reading		OPG L88	OPG L88
History
Geography		Kindergarten Memory Books		Kindergarten Memory Books

Kinder Week 33 (T/TH)

Hang in there, you are almost done!  It has been such an amazing year and you have all done a fantastic job with these kids.  They are so sweet, so polite, so helpful, and now they are READERS and spellers and mathematicians! Congratulations!

**We will be performing our quarterly poem "Above the Bright Blue Sky" during morning assembly on Thursday, May 4.  Plan to join us in the back rows of the sanctuary if you can!

Important Dates:

4/28-4/29 - Fortis Family Spring Camping Trip (Even if you are not camping, come join us for the Saturday night potluck!)

5/4 - Kindergarten Poem Performance during morning assembly

5/5 - Spring Showcase (K-5 theater plays) 6:30-8:00

5/11 - Last Day of Kindergarten :(

5/12 - Last Day of Friday Electives

5/26 - Fortis NERF Tournament at Glad Tidings Church-Liberty Hill 5:00-7:30

Math 

Objectives:

1.  To be able to count by 2's to 20.

2.  To understand even and odd numbers.

3.  To understand halves and fractions.

•  Please make sure that you complete the lesson at the bottom of the pages and extend it by using other numbers/scenarios.

• We are working on counting by 5's (to 50) and by 2's (to 20). Please work on this orally with your student.

Reading

Objectives:

1.  To review reading and accurately blending words and sentences with long vowel/silent e pattern.

2.  To begin reading and accurately blending words and sentences with the vowel pairs ai and ay.

3.  To continue to grow in reading fluency.

• Have your child read to you every day! READ,READ, READ!!!!

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 first and last name properly on handwriting lines.

4. To be able to accurately copy a sentence (using handwriting lines) correctly

• Keep monitoring proper pencil grip and correct letter formation! Have your student self-correct any backward letter or number! They should be gaining speed and accuracy in their copywork, by this point in the year.

Spelling

Objective

1.  To be able to identify open and closed syllables.

• Please introduce Key Cards 14, 15, 16 this week. Continue to review all key cards (especially 11, 12, 13), along with phonograms at the beginning of each lesson.

Geography

Objectives:

1.  To be able to sing the names of the Pacific states of the US.

2. To begin learning to draw the world map.

• Pacific States will be the last Geography song for the year! Due Tuesday

Memory Work

Objectives:

1. To memorize "true, good, and beautiful" pieces and recite to the class.

• Above the Bright Blue Sky is  DUE Thursday.
•    Please take a few minutes each homeschool day to review memory work! (Poem, geography song).

K week 33	5/1/2023	5/2/2023	5/3/2023	5/4/2023	5/5/2023	5/8/2023	Co-Teacher Notes
Discipleship	Flexibility: Adjusting to change with a good attitude. "I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound:everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need." Phil 4:12
Read Aloud	Read aloud or audio book for at least 20 minutes and have child do an oral narration		Read aloud or audio book for at least 20 minutes and have child do an oral narration		Read aloud or audio book for at least 20 minutes and have child do an oral narration	Read aloud or audio book for at least 20 minutes and have child do an oral narration
Bible	Review Ephesians 6: 10-20	Armor of God: Lesson 5 and 6		Armor of God: Lesson 7 and 8
Math	EM-B p152 and practice addition and subtraction math facts.	EM-B p153	EM-B p154-155 and practice addition and subtraction math facts.	EM-B p156	EM-B p157 and practice addition and subtraction math facts.	EM-B p158 and practice addition and subtraction math facts.	No math journals for the month of May. Please practice math facts using manipulatives or ten frames when needed. Here is a simple game to play to practice as well. Just print gameboard (pages 6-9 would be best) and use any object (penny, rock, etc) and a dice.
Spelling		AAS-Step 24	AAS-Step 24 p113-114 "Spell on Paper" and "Dictate Sentences" 1-3 in spelling journal to return tomorrow.	Review	Page 114 of AAS: Dictate sentences 4-6 for your child to write in Spelling Journal.		These last few lessons have been a bit more challenging. Please review them as well as blue key cards 1-16
Writing		Oral Narration and Copywork	CB pgs 80-81	Oral Narration and Copywork	CB pgs 82-83	CB pgs 84-85
Reading	Review L85	OPG L86	OPG L86 and 15 minutes from a leveled reader	OPG L 87	OPG L87 and 15 minutes from a leveled reader
Enrichment	Read Aloud: Wonders of Nature by Jane Werner Watson Art Selection: A Girl with a Watering Can by Pierre-Auguste Renoir Music Selection: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, by johann Sebastian Bach Poem: "Butterfly" by Benjamin Franklin
Geography	United States: Pacific States Due 5/2 (Tuesday)
Memory Work	Above the Bright Blue Sky Due 5/4 (Thursday)

Kinder Week 32 (T/TH)

 

To save some teacher tears, there will be no mention in this blog post about how many days of school we have left. :) 

Important Dates:

4/21 - Logic Students will be performing their theater play 6:30-7:30

4/27 - Last DOGS Day/Spirit Day/Pizza Day

4/28-4/29 - Fortis Family Spring Camping Trip (Even if you are not camping, come join us for the Saturday night potluck!)

5/5 - Spring Showcase (K-5 theater plays) 6:30-8:00

5/11 - Last Day of Kindergarten :(

5/12 - Last Day of Friday Electives

5/26 - Fortis NERF Tournament at Glad Tidings Church-Liberty Hill 5:00-7:30

Math 

Objectives:

1.  To count to 100 in tens and ones

2.  To count by 5's to 50

3.  To count by 2's to 20

4.  To understand even and odd numbers.

• This week we are learning about the terms even and odd. Please make sure that you complete the lesson at the bottom of the page and extend it by using other numbers/scenarios.

• We are working on counting by 5's (to 50) and by 2's (to 20). Please work on this orally with your student.

Reading

Objectives:

1.  To review reading and accurately blending words and sentences with long vowel/silent e pattern.

2.  To begin reading and accurately blending words and sentences with the vowel pair ai.

3.  To continue to grow in reading fluency.

• READ, READ, READ! Have your child read to you at least 15 minutes a day! 
• Remember to begin the lessons by reviewing our current sight words and reading over words/sentences from previous lessons. *Reviewing and repetition is key!
• This week we focus on reviewing long vowel/silent e words and will introduce the vowel pair ai as long a.
• Please follow up each lesson and mini book review, by having your child read to you, a book at their appropriate level. This should be done at a separate time of the day from their OPG lesson. 

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 first and last name properly on handwriting lines.

4. To be able to accurately copy a sentence (using handwriting lines) correctly

• Keep monitoring proper pencil grip and correct letter formation! Have your student self-correct any backward letter or number! They should be gaining speed and accuracy in their copywork, by this point in the year.

Spelling

Objective

1.  To be able to spell plural words by adding s or es.

• The lessons are getting a bit more challenging now. Please make sure you are spending extra time making sure your child is confident and secure in the lessons. You may do this by spending extra time dictating More Words and additional phrases (aside from the ones assigned), until you are confident your child is grasping the concept.
• Please introduce Key Cards 11, 12 and 13 this week. Continue to review them, along with phonograms at the beginning of each lesson.

Geography

Objectives:

1.  To be able to sing the names of the Pacific states of the US.

2. To begin learning to draw the world map.

Memory Work

Objectives:

1. To memorize "true, good, and beautiful" pieces and recite to the class.

• "Above the Bright Blue Sky" is our last poem of the year.
•   Please take a few minutes each homeschool day to review memory work! (Poem, Geography song)

K week 32	4/24/2023	4/25/2023	4/26/2023	4/27/2023	4/28/2023	5/1/2023	Co-Teacher Notes
Discipleship	Humility: Recognizing the people and factors that have shaped my life. "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up." James 4:10
Read Aloud	Read aloud or audio book for at least 20 minutes		Read aloud or audio book for at least 20 minutes		Read aloud or audio book for at least 20 minutes	Read aloud or audio book for at least 20 minutes
Bible		Armor of God: Lesson 1 and 2	Practice memorizing Ephesians 6:10-20 and discuss what the Belt of Truth is.	Armor of God: Lesson 3 and 4	Practice memorizing Ephesians 6:10-20	Review Ephesians 6: 10-20	*Memorizing this scripture will not be assessed, but you will be amazed at how quickly they CAN memorize it with daily practice! A copy of the scripture will be sent home with your child in their blue folder.
Math		EM-B p 147	EM-B p 148 and Day 7 math journal	EM-B p149	EM-B p150-151 and Day 8 math journal.	EM-B p152
Spelling		AAS-Step 23	AAS-Step 23 p106-107 "Spell on Paper" and "Dictate Phrases" 1-3 in spelling journal to return tomorrow.	AAS-Step 23	AAS-Step 24 p109-113 through "Spell with Tiles". Key Card 14, 15, 16
Writing	CB pgs 74-75	Oral narration and copywork	CB pgs 76-77	Oral Narration and Copywork	CB pgs 78-79		*Extention opportunity: Have your child give you a sentence or two that tells what the read aloud story was mostly about. Write their narration for them, then have them copy the sentence into their spelling journal. They will be allowed to present their sentences to the class if they would like to.
Reading	Review previous lessons.	OPG L82	OPG L83 and 15 minutes from a leveled reader	OPG L84/85	OPG L84/85 and 15 minutes from a leveled reader	Review L85
Enrichment	Read Aloud: Come On, Rain! by Karen Hesse Art Selection: Umbrellas in the Rain by Maurice Prendergast Music Selection: String Quintet in E Major "Minuetto-Trio" by Luigi Boccherini Poem: "Rain in Summer" by Henry Wadworth Longfellow
Geography	United States: Pacific States Due 5/2
Memory Work	Above the Bright Blue Sky Due 5/4