WEEK OF SEPT.30-OCTOBER 4

This week we are going to continue the fun in our Kindergarten World. We are going to be working with the letter Bb. The vocabulary for this letter is the following: branch, bowling, bench, button, boot, backpack, basket, belt, bicycle, brush, bone, broom, boat, binoculars, and bell.

Some of the stories that we are going to be reading are:

Bubble Bear

Bear loves to blow bubbles. But when Badger tries to spoil Bear's fun, he blows a bubble you won't believe!

 

 

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

A big happy frog, a plump purple cat, a handsome blue horse, and a soft yellow duck-- all parade across the pages of this delightful book.

 

 

Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See?

Young readers will enjoy Baby Bear’s quest to find Mama, and they’ll revel in identifying each of the native North American animals that appear along the way.

 

 

Goldilocks and The Three Bears

This is book is about a little girl who cuts through the woods on the way into town, even though her mother specifically warns her not to. She stumbles across a house owned by 3 bears!!

 

 

 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

A newly hatched caterpillar eats his way through all kinds of food, getting bigger and bigger, until eventually he turns into a beautiful butterfly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In our Phonemic Awareness this week we will continue to identify rhyming words. You can help us out at home by naming a word and your child finding a word that rhymes with it.

We are going to continue to work with the sight words from last week. These words are as, with, his, they and I. Please practice, practice and practice these words daily with your child at home.

 

In Math, we will work with number 13. The students will practice writing the number, drawing sets to match the number and sequencing numbers up to 13. We will continue to count backwards from 10. We are going to work with the concepts big, medium and small.

 

 

 

 

In Science we will start a new theme about MY BODY. This week we will mainly review concepts the students should already know. We will be talking about eyes, nose, mouth, ears, head, shoulders, knees, toes, hands, fingers, arms. If you have any poster or any other material that you are willing to share with the class, we would appreciate if you will let us borrow them from you.

We will be making some cool binoculars with the students. For this, we need your help. Please send by Tuesday, October 1^st 2 empty rolls of toilet paper. If you have more than 2 we will gladly receive them too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The children in charge for donating our ingredients for Kindergarten Kafe this week are: Maya Elizabeth Miller and Luciana Nuñez.

We would like to give a warm welcome to our Kindergarten Class to Carmen Marta Castañeda. She is joining us this Monday!!!

 

Numbers and counting up to 10

C.14   Count forward and backward - up to 10

Data and graphs

O.1     Making graphs

O.2    Interpreting graphs

 

MAP TESTING SESSION: This week our students will take the MAP test on Monday, September 30^th. K-A will take it at 10:10 a.m. and K-B will take it at 11:40 a.m. Please try not to miss school this day!

MAP = Measures of Academic Progress

We invite you to visit http://www.nwea.org/node/4661 so you can have more information about what MAP is all about!

A nice activity that you would like to try with your child at home is MAKING A BOOKMARK!!!

Watching your children learn to write is a proud journey for any parent. But along with all that pride comes something else… souvenirs! From the moment your children take pen to paper, they create all sorts of truly unique things. Rare is the parent who doesn't want to clip and snip and save tidbits of every precious stage of their child's development. But there are ways to do that other than collecting dusty shoeboxes full of papers. One way to make use of those special memories is to wrangle up the kids and spend time together turning all those bits and pieces of their handiwork into a special gift, a bookmark.

 

What You Need:

·         Material for the bookmark: this can include your child's old artwork, family photos, postcards etc.

·         Hole punch

·         Glitter

·         Markers, crayons or paint

·         Yarn or ribbon

·         Quick-drying glue

·         Contact paper cut to 3 in. by 5 in.

·         Construction paper cut to 1.5 in. by 5 in.

·         Scissors

 

What You Do:

Have your child pick the materials she would like to use for the bookmark. So how do you figure out what to use, and what not to? First of all, don't dismiss anything. Chances are that if there is a scrap of paper haunting your house that you just can't bring yourself to throw away, it'll look good in a bookmark.

Once your child has picked out some materials, fold the contact paper in half lengthwise and peel the backing off one half, cutting it away so that only one half is sticky. This will make the contact paper easier to work with.

Have your child arrange her materials in the way she likes. She can put the materials directly on the sticky side of the contact paper, or she can glue them on a piece of construction paper cut to the right size, then place the finished design on the contact paper. Encourage her to use her imagination and spruce it up with some glitter or draw in her own additional designs.

When she's finished, peel the remaining backing off the contact paper and fold it so the sticky sides are together. If it doesn't fold perfectly, just cut away the extra material, and voila, you have your bookmark!

For some extra decoration, punch hole in the top and string through some yarn or ribbon.

So start foraging through those old art projects and crumpled train tickets. No matter how you cut it, making your own bookmarks means helping memories last a whole lot longer. And they make great gifts!