May 9, 2016

WEEK OF MAY 9-13, 2016






This week we are going to be working with the letter Yy. The vocabulary that we are going to be focusing on is the following: Yarn, yo-yo,yard, yellow, yawn, yogurt, yak, yolk.
If you have any items at home that begin with this letter, send them over with your child and we will be discussing them in class, we will display them on a table and we will return them back on Friday. The kids get excited to bring things from home.
Some of the stories that we will be reading this week are:

Resultado de imagen de Alphatales letter Yy







The five sight words for this week are: down, them, some, blue, and three.  These words are the last five sight words we will learn in Kindergarten. We learned a total of 80 sight words!!! Please practice these words at home with your child every day.
                   
   In Phonemic Awareness we will be introducing some digraphs. The digraph that we will be studying this week is Th.
In language, a digraph is two letters or characters that make a single sound when pronounced, also known as a phoneme. The sound made by the digraph is usually noticeably different than the pronunciations of the individual letters would be. Bath, teeth/tooth, moth, mouth, both, with, thursday, three, thum.
 
In Math we are going to be introducing place value exercises. The children will  read number to ones, tens and hundreds. They will identify the place value of each digit in numbers up to 0ne hundred.




This week we are going to be talking about Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. This unit has been of a lot of interest to the children. They loved learning facts about each of the planets. Ask them questions and you will be surprised of all the things they know of each one of them.

The children in charge of donating materials for kinder Kafe are: Giulliana Florentino and Henry Constantine.








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