Gingerbread Boys, Kwanzaa, and More!

Week 16: December 9-13, 2013

This week we chased down the Gingerbread Man, Boy, Girl, and Cowboy in story, and in Star Academy! Focus of the week was identifying the setting in support of what the characters and events that take place in the story(ies) we are reading. We culminated our discussions and discoveries with chasing down the man himself! The Gingerbread Man came to Star Academy, left us notes, and treats at the very end! We had such a great time!

Every day we have a signal word. This chart is referred to as a CCD (Cognitive Dictionary).  Every day we introduce a new word, predict it's meaning and then formally learn the definition. We follow up with the formal definition the next day and compose oral sentences to demonstrate levels of mastery regarding our new vocabulary!

Here are the children's personally designed and described Gingerbread boys and girls! They were so creative and dedicated! I am so proud!

Week 16: Kwanzaa, Christmas, Writing Workshops, Crafts, & Polar Express!

Week 17: Kwanzaa, Christmas, Crafts, & the Polar Express!

1) Words of the Week: was, look (green)

2) Weekly Word Family: _ig (example: pig, big, fig, and dig. The initial sound is referred to as an onset. The word family is referred to as a rhyme. Using this vocabulary will help in identifying the parts of the word and building familiarity with how to choose rhyming words.) 

    

3) Please work with both beginning sounds and segmenting words at home. 

Beginning Sound Practice: 

Kindergarten Skill Standard: RF.K.2d Student will be able to isolate and pronounce the initial sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant or CVC) words. This does not include words with the ending sounds /l/, /r/, or /x/.

Prompt: What is the first/beginning sound you hear in the word "cat"?

Answer: "C! C says /k/"

Prompt: What is the first/beginning sound you hear in the word "mom"?

Answer: "M! M says /m/"

Prompt: What is the first/beginning sound you hear in the word "bed"?

Answer: "B! B says /b/"

Phoneme Segmentation:Kindergarten Skill Standard: RF.K.2c Student will be able to blend and segment onsets and rimes of single syllable spoken words. 

Example: Tell me the sounds in the word cat answer: /c/ /a/ /t/ 

Prompt: Tell me the sounds in the word man 

Answer: /m/ /a/ /n/

Prompt: Tell me the sounds in the word hit 

Answer: /h/ /i/ /t/

Prompt: Tell me the sounds in the word box 

Answer: /b/ /o/ /x/

    

4) Please complete the reading log 3x a week. 

Below I have included videos that will be viewed with our class, however, viewing it home will strengthen your student's confidence and reinforce his or her exposure! Seeing these on a daily or at least 3-4 times throughout the week would be an excellent choice. 

Math Content:  Ordinal Numbers 

This week we will be looking, learning, practicing and applying terms such as, "first... second... third..." meanwhile we are also continuing our work on sequencing events. Students will need lots and lots of practice putting numbers in order from greatest to smallest and vice versa. 

Level 1 (Practice Session): 0-5

Level 2 (Practice Session): 0-10

Level 3 (Practice Session): 3-10, 1-6, 10-3, 6-1

Level 4 (Practice Session): 11-20, 18-11, 11-18, 11-20

Level 5 (Practice Session): 0-20, 3-9, 6-14, & 9-18                       

Website Connections: 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvfv5d_ordinal-numbers_videogames

More, Fewer, and Same/ Equal

Here are some links to practice and work on identifying groups with fewer or more or the same number of items. We will also be talking about "Zero the Hero" and it's constant value as well! You may use kitchen utensils at home, toys, clothing (socks, shoes, hair ties, etc.) to expand this practice to real life application! 

Practice More, Fewer, Same/ Equal                  

Composing & Decomposing Numbers: Composing with Legos

Alphabet Review: 

Seasons! We have been spending the week activating our brains to begin our investigation of our seasons (fall, winter, spring, & summer)! The leaves your students have collected will be used for leaf rubbings, observation drawing/writing, and applying our learned knowledge to real life! Thank you! This is such a fun unit to be exploring! Below is a song that we have been listening to and singing in the classroom to help us remember them! I hope you have a great time with this at home!