Week 3

THINGS TO ASK YOUR CHILD ABOUT THEIR LEARNING AT SCHOOL THIS WEEK…..

 

·        Practice sight words. Make sure your child is reviewing. I will test students at the end of the week.

·        We are working on our reading stamina. We are up to 11 minutes and filling in each minute on a pie-chart. Ask your child’s how it’s going.

·        Calendar – How many days have we been in kindergarten? 14. Have we had mostly hot days? How do you know? We graph the weather.

·        Does your child know the name of these blocks? We are learning about pattern blocks/shapes. Hexagon, trapezoid, parallegram, square, triangle, rhombus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

·        We will be studying and decomposing numbers 1-10. How do we spell these numbers? What do they look like on dice? Dominos? Tallies? How many ways can you make 5, 6, 7 and so on.

·        We read the book “Chrysanthemum,” by Kevin Henkes. We graphed how many letters we had in our name. Does your child have the same number of letters in their name as another classmate?

·        We have begun to dive into our first unit of inquire and discussing how we are the same and different. We have begun discussing human emotions and that we all can demonstrate the same characteristics. We read a book about being GRUMPY! When has your child been grumpy? Ask! The replies were great!

·        Have your child name one new friend he/she has made in kindergarten.

·        I have exciting jury duty Monday and will be out. : (
Please prep your child for me not being in class Monday. Talk about classroom rules and so on.

 

Your child may be able to answer all of these questions or just some of them.  Whatever they can do, celebrate it!  I’ll try to send questions like this on a regular basis so that you can extend and share their learning from school at home!  J