Week of January 26

Our Resources for the week are: Monday- #1-18 MEDIA and #19-37 ART, Wednesday- #1-18 P.E. and #19-37 MEDIA and Thursday-ART . 
Wednesday is an Early Release Day~ Please remember our lunch is at 10:00 that day. Also, Report Cards are expected to go home on Wednesday. Please sign the report card slip and return it the following day in the Report Card envelope. 
**ATTENTION ATTENTION** Thursday is the last day to pay for the Zoo Field Trip!! Don't forget or your child will not be able to accompany us on the Field Trip.
Fun Friday's activity is Slippers in the Class!! Please make sure your child comes to school with the slippers in their backpack. We will only be wearing the slippers in our classroom. London will be bringing in Fun Friday Snacks. :)
We have two students joining the 6 Year Old Club on the SAME DAY!! Elijah and Colie both turn 6 on Tuesday, January 27. :)

MATH 

For the next 2 weeks we are working on mastering Geometry standards. First, the students will identify shapes as 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional. (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres).

Then we will tackle the next standard in which the students will analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides and vertices/“corners”) and other attributes (e.g., having sides of equal length).

So….discuss shapes around your house, ones you see while driving and shapes your child encounters in his daily life. Make shapes come to life!! Here is a fun 3-D shape video we will watch in class. Enjoy!

 
ELA

(English Language Arts~ Reading and Writing) 

The sight words we are focusing on are do, been, or and your.  This quarter we will be doign LOTS of work through our Reading Skills Block. :)  We will practice rhyming through word families. The word family for this week is -at. We will practice segmenting sounds in words ("chopping it up"), an example is "sad." When the students segment this word we expect to hear three separate sounds= /s/  /a/  /d/. We will be practice ending sounds for words and writing lowercase letters. 

Our Reading lesson for the week is figuring out unknown words in a text. We will learn how to figure out the words based off of the illustration and by listening to how the word is used in the sentence. We will be working on this standard by using Gail Gibbons book Horses. The unknown words I have chosen for us to focus on are: grazing, withers, gait, hind legs, grooming and herbivores. 

Our writing will be an informative piece where we write about facts we know/ learned about horses. **PLEASE make sure your child does their writing homework. They need this practice! Parents can help their child sound out the words, but do not tell them what to write or write for them. 

SCIENCE

We finally finished discussing sound! We move on to a new topic which is more complex for a Kindergarten brain! We are ready to explore Earth’s place in space. We will observe that things can be big and things can be small as seen from Earth. Then we will observe that some objects are far away and some are nearby as seen from Earth. We will master these challenging concepts with fun interactive activities!