Week of April 6

**We are in need of glue sticks. If possible, please send some in for the students.**

Our Resources for the week are: Monday- #1-18 MEDIA and #19-37 ART, Tuesday- #1-18 P.E. and #19-37 MEDIA, Wednesday- ART and Friday- MUSIC. Wednesday is an Early Release Day. :)

Friday is SCHOOL COLOR DAY. :) Make sure to wear lots of blue and yellow.

Kian is bringing in Fun Friday Snacks!

MATH

As we continue our addition unit, this week we are working with the number ten to master the Florida Benchmark, K. OA.1.4: For any number from 1-9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number. Students will find different combinations that make a whole group of ten. Here is a great interactive game using a ten-frame which is a tool we use often in class. Give it a try and let us know how you like it! http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=3565

ELA

The sight words we are focusing on are take, know, give and back. Make sure to practice letter sounds daily with your child- use lowercase letter cards. The word family for this week is -ot. (Practice asking your child , "Who can we invite to the -ot House Party?" Please make sure all their responses are real words.) Our blend for the week is cl-. (Be ready for your child to think of lots of words!! A few examples that are in the slideshow I made= clock, clam, class.) We will continue practicing segmenting words, producing medial sounds for words (we will focus this week and next week on the E sound= short E~pet and long E~sheep), substituting sounds for words at the end (ex bag~ change the /g/ to a /t/ and the new word is bat.)

Our Reading lessons will be about comparing and contrasting two similar stories. Our Kindergarten Continent of study is Africa, so I chose a story from our country of study and a fun comparing stoy. The stories are The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo and Walt Disney's Cinderella. Watch both video's below and discuss the similarities and differences with your child. :)

Our Writing lessons will go along with the stories we are reading. We will fill in the areas of a Venn Diagram showing how the stories are alike and how they are different- some students will draw pictures, some will write sentences and some will do a combination of the two. (You can see the Venn Diagram below.) We will also write sentences to match the information listed on the Venn Diagram using sentence stems: 
The books are alike because ____________. 
Both books have ____________.

The stories are different because ____________.
One story has a ____________ and the other story has a ____________..


 

SCIENCE
The moon does not always appear to be the same shape. Our homework from last week helped us see that the shape appears to change. Watch “Peep” as he discovers the same thing!