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Check out what we learned this week:
Spalding
We continued to review the 67 phonograms and will use the rest of the year to practice and memorize them. Next week, we will learn the final three phonograms to complete our 70. Please continue with nightly practice, choosing 10-15 for the week to focus on. Choose some familiar for continual practice and some your child struggles with memorizing. This week, we also learned the final job of e
Job 5:
(shrug?) job 5
(shake head) no job e
Please encourage your child to begin writing words and sentences using their knowledge of phonograms to sound things out. Try not to spell words for them so they gain confidence in trying it by themselves. If they are stuck, help them hear the sounds by drawing the word out sound by sound. Remember, we are not focused on spelling in kindergarten but want the concentration on what sounds they hear and using a phonogram that makes those sounds.
Literature:
Continuing with Mr. Popper's Penguins, we have been introduced to a new penguin named Greta. The Popper's had realized Captain Cook was lonely so now he has a friend. We enjoyed seeing how the family adapted to having 2 Arctic penguin pets We also read the Fairy Tale, The Wolf, and the 7 Kids. We discussed the importance of listening to our parents and how people can like different things and still be friends. In poetry, we talked about the poem Humpty Dumpty and learned it might have been about a cannon that fell off a wall and broke. In grammar this week, we practiced past, present, and future sentences with the words go, goes, and went. See if you can build sentences at home.
Math
We finished up our unit on Measurement by taking a final assessment. Then, we took another cumulative assessment of what we have worked on this year, reviewing part, part, whole, teen numbers, and Measurement. We then began our new addition unit, returning to our previous knowledge of part, part, whole. We began to see how to use a picture to create a story and use cubes to count out how many we had. We are now working on basic concepts that will benefit students as they progress in math.
History:
We continued our Unit on Africa by learning about Egypt where the children learned about hieroglyphs and decoded a message. They also learned about the vegetation in Egypt, how it is very dry, but right next to the Nile River it is beautiful rich green vegetation. We also learned about the country of Nigeria. The children were interested to learn about all the different animals that live in Nigeria.
Science:
We continued our unit on pushes and pulls this week. The students understand that a push or pull causes any change in motion. We discovered the directions in which changes in motion can occur: left, right, up, and down. We also discussed the word collision and how that relates to a baseball and a bat. We played with bean bags to practice where motion starts, how it changes direction, and what makes it stop. We understood that a pitcher starts the ball's motion, the batter changes the direction of motion, and finally, the person who catches it stops its motion.