Some important dates next week:
Tuesday: Mariachi band for Hispanic Heritage month comes to perform. Also students will share their community helper buildings this day Thursday: RFF day (no school for students, but school for teachers) Friday: Conference Day (thanks to those of you who emailed me letting me know you are out of town) In math we continued our counting and numbers math unit. We will review our counting strategies- touch and count, move and count, line up and count, count out loud, count on, and re-count. We will discuss what happens when students need to count items that we can’t move and are on a piece of paper for instance- we can cross off each picture on our paper as we are counting to help us keep track. We began to work on sorting, counting and ordering. The ordering part of this standard can be difficult which is why this standard appears in all of our math units. To practice, students can sort items at home by color, shape, or size, count how many items are in each group, and put the groups in order from least to greatest or greatest to least. Here is a great game for this: http://www.abcya.com/counting_sorting_comparing.htm Next week we will sort, count, order, and graph Halloween erasers (Thanks Elsie's mom!) This week students did a fun math craftivity, where they chose a “mystery number” and wrote clues for their friends to determine their number. At home, please make sure students are practicing counting to 100 by 1’s and 10’s every night, to 120 when they have mastered counting to 100, and practicing writing their numbers 0-20. (Fun ways of writing numbers can be with chalk outside, in sand or shaving cream, on a whiteboard, etc.) When students have mastered this, you can practice skip counting by 2, 3, 4, etc. and discuss odd and even numbers. Here are our math standards for this unit: MGSEK.CC.1. Count to 100 by ones and by tens. MGSE1.NBT.1 Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral. MGSEK.CC.2. Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1). MGSEK.CC.3. Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects). MGSEK.CC.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality. a. When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object. (one-to-one correspondence) b. Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted (cardinality). The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted. c. Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger. MGSEK.MD.3. Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. - In writer’s workshop, we began our “Show and Tell’ unit. Students have been loving drawing their special item with details and labels. . We will continue discussing how to show and tell, be brave spellers, and work with writing partners during this unit. What you can do at home: have students practice sounding out words and writing down the sounds they hear on paper and draw pictures with details and label their pictures. You can also remind students that when writing, the first letter in a sentence is uppercase and the rest is lower case, there are finger spaces between words, and periods at the end of sentences. We will continue to work on this in class. - In reading, we will celebrate completing our first reading unit. Students will choose an old favorite storybook or learn about the world book and read it to a new partner. They will keep in mind everything we have learned: readers read from cover to cover, we make the words and the pictures match, we sound like the characters, etc. During reading groups, we have been and will continue to read instructional level texts and use strategies to help us decode words. What you can do at home: Read every night like you are working with a partner (sit side by side, have a book in the middle, read back and forth, etc.) and ask your child questions about what she/he is reading about. For students who need to work on letters and letter sounds, you can have students find letters around the house and ask them what sounds they make. -In social studies, we will begin to wrap up our first unit. The community helper buildings look AMAZING!!!! Students will get to share their buildings on Tuesday the 15th with the class and will get to go to the other kindergarten classrooms (and they come to ours) to see all the wonderful buildings that were made!. What you can do at home: Discuss the following: Why is it important to be a good citizen? What is a community? What is a community helper? What role do I play in a community?
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