Word of the Week: ARE (Please continue to practice: and, at, by, can, come, do, for, get, go, got, had, has, he, here, in, is, it, like, look, me, my, no, on, play, put, said, see, she, some, the, this, to, we, went, yes, you)
Homework: Please work on the MEASUREMENT assignment sent home in your child’s mail today. The directions can be found on the homework paper. Please return the completed assignment to school by Friday, May 1st.
Go Math Workbooks at Home: We have completed Chapters 12.0-12.3 of our Go Math program this week. Please work on completing the corresponding pages as time permits. You do NOT need to return completed pages to school.
4th Quarter Assessments: Beginning next week, we will work on our last round of achievement record testing. As always, this includes all of the math, reading, writing, science, and social studies that are listed on achievement record. I will be doing one-on-one reading assessments with the kindergartners on APRIL 30th and MAY 14th. This assessment will determine your child's final kindergarten reading level (Benchmark is the Founas & Pinnell Level C). The following list includes items that many of our students need to practice at home. By practicing these at home, you are helping you child meet his/her final kindergarten goals. Please use your child’s last grade card to help you decide what is most important to practice.
* Using reading strategies (ex: using pictures clues and letter sounds to figure out unknown words)
* Reading high frequency words (40 sight words)
* Blending letter sounds to make words (b-a-t says bat)
* Hearing and identifying beginning, medial, and ending sounds in words
* Printing upper and lower case letters "the kindergarten way"
* Counting to 100 (by 1's and 10's and from numbers other than 1)
* Counting and recording numerals to 20
* Identifying similarities and differences between 2-D and 3-D shapes
* Using strategies to solve addition and subtraction word problems with numbers up to 10
* Fluently add and subtract within 5
Week in a Peek: {M} no specials {T} no specials {W} music {Th} baggie books {F} no specials
Quail Chicks: Meet the newest members (19!) of the room 108 family. We are in love with our feathery friends! Our quail chicks will be with us for a few more days, and then they will move to more posh accommodations at a friend's farm in Johnstown.