Kindergarten Week 28

Spanish Literacy

It was so nice to hear about the wonderful time students had during spring break! Everybody was excited to share their adventures and little pet rock books! How lovely! We spent this week reviewing expectations and getting back to our regular routine. We had time to reflect on our kindergarten journey and to how this spring is going to look like. I have a few projects planned that I will share with you all when the time comes.

The new theme for this unit’s literature studies was introduced: Perseverance. We will be reading stories that present this topic and will think about how we can apply this concept into our daily life activities.  We started reading a story, Tillie y la pared by Leo Leonni. Ask your child to tell you about it. We will continue analyzing this piece next week. Other objectives this week were to:

• Organize into categories. Name an attribute.
• Identify rhyming words.
• Clap syllables in words. Try to spell 4 syllable words independently.
• Apply reading comprehension and thinking strategies.
• Understand sequencing of events.
• Get familiar with transition words to explain the events in a story.
• Practice reading their new book Las matas.
• Practice spelling

 

Spanish Math

This week in math the objectives were to:

• Ordinal numbers
• Sequence events. Understand vocabulary associated to this concept.
• Rank preferences apply accurate vocabulary.
• Understand the purpose of a calendar.
• Understand how to read a weekly calendar.
• Appy vocabulary associated to the calendar in context accurately.

English Social Studies

This week in our unit on Colonial Towns and Towns People unit we learned about blacksmith and house builders: masons, carpenters, bricklayers.
Our objectives were to :
•  describe the brick later, Mason, and carpenter in a colonial town
•  identify, and associate with the appropriate trade, the tools used by brick layers, masons, and carpenters
•  explain the essential role of the blacksmith in making tools for other tradespeople
•  identify, and associate with the appropriate trade, the tools used by blacksmiths

Our new sort this week was the consonant sounds B, S, R, M, T, G, N, P.   We used the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice to help us hear some of these sounds.  In our journals we wrote about our Spring Break, Helen Keller, and Easter.
For handwriting we worked on the letter K,k and L,l  and practiced previous letters learned.

English Science

This  week we continued our  Five Senses science domain.  We continued learning about the challenges people who have disabilities that affect their senses experience.  In our read aloud we heard about Helen Keller, near and farsightedness, and we read the fable Seven Blind Mice. On Friday we did a fun Easter activity using our 5 senses.

Our objectives were to :

•  understand how we can enhance the
•  describe the experiences and challenges of someone who is blind and deaf
•  explain the contributions of Helen Keller
•  describe how the five senses help humans learn about their world
•  describe the challenges of someone who is blind