by Jackie & Marci | May 3, 2020 | Kindergarten News
Life cycle of a turnip from ‘The Gigantic Turnip’
Science
This next week we will be learning more about plants, specifically about flowers and their purpose. Students will have a chance to watch a short video on bees. In Brainpop Jr. we will continue to learn about conservation.
Our objectives will be to:
- Identify the petals on a flower
- Describe how bees collect nectar and pollen
- Understand how bees make and use honey
Seed experiment
- Describe the important role bees play in plant pollination
- Understand what the terms extinct and endangered mean
History & Geography
Next week we will be learning about teachers and schools during colonial times. Students will also get to hear the story ‘Stone Soup’. They will be invited to
Tradespeople charades
create their own “stone” soup as an enriching project.
Carpenters can build hummingbird houses
Our objectives will be to:
- Describe a teacher as a townsperson responsible for educating young children
- Identify some characteristics of colonial common schools
- Compare and contrast common schools with today’s schools
- Recall the different kinds of tradespeople found in a colonial town
English Sight Words
too, but
We will be reviewing sight words K and L by using Spell City or Robot Flashcards. For spelling we will be working on s, t, and st sounds.
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Here is a link to our weekly plan for Spanish lessons:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VTyA2QoKQLpJPgE0VmyKufQ2w_v6Pb7aFLCxlAFs_q4/edit?usp=sharing
Our learning objectives this week are to:
- Use our sight words in oral and written sentences: Estaba (I was) Fueron (They were)
- Read books about our El Mar / The Sea unit: En el mar and Humphrey: La ballena perdida
- Separating syllables
- Combining syllables
- Building number sense through place value and subitizing
It was so wonderful to see all of you! We miss our Kindergartners so much!
We loved seeing you!!
by Jackie & Marci | Apr 26, 2020 | Kindergarten News
“I have a question, is my plant still germinating?”
Science
seeds in the window
seeds in the closet
This week we will hear the story ‘The Giant Turnip’ and do a project illustrating the life cycle of a turnip. We will also be learning a little about conservation in honor of Earth Day last week.
learning about plants
Our objectives will be to:
- understand that seeds are the beginning of new turnip plants
- explain that turnips grow when they have water and light, and can grow to be different sizes
- identify the root of a turnip, and understand that the turnip’s roots and leaves are eaten by people
- understand ways that you can be a conservationist
I am a carpenter
History & Geography
A tile builder
brick layer
This week we will hear two stories: ‘The Little Gray Pony’ and ‘The Merry Wives’. We will be listening for different tradespeople in each. You will have a chance to play a game to help you remember about the tradespeople you have learned about.
Our objectives will be to:
learning about house builder project
- recognize the
necessity of heating objects before a blacksmith can shape them
- identify reasons why people who lived in the country traveled to town
- describe the different kinds of tradespeople in colonial towns
- identify and associate with the appropriate trade, the tools used by colonial tradespeople
- describe the tailor, carpenter, and blacksmith in a colonial town
English Sight Words
I’m, better from our two poems next week on picking up litter
Please practice your I and J words using Spell City or your Robot flash cards.
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(We’re having technical difficulties but the weekly plan will be posted in Google Classroom.)
Have a great weekend!
by Jackie & Marci | Apr 19, 2020 | Kindergarten News
My little seeds
Science
Science experiment
Next week our focus will be on the life cycle of plants. Students will have a couple of lessons, a variety of books to read, and project they can work on.
Discovering roots
Our objectives for the week:
‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’ inspired clothing
History & Geography
Learning about Hatters
We will be learning about house builders; bricklayers, masons, and carpenters as well as the blacksmith next week. The class will have the opportunity to “visit” a blacksmith in his workshop, read several fiction and nonfiction books to go along with our lessons, and do a project or two.
Our objectives for the week:
- describe the bricklayer, mason, and carpenter in a colonial town
- describe the blacksmith in a colonial town
- explain the essential role of the blacksmith in making tools for other tradespeople
- identify, and associate with the appropriate trade, the tools used by bricklayers masons, carpenters, and blacksmiths
Sharing “kinder likes” activities
English Sight Words
Reading in to my teacher
hear, every
Students should work on the sight word list “G and H” either in Spell City or by practicing with their Robot Flash Cards
We will be on Sort 16 this week for spelling
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Our learning objectives for next week are to:
- recognize and use the words of the day in oral and written sentences (era-was, después-after, muy-very)
- Read short stories fluently.
- Identify words that indicate action (verbs!)
- Solve addition and subtraction problems more fluently.
- Works with the numbers 24 and 25.(Identify how many tens and how many ones are in these numbers.)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jBNShoJQMFFtnce_L0PyAFl3MJ3Onftn5oCW9JYGLTg/edit?usp=sharing
by Jackie & Marci | Apr 12, 2020 | Kindergarten News
Suggested Daily English Schedule
English Zoom Meetings
Kindergarten individual Zoom meetings are scheduled for Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday between 1 – 2:30, or unless otherwise arranged.
Our whole class Zoom meetings are on Fridays at 1 pm. Check Google classroom for link.
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https://classroom.google.com/u/1/c/NTM5NjEyNjU3MDBa/a/NjkzOTA5MTAzMzZa/details
In Google Classrooms the students have each received a copy of this schedule. They can “color in” each square as they complete the assignment.
by Jackie & Marci | Apr 5, 2020 | Kindergarten News
Learning about George Washington Carver
During Spring Break we will not upload any new assignments. Students can use this time to catch up on past assignments and explore some of the enrichment activities listed in our Google Classroom. We will continue to have our Spanish and English Zoom meetings. Our English whole class Zoom meeting will be a special sharing meeting with crazy hair on Friday.
Science
Seed planting project
When we return from Spring Break we will continue with our Plants science domain. The students will have opportunities to do an experiment and a project along with their reading/listening assignments and activities.
Our objectives for April 13 – 17 will be to:
Observation chart
Excited to plant seeds!
Plants come in all sizes
- Identify the root, stem, leaf, flower, and seed of a plant
- explain that roots anchor the plant and take in water and nutrients
- explain that stems support the plant and carry water and nutrients to the various parts of the plant
- understand that the plant makes its own food in its leaves
- understand that plants are living things
- understand that seeds are the beginning of new plants
History & Geography
Using the a loom like a weaver
Our next lessons will be about tradespeople: Dressmakers, Tailors, Hatters, and Cobblers. The class will get to hear the story of the Elves and the Shoemaker. The students will do a project where they can design their own piece of clothing or shoe and list the trades person who would make it along with the material and tools they would use.
Our objectives for April 13 – 17 will be to:
English Sight Words
Our words for the week: goes, must. Students will read the poems ‘Bee’ and ‘I’m a Little Honeybee’ and find the new sight words for the week along with other sight words they recognize.
Our goals for April 13 – 17 will be to do:
- Green Binder new sight words and handwriting sheet L
- Spelling City Kinder sight words ‘E and F” list
- Spelling sort 15
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I have created an easier way for you to go through the Spanish materials each week. (You can try this out during our Spring break or wait until the following week.)
The links in this plan will only work if you are part of our Google Classroom. (This will be posted in our Google Classroom too!)
Spanish Weekly Plan ~Maestra Jackie
Here’s what it looks like (not linkable in this picture).
Lesson with Maestra!
by Sarah Segall | Mar 29, 2020 | 2nd/3rd Grade News, 4th/5th Grade News, First Grade News, In The Loop, Kindergarten News, Preschool
This was recommended as a resource with tips on how parents should talk to their kids about COVID-19, and gives some good advice like the importance of creating and maintaining routines.
(Tip: the intro is a big long. You can skip ahead to get to the good stuff!)
https://www.embracerace.org/resources/supporting-children-in-the-struggle-against-covid-19
by Jackie & Marci | Mar 29, 2020 | Kindergarten News
