Kindergarten Week 33

Spanish Literacy and Math

This week had so many opportunities to experience what “en equipo” looks and feels like! We had another wonderful field trip and, at the end of the week, we had our kindergarten group picture. We have also selected our favorite songs to sing at the end of the year performance. We cannot wait to see our strong community in action next week.  Our baked goods sale will rise money to make a difference in this world!

We had limited classroom time, however, we managed to get our literacy and math routines done:

• Phoneme replacement
• Segmentation: identifying and counting phonemes
• Print and book awarenes
• Rhyming words
• Pronouns Yo – Tu – Nosotros
• Apply writing conventions when writing their personal narratives.
• Demonstrate “good readers” practices
• Non-fiction text focus: comparing and contrasting ( Hola, oruguita)

• Review numbers facts: combining sets, counting on (Money).

• Classifying and sorting: classifying and sorting by two attributes (color, size, shape, pattern, special feature)

• Review Patterns unit

Students took home a new reader this week, La niña y el Ñu. I could not be more proud of their reading progress! Please have them read their book to you with fluency and expression.

English Social Studies

This week we continued our unit on Kings and Queens.  We finished our lesson on the story ‘King Midas and the Golden Touch’ and read the rhyme “Old King Cole”.

Our objectives were to:
•  understand that Kings usually possess gold and other treasures
•  discuss the difference between valuing relationships with people and valuing wealth
•  describe the behaviors that reinforce that kings and queens are royal
•  recite “Old King Cole”

Our new sorts this week were the “ug” “un” and “up” family words.
For handwriting we worked on the letters T,t and U,u.  In our journals we wrote about a wish for the planet Earth. Our poem for the week was “Old King Cole”.

Thank you to everyone who was able to be a driver for our field trip.  The class had a great time and we were so happy the sun was able to join us too!  Fort Vancouver was a great wrap up to our tradespeople unit in Social Studies.

English Science

Science
This  week we continued our  science domain on Taking Care of the Earth.   We read about composting and did some composting of our leftover daily snacks. We also read the poem ‘Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out’ by Shel Silverstein.
Our objectives were to:
•  understand that composting is a type of recycling in which discarded food scraps decay in an outdoor pile or bin and eventually become garden soil
•  sequence what happens to a piece of discarded food from table to compost pile to garden
•  identify foods that can be composted
•  understand that humans generate large amounts of garbage, which must be disposed of
•  identify garbage as being a problem and the various means of garbage disposal in terms of a solution