Wednesday, January 5, 2011

weekly update 1/5/11

Welcome Back and Happy New Year!!
This week in kindergarten:
*  In shared reading we are on theme 8 - Does it Sink or Float!
*  Our letter this week is short O.  Our vocab words are sink, heavy & collect.  Our sight words this week are his & had.
*  Our comprehension strategy is to monitor understanding. 
*  In math we will work on ordinal position and paying for items using pennies.
*  We will work with our 4th grade buddies on Friday!
*  2nd quarter report cards will come home on Monday.
*  There is no homework this week.  Please have you child go to the Spelling City link on the left side of this blog and practice the Kindergarten Sight Words.
*  3rd quarter skills are listed below:

New Skills Assessed 3rd Quarter


Communication Arts

Uses pictures and beginning sounds for words to record thoughts, facts and ideas

Automatically names capital and lower case letters of alphabet: Mm, Ss, Ff, Hh, Tt, Cc, Pp, Aa, Ll, Gg, Rr, Oo, Dd, Kk, Nn, Vv, Ii, Jj, Bb

Automatically states the most common sound of letters: M, S, F, H, T, C, P, A, L, G, R, O, D, K, N, V, I, J, B

Reads sight words – the of a to and in is you that it

Correctly spells and capitalizes his/her last name (first letter capital, rest lower case)



Math

Identifies a given pattern (AB, ABC and AAB formats)

Repeats, extends, and creates patterns using pictures, objects or shapes

Reads and tells time to the hour using analog and digital clocks

Creates a graph using objects and pictures

Counts objects up to 20 in a given set

Locates numbers 0 to 20 on a number line

Recognizes a whole and half

Identifies penny and dime

States value of penny and dime



Work Skills

Correct use of scissors

Correct use of writing utensil (grip, coloring inside lines, fill in space, trace on a line)

Knows left and right

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