Cultural Expectations
Thinking with our eyes!
Reading
Module 3 America, Then and Now
Here are the books we will be reading and exploring as we work towards answering our Module 3's BIG question:
How has life in America changed over time?
Our WRITING will shift from what makes a great story: characters, setting, problem, response(s) to the problem and resolutions to writing an informative piece of writing using evidence from our texts.
An informative writing piece that teaches others with detailed drawings, more than one sentence and an introduction to paragraph writing.
Ways to support your child's reading development!
- Have conversations with your child about various topics
- Developing Oral Language is a precursor to Reading Development.
- Read Alouds: reading to your child and talking about the book
- Provide opportunities for your child to handle books, turn the pages
- Read words, both familiar and new, that are all around you (i.e. the word "STOP" on a road sign, the word "milk" on a container, the word "play" on a controller)
Your child may....
- Look at pictures and talk about them
- Pretend reading by using the pictures and/ or prior knowledge of the book
- Memorize a favorite book and "read" it to you
- Shared reading: as you read, your child can help by reading the words they know
- Traditional reading: be sure to give them an opportunity to talk about their reading with you
Celebrate all your child's reading experiences!
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BookFlix
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Click on icon for books to be read to your child.
Trick Words
We are all familiar with those little words we say, read and write often. They appear "frequently" when we are reading, writing, and speaking. Some of them we can sound out like "we, see, she" and others are TRiCKY like "the, you, they , one". We call them TRICK words.
These words regardless of their title, "High-Frequency Words", "Sight Words", or "Trick Words", support a reader's fluency. Knowing these words quickly and efficiently helps a reader build fluency. Knowing these words with ease allows a reader/ writer to spend more of their reading/ writing energy on story words.
Below is a list of the Kindergarten "Trick words".
The first word most children learn to know by sight is their name, simply because they see it often! Apply this concept to other words.
Notice these words! They are everywhere: in books, on signs, greeting cards, cereal boxes etc.
Practice writing these words on paper, with shaving cream on the bathtub walls or on the hot top in chalk!
Songs and Poems (click on the picture below to open slides with our classroom songs/poems)
FUNdations!
Unit 5
***Our Unit 5 work is focused around the concept of a sentence!
Reading a sentence fluently and writing a complete sentence.***
We continue to work on our blending and segmenting letter sounds (skills needed for reading and writing words).
We will continue to practice the sounds of digraphs (two letters making one sound).
We will continue to work on reading and writing Trick Words (high-frequency words).
We continue to work on our blending and segmenting letter sounds (skills needed for reading and writing words).
We have added the sounds of digraphs (two letters making one sound) now.
We will continue to work on reading and writing Trick Words (high-frequency words).
We will continue our work on how to write a complete sentence with a starting capital letter, spaces between words and punctuation.
Unit 3
New Concepts:
Phonemic awareness skills:
blending sounds to read words, segmenting sounds to support writing words, and manipulation of sounds (changing a sound to create a new word)
Blending sounds in "silly"/ nonsense CVC words examples: nux, fim, rov
(Students have to trust what they know about letter sounds to read these silly words.)
Read and Spell three sound short vowel words. examples: map, rip, wax.
Tell the difference between long and short vowels. example: mad, made
Practice reading and writing High-Frequency words (Trick Words).
Check out the links below for information regarding the lowercase letters we are learning!
Practice tapping these words at home!
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Click on the icon.
Letter Recognition and Letter Sounds!
Handwriting
We use these pictures on the lines to help us form letters correctly: Sky line, Plane line, Grass line, Worm line.
Please reach out to me if you would like a copy of our lined paper for your child's home practice.
Math
Numbers 10–20 and Counting to 100
REMINDER: Under the practice tab there are some YouTube videos I've viewed and selected to reinforce our learning at school. Once the video is over YouTube offers other video options. Those videos we do not use in school. Be sure to always monitor your child when they are on their Chromebooks. Thank you!
Practice number writing at home!
**Two end-of-the-year goals for kindergarten are: counting to 100 by 1's and 10's and writing numbers 0-20.
Keep expanding your child's counting!
Science
seed germination
