This past two weeks we have been busily working on skills and performance indicators. We did have a great experience Thursday of having our class picture made! What a challenge for the photographer to get some very active K kids to focus ALL AT THE SAME TIME and smile for the camera! It was great! We are excited to see the results.
If you should ever wonder why I cannot keep up on postings for Grizzly Growlings...perhaps this would give a clue:
Math
- Use one to one correspondence and language such as more than, same number as, or two less than to describe relative sizes of sets of concrete objects
- Use sets of concrete objects to represent quantities given in verbal or written form (through 20).
- Use numbers to describe how many objects are in a set (through 20) using verbal and symbolic descriptions.
- Count by ones to 100 by 1's, 5's, 10's and 2's
- 3-D Geometrical Shapes
- Math in real-life situations with emphasis on addition and subtraction
Science
- Make predictions based on observable patterns in nature.
- Identify events that have repeating patterns, including day and night.
- Record and organize data and observations using pictures, and words.
- Study the sun and other stars
- Finish and wrap up performance indicators for science.
Social Studies
- Identify contributions of patriots and good citizens who have shaped the community
- Obtain information about a topic using a variety of valid oral sources such as conversations, interviews, and music
- Sequence and categorize information
- Continue working on timelines on historical figures such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. Christopher Columbus, and Stephen F. Austin.
- Express ideas orally based on knowledge and experiences
- Create and interpret visuals, including pictures and maps.
- Learn about President's Day and the presidents we celebrate during that day as well as who our current president is.
Language Arts
- Continue practicing our syllables as well as our letter sounds
- Identify upper case and lowecase letters
- Identify different parts of a book
- Discuss purposes for reading and listening to various texts (e.g., to become involved in real and imagined events, settings, actions, and to enjoy language).
- Monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud).
- Follow pictorial directions (e.g., recipes, science experiments).
- Write rough drafts in order to get our thoughts in order
- Retell important events from a story
- Use knowledge of letter-sound relationships to decode regular words in text and independent of content (e.g., VC, CVC, CCVC, CVCC words).
- Use descriptive words to describe an object
- Learn how to use a dictionary
Please continue to work with your students at home. Reading 20 minutes every night, math facts adding and subtracting to ten, and asking the question, "what did you learn today?" Thank you for all you do to support us in this journey called Kindergarten. Our class count says 63 days until I can say, "I AM A FIRST GRADER!" Yes, we keep that goal in mind all the time.
REMEMBER: EACH CHILD, EACH DAY, SUCCESS!
