Growing Seeds

WELCOME BACK GRIZZLIES!

What a great Spring Break and now...back to work!
Our kindergarten objectives for the week:

Math

1. 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
2. Count by ones to 100 by 1's, 5's, 10's and 2's
3. Fractions 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/3
4. 3-D Geometrical Shapes 
5. Math in real-life situations with emphasis on addition and subtraction

Science

1. Make predictions based on observable patterns in nature.
2. Plants, observe how plants grow
3. Animals, what animals need to survive 
4. Living vs. Nonliving

Social Studies

1. Obtain information about a topic using a variety of valid oral sources such as conversations, interviews, and music
2. Sequence and categorize information 
3. Express ideas orally based on knowledge and experiences
4. Communities in the past and communities today 

Language Arts

1. Continue practicing our syllables as well as our letter sounds
2. Identify upper case and lowecase letters
3. Identify different parts of a book
4. 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).
5. Monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud).
6. Follow pictorial directions (e.g., recipes, science experiments).
7. Write rough drafts in order to get our thoughts in order 
8. Retell important events from a story
9. Use knowledge of letter-sound relationships to decode regular words in text and independent of content (e.g., VC, CVC, CCVC, CVCC words).
10. Use descriptive words to describe an object 
11. Learn how to use a dictionary

                                The "Bean" Experiment

                          It did sprout! (most of them)

                                     The Growing Song

Each child, Each day, Success!