Kempsville Meadows
Kindergarten
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Gresalfi
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Updated
8/15/07
May
Language
Arts
Students
will be:
·
Learning
letter and sound U,u
·
Sorting
short u word families –ub, -ut, -un.
·
Reviewing
short and long vowel sounds.
·
Learning
diagraphs sh, ch, th.
·
Identifying
beginning blends.
·
Learning
sight words that, get, had, for.
·
Enjoying
books “Hush! a Thai Lullaby”, “Flower Garden”, “The Wolf’s Chicken Stew” and “Machines
At Work”.
·
Identify
the main idea of a story.
·
Identify
the topic of a non-fiction selection.
·
Use
adjectives to describe nouns.
·
Participate
in creative dramatics
·
Participate
in reader’s workshop.
·
Participate
in writing workshop including journal writing.
·
Write
at least one sentence independently.
Science
Students will be:
·
Learning
about magnets and magnetism.
·
Identifying
objects that will be attracted to magnets.
·
Using
vocabulary attract, repel, push, pull, metal,
nonmetal.
·
Identify
common objects that contain magnets.
Social Studies
Students
will be:
·
Identifying
workers and the jobs they do.
Math
Students
will be:
·
Writing
numbers beyond 99. (3 digit numbers)
·
Exploring
fact families through ten. (equivalent
names for numbers)
·
Adding
and subtracting playing the “Plus or Minus Game”.
·
Using
symbols + (plus), - (minus), and = (equals).
·
Representing
two and three digit numbers with bundles of hundreds, tens and ones.
·
Using
a calculator to add and subtract.
·
Arranging
numbers in sequence.
·
Introduced
to the dollar bill.
·
Telling
time to the hour.
·
Telling
“missing number” number stories. (missing number in the equation)
Notes
to Parents
·
Our
kindergarten homework program ends in May.
There is no homework in June.
Thank you for your participation!
·
There
is no school Monday, May 26 in observance of Memorial Day! Enjoy!