Kempsville Meadows

Kindergarten

 

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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!