Welcome to a new week in Kindergarten!
This week we will be wrapping up Topic B and starting Topic C. Topic B advances the work of Topic A, building students’ skill with number pairs for 6, 7, and 8, which goes on throughout Topics B and C during Fluency Practice. In this topic, students will using 5-groups to represent the 5 + n pattern to decompose 6, 7, and 8. These decompositions are modeled as put together situations and represented as addition expressions (C = ___ + ___), as opposed to the take from decomposition type (C – B = ___), which is taught in Topic D.
Science
Thank you, Noah and Ramsay, for sharing your animal photo with the class! All kindergarten students are thrilled to begin having conversations about animals and they are eager to share their own experiences with the animals they have seen! Please help us by sending photos of kindergarteners with pets, zoo animals, or any other animals your children may have encountered. Our color printer is currently not working, we ask that you please print these at home and send them to school. We're sorry for the inconvenience!
This week our scientists will be exploring outside to observe and photograph things that are living and things that are nonliving. What sorts of living things will we be able to find on CAC’s campus? What sorts of nonliving things will be found?
We highly appreciate the time you take to read our newsletters. Have a great short week!
Ms. Ana, Ms. Paola, and Mr. Balazs
Last week we had a successful Reading and Writing celebration! We appreciate you coming to see all the progress in reading and writing. Thank you as well for all the compliments you gave our students. They will treasure those little sheets of paper! Click here to see some photos.
This week we will have a half day on Wednesday, January 24th and there will be no school on Thursday, January 25th. Please make sure your child is picked up at 11:30 am on Wednesday.
We will need to reschedule our Library times, once we do we will email you and let you know which day to send the library bags.
Learning This Week!
Reading Workshop
Our young readers continue to work hard to learn about nonfiction texts! After a week of exploring the differences between fiction and nonfiction, this week they will dive deeper to examine text features that can be found in nonfiction books. They will notice bold words, captions, fact boxes, and diagrams and look at what more can be learned from them.
Students will also have a chance to look at nonfiction books in a wide variety of topics and reading levels in order to record their “wonders.” These “wonders,” or questions they have about a given text, will be added to a KG Wonder Wall bulletin board. Once completed, the entire CAC community will be able to see what kindergarten readers are wondering about! Stay tuned!
Students will also have a chance to look at nonfiction books in a wide variety of topics and reading levels in order to record their “wonders.” These “wonders,” or questions they have about a given text, will be added to a KG Wonder Wall bulletin board. Once completed, the entire CAC community will be able to see what kindergarten readers are wondering about! Stay tuned!
Writing Workshop
Writers are eagerly expressing their opinions through writing! It is important for young writers to learn about leads and how to state their topic on the first page. This week we will provide sentence starters to write opinions and will learn about giving reasons to support an opinion. Students will learn what reasons are and what words to consider when giving a reason.
The purpose of this unit is to set the tone for a future persuasive writing unit, in which students will be writing to make a change. Learning about opinions and the best way to express them is the main learning target of our current unit. This week we'll encourage writers to move from "I like..." to sentences such as:
I think...
I feel...
I believe...
In my opinion...
Partners continue to support each other by asking each other questions. Writers may use their partners to generate ideas by asking them about their own likes or dislikes: "What do you like to do at recess? why?" This last question will support all writers in elaboration by expanding the number of words used when giving reasons.
Math
Our students are loving number bonds! They have started to create their own number stories and their creativity is rising!
Our students are loving number bonds! They have started to create their own number stories and their creativity is rising!
This week we will be wrapping up Topic B and starting Topic C. Topic B advances the work of Topic A, building students’ skill with number pairs for 6, 7, and 8, which goes on throughout Topics B and C during Fluency Practice. In this topic, students will using 5-groups to represent the 5 + n pattern to decompose 6, 7, and 8. These decompositions are modeled as put together situations and represented as addition expressions (C = ___ + ___), as opposed to the take from decomposition type (C – B = ___), which is taught in Topic D.
Thank you, Noah and Ramsay, for sharing your animal photo with the class! All kindergarten students are thrilled to begin having conversations about animals and they are eager to share their own experiences with the animals they have seen! Please help us by sending photos of kindergarteners with pets, zoo animals, or any other animals your children may have encountered. Our color printer is currently not working, we ask that you please print these at home and send them to school. We're sorry for the inconvenience!
This week our scientists will be exploring outside to observe and photograph things that are living and things that are nonliving. What sorts of living things will we be able to find on CAC’s campus? What sorts of nonliving things will be found?
We highly appreciate the time you take to read our newsletters. Have a great short week!
Ms. Ana, Ms. Paola, and Mr. Balazs
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