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Kinder Crew

Kindergarten Crew News

We are Learning:

​Language Arts: ​​​​​​​​

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• Wonders: Unit 4, Week 2: Meet Your Neighbors: Who are your neighbors?

• Letter/Sound: Dd

• High Frequency Word(s): do

• Print Concepts: Structure of a sentence - starts with a capital letter, spacing between words, punctuation at the end, complete idea (including a noun and a verb).

• Handwriting: I can use a pencil with proper hand grip. I can write capital letters using "frog jump technique" for: F, E, D, P, B, R, N and M.  I can use "starting corner" to write H, K, L, U, V , W, X, Y, and Z. We use "center starting" technique for C, O, Q, G, S, A, I and T. We make sure we start at the top and use the correct sequence of strokes for each letter. 

• Rhyming words

• Syllables

• Isolate or segment sounds in CV, CVC and CCVC words (2-4 sounds; e.g. on, cat, moon, dream, cloud, sleep)

• Writing our first name (capital at the beginning, the rest lowercase letters)

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Math:​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

• Module 3: Comparison of Length, Weight, Capacity, and Numbers to 10​

• Make informal comparison of area.

• Compare to find if there is enough.

• Compare using more than and the same as.

• Compare using fewer than and the same as.

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Expedition: Happy Habitats​​​​

• New Year, new expedition! We are studying living and non-living things this week. Living things can grow, take in nutrients and reproduce. Non-living things cannot do all three; however, sometimes they can move like water, fire, and wind. It's important to think about all three things a living thing does, to decide if the object is living or non-living. Next week we will begin studying plants and plant needs.

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** Daley crew has library on THURSDAYS and Jacobson crew has library on FRIDAYS. Kindergarten is only allowed one book at a time**

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Take Note:​​​

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Are you reading every day?

Our students are working so hard on their letter names and sounds as well as blending those sounds together into words. One way we can continue to support this skill is by reading 20 minutes every night. This includes:

• Doing the daily section of our homework

• Letter/sound flashcards

• Practicing high frequency words or blending non-sense words

• Reading phonics books.

You can access our reading program online for a small subscription fee. Currently, you can get the first 30 days free with code 30FREE. They have amazing books for our students to read online or you can purchase the actual books to read at home. Please go to iseesam.com and click on "Digital Subscription Edition". We recommend starting at Set 1. If that seems too easy for your student, we are happy to do a placement assessment to see where they should get started - just send your crew teacher an email. We also have a few copies in our classroom you can borrow on an as needed basis. Thanks!