Mrs. Abbott's Kindergarten Class

Friday, May 22, 2015

Friday Flash

May 26^th- May 29^th, 2015

Focus of the Week

· Literacy:

- Background Knowledge for Lions at Lunchtime (the African Savanna)

- Sight words

- Last names

· Science: Tide pools

· Math:

- Addition

- Subtraction

- Subitizing (identifying the numbers in a small set without counting)

Notes/Reminders

· May 25^th: No School

· June 8^th: Tide Pool field trip (rain date June 9^th)

· June 11^th: Family Picnic (rain date June 12^th)

Things to work on at home

We are working on being able to do these things by the end of the year:

· Count to 100 by tens and ones

· Write our first and last names with appropriate uppercase and lowercase letters

· Identify one more and one less than numbers to 21

· Read and write our K sight words

Conversation Starters

· How do you play Domino Compare in math?

· What do you already know about the African Savanna, or what are you wondering?

· Tell me about the different types of seaweed that you made for your tide pool diorama.

· How do you play the clapping game “Bow Wow Wow”?

Kindergarten Sight Words

a	at	and	am	are
by	can	come	go	he
I	in	it	is	like
me	my	on	of	see
said	some	she	to	the
went	we	was	you

We have now introduced all of our kindergarten sight words. Kindergarteners should be able to read and write these words by the end of the school year!

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Math!

This week in math:

We are measuring different sized cowboy hats with cubes

Addition Connect Four

Practicing reading tally marks

Domino compare. We each flip over a domino and add our two sides together, then decide who's domino has more dots

Pete The Cat subtraction. Oh no! Pete is losing buttons! He starts with 6 and our buddy takes some away. We have to figure out how many he has left.

Friday, May 15, 2015

Friday Flash!

Friday Flash

May 18^th- May 22^nd, 2015

Focus of the Week

· Literacy:

- Ghost Town at Sundown

- Sight words!

· Science: Tide pools

· Math:

- Addition

- Subtraction

- Subitizing (identifying the numbers in a small set without counting)

Notes/Reminders

· May 16^th: Art.Food.Community fundraiser at Thompson 4-8pm.

http://www.arlington-eats.org/bowls/

· May 19^th: Early Release 1:00 (lunch will be served, no snack)

· May 25^th: No School

· June 8^th: Tide Pool field trip (rain date June 9^th)

· June 11^th: Family Picnic

(rain date June 12^th)

Things we need

Shoeboxes for tide pool dioramas. THANKS J

Conversation Starters

· How would you make tally marks for the number 4? 6? 10?

· What do you predict will happen in the next half of Ghost Town at Sundown?

· What is a tide pool? What is low tide? High tide?

Kindergarten Sight Words

a	at	and	am	are
by	can	come	go	he
I	in	it	is	like
me	my	on	of	see
said	some	she	to	the
went	we	was	you

We have now introduced all of our kindergarten sight words. Kindergarteners should be able to read and write these words by the end of the school year!

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Book orders due!

Today is the last day to place an order for our last Scholastic Book order!

I will submit the order tomorrow (Friday) morning.

Scholastic Book Club

Class Code: J6BR6

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

We loved our visit from the New England Aquarium! We learned a bit about tide pools and tide pool animals, then we got to touch some! We are so excited for our field trip to explore the tidepools in June!