Kindergarten
News
for the weeks of: October 19-October 30
email: kathleen.brawley@lz95.org
phone: 847-540-4791
Happy Halloween!
Thank you to everyone who helped us have a great day today! The kindergartners
looked fantastic in their costumes and they loved parading around! I appreciate your
support during Red Ribbon Week as well. It has been a busy, busy time!
Literacy Development
Phonics and Word Study
-We talk about books every day and are
learning to have collaborative
conversations with our partners. We say
things like, “I agree” and “I noticed that
too.”
-We are learning about punctuation and
having fun reading like storytellers.
Exclamation marks and ellipses (…) are
our favorites!
-We have finished introducing the
Jolly Phonics sounds! We will continue
to practice the sounds at school,
especially the two letter “teams”.
Extra practice at home is very helpful!
-We are working on breaking words
into syllables by clapping. We are
learning to sound out longer words
one syllable at a time when writing.
Math
-We continue to use the number track
as a tool to help determine relative
position.
-We are using positional language
(above, below, beside, left, right, on
top of, etc.)
-We continue to work on recognizing
quantities, writing and recognizing
numbers to 10 and beyond.
-We continue to work on counting on
(5, 6, 7, 8 when rolling a 5 and a 3
rather than counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
Science/Social Studies
-We learned about the life cycle
of a pumpkin and compared and
contrasted it with the life cycle
of an apple.
-We predicted whether apples
and pumpkins would float or
sink and tested our predictions.
-We learned about bats and
compared bats and birds.