Good day everybody!
Yesterday we had a treat! We had the opportunity to listen to the music of the Klezmer Band. The children loved learning about the different instruments and listening to the amazing performers.
We read the story, “How The Bird’s Got Their Colors.” It is an old Native American tale from North and South America. We worked on isolating beginning sounds and matching like sounds in various words. In Science, we learned about our sense of hearing. We used the words cochlea, eardrum, membrane, outer ear, middle ear, and inner ear. We also made a pair of “Hear Muffs”.
In our Wordly Wise Unit, we are learning new vocabulary: glance, leak, split, and empty.
We also worked with –ing endings on words. We located all of the –ing endings in a poem and practiced using them to change words.
In math, we are continuing to create and read graphs as well as practice simple addition. We are working on memorizing the zero fact family and correct placement of the sum in math sentences that are vertical and horizontal. I suggest buying a set of addition flash cards that you and your child can use to practice the math facts. Again, we are currently mastering the zero fact family and will be transitioning quickly into the ones family and so on. Mastering the addition facts in Kindergarten, will allow a greater ease of math this year, as well as into the First Grade (where they will be mastering the subtraction facts).
Continue working on sight words and reading books nightly. Parent’s, please ensure your child is doing the homework to the best of their ability. I encourage you to have them correct mistakes and use the green handwriting sheet (located in the Apple Binder) to insure proper size, placement, and formation of all letters.
Have a great day!
