September 6, 2024

Week in Review

This week in math we began our unit on addition and subtraction. We learned about Fact Families. We will also be practicing addition and subtraction through challenging and open ended problems to foster problem solving and critical thinking skills. 

In reading, we worked on making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to books we read. 

We are continuing to work on our narrative writing unit. Sometimes finding a topic can be a challenge for some, so they may appreciate talking with a parent or family member about some possible topics. A narrative topic can be anything that kids have done (vacation, sports game, concert, play date, etc.) or something that has happened to them (lost a tooth, broken a bone, gotten caught in a rainstorm, etc) We focus on proper usage of capitalization, punctuation, spelling and meaningful ideas that follow the same story line.

In social studies, our community unit is continuing with learning on being part of a community and authority figures in the community. We are continuing to work on our Citizenship Project which will be presented to the kindergarteners soon!

Our science unit on objects and materials continues through early October. We will learn about classifying objects, sorting by characteristics, weight, systems and how things can be changed by heating and cooling.

Looking Forward

Next week in ELAR we will be learning about retelling books we read. We will incorporate a Retell Rubric so kids can analyze their work and set goals to make it better! 

Upcoming Curriculum 

Language Arts: I can retell books I read. I can write narrative stories about my own life. 

Math: I can represent addition or subtraction word problems by using appropriate strategies such as concrete objects, pictorial models, and number sentences.

Science: I can describe an object's properties. 

Social Studies: I can explain that a community is a group of people who live and learn in the same place.