ELA- This week we practiced decoding (sounding out and blending back together CVC words. Students looked at pictures of items then chose the word that goes with the picture, decoded a word and chose the picture that it goes with, isolated beginning, middle, and ending sounds, and circled the word that was dictated to them.
We are continuing to focus on individual letters, letter sounds, and writing each lowercase letter on handwriting paper. We worked on c and g during the week while continuing to work with the letters we have worked on so far: m, a, t, o, d, c, g, i. We have also been working daily to stretch/slide and blend words based on the letter sounds we hear. Check out the video on ClassDojo (in the Helpful Links for Homework Activities event) to see what stretching, sliding and blending looks like.
Students are also working to differentiate between vowels and consonants. Sometimes we write our CVC words (consonant, vowel, consonant words) with a red and blue crayon. The consonants get written in blue and the vowels in red.
Math- We continued really focusing on our number writing (formation) and number words. All together we have worked on numbers 0-10.
Social Studies- We continued our unit on Journeys! We are continuing to learn about the journey of the Puritans (Pilgrims) and their hope for a new land where they can have religious freedom. This week the Pilgrims reached the new land (America) and met the Native Americans who helped them survive their first winter in the new land.
Bible Study- We learned the story of God's People Cross the Jordan (Joshua 1; 3-4; 5:10-12). God miraculously led His people into their Promised Land, Canaan. Jesus miraculously defeated our enemies and leads us to our promised land, heaven.
Manner Mini Unit - We have begun a unit on manners words, manners, and table manners. We will wrap up this unit with a special manners meal celebration on Tues. Nov. 24th.
November:
16th - 18th - Bring in your completed Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes
17th - Dining for Trinity at Panda Express Wahiawa
18th - Free Dress Day for the students that had over $40 in sales in our Believe Fundraiser.
24th - Special Manners Meal Celebration - Kindergarten students are asked to wear their fancy "church clothes" to school (Parents- see the Monday Moments email for more information)
25th - Minimum Day - Kinder dismisses starting at 11:20
26th-27th - No School for the Thanksgiving Holiday
FOOTBALL FRIDAYS
September 11th through the end of the NFL season
It’s Mr. Klemp’s favorite time of year….football season! All students are welcomed to sport their favorite NFL football team by wearing an NFL team’s t-shirt or jersey every Friday through the end of the season. K-8 students must wear uniform bottoms. No NFL jackets, hats, sweatshirts, etc.. This is for NFL teams only. It will be fun to see which teams are campus favorites!