Lakewood Elementary

Kindergarten Newsletter

March 21-25, 2016

Important Dates

March 25- Good Friday Holiday

March 27 – Happy Easter

April 14- Old Glory Day

April 22- Kindergarten field trip to Homestead Heritage Farms (More information to follow)

At Home Practice

Mon. – Collect 8 pennies. Place in a plastic cup. Shake the cup and spill the pennies. Sort the pennies by heads/tails. Verbalize “5 heads plus 3 tails equals 8.” Have your child write the number sentence. 5+3=8

Tues. – practice reading and writing the high frequency words: them, make, take, give, world,away

Weds. – read a book about animals and have your child tell you what animals/mammals need to survive

Thurs. – Have a safe and fun Easter weekend.

English Language Arts

As we continue learning more about writing and language usage, we will listen to stories that have descriptive explanations of characters and color the correct picture that the story is describing. We will also practice making CVC words with the short /e/ vowel. We will review the “en”, “og” and “at” word families on an Easter egg paper and our poem for this week is “White-Tailed Bunny”. Our high frequency words are: them, make, take, give, world, away

Science

We are beginning our study of the basic needs of living things. We will learn what we have to have in order to stay alive and how to know the difference between living and nonliving things. We will plant a carrot top and provide its basic needs to see if it will grow.

Social Studies

We will continue learning many things that go along with spring, Easter, rights and responsibilities. We will learn more about eggs and chicks and the responsibility of taking care of living things. We will create a hatching chick, color a giant Easter egg with chalk and make a bunny visor. We will read stories such as Hatch Egg, Hatch, Clifford’s Happy Easter and Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones.

Math

As we continue our study of addition number sentences, the children will play a card game to show combinations that add up to 5, use jelly beans and dominos to practice number combinations and we will practice telling addition stories. We will learn to use the vocabulary words: plus, is equal to and number sentence. We will also practice writing number sentences.

Please call if your child is absent. Children will not be released at the classroom door. Students will be dismissed to their designated areas at 2:45. School begins at 7:45. Children are Tardy after that time.

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