Kinder Kids of SDE

June 1- June 9 & *End of Year Review*

Welcome back to the Kindergarten page!

We will continue our ABC countdown to the end of the school year.

We will have a fun activity or theme for each day that begins with that day's letter. Monday is letter U, Tuesday is V Wednesday is W, Thursday is X, Friday is Y, and the following Monday is Z (please refer to the ABC chart below to know what to do!) Send us pictures or video of your child doing each day's activity, please!

We will focus fairy tales, keeping Goldilocks and the Three Bears from last week (if you need to catch up) and adding the Three Billy Goats Gruff for this week's. Shapes content for the previous math lessons is still available down below if you need that as well!

There is a REVIEW button below of very beneficial videos for your child to view over the next week and a half, as well as over the course of the summer!!! If you would like PDFs, they will always be available to print from the other tabs in the same livebinder as the review.

*THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK TO HELP YOUR CHILD CONTINUE LEARNING! IT MEANS SO MUCH TO US AND TO YOUR CHILD'S FUTURE!!!!!*

Love,

Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Parker, Ms. Faunda, and Mrs. Donnelly (taking over for Mrs. Mathews)

This story, This School Year Was Different, is about the school closings, and how it affected the end of our school year. (It doesn't get into the pandemic or anything scary.) I hope that this story can help you child process what has happened, acknowledge their feelings, and help them feel a sense of connection to us (their teacher) and to their classmates despite being physically apart!

Click here to view the story

*Choose one of the following activities in a day:

1. Read-Aloud Lessons: Please check for understanding by asking the questions that go along with the story! View and explain the vocabulary words that go with the story you are listening to.

- Goldilocks and the Three Bears & other versions of the story (Read-Aloud tab:May 26-May 29)

- The Three Billy Goats Gruff & other versions of the story (Read-Aloud tab: June 1-June 9)

Please click on the Weekly Read-Alouds button below to access these stories.

2. Independent Reading for 10 minutes quietly to yourself, to someone else, or even your pet from your bag of books from school.

3. Independent Reading Comprehension Worksheet to print or copy answers to questions in your journal; include the date.

Direct Link to Worksheets

*Write the poem in your journal and the answers to the questions below!

Questions/Activities

• Read the poem daily with your child.

• Write the poem in your journal

• Circle any sight words that you may see/find

• Discuss the punctuation in the poem. What does each one mean? (period, comma, and exclamation mark)

• Discuss with your child -ing in words and the sound those three letters make. See if you can find the words in the poem with -ing in it. Ask your child if they can think of other words that have -ing in them.

• Discuss with your child the meaning of the following vocabulary words: grumpy & empty

Practice the 3 steps to plan your story before you write it:

1. Get an idea of what you want to write about.

2. Tell someone your idea, with lots of detail!

3. Say your sentences aloud, as you point to the spaces on your paper where each word will be written. (repeat this 3 times!)

Look at the options in the pictures below to write about!!

Be sure to READ your story while you write it, and then create a beautiful illustration to match!

Visit the REVIEW button at the top of the page!

Lesson 31(Compare Shapes) & Math Lesson 32 (Build Shapes)

This week we are learning to name shapes. We will also learn some of the ways to describe shapes. For example, triangles, hexagons, rectangles, and squares have corners and straight sides. A hexagon has 6 sides and a square has 4 equal sides. Circles, cylinders, spheres, and cones have curves. All but spheres can stand and be stacked on their "face". Learning some of the ways to describe shapes will help us identify and distinguish between different shapes in geometry lessons and in the real world.

CURRENT LESSON PACKETS ARE IN COLOR. (These are a "Must-Do" by end of the week)

Click here for math lessons that go along with packets

"Can-Do" (Optional) Practice Choices:

1. Purple and White math packet

2. iReady Online math lessons (scroll up to "All the webpages you need" button > Click on Clever)

3. Watch the following videos:

Jack the Builder

Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes

Shapes Song

Shapes, Sides, and Vertices

Shapes (Storybots)

Name that Shape! (3D Shapes)

Fluency Practice/Review: Teen Count

Fluency Practice/ Review: Count to 100

4. Word Problems (see pictures and directions below)

5. Click here for Extra Worksheets to print (including the Monster Craft with shapes, pictured above)

6. Interactive Tutorial Video (button below)

Read the word problem to your child.

Discuss the problem with your child to make sure they understand what it is asking.

Ask your child: What are the key words? What are the numbers? Will you be adding or subtracting to solve the problem?

Show your work in your journal. Remember to draw a picture, write the number sentence (equation) and circle your answer.

Please navigate back to the school's "hub" page to visit the specific encore class' tab in order to access their lessons and activities during this time! See you back soon!

Alternate between these lessons and Word Family lessons below

"Can-Do" Worksheets here

These phonemic awareness exercises are VERY IMPORTANT to practice daily in order to gain crucial reading and writing decoding skills.

FYI: phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes--in spoken words. Before children learn to read print, they need to become more aware of how the sounds in words work.

View all lessons here and follow directions at the top.

Alternate between these lessons and Heggerty lessons above

This week we are focusing on s blends at the beginning of words.

Click on one of the pictures below to enlarge the lesson.

Video for Lesson B