Week 7

It is a busy time of the year with report card assessments and preparing for parent conferences. I am looking forward to meeting with you next week to share your child's progress in kindergarten. Here's a look at what we have been learning this week.

We finished up learning our letters of the alphabet. We learned these letters this week.

We began focusing on one letter. We talked about words that start and end with the letter Ll and began an language arts journal. We also started our Handwriting Without Tears book too.

We continued to work on rhyming. Piggy Wiggy helps us make funny rhymes.

This was a funny rhyming book.

Then we matched rhyming words.

 
We learned about nouns. A noun is a person place or thing. We did a sort and brainstormed nouns. We also enjoyed watching the Schoolhouse Rock video below to help us learn about nouns. Click on the link below to watch it with your child.

Schoolhouse Rock Nouns

Our close read tied in nicely with our apple unit this week.

Here are our vocabulary words.

We had fun making this apple craft.

We learned about the different kinds of apples, tasted them and graphed and recorded our favorite.

We liked the yellow apples the best!

We learned a song about apples.

 
Here are some of the other apple books we read.

In science, we continued to learn more about apples. We learned the parts of an apple and labeled them.

We read a story about a boy trying to find a little red house without window and doors and a star inside. We learned that if you cut an apple in half the other way, there is a star in the middle that holds the seeds.

We began learning about matter in science.

Physical properties of matter are used to describe objects according to their color, size, weight, shape. We applied this and did an apple investigation to describe our apples.

In math, we learned all about the number 4. 

We practiced our combinations of 4 by making a number bracelet. That was lots of fun!

It was a great way to help reinforce the combinations of the number 4. We are working on decomposing each number as we learn it.

We also practiced our counting skills with counting bags.

In social studies, we learned about Christopher Columbus.