Week of May 8th

Welcome to Kindergarten!

Reading:                     

This week's Stories: Mayday! Mayday!

This week's Amazing Words:  rescue, yaht, mechanic, pilot, sailor, shimmering

Letter Focus:   Uu

Letter Review:  Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Tt, Ww, Xx

Sight Words:  New:  what, said, was

                     Review:  go, from, here, are, that, do, they, you, of, look, see, she, with, me, he, for, we, my, like, I, am, the, little, red, blue, yellow,  to, a, green, have, is, orange, purple, brown, black, pink, gray, one, two, three, four, five

Phonemic Awareness & Phonics:  beginning and medial sounds, rhyming, syllables

Comprehension:  Characters & Setting, Sequence of events in story

Grammar:   Speaking in complete and grammatically correct sentences. 

Math   

NEW: Number bonds, Adding

REVIEW:  Numbers 0 - 30

          Counting aloud to 100 by 1s, 5s, 10s      

Calendar: Patterns, days of the week, months, money, place value (ones)

Writing

We can draw pictures and dictate or write sentences.   We will use invented spelling and sight words to help us. 

Handwriting

The lines are:

      sky line  _______________________________

      plane line _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

      grass line _______________________________

      worm line _______________________________

Other

HOMEWORK:  

          1.  Weekly packet due on Friday.  Please do one page per night. 

          2.  Listen to your child read one of our stories every night. Sign and return