Language Arts:
-Review of all consonant sounds and short vowel sounds
-Review of all Star Words
-Looking across a whole word and noticing the final ending of the word
-Marking the short vowel sounds in cvc words
-Reading and making alphabet books
-Writing complete sentences that begin with a capital, end with a punctuation mark and tell a complete idea.
Math:
-What makes 10? (3t__=10, 5t__=10...)
-Recalling addition and subtraction facts within 5
-Decomposition of numbers 11-19 through making an equation of a group of 10 and extra ones
-Making new shapes using two or more other simpler shapes (two triangles can make a square or a diamond)
Religion: Mary Our Mother
-Mary is the Mother of Jesus and our mother too.
-We honor Mary and show our love to Mary
-Using the Hail Mary prayer and an introduction to the Rosary
Social Studies:
-People have jobs
-Jobs can provide others with goods (manufacturing, cooking...) or with services (taking care of others needs like a fireman or a teacher)
-People have needs and wants; what is the difference between these?
-The money earned from jobs help people take care of their needs and wants
-People need to decide how to spend and how to save their money
-Where do things we buy come from?
Important Details:
*Homework and Show and Tell: Due on regularly assigned Show and Tell day.
-Students will think about what job they would like to have when they grow up.
-Students will find out what tools and training are needed to have that job
-Students will find out what people do when they have that job
-Students will decide if that job provides a good or a service and if
that good/service fills a need or a want for others
-Students will write about the above ideas on the report form
provided
-Students will practice telling about their job and give the report
to the class on the assigned Show and Tell day.
-Students should bring some tools they would use in the job.
-Students should bring clothes they might wear in the job and will
change into or put those clothes over their uniform for Show and
Tell.
*A BIG THANK YOU to Mr. Bennett who has offered to come tell us about being a firefighter and a paramedic, to Mrs. Bennett who will tell us about being a theater manager, Mr. Clark who will tell us about being a teacher for blind students and Mrs. Coppens Clark who will tell us about being a teacher for Special Needs preschool students!
*Mrs. Watt, our Art teacher, has asked that every Kindergarten student bring in a 16.9 oz. water bottle for an art project by Friday, May 17. Please put your child’s name on the bottom of the bottle.
*Please return the field trip permission form and fee for our Farm visit by Monday, May 20. We will need drivers for this field trip. We will leave at 8:30 and return at 12:30 on Thursday, May 23.
Have an alphabetastic week!!
God Bless You,
Mrs. Cramer