Wednesday, April 23

Wednesday, April 23

 

Word Work with Manipulative Letters 
whip to whips to hips to ship to hip to him to whim to whiz to which  

 Irregular Words: they, their, were, work, walk, talk  NEW: could, would, should  

    Read: When will we have lunch?

                 Would the moth munch on the cloth? 

                        Ralph should whack the ball with his bat.    

Spell: Steph is a whiz at math! 

               When should we be back?

                       Phil whips up lunch on a whim.

KinderLiteracy: Seed to Plant
We will focus these vocabulary words within the story (soil, seedling, pollination, germination and answer these questions:

1) Who is the author? What is their job compared to the illustrator?
2) What is one fact we heard from the book? 

Literacy Jobs  

 Math: Subtraction with Fingers

Fingers are very useful at a young age to see an abstract concept such as subtraction

 become a concrete visual for 'taking away'. The kids will be practicing a variety of subtraction statements such as this: There are 4 apples in the apple tree  (put up 4 fingers) 2 apples fall off the tree. (take down two fingers) How many are left? 4 apples take away 2 apples is 2! They will also learn another finger technique called 'Touch and Count Back’. Let’s say there were 7 birds in the tree and 3 birds flew away. I’m going to touch my head to keep 7 in my brain and count back 3 using three fingers. 7 (touch head)…6, 5, 4 (counting using your three fingers to hold a place for each bird that flew away). 7 take away 3 is 4! I have 5 shirts and 2 get dirty.  How many are clean? I will put 5 in my brain and then count back 2! 5….4, 3 (holding up one finger for each dirty shirt). 3 shirts are clean.”  This concept can be VERY difficult for some and will take lots of modeling.                               

                                               

Today the kids will learn about 'Litter' Red Riding Hood who thinks it is okay to drop her garbage on the ground instead of putting it in the trash can. The story explains how it hurts animals, our environment, and people. At the conclusion of the story, the kids will sequence the events as they occurred in the story.   

                                   Library Today

 Time for Kids: Help Planet Earth

Computer Class Today
Music Today 

Wednesday, May 14: Field Trip to Be With Me Playseum in Minnetonka and Big Rock Park in Delano. (Info will be in today's Wednesday envelope.) Tuesday, June 3: Kindergarten Graduation for our class at 9:30. (An invitation will be sent at a later date.)

~Keep working on the UFLI homework...It will be due on June 3.