Kindergarten MP3 Campus

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Topics: Valentine’s Day, Penguins, Letters, Sounds, Sight words, Writing

Letters: L,l, U,u, D,d

Sight words: go, to, look, of

Activities:

Writing: Our focus in writing continues to be starting our writing with a capital letter, and leaving spaces between our words. I am trying to get students to sound out words on their own (Kindergarten Spelling) too! We have been practicing sounding out words with some “labeling” activities where students label different things in a picture and then work to write a sentence about something in the picture.

We are practicing writing letters with correct formation on white boards and paper. We don’t have as much time as they need for this in class, so please be working on this diligently with your at home writing curriculum.

Stories we have shared include: Little Penguin and the Lollipop, Peace Week in Miss Fox's Class, A Crankeinstein Valentine, Pete the Cat and the Cool Caterpillar, The Penguin Who Wanted to Fly, and Penguins Big Adventure.

Students created Valentine’s Day bags to hold the valentine’s they received from their classmates, and created some special Valentine’s Day cards for parents. We also played a game of sight word bingo where we practiced sounding out words, checked to see if we had it on our sheet, and then used candy hearts as our place holders.

Penguins:

We started our learning about penguins by having students share their previous knowledge about penguins and then try to ask and answer more questions about them.

We also started a KWL chart about Penguins. So far we have only filled in the “K” column, what we Know about penguins (or think we know) and the “W” column, what we wonder, or want to know.

Teacher Tip: As we start the second semester it is a good time to think about where your kindergarten student should be by the end of the year. Be working towards mastering all letter names and sounds, at least 20 sight words, and be able to write a sentence using our 5 star rubric. (1. Start with a capital (remaining lower case) 2. Spaces between words 3. End with punctuation mark (.!?) 4. Use sight words I know and sound out new words 5. My words make sense.) They are all doing awesome!!!

Topics: Holidays: Presidents Day

Activities:

President’s Day:

We watched the video: What is Presidents' Day?

We discussed what we know about Presidents – who is our current president, who was our first president, what does a president do. We then drew a picture of ourselves as the president and finished writing the sentence "If I were president I would...".

Topics: Groundhog’s Day: Can Animals Predict Weather?, Valentine's Day: Which Animal Has the Biggest Heart?, Penguins

Activities:

Groundhog’s Day: watched Mystery Science video: Can Animals Really Predict the Weather?

Valentine’s Day: watched Mystery Science video: Which Animal Has the Biggest Heart?

Penguins:

We started our learning about penguins by having students share their previous knowledge about penguins and then try to ask and answer more questions about them.

We started a KWL chart about Penguins. So far we have only filled in the “K” column, what we Know about penguins (or think we know) and the “W” column, what we wonder or want to know about penguins.

Ms. Hays, Campus Kindergarten Teacher

ahays@meridian.wednet.edu