Kindergarten MP3 Campus
Monthly Progress
Monthly Progress is due April 1st
Language Arts
Topics:
Letters, Sounds, Sight words, Writing, Spring Season, Dr. Seuss, Penguins, Eggs
Letters: D,d, H,h, E,e
Sight words: of, they, have, that
Activities:
Letters/Sounds/Sight Words: We have practiced letters, sounds and sight words through worksheets, activities, reading poems, stories, and discussions. Students are practicing writing letters with correct formation on white boards and paper. Please continue to be working on this at home.
Writing: Our focus in writing continues to be starting our writing with a capital letter, and leaving spaces between our words. Students are doing so well at sounding out new words on their own. We practice sounding out words with “labeling” activities where students label different things in a picture and then work to write a sentence about something in the picture.
Penguins: We have read many books, both fiction and non-fiction, about penguins. Students created penguin art and worked hard to write 2 sentences about their penguin. We labeled the parts of penguins as a class, as well as individually. We continued filling out our penguin KWL chart about all of the things we wondered and learned about penguins throughout this unit. They also measured and compared their height to that of an Emperor Penguin (can be 4 ft tall).
Dr. Seuss: March 4 was Read Across America Day, and Dr. Seuss’s birthday. We read some Dr. Seuss stories, made Cat in the Hat hats, practiced rhyming, and made “oobleck”!
Spring: Students read spring stories, talked about differences between winter and spring, and did a journal write about spring. They also created some spring artwork including paper birds and Easter cards.
Some of the stories we have shared include: Bartholomew and the Oobleck, Cat in the Hat, The Penguin with Rainbow Hair: Spike, Ricky the Rock that Just Couldn't Rhyme, The Penguin Cha-Cha, Lacey Walker Non-Stop Talker, The Emperors Egg, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, Penguin and the Cupcake, A Pet for Fly Guy, Penguins Big Adventure, Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp, Mean Jean the Recess Queen, Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms, Catalina Magdalina Hoopensteiner Walendiner Hogan Logan Bogan Was Her Name, Don't Let the Pigeon Ride the Bus, Ready For Takeoff, and I am Spring.
We also had a March Madness Book Tournament this month. We read 16 different stories, voted on our favorites along the way and came up with a winning book in the end. The winning book ended up being Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp.
Social Studies
Topics:
Women’s History Month: Jane Goodall
Activities:
We watched videos and had discussions about famous women Jane Goodall, as well as a few other famous women in our history. We did some writing inspired by her by writing about what animals we would want to research and help.
Mystery Science Video: How do scientists learn about wild animals?
Science
Topics:
Jane Goodall, Oobleck, Penguins, Spring,
Activities:
Jane Goodall: When learning about Jane Goodall, students watched a Mystery Science Video: How do scientists learn about wild animals? This taught us how Jane Goodall observed chimpanzees, along with other ways scientists are able to learn about animals in the wild. (cameras, robots…). We wrote in our journals about what animals we would like to help and why.
Oobleck: March 2nd was Read Across America Day and Dr. Seuss’s Birthday. We read Bartholomew and the Oobleck and then explored with oobleck (corn starch and water). We found it seemed to be both a liquid and a solid!
Penguins: We have read many books, both fiction and non-fiction, about penguins and watched a Mystery Science Video: Why do penguins have wings if they can’t fly? Students created penguin art and wrote 2 sentences about penguins. We filled in a penguin KWL chart and they labeled the parts of the penguin, both as a class and individually.
They also measured and compared their height to that of an Emperor Penguin (can be 4 ft tall).
Spring: Students read spring stories, talked about differences between winter and spring, and did a journal write about spring. They also created some spring artwork including paper birds and Easter cards.
Ms. Hays, Campus Kindergarten Teacher