Counting down the days to summer

We continue to countdown the days to summer! This week we celebrated by wearing hats, wearing our clothes inside out, sharing jokes with our friends, watching a kids choice movie (minions) and eating a lollipop!

Here is what we focused on this week

Phonics

Our word family sounds of the week:  -um word family

Sounds we know: s, a, t, i, p, n, ck, e, h, r, m, d, g, o, u, l, f, b, j, ai, oa, ie, ee, or, z, w, v. y, x, oo, OO, ch, sh, ng, th, qu, ou, oi, ue, er, ar

Words Families we know: at, an, am, ap, ad, et, en, ed, it, in, ig, ip, ot, op, ob, og

Popcorn Words

This week we learned:  blue, yellow, red (we only have 5 words left!)

Words we know: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, at, on, we, me, am, did, not, is, can, but, to, too. little, and, yes, go, no, so,  the, you, down, he, she, be, our, here, out, get, help, now, look, good, jump, will, have, must, one ,two, three, four, nine, said, this that new, soon, went, come, do, all, there, who, what, where, say, away, play, they,eat, please, want, with, came, make, ate, ride, was, saw, are, well, pretty, funny, under, find

Reading 
This week in reading we focused on features of fiction and non fiction texts while reading books about Elephants. We specifically read the book National Geographics Elephants in which we learned about Mali Elephants. We learned facts such as their trunks are used like our noses and fingers, they are herbivores (plant eaters) and travel in herds. Then we read the book Elmer the Elephant by David Mckee and discussed how we are unique in many different ways just like the elephant in the story. 

Math

In math we have continued practicing adding and subtracting. In our centers we practiced ancient addition (dinosaurs). We had to put together puzzle pieces to find the correct answers to the problems. We also read number  sentences and decided if they were true or false statements. We used snap cubes, dominoes, and ten sticks to help us count. With our partners we played a game helping us build numbers from 11-100! Last week we played this game exchanging pennies and dimes, this week we made our own counters using pipe cleaners and beads to play. In addition to operations and algebraic thinking problems we are working on counting on from any given number (between 1 & 100)

Important Reminders

ABC Countdown- Calendar was sent home with the students for each days theme

Next week:
Monday- Music Day
Tuesday- Neon Day
Wednesday- Occupation Day
Thursday- Partner and Puzzle Day
Friday- Quiet Day

May 26th- Kindergarten Musical in the evening

May 30th- No School

May 31st- Zoo Field Trip