Cataract Elementary

   This is our last full week of school.   I can't believe we are almost finished for the year.  I know that these last few months have been difficult for all of us.  Let's do our best work this last week to show all that you have learned and that you are ready for first grade.  This week is all about what you've learned this year.

Note to parents: Parents please keep practicing math, fluency to five, reading sight words, reading stories, writing simple stories using tap out the sounds to spell during summer.  It is very important to keep learning going on during the summer months. Read this article for ideas:  Summer Learning

Focus for the week:  What do children learn in Kindergarten?  Put your thinking cap on and remember way back to September    when you first came into Kindergarten.  

 Daily:    Listen to these Yy and  Qq  songs:   Yetta Yo-Yo   and  Queenie Queen                           

                                                        Monday 

                                                     Reading and Writing

Listen to the story The Three Little Pigs (version 1)  and then read a second version   The Three Little Pigs (version 2)

After listening to both stories, discuss with your child, what was the difference between both stories.  Have your child tell you the events in order of the first story.  Watch it again and have them retell the story events: beginning(what happened in the beginning), middle(what happened in the middle) and end(what happened in the end).

Activity:  Your child can draw, color and cut out the main characters of the story (the 3 pigs and the wolf).  Let them be creative and draw the houses (setting of the story)

         How to Draw a Simple Pig               How to Draw a Simple Wolf

Let your child retell the story as many times as they wish.  You do not have to hand in the retell characters and setting. Acting out a story is how young children learn comprehension.  So have fun with it!

                                     Math

Moby Max math 15 minutes of each of the three green math tabs

                                                                            Math

     1.Patterns with the Fuzz Bugs  

     2.Number chart game

                           Wednesday 

                                                        Reading and Writing

Read aloud the essential question:  What do children learn in Kindergarten?  Do not tell your child the answers, but rather ask this question everytime a story is read during the week.   Let your child self discover the answer based on their reading and listening.

Then, Listen to this story Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the Last Day of Kindergarten

Activity:  After listening to the story, ask your child, 

 1. Think about all the things you learned about this year in Kindergarten

     List of things I learned in Kindergarten:

                                       be nice to eachother

                                       follow classroom rules

                                       help your classmates

                                       come to the rug, sit crisscross, and listen to the story

                                       raise your hand

                                       share

                                       walk in the halls

                                       numbers

                                       letter names and sounds

                                       counting, making groups of numbers

                                       measuring

                                       reading sight words

                                       adding and subtracting

                                       counting to 100

                                       writing sentences

                                       taping out words

                                       weather and calendar

                                       clean-up

1.  Wow! I know there is more... can you add more to my list?   What can you add to my list? Talk over what you enjoyed with your parents in Kindergarten this year.

2.    What is the most important thing you could tell a new kindergartener that is important to help them in Kindergarten next year?  Have your mom or dad send me a message on REMIND to tell me what you think is important.  I will share this in September with the new kindergarten students.  

                                          Math

1.Fuzz bugs: Counting, sorting and comparing

2. First to Five

                            Thursday 

-                                                                                 Reading and Writing

1.  Have your child read this story:    My School   at least 2 times

2.  Work in Smarty Ants for 30 minutes.

                                       Math

 Moby Max math 15 minutes of each of the three green math tabs

                                                                Friday 

                                                              Reading and Writing

1. Have your child read these leveled books at least 2 times each

                             Riding to School and Lots of Helpers

 2. Listen to the   Alphafriends Alphabet song

 3. Work in Smaryt Ants for 30 minutes. 

                                           Math

 1.Molly Adds and Subtracts to 10

 2.Adventure Man Count