Alphabet: Students will name the letter Dd and know the beginning sound of the letter Dd. They will identify and name capital and lower case Dd.
Review the following letters: Ll, Oo, Ii, Gg , Hh ,Tt, Pp , Aa, Nn, Mm, Ss, Ff, Rr, Kk, Uu, Zz, Cc, Ee, Yy. Words the students might recognize: log, hog, hot, pot, hat, pat, nat, mat, mop, hit, pit, sit, sap, rat, ran, kit, bat, big, kit, up, pup, hut, zip, zoo, cat, cot. bet, let, pet, set, beg, leg, peg, yak, yam, dog, dig, dug

Reading Basic Skills required during the 3rd Quarter: At the bottom of the page!

Colors: Students should name and identifying the following colors: red, yellow, green, blue, purple, orange, black, blue & brown. The students will be learning to say the color words in Spanish along with English.
 

Science: Life Cycles
Life Cycles: Teacher Sites: Links
Monday and Tuesday
Collaborative Project: Square Of Life
Introduction to the Square of Life.
Our class will discuss and list our 10 indoor and outdoor things that make us unique. We will input our information on the Square of Life Web Site.
 

Monday: Dog/Frog We will read the book, My Puppy is Born TSW discuss puppies life cycle TSW list the sequence on the white board Zoom: Dog  Frog We will read the book, The Diary of a Tadpole (Rigby),  followed by discussion and sequencing with picture cards of the life cycle. The students will color a paper with the four stages of the life cycle of a frog and cut and glue them in sequence order. Activity:  SW color the stages of the frog's live cycle.  SW arrange and glue the live cycle in the correct order Craft: Materials: Ditto of frog (his body with front legs attached, hind legs), 2 brads, scissors, colors SW color the frog SW cut the frog and hind legs out SW brad the hind legs to the body, they will move/jump Frog Land Zoom: Frog A Thousand Friends of Frogs Frog Crafts Frog Lessons Frog Eggs: Order two weeks prior Frog Anatomy

Tuesday:  Frog We will read the book, The Diary of a Tadpole (Rigby),  followed by discussion and sequencing with picture cards of the life cycle. The students will color a paper with the four stages of the life cycle of a frog and cut and glue them in sequence order. Activity:  SW color the stages of the frog's live cycle.  SW arrange and glue the live cycle in the correct order Craft: Materials: Ditto of frog (his body with front legs attached, hind legs), 2 brads, scissors, colors SW color the frog SW cut the frog and hind legs out SW brad the hind legs to the body, they will move/jump

Wednesday: Introduce Rocks Kindergarten Kapers: Rocks "Omah Day"  Omah likes to discuss what rocks mean to her with the students. She then gives information on rock formation and erosion. This is usually a new concept for our kindergarten students. We list all the things we know rocks are used for. Link: Uses of Rocks Omah gives each student a polished rock. She has each child pick their rock out individually.  Literature Study: Read and discuss If  You Find a Rock by Peggy Christian  .  Objectives:  Students will get to know their own rock by observing it carefully.  Students will think of as many descriptive words as they can to describe their rock, while the teacher writes them on the white board.  Students will weigh rocks on a balance to find the order of the rocks by weight. (Lesson link)  2M-R1  3SC-R2  1SC-R3

Thursday: Field Day

Friday:

Arizona State Standards   1SC-R2, 7 3SC-R1 4SC-R1, 2

Math: We will introduce addition 0 - 5 this week.
Review: Continue to count orally 1-30 and up, continue to do patterning & sort and classify. Students will use real objects to act as counters to act out story problems.  We will continue graphing using terms such as: fewer, greater than, less than and most. . Shapes: Review things at home that have a rectangle, square, triangle, circle, oval and diamond shape. Money:  The students will identify and name a penny, nickel, dime and quarter.
Numerals: The students will learn to identify the numerals 0 -11 We will continue writing our numerals, 0 -11. Please help your child to continue identifying 0-11.
Counting: Students will need to count to 30 or higher before leaving kindergarten.

Math Basic Skills required during the 3rd Quarter: listed at the bottom of the page!!

Language Arts Basic Skills required during the 3rd Quarter: listed at the bottom of the page!!

Computers: (Friday) The students will review the program Microsoft Power Point. In the Power Point Program the students will be using the drawing tool, auto shape and  line drawing tools.
The lesson: We are working on drawing a Butterfly at this time.
REVIEW
Power Point: Drawing

• reviewing usage of the mouse, right and left click
• reviewing the cursor moving around the screen
• reviewing click and drag
• coloring the shapes on screen
• making the shapes larger and smaller
• move the shapes around the screen
• We have the line tool on a toolbar at the bottom of the monitor.
• creating bold lines/changing line color
• using different colored textures
• copy and paste

Reading Basic Skills required during the 3rd Quarter: At the bottom of the page!

Colors: Students should name and identifying the following colors: red, yellow, green, blue, purple, orange, black, blue & brown. The students will be learning to say the color words in Spanish along with English.
 

Science: Rocks

Monday and Tuesday
Collaborative Project: Square Of Life
Introduction to the Square of Life.
We will pick out our plots for our square of life. We will make our first visit. Each student will draw their square, the sticks, grass, trash, etc.
 

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday: RIF All students will come to school in the morning. Parents are welcome. Our RIF program will be held in the gym at 9:00 A.M. and all students will go home on the bus at 10 A.M. without a school lunch.

Thursday:

Friday: Rocks Counting Objects. Objective: The Students will use manipulative to count, order and group.  Objective: The Students will develop an understanding of number meaning and relationships.  1M-R3  1M-R1  2M-R1  We will take the students on a walk. The students are told to pick up 10 rocks. After the students return to the room, we sit in a large circle. The students are given individual graphs. They will place their rocks on a graph that has columns of five squares. The students are told to place their rocks on the graph in one column only, one rock per square. They can check their counting and see if they picked the right number of rocks. We then review attributes from the day before.  The students are asked to arrange their rocks by different attributes. Each student takes turns explaining the reasons why they arranged their rocks in their own individual way.  Literature Study: Roxaboxen  Arts and Crafts:  Materials:  8 by 11 inch tag board  small lima beans  pre-cut ocotillos with flaps to glue on tag board  premed small brown boxes  pre made little people with flaps to glue on tag board  The students will create a town using small lima beans to represent the rocks in the story. They will glue the beans, boxes and ocotillos on their tag board creating their own town.

Arizona State Standards   1SC-R2, 7 3SC-R1 4SC-R1, 2

Math: We will introduce addition 0 - 5 this week.
Review: Continue to count orally 1-30 and up, continue to do patterning & sort and classify. Students will use real objects to act as counters to act out story problems.  We will continue graphing using terms such as: fewer, greater than, less than and most. . Shapes: Review things at home that have a rectangle, square, triangle, circle, oval and diamond shape. Money:  The students will identify and name a penny, nickel, dime and quarter.
Numerals: The students will learn to identify the numerals 0 -11 We will continue writing our numerals, 0 -11. Please help your child to continue identifying 0-11.
Counting: Students will need to count to 30 or higher before leaving kindergarten.

Math Basic Skills required during the 3rd Quarter: listed at the bottom of the page!!

Language Arts Basic Skills required during the 3rd Quarter: listed at the bottom of the page!!
March Song:

Computers: (Friday) The students will review the program Microsoft Power Point. In the Power Point Program the students will be using the drawing tool, auto shape and  line drawing tools.
The lesson: We are working on drawing a Pet Rock at this time.
REVIEW
Power Point: Drawing

• reviewing usage of the mouse, right and left click
• reviewing the cursor moving around the screen
• reviewing click and drag
• coloring the shapes on screen
• making the shapes larger and smaller
• move the shapes around the screen
• We have the line tool on a toolbar at the bottom of the monitor.
• creating bold lines/changing line color
• using different colored textures
• copy and paste

• Weekly Review September thru January

 

Reading Readiness Sites: Beginning Reading: Use for reinforcement practice: Free Work Sheets* Reading Basic Skills Describe a picture using complete sentences Identify final consonants in words (ending sounds) Retell and sequence a story

Math Sites: The Magic Math Resource: K-3: Creative Ways to teach Math Concepts The Math Fact Cafe: Free Math Pages Math Net: Numeracy: Kindergarten Marshmallow Math: Lesson Math Basic Skills Match patterns of the same color, shape, size and number Recognize penny, nickel, dime and quarter Find the sums for addition facts 0-5, using concrete materials Use concrete materials to create a pattern, then draw that pattern Recognize and use time concepts: yesterday, today, tomorrow, earlier and later Recognize that the number of objects in a group is changed by adding to the group Identify first, last, more than, greater than and less than

Language Arts Basic Skills Speak in complete sentences; make a relevant statement Give clear directions to a familiar place Copy the letters of the alphabet in sequence Recite from memory the days of the week and the months of the year in sequence Print their full name Demonstrate oral recitation skills by reciting nursery rhymes or short poems

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