Kindergarten February 2019 Readers Workshop
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Kindergarten February 2019 Readers Workshop In this unit, “Bigger Books, Bigger Reading Muscles” Kindergarten students will be reading fictional stories that are more challenging. They will pay particular attention to patterns in their stories. These patterns will help students read more smoothly and better understand the books they are reading. Students will learn strategies to figure out unknown words: first by using the initial letter, then by using beginning consonant clusters (blends and digraphs), and by using ending sounds. This unit will focus in on the comprehension of texts. Students will learn to ask and answer questions about what they are reading. The priority standards that will be addressed during this unit are: • Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). • With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. • With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. • With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. Writers Workshop In this unit, “How-to Books: Writing to Teach Others”, Kindergarten students will write informative books that will teach the reader the process of how to do something. They will add detailed information to their writing by labeling their diagrams. At the end of this unit, students will publish their story and celebrate their writing by sharing it with their classmates. The priority standards that will be addressed during this unit are: • Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. • With support, respond to questions from peers to add details to strengthen writing as needed. In the Go Math program, Kindergarten students will be reading and writing numbers to 20. They will learn to count forwards to 20 and then back to 0. They will also learn how to compare and order numbers to 20. Towards the end of the month students will begin counting past 21. They will even count to 100 using a 100s chart. The priority standards that will be addressed during this unit are: • K.CC.A.3 Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0–20 • K.NBT.A.1 Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 18 =10 + 8); understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.
Transcript of Kindergarten February 2019 Readers Workshop
Kindergarten February 2019 Readers Workshop
In this unit, “Bigger Books, Bigger Reading Muscles” Kindergarten students will be reading fictional stories that are more challenging. They will pay particular attention to patterns in their stories. These patterns will help students read more smoothly and better understand the books they are reading. Students will learn strategies to figure out unknown words: first by using the initial letter, then by using beginning consonant clusters (blends and digraphs), and by using ending sounds. This unit will focus in on the comprehension of texts. Students will learn to ask and answer questions about what they are reading. The priority standards that will be addressed during this unit are:
• Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). • With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. • With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. • With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Writers Workshop In this unit, “How-to Books: Writing to Teach Others”, Kindergarten students will write informative books that will teach the reader the process of how to do something. They will add detailed information to their writing by labeling their diagrams. At the end of this unit, students will publish their story and celebrate their writing by sharing it with their classmates. The priority standards that will be addressed during this unit are:
• Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
• With support, respond to questions from peers to add details to strengthen writing as needed.
In the Go Math program, Kindergarten students will be reading and writing numbers to 20. They will learn to count forwards to 20 and then back to 0. They will also learn how to compare and order numbers to 20. Towards the end of the month students will begin counting past 21. They will even count to 100 using a 100s chart. The priority standards that will be addressed during this unit are:
• K.CC.A.3
Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0–20 • K.NBT.A.1
Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 18 =10 + 8); understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.
Kindergarten students will be learning about the needs of plants and animals. In this unit, students are learning about what plants and animals need to live and grow in their environments. They will be investigating and gathering evidence to determine if plants need light to grow.
In this unit: My School and School Community, students will be learning about the essential question: “What does it mean to be a member of a school community?” Students will learn that all people share similarities and differences and these differences make us special, or unique. Students will learn that children and adults have rights and responsibilities at home, at school, in the classroom, and in the community.
Important Dates Feb. 11th -15th - Respect For All Week Feb. 26th - Student of the Month Family Friday Feb. 1st – Pre-K and Kindergarten Feb. 8th - 1st grade Feb. 15 – 2nd and 3rd grade
Student of the Month Congratulations to our students of the month. Their accomplishments were
celebrated during an assembly in January. Pre K Pk-142 Charles Ren Pk-143 Miwang Phuntsok Pk-145 Nadia Ilis Grade K K-138 Ayaan Alam K-130 Gabriel Manus K-119 Maria Villatoro K-127 Samantha Cajamarca K-140 Devin Perez K-243 Al Rifat Hossain K-128 Aman Alam K-245 Tania Velasquez K-251 Sherap Tashi K-249 Lexi Jumarito K-241 Justin Lin K-134 Jovano Andrea
Grade 1 1-125 Aaron Engka 1-229 Arisha Khanam 1-231 Alexander Tito 1-326 Kaylee Portillo 1-220 Jason Lin 1-247 Ahnaf Habib 1-227 Mahir Ridwan 1-222 Lilia Li 1-238 Adib Nur
Grade 2 2-335 Rhania Jongoy 2-319 Joshua Talento 2-327 Ambreena Ayub 2-337 Matthew Tang 2-340 Yulin Wu 2-341 Julieric Xicotencatl 2-318 Natalie Udomsilp 2-336 Fabio Moldez
Grade 3 3-48 Rubina Sardar 3-416 Dylan Zamorano 3-417 YanFei Huang 3-430 Brenda Frane 3-429 Amber Zou 3-415 Marilyn Rubinos 3-423 Judy Ma 3-410 Simon Karmacharya 3-412 Marlin Quishpi
Student of the Month
