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March: What is Kindergarten is studying?
ELA: Unit of Study: Polar Bears and Penguins
Essential Question: How do animals adapt to their physical environment?
Big Idea: Students understand that animals grow and change over time.
Resources
What Comes First? (MONDO)
MONDO Focus:
- Students will be reading fiction and nonfiction texts.
- Students will be learning how to make predictions, make simple inferences, identify main idea, and retell a story.
Writing: Opinion Writing
- Students will use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic and state an opinion or preference about the topic.
Go Math!:
Chapter 5: Students will explore subtraction.
- Use expressions to represent subtraction
- Solve problems by using the strategy act it out and draw a picture
- Use objects and drawings to solve subtraction word problems
- Solve subtraction word problems and record the equation
Chapter 6: Students will explore subtraction as taking away and taking apart.
- Use expressions to represent subtraction
- Solve problems by using the strategy act it out and draw a picture
- Use objects and drawings to solve subtraction word problems
- Solve subtraction word problems and record the equation
Common Core Learning Standards:
K.OA.A.1 - Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
K.OA.A.2 - Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.
K.OA.A.3 - Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.
K.OA.A.4 - Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1).
K.OA.A.5 - Fluently add and subtract within 5.
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Kindergarten Homework, what to expect?
Homework is a crucial part of your child's active learning process and essential to their academic progress. Please make sure that all homework is completed daily.- Please remember, you are there to support your child's learning, but homework needs to be completed by your child.
- Please sign your child's homework daily.
Kindergarten homework is as follows:Letter(s) of the Week: Please complete the assigned letter worksheets and review the letter(s) of the week with your child daily.Math sheet: Please complete the assigned Math worksheets. Practice counting, recognizing, and writing numbers up to 5.Reading: Your child should be reading every day for 10-15 minutes. You may read to your child, your child may read to you, or you can read together. Please make sure to discuss what is happening/happened in the story with your child to ensure that they are understanding what is being read.The following Homework Rubric will be introduced this month:4: My work is complete, correct, and neat. I also did extra work.
3: My work is complete, correct, and neat.
2: My work is incomplete, incorrect, and/or needs to be neater.
1: My work is not done.