Upcoming week:
Riggs:
We will begin our study of the 71 Riggs phonograms.
1. It will be OK!
2. You will learn along with your kindergartener.
3. correct letter formation and naming the phonogram is what Riggs homework is all about at this point in the year.
4. Click here for a beginner's guide to the phonograms (as explained by Mr. C).
Saxon 1 Math:
We will continue to learn mathematical concepts, including: _____.
Core Knowledge:
We will begin to learn about taking care of our bodies:
- Washing hands
- "Put your nose in your clothes if you cough or sneeze, please."
- Sleeping, exercising and playing, and eating lots of good food.
Life skill:
Washing hands correctly and thoroughly (taking care of our bodies).
Week in review:
Riggs:
We learned all of the letter strokes! We practiced holding hand holding paper, pencil grip, and paper tilted correctly for writing hand (lefty: tilt to right, righty, tilt to left), sitting like a scholar with feet flat on the floor and spine aligned. This is what homework should look like.
Small clock face; short straight line; tall straight line; tailed line; diagonal line, left to right; dashed line (floating above dotted midline); diagonal line, right to left. With all of these, we can form all 26 letters of the English alphabet, or as we call it at Cascade, all 71 phonograms! Woot!
Saxon 1 Math:
Lessons 7-10: Graphing pictures on a pictograph, interpreting a graph; identifying left and right; writing digits 0, 6, 8, and 9; ordering from smallest to largest, most and fewest, least and greatest; matching a number to a set; collecting and sorting data; constructing a bar graph to show data.
Kindergarteners were great graphers today! They rolled dice and graphed the number that came up. Some completed TWO graphs! All kindergarteners should know that a graph is a way to show math with pictures, and should be closer to identifying the patterns on dice and dominoes without counting individual dots.
With our study of the five senses this week, kindergarteners were scientists went out into the field to observe and draw what they saw, smelled, heard, and felt (we did NOT taste anything!).
Kindergarteners also used many senses to explore bags and film canisters of materials to determine their contents.
Other/Life skill:
We established a five-point noise scale in kindergarten, to help regulate sound and develop self control and awareness. Students are working on understanding that a lot of work inside is a 1, 2, or 3. We will stick with it. |
| This is a 5. It is an emergency. |
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| This is a 1 or 2. Shhhh! |
Friendly reminders and clarifications:
Please remember no cell phones in car line! Thanks! It's not only the law, but also what's best for our kids.
