Academics
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This page will be where you can find out what letters/sounds and words your child is going to be learning each month and per "quarter" of school what your child is going to be learning in each subject area.
**Until we finish getting Quarter One's information up and running...**
**Here are some things to keep you busy this Septebember!**
**The first thing to master is being able to identify the letters and their sounds for all 26 upper case and lower case letters.**
**Practice and master writing all 26 upper case and lower case letters correctly and neatly.**
**Practice and master reading and writing their own name (first name and then last name).**
**Click here for our Kindergarten Word list to practice if your child is ready.**
**Click here for Quarter 1 Sight Word cards that you can print off, cut up, and read for practice.**
**Practice and master identifying numbers from 0-20.**
**Practice and master writing numbers from 0-20.**
**Practice counting and making sets of objects to 20 or beyond.**
**Read TO or WITH your child each and every day for at least 15 minutes.**
September Letters and Sounds:
E, T, H, C, O, Q, G, N, M, S, D, P, B, R, K, L, U, V, W
September Words:
September 5-9: I, a, like
September 12-16: the, to
September 19-23: an, can, see, red, blue, yellow
September 26-30: and, up, for, or, green, purple, orange
September Reading:
*Fiction vs. Non Fiction
*Non Fiction Text Features
*retelling
*reading strategies: using picture clues, decoding or stretching out words
*community helpers
September Writing:
We will be working on…
*writing a complete sentence.
*capitalizing the first letter of a sentence and the first letter of pronoun words.
*ending our sentences with correct punctuation.
*using spacing between our words.
*utilizing the word wall.
*stretching out words.
*illustrating a detailed matching picture to our story and labeling the objects in our picture.
*writing about what we want to be when we grow up.
September Math:
We will be working...
*on subitizing the numbers on a dice.
*on recognizing the penny and nickel.
*on counting to 50 by ones and tens.
*with a number line and tens frame.
*on reading, writing, and recognizing numbers to 10.
*on counting forwards and backwards to 10.
*on solving addition and subtraction problems.
September Science/Social Studies:
*Making Observations ~ Students will look closely with a hand lens.
*The 5 Senses
*Investigations and Making Predictions/Observations
*Systems ~ Students will observe and describe wether from day to day and over seasons. Students will demonstrate and identify how to use a thermometer and a windsock. Students will also be introduced to all the the seasons as a system or "cycle" and learn the characteristics for each season.
*Students will identify Christopher Columbus and why he is a famous historical figure.
*Students will identify community helpers and the tool "systems" that help them do their job. Students will also explain why community helpers need jobs. Students will use the decision making process to decide on a career they would like to do when they grow up and students will share with their friends.
*We will be having a Career Day too!
*Students will learn how their name is a system as well that must have it's "parts" or letters in the correct order and must have all of them in order for them to do their job.
*Students will identify technology systems in the home and at school.
*Students will explore and observe interactions between magnets and various objects in the classroom. Students will begin to develop an awareness of magnetic attraction and force. Students will also apply what they have learned to explore how magnets make things move.
*Students will then explore, observe, and describe examples of how many other objects move.