Reminders:
- Field Trip Monday! We will enjoy the musical performance of Click Clack Moo!
- If you have Tiny Owl gift card fundraisers please send them in!
- Our FIFTIES celebration is Friday! This is such an exciting time. I love to see how they all come in dressed for our 50th day celebration! Please see the notice that was sent home on Friday! We have cups, spoons and gum! (THANK YOU OLIVIA'S FAMILY)
- Our Thanksgiving Play will be Wednesday November 25th at 2:00 in our classroom. It is very short and the children may be dismissed afterwards.
- Turkey Trot is Wednesday! Dress appropriately! Kindergarten students are asked to bring in NONPERISHABLE dinner rolls, bread or muffin mix
MATH: This week we will continue our exploration of numbers 0-10 using games like SHAKE AND SPILL as well as an important math tool the REKENREK!
The rekenrek, or arithmetic rack, was designed by Adrian Treffers, a mathematics curriculum researcher at the Freudenthal Institute in Holland, to support the natural development of number sense in children.
Smaller versions consist of two rows of 10 beads. Larger versions with ten rows of ten beads are also available. Each row is made of five red beads and five white beads. This allows students to make mental images of numbers. Using 5 and 10 as anchors for counting, adding and subtracting is obviously more efficient than one-by-one counting. This tool provides learners with the visual models they need to discover number relationships and develop a variety of addition and subtraction strategies, including doubles plus or minus one, making tens, and compensation, thereby leading to automaticity of basic facts.
Smaller versions consist of two rows of 10 beads. Larger versions with ten rows of ten beads are also available. Each row is made of five red beads and five white beads. This allows students to make mental images of numbers. Using 5 and 10 as anchors for counting, adding and subtracting is obviously more efficient than one-by-one counting. This tool provides learners with the visual models they need to discover number relationships and develop a variety of addition and subtraction strategies, including doubles plus or minus one, making tens, and compensation, thereby leading to automaticity of basic facts.
Reading: This week we will be enjoying many Thanksgiving themed picture books as well as some non-fiction literature.
Letters; D, dog, /d/, S, snake, /s/
Sight Words: on
Sight Word Reader: They Are On (we were not able to introduce the story on Monday but it did go home. So your child may need some help with it if you read it MONDAY night. )
Writing:
Lesson 25 Sharing your writing with a friend
Lesson 26 Responding to Writing
Lesson 27 Publishing your writing
Our star of the week this week is Bidhyan! Your friends in the Huard Huddle are so proud of you!
We will not have a star next week due to the short week!
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