Mrs. Bernal's Kindergarten Classroom

  What we learn this week! Spalding:  Students finished 100 spelling cumulative tests! This is an outstanding effort from kindergarten. You should be proud of your child. A tricky part of this test is that students need to remember and write the markings. I am so proud of the students! Great effort! Reading reminders: We are wrapping the reading levels and sight words now. We will report the numbers to administration with what students were able to accomplish this week. Also, we will report the numbers to the first-grade teachers to continue the reading process in first grade. Literature:   This week, we read “The Grasshopper on the Road” chapter book. This is the last literature book we will read in kindergarten. All week, students worked on their reading comprehension packet, and discussed the story elements. Math:  We continued with our review on all the numbers from 1 to 100. We counted from any number to 100, we found patterns in numbers, identified, read, wrote, and or

  What we learn this week! Spalding:  Students worked on their cumulative spelling test all week. The test will continue next week. We assess 10 words per day. Students used their pink notebook to write their new spelling words/sight words ( bird, cool, earth ). Reading reminders: Your child should read to an adult as daily homework. Practice sight words as daily homework. Assessments on Wednesdays. Minimal goal by the end of fourth quarter, master 100 sight words, but the sky is the limit! Students will grow confidence for first grade when they master the sight words. Literature:   This week we continued the reading of “Mouse Tales” book. Also, we read “The Jolly Postman”, and practiced how to write a letter. By Friday, students reviewed the saying “Practices makes perfect”. Math:  We reviewed how to count to 40 from any number, count by tens to 100, and count or recognize all the numbers from 1 to 100. Science: We are still in our insect’s unit. We discussed facts a

  What we learn this week! Spalding:  This week we finish the 55 phonograms cumulative test. Students will start their Spelling cumulative test with all the spelling words learned in kindergarten. Spelling words will include the markings. Students used their pink notebook to write their new spelling words/sight words ( ice, play, see, sea ). Reading reminders: Your child should read to an adult as daily homework. Practice sight words as daily homework. Assessments on Wednesdays. Minimal goal by the end of fourth quarter, master 100 sight words, but the sky is the limit! Students will grow confidence for first grade when they master the sight words. Literature:   For literature this week we read “Mouse Tales” book. Students are enjoying reading chapter books as a whole group and reading to themselves. All week we worked with a reading comprehension packet to discuss each chapter. Math:  With a new math unit, students are counting numbers to 40, in order, and from any numb