Kindergarten News January 16th - January 20th

What we’re      

Workin’ on this week..

Language Arts / Social Studies

This week in LA we will continue reading fiction stories about winter and snow!  We will also continue our new literacy stations and begin working on our lowercase letter formations in our handwriting book.   Book Bags will come home on Monday, please read each night and then return the books and book bags on Friday!  We will be doing some middle of the year language arts assessments as well! Once we are done we will give you all the results! 

Math

Next week we will be working on learning attributes of 3D shapes. When we are looking at the shapes we are looking to identify the shape name, number of faces as well as number vertices! 

3D Shape name	Vertices (Where two or more sides meet)	Number of faces (flat or curved)
Sphere	0	1 Curved face
Cylinder	0	2 flat faces 1 curved face
Cube	8	6 flat faces
Cone	1	1 flat face 1 curved face

A reminder of the 2D shapes we have learned about in class this past week and their attributes! 

The vocabulary that we are learning this week is: 

Polygon	A closed figure with straight sides
Quadrilateral	Polygons with exactly 4 sides
Triangle △	Polygon with exactly 3 sides
Rectangle ▭	Polygon with 4 sides and 4 square corners (Two pairs of parallel lines)
Square ▢	Polygon with 4 sides and 4 square corners and all sides are the same length (Two pairs of parallel lines, all right angles and all sides are congruent) **A square is a special type of rectangle because it still has 4 sides and 4 square corners; it is special because all those sides are the same length
Circle ⃝	A closed figure with a curved side

Other vocabulary to know:

Extending your Learning at Home:

• Look around your house to see if you can find any of the shapes that we are studying about

 Click here to learn about 2D shapes!

Click here to learn about 3D shapes!

• Make a picture out of a given shape. Example: Draw a circle for your child and encourage them to create something from that circle--- a donut, a face, a ballon....  (Just make sure that the original shape given is in a different color!) 

(A ______ is just a _____ until you add a ____. Then it is a ____)

Science

We are going to start our study on penguins! We will be learning all about the different parts of penguins as well as about the different kinds of penguins! (Most kiddos do not know about the large variety of penguins that live in this world!) We will be doing research on all the types of penguins as well as having a few engineering opportunities during our studies! We cannot wait to tell you all that we learn as well as show you the things that we engineer!

Important Dates... 

January 16th- No school- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
February 14th- Class Valentine's Party
February 15th- Class Picture Day
February 16th- Engineering Extravaganza Night (@ TCE from 5:30-7:00)
February 20th- Student Holiday (No school- Presidents Day)
February 24th- Jump Rope For Heart (@1:20-2:10)

Texans of the week

K1-Olivia
K2- Varissa
K3- Shioban
k4- Quinn

K1- Shawn
K2- Alexander
K3- Ryko
K4- Jiya

Design Challenge!

Calling all engineers! We are looking to see who can build the tallest snowman using the list of given materials! Please click on the link below to read the directions as well as the rules! Happy designing! 

https://www.smore.com/kzb5h

Calling all cooks!! 
We are having a competition throughout the school to see how many different recipes each class and grade level can bring in! Kindergarten would love to win!!! If you have any great reciepes, please send them in to cwagner@coppellisd.com!