Kindergarten News: January 9th- January 13th

What we’re      

Workin’ on this week..

Language Arts / Social Studies

This week in LA we will be reading fiction stories about winter and snow! (That is so appropriate for today, I don't know about Tuesday though! :) )  We will also be going to some new literacy stations and learning two more word wall words:  "for" and "me."  We have been practicing and reviewing the 20 Word Wall Words that we have already learned too!  This week we will also get started on learning and practicing our lowercase letter formations!  Book Bags will come home on Monday, please read each night and then return the books and book bags on Friday!

Math

Next week we will be working on learning attributes of 2D shapes. When we are looking at the shapes we are looking to identify the shape name, number of sides as well as number corners /vertices! 

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 watch a 2D shape video!

• 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!) 

Science

We start our study on weather, especially winter weather! We will be looking at different patterns in the weather that we see in the different seasons as well as making a cool career connection to a meteorologist!  How cool is it that we actually got to see some winter weather today?!?!?

Check us out making it "snow" in our room!

Important Dates... 

January 6th- Spirit Rally (@ 8:15)
January 12th- Skate Night (6:30-8:30) at Interskate
January 16th- No school- Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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!