Dear Families,
We have had another busy week in kindergarten. We began the week with our Great Giving STEAM Challenge. We read a book called “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”, a true story about William Kamkwamba who turned trash into a windmill to bring an electric water pump to his village of Malawi. Then our students brainstormed ideas for their own ways to turn trash into a gift that solves a problem for someone else. With the help of Mrs. Diaz’ fourth graders, our class came up with some great ideas. Please enjoy these pictures from our STEAM DAY.
In reading this week, we read books related to Thanksgiving. The students enjoyed listening to these books. One of their favorites was called “A Turkey for Thanksgiving” by Eve Bunting. The students enjoyed the surprise ending of this book. If you would like to listen to this book again, please click the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEnP0S7PEhA
In math, we learned about graphing. The students had fun learning about pictographs. Please click on the following youtube video to review pictographs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi7rDyIXwW0
Finally, in social studies we learned about Thanksgiving and why we celebrate this special holiday in the United States. We learned about how we celebrate Thanksgiving now and how the first Thanksgiving was celebrated many years ago. Please check out the pictures below of the turkeys we made to show what we are thankful for.
NEXT WEEK’S AGENDA:
Language Arts: K.8e s Retell stories sequentially using beginning, middle and ending
Poem: Mr.Turkey
Words: look, not
Phonemic Awareness: Heggerty
Essential Questions:
JR Module 8 Green Questions
What’s happening at the beginning of the story?
What happened in the middle of the story?
What happened at the end of the story?
Math: Graphing and Data
SOL :K.11 The student will
a) collect, organize, and represent data; and
b) read and interpret data in object graphs, picture graphs, and tables.
Vocabulary:data, graph, object graph, picture graph, table, greatest, least, same, category
Essential questions:
- What is data?
- What are some ways to represent data?
- Why represent data in a graph?
Social Studies: Thanksgiving
K.11 The student will develop an understanding of how communities express patriotism through events and symbols by
d) recognizing the holidays and people associated with Thanksgiving Day.
Essential Questions
- Why is Thanksgiving Day commemorated?
- What are some ways that communities commemorate Thanksgiving Day?
- Where was the first Thanksgiving held in Virginia? Who was there and why did they give thanks?
- Where was the first Thanksgiving held in Massachusetts? Who was there and why did they give thanks?
Vocabulary
- commemorate: to honor or preserve the memory of
- contribution: the act of giving of doing something to help others
- holiday: a day to honor or commemorate a special person or event
tradition: a way of doing something that has been used by people for a long time
Thanks to everyone who has signed up to send in items for our Thanksgiving Feast next Tuesday at 1:00 pm in our cafeteria. You may send in the items on Monday, November 25th if you would like. I hope to see many of you at our feast.
Also, I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. May you enjoy time with your families as you reflect on the many things that we are thankful for.
Warm regards,
Mrs. Smith 🙂