March16-20

Hello Families,
    Hopefully all of you are staying home and being cautious and safe.  We want to limit socializing with others at this moment.  This is the time to use our technology by face timing family and friends instead of getting together in groups.   As of now, the Kinder team as well as the Rio staff is figuring out how to help you at home to stay active, keep in a routine, and also have fun.  We will be coming up with an at-home program that you can follow and choose from several different activities for math, reading/language arts, science, social studies, and art.   But for now, you can do some things I added below.  If you need to get a hold of me, you can always email me.

This week, it is St. Patrick's Day on Tuesday.  This is my favorite holiday because my grandma was born in Ireland in County Kerry.  To honor St. Patrick's Day, you make a trap with your child and see if you can catch a Leprechaun.  Leprechauns love anything green.   

In Language Arts, you can practice your sight words.  New sight words: little, was
Review: (you can make a word wall at home)
a, at, and, an, be, can, come do, did, for, get, he, I, it, is, like, look, me, my, make, no, on, she, said,  we, you, go, in, have, will, play, this, that, has, had, one, with, jump, here, they

Also, depending on your level of reading and comprehension.  Somethings you can do to help with blending sounds into words.
  Start with easy c-v-c words   Like: cat, hat, cap, lap, lip, hit, met, hen, hop, hot, mug, hut
     (You can sound out and have them spell, you can give them word and have them sound out)
      (Then substitute: say CAT: take away C and change it to S now what do you have SAT)

After c-V-c  you can add blends: (CCVC)   e.g.  flat, grip, brat, spit, slip
 (use all the different short vowel sounds.)
After blends is long vowels with silent e (CVCe) e.g. bike, hike, fine, hide, hope, etc
After silent e words go to phonograms: ai, ay, oa, ea, ie, oi, oy,

Technology:
Lexia: You can always go on Lexia on our website. 
This is from the district: https://sites.google.com/pvusd.net/pvusdparentideas/home
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Math: 
Play games like uno, card games like who win (war), making a five that we played in math centers last week (pick a card if it is a five you keep it, if not keep the card face up until you can add the card to make a five like 2 and 3, 1 and 4, etc.  Then you can add subtraction, 7-2, etc.

Please practice counting to 100.  Many students couldn't count to 50 when I was assessing for report cards.  Also, practice writing the numbers correctly.  You can do it with shaving cream, soap suds, etc. 
You can also give a word problem.

A Leprechaun stole 15 gold coins from Mrs. Sandman's class.  On his way out the door Mrs. Werner took 3 gold coins and Mrs. Victory stole another 3.  How many coins did the Leprechaun get?

Science: www.scholastic.com You can go on scholastic.  I will have to look up our classroom code but I think right now everything is free to observe.  This is what I will be working on for you to use at home.

Have a great week,
Mrs. Sandman