Our Academic Enrichment time is daily from 12:00-1:00pm. This time is specifically designed for our Kindergarten students to join together as a group to work and progress through the advanced materials and lessons in the Montessori primary curriculum. Throughout the school day in their classroom they are still working individually with their classroom teacher on these and other materials at their level.
Reading Group (Junior Great Book Program):
In March we will begin our focused reading groups for our kindergarten students. Kindergarten students are meeting with Ms. Kate on Monday and Wednesday mornings. Please review the information sent home. There will also be work sent home on Wednesdays and will need returned the following Monday for their next lesson.
2/29: Geometric Shapes and Constructive Boxes
- Handwriting Workshop with Ms. Kristen (practicing proper letter formation)
- Geometric Cabinet
- Hexagon, rectangle and blue rectangle boxes
- creating triangles, rhombus, trapezoid, parallelogram, squares, etc
3/07: Parts of Speech/ Grammar
- Handwriting Workshop with Ms. Kristen (practicing proper letter formation)
- Vowels, consonants and their rules
3/14: Parts of Speech/ Grammar
- Handwriting Workshop with Ms. Kristen (practicing proper letter formation)
- Introduction to nouns and their rules (name of a person, place, or thing)
- Introduction to verbs and their rules (action word or something you do)
- Vowels, consonants and their rules
- Using worksheets, diagramming sentences and sandpaper letters
3/21: Parts of Speech/ Grammar
- Handwriting Workshop with Ms. Kristen (practicing proper letter formation)
- Introduction to the article
- “the” hooks up with anything
- “a” or “an”/ “a” hooks up with only consonants, “an” hooks up with only vowels
- Using worksheets, diagramming sentences and sandpaper letters
3/28-4/1: SPRING BREAK (school resumes Monday, 4/4)
Sight Words of the Week: Try to find each word in books as you read to your child.
2/29: write, them
3/07: then, out
3/14: they, that
3/21: have, this
Synonyms of the Week: Try to find each word in books as you read to your child.
2/29: WET, damp, moist, soggy, drenched, soaked
3/07: HEALTHY, hearty, athletic, sound, strong, fit
3/14: SICK, weak, unhealthy, ailing, infected, frail
3/21: Mean, selfish, unkind, malicious, hurtful
Things to do at home this month to reinforce our themes:
- Look for our words of the week when reading a story, cut out pictures beginning with the letters of the week.
- Practice using the different synonyms of the week in a sentence together.
Mr. John will be sending homework home to reinforce these lessons. Please turn homework into the orange box outside of Mr. John’s classroom. Please email him if you have any questions: jkotradi@thesmarterkids.com.