Reading in KG3B and KG3B’s students of the month

Every week we read books in KG3B. This week all our books where about pets. This week Nada and Hilal where also awarded Sudent of the Month, congratulations ladies! Please see underneath for pictures of KG3B reading and the Students of the Month. Please also see the overview of the topics we are going to study next week at the bottom of this page.  

The topics we are going to study next week: Language Arts: – Reading – Reading comprehension – Students will identify beginning – and ending sounds of words. – Students will blend the sounds in words. – Students will identify the number of sounds in a word. – Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. – Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). – When writing a sentence students will use a capital letter at the start of the sentence. – When writing a sentence students will leave space between the words. – When writing a sentence students will use a full stop at the end of the sentence. – Students will make a drawing about the sentence they wrote. – Students will identify the verb and noun in sentences. – Letter sounds (this week we focus on the letters ‘x’ and ‘v’) – Handwriting (this week we focus on the letters ‘x’ and ‘v’)

Math: – Students will use logical reasoning to solve problems. – Students will identify shapes in objects and use shapes to create new objects. – Students will identify, name, and describe cubes and spheres.

Science: – What are the seasons?

KG3B learns about recycling

 In Science Class KG3B has been learning about natural resources and recycling. After this we did some recycling ourselves by painting plastic bottles which can now be reused as flower pots. Please see underneath for some more photos and an overview of what we are going to study next week. 

What we are going to study next week: Language Arts: – Reading – Reading comprehension – Students will identify beginning – and ending sounds of words. – Students will blend the sounds in words. – Students will identify the number of sounds in a word. – Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. – Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). – When writing a sentence students will use a capital letter at the start of the sentence. – When writing a sentence students will leave space between the words. – When writing a sentence students will use a full stop at the end of the sentence. – Students will make a drawing about the sentence they wrote. – Students will identify the verb and noun in sentences. – Letter sounds (this week we focus on the letters ‘g’ and ‘w’) – Handwriting (this week we focus on the letters ‘g’ and ‘w’)

Math: – Students will compare shapes to understand patterns. – Describe objects using the names of shapes and their relative position. – Students will put shapes together to form new shapes.

Science: – How can we measure weather?

KG3B: Words of position and the new library

In KG3B we are learning about words of position in Math Class. See underneath pictures of KG3B demonstrating the word below. Please see underneath the pictures for an overview of the subjects we are going to cover next week. 

KG3B also went to the new Kindergarten Library during Library Time.  

 

Next week KG3B is going to study the following:

Language Arts:

– Reading

– Reading comprehension

– Students will identify beginning – and ending sounds of words.

– Students will blend the sounds in words.

– Students will identify the number of sounds in a word.

– Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.

– Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).

– When writing a sentence students will use a capital letter at the start of the sentence.

– When writing a sentence students will leave space between the words.

– When writing a sentence students will use a full stop at the end of the sentence.

– Students will make a drawing about the sentence they wrote.

– Students will identify the verb in sentences.

– Letter sounds handwriting(this week we focus on the letter ‘u‘)

Math:

– Students will identify, name, and describe squares and rectangles.

– Students will identify, name, and describe circles and triangles.

– Students will identify, name, and describe squares, triangles, circles and rectangles.

– Students will identify, name, and describe hexagons.

Science:

– What is weather?

KG3B: Happy Birthday Hilal! And painting dinosaurs.

Today it was Hilal’s birthday. She turned 6. Congratulations!

And this week we painted dinosaurs during Art Class. Please see underneath for pictures of this and the topics we will study next week.

Next week’s topics:

Language Arts:

– Reading

– Reading comprehension: key details & illustrations, key details & sequence

– phoneme isolation, blending, segmentation and addition

– Use correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing

– Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

– Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns (e.g., I, me, my; they, them, their; anyone, everything).

– Letter sounds (this week we focus on the letters ‘b’ and ‘l’)

– Handwriting (this week we focus on the letters ‘b’ and ‘l’)

– Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.

– Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).

Math:

– Students will use the words above and below to describe or place an object with respect to another object.

– Students will use the words in front of and behind to describe or place an object with respect to another object.

– Students will use the words next to and beside to describe or place an object with respect to another object.

– Students will act it out to solve problems.

Science:

– How do we use and conserve natural resources?

KG3B: Students of the month and Sports Day

Last week Zaid and Sheraz where awarded the Student of the Month Awards for the months December and January. Congratualations Zaid and Sheraz!

And on Thursday we had our Annual Sports Day. We had a lot of fun competing in the Red, Yellow and Green team.  

KG3B paints fishes

This week we painted paper plate fishes in Art Class. Please see these pictures some of our artists in action.   

KG3B plays in the sandpit and celebrates Hop’s birthday!

Tomorrow it will be Hop’s birthday! He will turn six and we celebrated this today in school. Congratulations Hop!

This week we also played in the sandpit!

And in Science class we learned about what the night sky looks like. After that we painted the night sky in Art class. 

KG3B: Happy Birthday Ahad and Zaid!

We started this semester with celebrating Ahad’s  birthday. Ahad turned 6 on the 13th of January. Congratulations Ahad!

And during the holiday, on the 7th of January, Zaid turned 6 also. Congratulations Zaid!

KG3B: Painting the flag of The Netherlands

In KG3B we are very busy preparing for International Day. Yesterday we painted some Dutch flags for our decoration on International Day. We found out that the Dutch flag looks a lot like an other flag we know very well, can you guess which one?

This is how we painted the Dutch flag:

You need some blue

 

Some red

 

An the middle is white 

 

Can you already guess which flag the Dutch flag is very similar to?

 

 

 

KG3B: Delftware plates, the KG3B collection!

At International Day KG3B is representing The Netherlands. As preparation for International Day KG3B made some more Delftware today. Delftware is a traditional hand painted Dutch earthenware.

KG3B proudly presents…. the KG3B Delftware collection! 14 Unique pieces all hand painted!