March 31st to April 4th

                        Kindergarten News-   March 31^st-April 4th

 

This week we will be working on the letter Qq and its sound as in queen and quarter.  Review identifying and writing letters learned.  Also practice blending letters in three, four, and five letter words.  We will have Show & Tell on Friday as usual

 

v  To go along with our letter Qq, we will have  “ Queen for a day” on Friday. The girls get to wear crowns and the boys will do nice things for them all day.

 

 

v  The theme this week will be “spring”.

 

v  For Reading we will be reading “ If You go to Antarctica” .  It is an informational text, and the comprehension skills that we will be concentrating on are classifying and categorizing..  The social studies aspect covered in this book is exploring all different forms of physical characteristics of places..

 

v  In Math we are finishing up Topic 9 and beginning topic 10. 

 

 

v  Kindergarten graduation pictures will be taken in the morning of Thursday, April 3rd.  Envelopes were sent home with portrait package information.  If interested in purchasing pictures then please return the money before or on the day of pictures. **Each child will be photographed as part of a class photo even if a package is not purchased, so please plan on your child wearing a WHITE COLLARED SHIRT and girls, no hairstyles on top of your heads because you will be wearing graduation caps and gowns! 

v  Report card testing will continue next week.

 

We had a wonderful time on our treasure hunt and the children found their treasure by following clues which took us all around the building.

 

 

 

FYI:

Kindergarten graduation pictures- April 3rd.

May 28th- Fieldtrip to Lokie

May 20^th-Evening graduation

 

If you interested in going to help chaperone the fieldtrip and you are a homeroom parent with all of the necessary requirement met, please let me know as soon as possible.

 

 

Monday, March 31st is Day 1B—we will begin the week with art class.

March 17th -21st 2014

Kindergarten News

 This week we will be learning the letter Xx as in fox and x-ray.  Students will go on a treasure hunt throughout the building to find the “X” that marks the spot of their hidden treasure!  How exciting!!!  There will be NO Show and Tell.

 

          In Reading we will begin the story, One Little Mouse by Dori Chaconas.  We ended up not getting to it this week.  The genre is rhyming, and we will focus on the comprehension skill cause and effect.  This week we will review the /l/ sound and connect it with the letter Ll.

 

          Monday, we will be continuing with learning about decomposing numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way.

         

         Wordlist # 15 should be in your child’s folder to practice this week.  Remember that I am not sending even numbered wordlists home, or ones that I think the children should be able to handle on their own.  I tested wordlist # 13 this week, and if your child had trouble with a lot of the words, you can practice it at home, and I will retest them next week.

 

          Starting sometime next week we will begin testing for the 3^rd marking period.  Please help your child prepare by reviewing all the letters and their sounds that we learned in phonics, blending sounds to read words, practice high frequency words and sight words, practice rhyming words, practice counting to 100, identifying numbers 0-

30, identifying all letters of the alphabet, author, illustrator, and main ideas in a story.

 

We had a jolly time telling jokes on Friday, and we are going to begin book #3 in the Magic Tree House” book.

 

FYI:

 

March 20^th is “Music and Art in our school” night.  It begins at 6:30, and it is going to be wonderful!! Hope to see you there.

         

Monday (3/17/14) will be DAY 1 on the special classes’ schedule.  We have art class.

 

Saturday, March 20^th will be our first day of spring.  Yahoo!!!!

March 10th-14th

                        Kindergarten News                              March 10^th-14th

Next week:

Reading- We will begin “One Little Mouse” by Doris Chaconas. It is classified as a rhyming/concept story and the comprehension skill that will be taught throughout this lesson is “sequence”.

Science- We will be learning about animal habitats, animal movements, and animal characteristics.

Math- We will be finishing up unit #8 and then beginning unit #9. The children will be composing and decomposing #’s to ten.

Phonics-We will be learning about the letter “J” and it sound as in jar and joke.   Your child can have a “joke” ready to tell the class for show and tell instead of bringing any items into school on Friday.

  The “I’m a Reader “form should be returned to the teacher the next week March-10^thwith a parent signature and initial for each day of the week.  This is an optional activity, but the children that participate will get a certificate at the end of the year.

Note:

I have three navy blue sweaters that no one has claimed.  If your daughter lost their sweater please let me know.

I am having many students forget their snacks each day, please remember that we do have snack time every day, and it is very upsetting when your child forgets their snack.

We will be going outside for recess so made sure that your child is dressed appropriately.

 

Monday will be day 1A on our school rotation, and we will have Art class with Mrs. Zink

 

Have a great weekend!