March 14th-18th

                                     Kindergarten New- April -14^th-18th

 

 

 

v  This week, since we have covered all of the letters of the alphabet, we will now   be working on final digraph ck.  The rule is that when the/k/ sound comes at the end of a word, and there is a short vowel before it, you use the diagraph “ck”.  Examples:  black , duck,  lock

 

v   Keep practicing with your child to help them write as many words as they can in ten minutes so that they will be successful on the end of the year test.

 

v   The wedding of Q and u went very well.  We had a lovely ceremony, and we feasted on wedding cake, ice cream, and punch.  The children had a wonderful time blowing wedding bubbles outside, and we dance at the reception.  All the parts for our wedding were randomly chosen by picking the children’s names from a hat so that it would be fair.

 

v  Reading-We are introducing the story Max Takes the Train.  This book was written by an author you may be familiar with --“Rosemary Wells”.  She has written and illustrated over 60 children’s books.  The genre for this book is animal fantasy and the comprehension skill is realism and fantasy.

 

v  Some of the science concepts that we will be covering are how to mix colors, and make-believe animals.

 

v  The Social studies concepts will be revolved around forms of transportation.

 

v   Report cards should be signed and returned as soon as possible. 

 

       In Math we are finished with Topic 10 and the test will come home to be signed and for you to get an idea of what your student has accomplished.  Please review the pages that come home in your child’s folder daily.

 

      The children are doing a wonderful job with their kidwriting.  You might see some papers coming home that the children are doing at learning centers while I am kidwriting with another group.  All of the learning center activities revolve around things that we introduce in class, and are an extension of their learning.

 

We are not having an Easter party but we will have an egg hunt and my class will have to find eggs with our memory word “said” on them.  Help your child practice this at home.

 

Monday, April 14th^th is day # 1 and we have art class.

 

There will be no school on Friday April 18^th and the children will be back at school on Monday April 21^st, due to make-up snow days.

 

Enjoy the warmer weather this weekend!!!!!!

April 7th-11th

Kindergarten News- April 7^th – 11th

 

v  This week since we have finished all the letters of the alphabet, we will be working on a new concept.  We will learn about long vowels, and the new rule is “a vowel not followed by a consonant is long: code it with a macron.  Some examples are-hi, me he, and she.

 

v  All of the girls enjoyed being “Queen for a day” on Friday. The girls got to wear crowns and the boys did nice things for them all day.

 

 

v  We will try to begin our Foss Science Kit called “Animals Two by Two”.

 

v  Please send any report cards back to school. Please sign and return it in the envelope as soon as you can.  I did not include the rubric since you had the opportunity to review what our expectations were for your child on their first report card.  If you have any questions please feel free to send me a note or an e-mail.

 

v  For Reading we will begin “Abuela” Its genre is fiction, and the comprehension skill is setting.  The social studies concept of this unit is “Adventures You Can Have in the City”.

 

v  In Math we will be working with identifying numbers 11-30, and composing and decomposing 11 through 30.

 

 

v  Kindergarten physicals are on Thursday April 10^th.

 

v  Kindergarten graduation pictures also went well thanks to the help of a few wonderful homeroom moms.

 

 

v  Wordlist # 16 was checked, and almost the whole class got perfect papers!  Wow!!!  Wordlist # 17 should be in your child’s folder today.

 

     The wedding of Q and U will be on Friday, April 11^th...  Mrs. Pott’s class has been invited and they have responded that they will be in attendance.  I am sending a separate reminder note about this event.

 

 

If you are a homeroom parent and have met all of the PTO requirements, we would love to have you help us for the field trip.  If you can go to the Pioneer Tunnel with us please let me know ASAP.

 

The PTO fund raiser pick up will be on Friday from 4 to 7.

 

 

 

Monday - April 7th is Day 1—we will begin the week with art class.

 

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!

For the week of March 3rd to March7th

                                           What’s happening in Kindergarten?

March3rd- March 7^th

Dinosaur projects:  In case we don’t have school on Monday due to bad weather, we will do Monday’s projects on Tuesday.  All the other projects will still be on the scheduled day.

Phonics:  We will be learning the letter Vv, like the beginning of vest and valentine.  We will separate words in syllables, identifying final sounds in words, and we will be working on wordlist # 12. Remember that I will not be sending this wordlist home to practice because we will be using it for a grade for blending and I need to be certain that the children are not just memorizing the words.

Math:  We will be still be learning about subtraction by acting out story problems. Keep practicing number writing at home, especially if you see a lot of reversals.

Reading:  We will still be working on the book “Bunny Day”. We did not get as much accomplished as I wanted to on this story because of  learning about Dinosaurs,  dental health month, and Dr. Seuss  day, etc… ……….. So much to do and learn!

Science:  We will be working the unit “Wood and Paper” and the children will discover that they can change the form of wood by sanding it, also by sharpening their pencils. ” The children will be working on their own “wood and paper science journals.

We are planning our field trip for Wednesday, May 28 and we will be going to the Pioneer Tunnel in Ashland.  If you are a homeroom parent that has been active all year with the parties, and in good standing with the PTO, you are invited to attend the fieldtrip.  I had the incorrect date for the carnival, it is scheduled for May 23^rd. Sorry!

*We are beginning to read a chapter book series called “The Magic Tree House” by Mary Pope Osborne.    The children really like these books.  You can usually buy them from the Scholastic book order.

Monday March 3^rd will be day #1B and we will have Art class.  !

On Thursday we were delighted to have our assistant principal Mrs. Ulseskie and Mrs. Brown the Reading specialist, read a Dr. Seuss book to our class.

On Friday we had a wonderful day celebrating  Dr. Seuss Day by having some graduate students from Bloomsburg College come to do a lesson with our children(March 2^nd).  They did a spectacular job and the children really enjoyed it.  We were also very fortunate to have Mrs. Groody assistant principal at the high school, and Mr. Dave Brown, former NSE teacher.

 

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart----Victor Hugo

 

February 24th-28th

Dear Parents,

           We had a yogurt tasting project for the letter “Y’ and we made a classroom graph of our favorite kind.  We had a great valentine’s celebration, and I would like to thank the homeroom parents for all the hard work they do for our class!  Your help is appreciated!  Thanks for all the wonderful gifts and cards for Valentine’s Day, I really appreciated your thoughtful ness.

        The children did a great job with all of the activities for the anti-bully week, and jump rope for heart.

We are beginning something new with our wordlists.  By this time in the kindergarten year, all the children should be blending successfully with little or no assistance.  Some of the children are memorizing the words on the wordlists and not reading the words.  In order to test this accurately we will only be sending the odd numbered lists home with the children, and I will use the even numbered lists for the report card grade.  By doing this you can still see the type of words that the children will be expected to read.

On to the week of Feb. 24^th to the 28th

Phonics- We will be learning the letter “d” as in duck and dog.  Show and tell will be on Friday as usual.  

Reading- We will be starting the week with the story “Bunny Day”.”  The comprehension skill that will be taught throughout this lesson is “sequence”, and the genre is “animal fantasy”.

Science- We will be working on the Foss science lesson Wood and Paper”, and we will be keeping a writing journal about some of the things that we have learned.  We will also be learning about tools, machines, camouflage, and plant and animal characteristics.

  Math- We will be continuing to learn about subtracting.

    We will have our second oral repots revolved around dinosaurs. The “dinosaur” presentations are scheduled for Monday 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th.  I will send a schedule with your child’s day and name of dinosaur.  I will be evaluating the children on knowing the name, a few facts, and a picture of their dinosaur.  Try practicing it at home so that it will be easier for your child to present their report to the class.  I am looking forward to watching your children shine!

Important dates to remember:

April 3-Kindergration pictures

May 20- Kindergarten graduation at the High School.

May 28-Field trip to the Lokie (May 29^th rain date) May 30-Carnival at NSE.

Remember:

No matter how long the winter is, spring is sure to follow.