Week of October1st-October 5th

Happenings for the week of October 1 – 5, 2012 Monday –day #5-gym class This week in phonics we are working on the letter Pp. We will have show and tell on Friday. Please help your child find a small object at home to bring in that begins with the letter p. This past week for the letter “T” we have many disappointed children because they did not remember to bring their show and tell” to school. We have “show and tell” every Friday unless I inform you otherwise. Please help your child remember for the letter “P”. In math we will be discussing ordinal position of objects, story problems, and putting events in proper order or sequence. We will begin working on Kid Writing this week. Each day we worked in small groups writing stories. Once we complete several stories they will be sent home for you to keep and enjoy. It is exciting to watch your child grow as a writer! In reading, we will be enjoying the story, “Julius”. Our focus skills for unit one are story setting, characters, and comparing and contrasting the story elements. The genre for this story is “animal fantasy”. As the end of the first quarter is approaching, we will begin to assess the children on their knowledge of the letters and sounds we have covered in phonics including letter l, o, g, h, t, and p. We will test sight word knowledge on words I, am, the, a, my, little, and love. You may want to review these at home starting next week. Our math assessments will be based on the knowledge of patterns, shapes, number to 30 (reciting), and recognizing numbers to 10. We do not send a progress report home in kindergarten, when the rest of the school does. We will be enjoying a pep-rally on Friday October 5th to celebrate the homecoming football game against Tamaqua. Fall Festival money is due ASAP. Future dates to remember: Week of October 8-12th Thursday, October 11th-Fall Festival. This will be held outside weather permitting. Friday, October 14 will be pajama day. Children are allowed to wear pajamas to school for that day. We will have different P activities and a special treat that starts with the letter P as well.