Week of December 1

Kindergarten News

Continue to practice identifying letters, sounds and sight words.

** Next week in Phonics, we will continue working on the letter Ss, as in snake and sun. Please review all the letters and sounds we have learned so far (Ll, Oo, Gg, Hh, Tt, Pp, Aa, Nn, Mm, Ii)! Show and Tell will be Wednesday, December 2.

** In Math, we will continue to work on Chapter 5: Geometry and Fractions. We will talk about 3D shapes likes cubes, cylinders, spheres, and cones and discuss how they move. We will also learn how to divide something in half.

** We will continue our new story in Reading, Bear Snores On. The story is about a bear who gets a winter visit from some friends, but he sleeps through all the fun! We will be discussing the difference between real and fantasy.

** There will be no school on Monday, November 30. We will return on Tuesday, December 1.

Week of November 23

This week in phonics we will be working on consonant s as in sun. Show and Tell will be on Wednesday. Continue to practice recognizing all letters and their sounds.

Word list 4 will come home Monday.

In Reading we will begin Bear Snores On. We will talk about Fantasy and Realism.

We will continue to work on Chapter 5. This week we are working on Symmetry and Fractions!

Wednesday will be our Charlie Brown Thanksgiving!

No school Thursday, Friday and Monday.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Week of November 16

Homework

Monday - Color p pictures, read words, count to 50

Tuesday - Last name practice

Wednesday - Ii Handwriting Sheet, practice counting to 50, rhyming

Thursday - Color pictures that end in p, trace letters

**This week in Phonics we will be learning the vowel letter Ii and its short sound as in igloo and inch and its long sound as in ice.

**Please review sounds and writing of a ll letters learned so far.

**Get ready for another tough week of Show and Tell. It will be on Wednesday.

**In Math we will begin Chapter 5 Geometry and Fractions. This is one of my favorite chapters. We will have a lot of fun!

** We are starting our new story in reading, Animal Babies in Grasslands. This is a nonfiction story about animal babies and their mothers. We will be reading about elephants, lions, and zebras to name a few.

Week of November 9

Kindergarten Newsletter for the week of November 9th – 13th
This week we will be having our parent-teacher conferences. Please contact me asap if you returned a form and didn’t receive a conference date. I sent these time confirmation notes home on Thursday. You can call me at any time to schedule a conference. It doesn’t have to be held this week. (874-3661 ext. 3241)
Please return your child’s report card in their folder after you sign it. Thank you!
In math we’ll be working on sets of ten, more filling in missing numbers on number lines and in ascending and descending lines of numbers. We will work with the numbers up to 10.
In phonics we’ll be learning more about the letter Mm. Show and tell will be on Wednesday. We’ll be working on hearing and identifying the initial and final sounds heard in words. Also we will play a game to rhyme words. We will unblend words and count the sounds. Lastly, we will begin a new take home story. It is called Hop on the Mop! Look for it at the end of the week.
We will begin a new book this week in Reading. It is called Armadillo’s Orange. It is an animal fantasy book about what lives in an orange grove. We will be working with the letter Ss in this story. Many children are familiar with this sound, but confuse it with Cc. We will discuss proper nouns, setting and sequence. Please continue to practice the high frequency words that were sent home on fish.
It’s hard to believe that the first marking period is over and it is less than 3 weeks until Thanksgiving. We will be learning about The Pilgrims and Native Americans until Thanksgiving.

Week of November 2

Kindergarten News

Wednesday - Letter N Handwriting Sheet

This coming week we will be learning the consonant letter Nn as in nest and nut. Please continue to review all the letters we have learned so far.
In Math we will be working on Chapter 4 Numbers 6-10. Keep practicing counting sets and identifying and writing numbers correctly.
We finished Unit 1 in reading this week. Next week we will begin Unit 2. Our new story is Life in an Ocean. This will be our first nonfiction book!
Since the weather will be getting cooler, we ask that the boys and girls practice at home putting their coats on themselves and zipping/buttoning them. We often spend a lot of time struggling with coats and zippers at this time of any questions the year. Thanks for the help!
Report Cards will be sent home Friday, November 6. Parent Conferences will be scheduled for Tuesday, November 10th and Thursday, November 12th. Be prepared with /concerns you may have for your child’s teacher.
This weekend ends Daylight Savings Time. Remember to turn your clocks back one hour. (Spring forward—Fall back!)
Since many boys and girls will go trick-or-treating this weekend, we ask that students do not bring candy for snacks at school and limit extra candy in lunch boxes too. Thanks for your cooperation!