Homework for the week: ½ sheet practice (Monday-Thursday) and Spin to Win Reader Tuesday –Thursday)
This will be the last newsletter until we come back from Easter break. All important dates will be listed in this newsletter.
In Reading, our story will be The Little Engine that Could. We will be talking about the plot of the story and continue our discussion on going places and different forms of transportation.
In Math, we will be continuing writing practice to 30 and problem solving practice. We will also be discussing time of day and what you do at those times. We have also introduced 3-D shapes like cone, cylinder, cube, and sphere, and will be reviewing them as well.
In Phonics, we are learning combination Qu like in Queen and Quilt. Information about Queen Day and the wedding of Q and U will be coming home next week. We have now learned all the letters of the alphabet including long and short vowel sounds. We will now be working on combinations, digraphs, and other phonics rules. We will continue to put rules and reminders in the newsletters.
Friday, March 30- Kindergarten Graduation Pictures, please wear your white collared shirts and no up-dos for the girls.
*There will be no homework the week of April 2 due to the short week.*
Tuesday, April 3- Wedding of Q and U and Queen day. Queens- wear your Queen clothes and Boys can dress for the wedding.
Wednesday, April 4- Easter egg hunt and Easter party for Kindergarten
April 5-11- No School
April 12- Back to school, Day 4, Gym, please wear Gym clothes and sneakers
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
Week of March 19
Mrs. Borden & Mrs. Jones’ Nifty Newsletter (Week of March 19)
Homework
Monday –Thursday: 1/2 sheet
Tuesday – Thursday: practice reader
Homework
Monday –Thursday: 1/2 sheet
Tuesday – Thursday: practice reader
In Reading, we will continue with Unit 5, Going Places. We will be reading the story Messenger! Messenger! and discussing different forms of emergency transportation. We will discuss comparing and contrasting.
In Phonics, we will be learning about the consonant “Ww” as in wagon and wacky. On Wednesday, we’ll have “Watery Wednesday” when we do lots of experiments and activities about water. We will also have “Wacky Hair Day” on Friday. Students are invited to wear their hair in a wacky way on Friday! Word List 17 will be tested Friday. Word lists will not be sent home in advance during the 4th marking period. We are looking for student to be able to apply the phonics skills.
In Phonics, we will be learning about the consonant “Ww” as in wagon and wacky. On Wednesday, we’ll have “Watery Wednesday” when we do lots of experiments and activities about water. We will also have “Wacky Hair Day” on Friday. Students are invited to wear their hair in a wacky way on Friday! Word List 17 will be tested Friday. Word lists will not be sent home in advance during the 4th marking period. We are looking for student to be able to apply the phonics skills.
In Math, we will pay for items using pennies, nickels, dimes or a quarter, we will identify and match equivalent sets and identify doubles while learning how to play dominos, and will act out addition story problem.
Kindergarten Graduation pictures will be taken in the morning on Friday, March 30th. Envelopes were sent home with portrait package information. If you are 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! (Mark your calendars; Kindergarten Graduation will be held on Tuesday, May 22nd in the evening at the High School Auditorium)
Our Kindergarten Field Trip has been scheduled!!! We will be going to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus at the Giant Center in Hershey on Thursday, May 24th. It is the All New Blue Tour, DRAGONS. Check it out @ www.ringling.com
Report Cards will be sent home on Friday, March 23rd.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
week of March 12, 2012
Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones Nifty Newsletter (Week of March 12)
In Phonics, our letter is Xx like at the end of Fox. We will be having a Treasure Hunt at the end of the week to find the “Xx that marks the spot.” We have also been working on a new Phonics rule for long vowels. The rule is “When a vowel is not followed by a consonant, the vowel is long and we code it with a macron.” We also talked about the sound that long vowels make. They say their own name. Examples of the words we have been coding and reading are: me, he, so, no, hi. We are also naming words that begin with long vowels (acorn, equal, icicle, overalls and universe.
In Math, we will be working on identifying and writing numbers to30, reviewing penny, nickel, and dime. We will also be introducing quarters. A favorite lesson of ours is the tangram lesson and we will be working more with them as well.
To get ready for St. Patrick’s Day, we will be graphing and comparing Lucky Charms. We also had a Kid Writing about what we would do with a pot of gold that we found.
In Reading, our story is Mayday! Mayday! A Coast Guard Rescue. It is a nonfiction story and we will be learning about the ins and outs of a rescue. We will also be talking about different kinds of transportation that can be used in an emergency. Our skill is linking the cause to the effect and talking about the features of a nonfiction text.
Library is Day 2, Tuesday, please remember your books. Gym is Day 4, Thursday, please wear your sneakers.
Information about Kindergarten Graduation went home on Friday. These pictures will be on March 30th. The children will be wearing caps and gowns for the pictures. Your child will need to wear a white collared shirt so that the collar will be visible. If you need an extra picture form it is located on our blog to print.
We would just like to give a big shout out to all of our hard workers! We have started some report card testing and will continue to do so over the next week. Everyone is trying their best and working so hard. We are also working on word families, spelling words, and writing sentences. Great job everyone!
In Phonics, our letter is Xx like at the end of Fox. We will be having a Treasure Hunt at the end of the week to find the “Xx that marks the spot.” We have also been working on a new Phonics rule for long vowels. The rule is “When a vowel is not followed by a consonant, the vowel is long and we code it with a macron.” We also talked about the sound that long vowels make. They say their own name. Examples of the words we have been coding and reading are: me, he, so, no, hi. We are also naming words that begin with long vowels (acorn, equal, icicle, overalls and universe.
In Math, we will be working on identifying and writing numbers to30, reviewing penny, nickel, and dime. We will also be introducing quarters. A favorite lesson of ours is the tangram lesson and we will be working more with them as well.
To get ready for St. Patrick’s Day, we will be graphing and comparing Lucky Charms. We also had a Kid Writing about what we would do with a pot of gold that we found.
In Reading, our story is Mayday! Mayday! A Coast Guard Rescue. It is a nonfiction story and we will be learning about the ins and outs of a rescue. We will also be talking about different kinds of transportation that can be used in an emergency. Our skill is linking the cause to the effect and talking about the features of a nonfiction text.
Library is Day 2, Tuesday, please remember your books. Gym is Day 4, Thursday, please wear your sneakers.
Information about Kindergarten Graduation went home on Friday. These pictures will be on March 30th. The children will be wearing caps and gowns for the pictures. Your child will need to wear a white collared shirt so that the collar will be visible. If you need an extra picture form it is located on our blog to print.
We would just like to give a big shout out to all of our hard workers! We have started some report card testing and will continue to do so over the next week. Everyone is trying their best and working so hard. We are also working on word families, spelling words, and writing sentences. Great job everyone!
Friday, March 2, 2012
Week of March 5
Mrs. Borden & Mrs. Jones Nifty Newsletter (Week of March 5)
We had so much fun this week celebrating the great Dr. Seuss and Read Across America! We read many of his books and worked on extensions to go along with each book. We tried green eggs, made Oobleck, Daisy Head Hats, played Dr. Seuss Jepordy, writing activities and a special reading of Green Eggs and Ham and Cat in the Hat from Tim Tebow and Justin Bieber via the Smartboard! Thank you to the Bloomsburg University students for visiting on Friday to read Oh the Thinks You Can Think and coming up with a great follow-up lesson. We would also like to thank our other guest readers, Gary Glessner, Aileen McCabe, Christine Ratkiewicz, KayAnn Shearn, Nick Brayford, Jaclyn Mogish, Morgan Koutch and Sarah Wagner.
Our new Phonics letter is J as in jar and Jones. We will work on identifying the medial sound in words, identifying the accent on a syllable within a word, and separate words in compound words.
Word list 15 will come home on Monday. All sight words are now included in the sleeve of your folder. Please continue to practice.
In Math we will graph, explore slides, turns and flips with tangrams, identify the relationships between larger and smaller numbers, will count forward and backward on a number line and match number cards to sets of objects.
Our new Reading story is Max Takes the Train. We will talk about forms of transportation. We will focus on fiction and nonfiction.
Monday will be Day 1. We will have Art. Don’t forget your library book for Tuesday and sneakers for Gym on Thursday!
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