week of December 17, 2018

Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter (Week of December 17)

This is our last newsletter for 2018.  The weekly newsletters will resume the first week of January 2019.  We wish you and your families much happiness for the Holiday season.  We appreciate all of the support and are so excited for a great start to the New Year!

Handwriting/Writing:  We are starting Unit 5- Lowercase (Diver Letters, Final Groups, and Writing Activities).  Our last unit is Writing Activities and we will be working on: syllables, sentences, labels, punctuation, questions and answers, words, paragraphs, vowels, rhymes, poems, and comparisons.  Everyone is trying so hard to keep their letters within the boundaries and use the correct formation.  We appreciate the effort!

Reading: Our new story is: Farfallina and Marcel and it is an animal fantasy story. We will be working on the plot of the story.  Our amazing words are: goose, gosling, caterpillar, butterfly, reflection, cocoon.  Our essential question for the story is: What happens when animals change?  We will also review verbs.  We will continue to work on: all letters (capital and lowercase) and their corresponding sounds, beginning sounds of words, all sounds in words, and blending sounds together to read words.

Math: We are almost done numbers 11-20 and will be moving into Comparing Numbers to 20.  We have moved on to the next topic in Spring Math and we are counting objects to 20 and finding the number that matches.  In our daily practice, we are counting beans and writing the correct number on our dry erase board while our buddy checks that the counting and numbers are correct.

Important dates to remember:

Monday, December 17- Day 2

Friday, December 21- Early Dismissal for NSE- 12 noon

January 2- School resumes

week of December 10, 2018

Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter (Week of December 10)

Handwriting/Writing:  We are moving through Unit 4- More Vowels, Transition Group, and Words and Sentences and then will move into the last part (diver letters, final group, and writing activities) before moving into all writing activities.  We are so impressed with how our class is trying to chop out the sounds in words and write the letters when writing!  Keep up the good work everyone!

Reading: Our new story is: George Washington Visits and it is a historical fiction story. We will be working on cause and effect and rhyming.  Our amazing words are: celebration, sprinted, barn, blacksmith, arch, soldier.  Our essential question for the story is: How is life today different from things we used long ago?  We will also review verbs.

Math: We will be finishing up our numbers 0-20 and we have been doing a great job writing our numbers, counting objects, and drawing objects to match the number.  We will continue to count to 100, count our days of school, write numbers in the tens and ones place. 

Important dates to remember:

December 8- Winter Concert in the High School Auditorium (Kindergarten performs at 10 am) *Holiday attire/dress up clothing is permitted, please no jeans or sweat pants.*

Monday December 10- Day 7

December 11- Spartan Dress Down Day- donation of a non-perishable food item or monetary donation

December 11- Krispy Kreme Doughnut delivery and pickup in the elementary cafeteria 4-6 pm

Friday, December 14- Kindergarten Field Trip to the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway (pajamas are encouraged)

week of December 3, 2018

Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter (Week of December 3)

Handwriting/Writing:  We will work on the “descending letters” like g that dip below the bottom line.  Some letters are tall like d, some letters are small like a, and some letters are descending like j.  We are starting to explore the concept of writing sentences on the back of our morning work.  We are working on making the sounds in the words in order to write the corresponding letters in the word.

Reading: Our new story is: Little Quack and it is an animal fantasy. We will be working on plot and sequence in this story.  Our amazing words are: duckling, paddle, pond, plunged, proud, brave.  Our essential question for the story is: What new things can you do as you get older?  We can also compare and contrast this story which has fiction characters to last week’s story of Little Panda which was nonfiction and full of wonderful information.

Math: We have been working on identifying numbers 11-20, writing the numbers 11-20, counting objects with 11-20 and filling in 10 frames with the correct number.  In Spring Math, we are still working on missing numbers 0-11.  Sometimes the number is missing in the first spot, the last spot, or the middle spot.  An example would be: 4 __ 6 and we would have to write 5.

Science/Social Studies:  We will be working on seasons and weather, especially identifying all of the characteristics of winter and what is may look like outside in comparison to another season.