We had a wonderful second week of school together!
We are ready to begin our Friday parent volunteers THIS WEEK!! We are excited to have you join our class for Reading Stations and Fun Friday Centers! Our center time is from 10:45-12:30.Thank You!!!
The very first Scholastic Book order went out last week. If you would like to order books for your child, please submit your orders online. With every order, we also get one free book for our classroom library. Place your orders by Friday, September 2nd!
Please do not forget that while most of our homework in kindergarten is done at home, we do have "Turn-In Homework" every week. This is either a sentence to be written at home and turned in or something to bring in to share. Homework can be turned in ANY day of the week. Please scroll down to the bottom of the homework section to see the "Turn-In" topic of the week, as well as reading, writing, math, and phonemic awareness ideas. Thank you!
Mrs. Stanley has also posted additional QR Code resource activities on ParentSquare. These include video lessons on our sight words, letters, letter teams, word families and more. If you haven’t already checked out these resources please take a look at them. You may download and print the activities for your child to work on at home.
There is no school on Monday, September 5th due to the Labor Day holiday. Enjoy the time off with your families!
School picture day will be Friday, September 9th! Be on the look-out for a flyer coming home soon!
What Are We Learning This Week?:
Sight Words: I, like, my.
Letters and sounds: l, k, m, y, and the long and short vowel sounds a, e, i, o, u, y (the vowel sounds e or i)
Letter Team: sh (like in "she" and "push") and er (like in "her" and "mother") - ask your child to tell you about Mr. er - he is one crazy driver!!!
Word Family: ip - like in dip, chip, rip, sip, tip, etc.
Reading: We will continue to learn that vowels make 2 sounds - a short sound and a long sound. Ask your child to sing you the vowel song! We will continue to read big books to help us with our reading strategies. This week, we will also read many books about colors and our five senses.
Writing: We are writing a new book together about our five senses using our sight words of the week. We are continuing to use an uppercase at the beginning of a sentence, finger spaces between our words, and a period at the end. We are also learning to use our sight words in our sentences and to listen for the sounds in all unknown words using our sound chart. You can help your child at home by using the same sound chart on the back of your Homework Folder to help with sounding out words and writing at home.
Math: We will continue to practice number identification, number writing, days of the week, months of the year, shape names and shape attributes and counting on.
Leadership: At ILCS this year, we are ROARING. The acronym ROAR stands for Respect self, others, and property, Own your actions, Act safely, and Rise to servant leadership. For the next several weeks, we will be discussing the first O in class - OWN YOUR ACTIONS. We will talk about what that means and how we can own our actions at school. Our goal is to have students take ownership of their own behavior as we all strive to be leaders in our classroom and school.
Homework now includes Smarty Ants and DreamBox! Your child also has access to Raz-kids reading for independent reading practice.
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN TO THE HOMEWORK POST TO SEE ALL OF THE HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEK.
Homework: August 29-September2
Please take a moment to read each section of homework. I understand this can be very overwhelming. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions or concerns.
Flashcards: Please make flashcards for our sight words (I, like, my), letters/sounds of the week (l, k, y, long and short vowels a, e, i, o, u, y) our letter teams of the week (sh and er) and our word family (ip - tip, lip, chip, etc.) Study these flashcards every day. Have your child read the word, spell the word, read the word. Please see our Sight Word tab and scroll to the very bottom for more flashcards tips and ideas. We will have a Sentence Test on our sight words every Friday. A sentence test means we will be asking your child to write a sentence that we give them using our sight words of the week. We will not only be looking for correct spelling of our sight words, but also for an uppercase at the beginning, spaces between words, a proper punctuation at the end. An example of a sentence is, "We can see a man." It may be a good idea to have a practice Sentence Test with your child on Thursday night.
Phonemic Awareness: Please work with your child on the following Phonemic Awareness skills: rhyming, blending, segmenting, syllables, beginning/middle/ending sounds, and adding, changing and deleting sounds in words.
Reading: Reading at home is SO IMPORTANT! In a few short weeks, your child will be bringing home little books that we have been reading in class to read at home for YOU! Reading to your child is also important. Children need to hear frequent fluent reading to become a reader themselves.
Reading homework every week will include Smarty Ants.
Your child’s login info was sent home last week. THE HOMEWORK REQUIREMENT IS 40 MINUTES PER WEEK OF SMARTY ANTS. You can achieve these minutes any way it works best for your family, 10 minutes per day Monday - Thursday, 20 minutes 2 days a week, etc.
Reading homework will also include Raz-kids Reading. This is a web sight reading program where your child will access digital books online. The books can be read and listened to and then your child can take a quiz to check for understanding as they progress through the levels. Your child’s login info was sent home last week. Here is the link:
Writing: Our writing homework will change throughout the year and may look different for each student since each student may be at a different place developmentally. I would like all students to practice writing your name with an uppercase only at the beginning. Practice writing your ABC's both uppercase and lowercase. You can also practice writing your sight words of the week in a short sentence. We are learning to start our letters at the TOP! Keep practice writing the ABCs uppercase and lowercase letters!
Math: Practice counting 1-30 or higher. Make number flashcards and have your child identify numbers out of order. Practice drawing shapes, identifying shapes, or even creating shapes out of play-dough and sticks. Ask your child to name different attributes of shapes. For example, "What shape has three sides?" or "How many vertices does a rectangle have?" Your child will also be bringing home "Daily Math" practice pages that we do every morning in class. Please take a moment to go over these practice pages to see if there is anything specific your child needs to work on.
Math homework every week will include Dreambox. DreamBox is up and running and ready for you to play at home. THE HOMEWORK REQUIREMENT IS 40 MINUTES PER WEEK OF DREAMBOX You can achieve these minutes any way it works best for your family, 10 minutes per day Monday - Thursday, 20 minutes 2 days a week, etc.
Our school code is X2we/inlandlcs
QR Codes: Each week, these will be uploaded on ParentSquare. Please print these pages for your child to work on at home each week. One great idea is to put these pages in sheet protectors and add these pages into a binder for your child to refer to all year long.
Turn-In Homework: THIS IS THE ONLY PART OF HOMEWORK THAT NEEDS TO BE TURNED IT! This week, we will be learning about our five senses. For Turn-In Homework this week, please write one sentence about your favorite sense and how you use it. (Example: I like my nose because I can smell cookies with my nose.) Draw a picture to go with your sentence. Your child may attempt to write this sentence themselves, or you may dictate the sentence your child would like to write.
Note: If you visit the following link (Sharing Paper), you'll find a great printable writing page with a spot for writing and for a picture! Feel free to print off a bunch of these pages to use for turn in writing homework each week :)
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