There is no school this Friday, November 11th due to Veteran's Day and no school the following Monday, November 14th due to parent conferences.
I can't believe we are already done with our First Trimester of Kindergarten! Parent Conferences are NEXT WEEK (November 14-16). Thank you for signing up on Parent Square for a conference. if you have not yet signed up, please do so. I am looking forward to meeting with all of you to discuss your child's growth in the classroom. Because we only have so much time per conference, I'd like to politely ask that you arrive on time so we can make the most of our time together. If possible, please make other arrangements for your children, as parent conferences are for parents and teachers only. Thank you!
I can't believe we are already done with our First Trimester of Kindergarten! Parent Conferences are NEXT WEEK (November 14-16). Thank you for signing up on Parent Square for a conference. if you have not yet signed up, please do so. I am looking forward to meeting with all of you to discuss your child's growth in the classroom. Because we only have so much time per conference, I'd like to politely ask that you arrive on time so we can make the most of our time together. If possible, please make other arrangements for your children, as parent conferences are for parents and teachers only. Thank you!
Our kindergarten classes will be having a combined Thanksgiving Feast on Friday, November 18th. We are looking forward to a great, big Thanksgiving celebration together! We will be making many items for our feast in the classroom together! If you are able to donate items for our feast, we would really appreciate it - be on the look out for the ParentSquare sign up coming soon! If you would like to come help set up and make this a wonderful Thanksgiving Feast for our kids, you are welcome to join us next Friday at 11:30 for set up. The feast will begin at 12:00. We need need LOTS of help for set up and tear down! Thank you in advance!
Mark your calendars now! We will be having our very own special kindergarten play, "The Tale of the Gingerbread Man" on the evening of Thursday, December 15th. More information to come, but you do not want to miss this, so mark your calendars now!
Upcoming Events:
Friday, November 11: No School - Veteran's Day
Monday, November 14: No School - Conference Day
November 14-16: Parent Conferences - sign up on ParentSquare!
Friday, November 18: Thanksgiving Feast
November 21-25: No School - Thanksgiving Break!
Thursday, December 15: EVENING performance of our kindergarten Christmas play, "The Tale of the Gingerbread Man" - more info coming soon, but make sure you mark your calendars now!!
What Are We Learning This Week:
Sight Words: This week we are reviewing our tricky W words - WENT, WHEN, WHAT, WAS, WANT. Please continue to practice all sight words that we have learned in the first trimester, especially those your child has misread on their Friday Sight Word Tests.
Letter Team: GE/GI (the soft sound of G which sounds like J, like in GENTLE and GIANT).
Reading: We will read many books turkeys and pilgrims and Indians, as we prepare for Thanksgiving. We will practice all of our reading strategies learned so far. We will continue to read our paper books and books from our class library.
Writing: We will continue to write at least three sentences on the same topic, focusing on neatness, proper punctuation, capitalization, and spacing.
Math: We will continue to work on our Daily Math, fun Thanksgiving story problems and games, and DreamBox. We will learn this week about the different types of story problems - adding, subtracting, and comparing. We will work on different WAYS to solve problems, such as using manipulatives, drawing a picture, counting up or counting backwards, and using resources around us.
Leadership: Congratulations to our ROAR award recipients for the first trimester - Natalie and Hawk! We will all continue to ROAR in kindergarten and discuss ways to respect, own our actions, act safely, and be a leader in our classroom.
Homework: November 7-10
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: Study flashcards for our review sight words (WENT, WHEN, WHAT, WAS, WANT,) Make Flashcards for the new letter teams (GE and GI). Study flashcards every day.
Phonemic Awareness: Please work with your child on the Foundational skills that he or she still needs to master (blending, segmenting, rhyming, syllables, add/change/delete a sound, etc.) Please see our Phonemic Awareness tab for ideas and tips.
Reading: Play Smarty Ants for 10-15 minutes each night. Read on RAZ-Kids. Read books from your at-home book box! Read to your child every day and have your child read to you every day. Find sight words and letter teams in books, in the car as you are driving - just READ, READ, READ!
Writing: Continue to work with your child on the writing goals they need to master. While we ARE all at different writing goals, the in-class expectation is now that each child will write three or more sentences every day. Please reinforce this at home with writing homework.
Math: Play Dreambox for 10-15 minutes each night. Review shapes:
- *Is the shape 2D flat or 3D solid
- *How many sides or faces
- *How many vertices
- *curved or straight lines on flat shapes
- *what shape are the faces on 3D solid shapes
- *Does the 3D solid shape roll, slide, or stack?
Keep going over those Daily Math worksheets that go home each day to see if your child needs help with a particular skill.
We have been working on positional words and naming shapes. For example: the sphere is behind the fence, the rhombus is above the lamp. Students have an easier time with this when the positional word is given - (Draw a circle next to the tree) but when students need to describe the position themselves it becomes much more difficult. Practice having your child tell you where things are using the following positional words:
- *in front of
- *behind
- *between
- *next to
- *above
- *below
- *beside
- *left
- *right
QR Codes: Download and print the QR Code practice pages on ParentSquare. Work on these pages together.
Turn-In Homework: A few weeks ago, I asked you to start thinking about your community service project that will be due in May. It is a good idea to think about it early and maybe even log a few hours. For homework this week, please write your plan for your community service project - one or a few sentences about what you plan to do. Here is a link to our Sharing Paper.
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