Mrs. Wenger's Blog

Friday Note - 8/29/2014 

There is no school on Monday!

Events of the Week:  It’s hard to believe that we have three weeks of school under our belt- and what a busy week it has been.  This week we continued our theme of All About Me.  Our Shared Reading for the week was Me Too.  We also introduced the sight word is this week.  Your child should now be familiar with two sight words: I and is.  Practice finding these in books and other writing.  We started learning about the letters in the alphabet this week.  We will learn about two letters each week and the sounds they make.  This week we learned about Bb and Mm.  Be sure to ask your child the sounds they make and the words they wrote in their Reading Journals.  In math, we learned about sorting, objects. You should have noticed a Home-School Connection work mat that was sent home on Monday.  With each new topic in Math a new Home-School Connection will be sent home that introduces that topic.  These are for you to complete with your child and DO NOT need to be returned to me.  It’s a great way to practice what your child has been learning in the classroom. Finally, we continued with the Name Game.  We’re learning more about our classmates every day.  What a fun way to make new friends!    

Important Information and Reminders:

1.        When the weather gets too hot, too cold, or too rainy, we will have inside recess.  It is a good idea to leave a small toy in your child’s backpack for inside recess. 

2.    Lunch is at 12:10 each day, which makes for a long morning for little kiddos.  Please make sure your child eats a well-balanced breakfast to ensure that they do not become hungry before lunch time.

Our Character Word for September is Respect. (Treat others how you want to be treated.)

Important Dates:

Ø  Sept. 1- Labor Day-No School

Ø  Sept. 3- Volunteer Training 2:00 Clever Conference Center

Ø  Sept. 4- Cox CARE Mobile---The Cox CARE Mobile will see infants up to age 18.  They will do well check-ups, see sick kids, pre-k physicals & sports physicals.  This is free no matter if you have insurance or not.  Contact Nurse Holly at 743-4810 if you need to make an appointment. 

Ø  Sept. 6-Grandparents Day 10:00-11:30 am  *Classrooms will be open for visitors during that time as students will be asked to escort their grandparents through the building.  Weather permitting, visitors may park in the open field west of the school as parking around the building may become limited.  Visitors should enter using the K-4 office entrance or the 5-8 office entrance.  The two-story building will not be open during this event. 

Shapes Assessment

You will notice a shapes assessment paper in your child’s folder today.  After we spent last week learning to identify five basic shapes (circle, square, rectangle, triangle and hexagon), I assessed your child over their knowledge this week.  They were given a score depending on how accurate your child identified these shapes.  Each score corresponds with an achievement level (advanced, proficient, basic and below basic).  Definitions for these terms are as follows:

 

Advanced:   *Goes above and beyond meeting the standard

*Very few of our assessments in Kindergarten lend themselves to the possibility of advanced        

Proficient:    *Meets grade level expectations regarding understanding of the standard

                   *Consistently and independently demonstrates understanding of standard

Basic:  *Shows some success on assignments related to standard

            *Meets expectations on only some parts of the standard

Below Basic:  *Rarely shows success on assignments related to standard

                       *Does not meet expectations for understanding of the standard

If your child did not score Proficient please continue to work on this skill at home.  We will continue on to work on this at school as well.  This is how your child’s performance will be reflected on the kindergarten progress report. 

 

I am sending your child’s first homework.  The directions are attached.  Please make sure your child uses a pencil when completing their name homework.  Please have your child complete the assignment and return it on Tuesday.

Next Week:

·       Our theme will be Families.  Please complete the family page that was sent home today and return it on Tuesday.  We will share these with the class.    

·       In math we will finish our topic over sorting.

·       Our sight word will be A.

 

Have a Great Holiday Weekend!!

Mrs. Wenger