FRIDAY NOTE (9/26/14)

Events of the Week:  Our theme this week was Colors.  Our big book for the week was Rain.  We focused on naming the parts of a book (front cover, back cover and title page).  We learned the songs for the colors brown, purple, orange, and black.  Your child should be able to recognize and read the words red, green, blue, yellow, purple, orange, brown, and black.  Our predictable chart was “I like ____.” (I like purple.)  The sight word we learned was “like”.  We continued our letter study by learning the letters Cc and Hh.  Each week we are learning to identify and write new letters, along with learning the sound each letter makes.  In math, we completed our unit on measurement.  We have been using math words, such as length, longest, shortest, height, taller, capacity, weight and so on.  Ask your child to put your family members in order from tallest to shortest.

Important Dates:

·        Oct. 2 ~ Cox Care Mobile    

·        Oct. 13 ~ Columbus Day-No School

·        Oct. 20-23 ~ Parent/Teacher Conferences

·        October 20-24 ~ School Bus Safety Week

·        October 22 ~ School Pictures

·        Oct. 27-31 ~ Red Ribbon Week

·        Oct. 31 - Halloween Party (more information to follow)

Keep up the great work on the reading challenge!

Several students are rounding the bases. Keep sending in the reading logs.

SIGHT  WORDS

Your child should be able to recognize these words within 3 seconds.  Please practice them at home with your child.   

 

I               is

like            the 

a               my

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Parent-Teacher conferences will be held the week of October 20th.  I will be sending home sign-up information soon.  Thanks!

Box Top Challenge!!!  Box Top Challenge!! Time to turn in your Box Tops, Labels for Education, and your Best Choice labels. The classroom with the most submissions by October 31st will receive a classroom party!   Thanks for those that have already been sent in!!!!

 

Assessment Pages: Please continue to watch for these to be sent home.  Look over these pages carefully.  If your child needs continued practice on a skill, please work on it at home with your child. Thanks!    

Next Week:

·        Our theme will be Color Review.  We will focus on the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?.  We will do more work with reading the color words. 

·        In math, we will begin learning about numbers 1-5.

·        We will focus on the sight word “see”.

 

Have a Great Weekend!!

Mrs. Wenger

Friday Note 9-19-14

Friday Note 9-19-14

Events of the Week: This week we read Who Said Red? and began our focus on identifying colors and color words.  We introduced the colors red, blue green and yellow.  Ask your child to sing the color songs we have learned! Our sight word this week was my. We have finished learning about our classmates by playing the Name Game.  The letters “Nn” and “Pp” were our letters of the week.  We worked on identifying each letter, writing it, and its sound.  In math we started our unit on measurement.  We learned to compare things by length.  Next week we will work on comparing by weight and capacity.

Important Dates:

·        Oct. 13—Columbus Day—No School

·        Oct. 20-23— Parent/Teacher Conferences

·        Oct. 20-24— SchoolBus Safety Week

·        Oct. 27-31—Red Ribbon Week

The character word for September is respect!

Ask your child what it means.

(Treating others the way you want to be treated.)

We are continuing to work on reciting our phone numbers, addresses, and birthdays.   Please practice with your child at home on these.   These will be on the grade card when I assess your child in October.

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Parent-Teacher conferences will be held the week of October 20st.  I will be sending home sign-up information at a later date.  Thanks!

Reading Challenge!

Don’t forget to be completing the reading challenge logs!  To earn a homerun your student must complete all four reading logs by the end of first quarter. 

Keep up the hard work!

IR Time (Independent Reading)

Has your child said anything about IR time?  Over the last four weeks we have been practicing reading independently in our classroom.  During IR time your child picks a special reading place around the classroom to read.  While reading at home with your child ask them what they are doing during IR time (looking for sight words, letters we’ve learned, spaces between words, ending marks & capital letters).  This week we learned to make a prediction about what the book will be about by looking at the front cover.  We also learned that the pictures in the book tell a story and that the words in the book match the pictures.  These are great skills that you can work on with your child while reading at home each night.  Independent Reading time is one of our favorite times of the day.  J 

Next Week:

·        We will continue to learn about the color words.

·        We will read Mouse Paint and other color books.

·        In math, we will continue our unit on measurement. 

·        In writing, we will start putting our thoughts into our journal.

 

Have a Great Weekend!!

Mrs.  Wenger

Friday Note 9-12-14

Events of the Week: This week we read The Pledge of Allegiance and learned about our flag. We learned our school pledge and talked about respect. The letters “Tt” and “Gg” were our letters of the week.  We worked on identifying each letter, the sound it makes, and practiced writing it.  In math we finished our unit on position and location of shapes.

 We are starting to work on reciting our phone numbers, addresses, and birthdays.   Please practice with your child at home on these.   These will be on the grade card when I assess your child in October. 

SIGHTWORDS

Has your child said anything about sight words??  In kindergarten, we learn sight words.  These are common words that tend to “pop up” all over the place.  By mastering words, such as our sight words, children become more fluent readers.  Also, it is so much fun to see the boys and girls get excited when they find a sight word in a book and can read it!  These are the sight words we have learned so far.  Your child should be able to read each of these words.  Please practice them at home with your child.   

I a is the

Thanks so much to the families who came to Grandparent’s Day! I hope the Grandparents enjoyed the projects we made them.

The character word for September is respect!

Ask your child what it means.

(Treating others the way you want to be treated.)

I am sending home your child’s sorting assessments today.  Please take time to look it over and work with your child at home if he/she needs continued practice on this skill.  Thanks!      

Ask your child about our new class pet. We now have a pet Betta name “Fishy”

Next Week:

·        We will start our unit about the color words.

Thanks for all the snack donations! Several items have been sent it. I will let you know when we start to run low.

Have a Great Weekend!

Mrs. Wenger

Friday Note

FRIDAY NOTE (9/5/2014)

Reminder:  Grandparent’s Day is tomorrow from 10:00-11:30 a.m. 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. 

Events of the Week:  

This week we continued our theme of All About Me.  This week we focused on families.  Our Shared Reading for the week was Families are Different.  We discussed the importance of our families and discovered some similarities and differences that we have.  We realized that all families are different and special. Our sight word for this week was “a”.  This week we learned about the letters Rr and Ss.  Be sure to ask your child the sounds they make and the words they wrote in their Reading Journals.  In math, we continued to practice sorting and even learned how to make graphs.  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 Dates:

o   Sept. 6:  Grandparents’ Day (10:00-11:30am)

o   Sept. 9-12:  Spirit Week

        Tuesday—Hat Day

        Wednesday—PJ Day

        Thursday—Favorite Team Day

        Friday—Blue & White Day

o   Sept. 10:  Food for America (We will get to see farm animals and equipment.  Please make sure your child wears tennis shoes.)

Snack Donations:

Please continue to send in snack donations. My goal is to offer the students a snack each day around 10:30am. This helps as they get so hungry before our late lunch. Thank you for your generosity!

Important Information and Reminders:

·        We are working on reciting our phone numbers, addresses, and birthdays.   Please practice with your child at home on these.  These will be assessed on the grade card for first quarter.

·        If your child will be eating breakfast at school, please have them here by 7:45 a.m.

Our Character Word for September is Respect.

(Treat others how you want to be treated.)

Next Week:

·        We will continue our All About Me theme by focusing on our school, community, and country.  We will learn about the Clever School pledge, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the American flag.

·        In math we will learn about positional words (above, below, behind, left, right, etc.)

·        We will learn about the letters “Tt” and “Gg”.

·        Our sight word will be “the”.

Have a Great Weekend!!

Mrs. Wenger

Snack Time

Dear Parents,

We have decided to have a snack around 10:30 each morning since we do not go to lunch until 12:10.  This is making for a very long (and hungry) morning time.  We are asking for donations for snack time.  If you are able to send in snacks for the class, it would be very much appreciated.  We are asking for healthy items for the whole class (pretzels, animal crackers, applesauce, granola bars, trail mix, apples, graham crackers, etc.).  We have 20 students.  Please do not send in items that will need to be refrigerated.  If you send an item that requires a spoon, please provide enough plastic spoons for the class.  Also, we will not be drinking milk with our snack.  We will be using our classroom water fountain.  Thank you in advance for your generosity!

Thank you,

The Kindergarten Teachers