Friday Note and September Snack Schedule

Snack Schedule

 Kindergarten will have a snack each day after special classes.We are asking parents to send in snack one time a month.On your assigned day, please send in enough snacks for all the students in your child’s classroom. We currently have 19 students.If you are unable to provide snack on your day, please contact your child’s teacher.

Ideas include:pretzels, cheese sticks, animal crackers, graham crackers, cereal, applesauce, fresh fruit, goldfish crackers, etc.If you are sending in applesauce, please send spoons as well.

Instead of sending in snack, you may send in $2.00-$3.00 before your child’s day.We will purchase snacks for that day.

September Snack Schedule
	1 Myriah	2 Kimila	3 Lindsey	4 Rhett
7 No School	8 Eli	9 Hannah	10 Alexis	11 Teagan
14 Jaiden	15 Devon	16 William	17 Jaxon	18 Hayden
21 Temperance	22 Emily	23 Payden	24 Remy	25 Branyon
28 Emma	29 Mrs. Wenger	30 Mrs. Wenger

Friday Note - 8/28/2015

  This will be the last week for a paper copy of the Friday Note unless I have written confirmation that you need one. If you returned the form asking me to subscribe you to the blog you should have received an email to verify that you want to receive notifications from our blog. 

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.

Math: In math, we learned about sorting, classifying, counting, and categorizing data. 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.

Language Workshop: We continued our theme of All About Me.  Our Shared Reading for the week was Me Too.  We also introduced the sight word is.  Your child should now be familiar with two sight words: I and is.  Practice finding these in books and other writing.  We continued with the Name Game.  We’re learning more about our classmates every day.  What a fun way to make new friends!    

Reading Workshop:  This week we started a unit over reading routines.  During these lessons we will be learning who we are as readers, how to take care of books, what rules we follow during Independent Reading (IR) time, and how to share books with friends.  Our goal by the end of the year is to look at books and read independently for up to twenty minutes every day.    

Writing Workshop: Our predictable chart was, “My name is ____.”  Each day we write a daily message.  As a class we look for sight words, capital letters, and the letters we are learning in the message. 

Word Study: We started learning about the letters in the alphabet this week.  We will learn two letters each week and the sounds they make.  We will practice writing the letters with the correct formation.  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 Alphabet Dictionaries. 

Content Workshop: We made an All About Me book.  We practiced saying our phone number, address and birthday.  If your child is unable to recite this personal information please work with them at home.  We will continue working in our book next week.   

Important Dates:

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

Ø  Sept. 7- Labor Day-No School

Ø  Sept. 10- Cox CARE Mobile---The Cox CARE Mobile will see infants up to age 18. The Care Mobile is a FREE medical office on wheels with services provided by a Nurse Practitioner.   They will do well check-ups, see sick kids, pre-k physicals & sports physicals. Contact Nurse Holly at 743-4810 if you need to make an appointment. 

Ø  Sept. 12-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. 

Important Information and Reminders:

1.        Please be sure to send all money to school in an envelope with:

a.       Child’s Name

b.       Teacher’s Name

c.        Purpose of Money (i.e lunch money)

d.       $ Amount

2.       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. 

3.       Please make sure to write your child’s name inside of his/her lunch boxes, jackets and coats.  It is amazing how quickly our lost and found fence gets filled up! 

4.       Lunch is at 12:00 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.

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       is     

Shapes Assessment

You will notice a shapes assessment paper in your child’s folder.  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 on the shapes assessment, 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. 

Continue reading books towards our Reading Journey!  Feel free to email me pictures while completing the reading activities.  We will share these during calendar time.

Next Week:

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

·         In math we will finish our topic over sorting.

·         Our sight word will be a.

·         Our letters for the week will be Rr and Ss. 

Have a Great Weekend!!

Mrs.Wenger