Hello Kindergarten Families,

          I look forward to meeting with all of you this week to discuss your child's progress.  It is regular schedule for all Kindergarten and No Centers until after Thanksgiving break.  Centers will will resume the week of Dec. 2.

Here is a peek at our week:

A butterfly expert that raises monarch butterflies will be bringing her butterflies and the different stages of the butterfly to show the Kinder classes.  She is so excited to share with our class and have them understand how important butterflies are to our environment.

         

 Words of the Week:  review

In Math, we will continue looking at solid and flat shapes.  Please point out real world solid and flat shapes when driving or walking around town.  Please work on counting and writing numbers to 10 and beyond.  

In Writer's Workshop, students will be editing and publishing a story this week.  We will celebrate on Tuesday, Nov. 26th.  Students will bring in a stuffed animal to read their story to and read them to their buddy class.

          Star of the Day:  

                I will be sending a note home today about our new assignment for Star of the Day. This is not a stuffed animal share.  Please have your child bring in either a picture, award, souvenir, trophy, etc. that is a special moment or event that they can explain and share.  Please return as soon as you can.  

Reminders: 

Regular schedule for Kindergarten next week!

No centers until Dec. 2

Spirit day: Wednesday, Nov. 20 (sports day)

Have a great week!  

Hello Kindergarten Families,

Conferences are coming up!  Please arrive 5 mins early so that we can start on time and end on time.  Thank you for all of your support this year!  I'm looking forward to another fun trimester with this adorable and sweet class! I will be sending home your conference time reminders in their folders on Tuesday.

No School Monday, Nov. 11.

Language Arts:  We are continuing to blend and segment sounds to make words.  You can do this at home or in the car.  Ask them to sound out the words, For example, you say, "cat" and then they repeat with only sounds (C-A-T).  Then you can say the sounds (C-A-T) and they say the word.  Besides blending and segmenting, we are reading nonfiction books on butterflies and discussing the different stages of life cycle.  We will read the Very Hungry Caterpillar and talk about how Eric Carle, the author talks about time.  We talked about how long a butterfly lives  from egg to butterfly.

We will be beginning to talk about Thanksgiving.  We will discuss things that we are thankful for and how we can say thanks to people who have helped us.  We would like to give a big thanks to all of the families for the support in the classroom with donations to class funds, parent help for centers and parties, and supporting our school with fundraisers! 

Handwriting: We are finishing up our last handwriting letters of the alphabet and will begin reviewing how we write letters in modeled writing. Some students are still needing practice in writing letters of their name.  We have started writing sentences using capital at beginning of the sentence and having spaces between words.  This is something we will continue to practice.  We will be using different types of paper to show them where the letters should be on the lines.

Words of the Week:  play, here

In Math, will start doing our "Number of the Day" poster to strengthen our math strategies.  We are studying solid shapes now, and the students will go on a "shape hunt".  Please continue to practice number writing, and remember, reversals are normal at this age.

In Writer's Workshop, we will continue writing about "first moments".  We  are learning about how to write a story and what it needs to be a story.  Students will continue stretching out words and writing down the sounds that they hear.  Students will pick one of their stories to finish the writing process of editing and then publishing their piece.  We will celebrate in a couple weeks with our buddies.

Reminders:

No school Monday, Nov. 11.

Conference Week: November 18-22

Thanksgiving break Wed. Nov. 27-29

Morning Assembly: Dec. 4

Have a fantastic three day weekend!