Alphabet: *We will practice the capitol and lowercase letters. Your child needs to be able to say the sound for each letter and write each capitol and lowercase letter for the Kindergarten Assessment and ABC club!
Word Wall:
*We will practice the sight words “say” and “up”. Practice! Practice! Your child needs to be able to read 25 Kindergarten sight words to be in the sight word club!
Math:
*We will practice calendaring skills, counting to 50, counting by 10s, 5s, 2s, 3s, one to one correspondence, graphing, patterning, phonemic awareness, and phonics.
*We will review numbers 0-10 and practice numbers 11-30.
*We will review money and coin names and amounts.
*We will continue our morning work folders.
*We will work on parts of a whole and ordinal numbers.
*We will practice fewer and more, most, greatest, and least.
*We will practice how to tell the temperature on a thermometer.
*We will continue addition to 5.
*We will continue subtraction from 5.
*We will practice time to the hour.
*We will work on nonstandard measurement.
Literacy
*We will continue the Harcourt and Fontas and Pinnel literacy programs.
*We will continue our Intensive Phonics program. Please watch for the homework sheets associated with this program.
*We will discuss Beginning, Middle, and Ending of stories.
*We will predict and summarize.
*We will work on sequencing events in a story.
*We will practice asking questions.
*We will discuss book orientation and fiction and nonfiction.
*We will practice sight words and review rhyme using our Nursery Rhyme books.
*We will practice writing sounds we hear in words (beginning, middle, and end).
*We will continue decodable books from Harcourt used in our power half hour groups when ready.
*We will continue our Power Half Hour literacy groups! These groups will be four days a week and involve intensive work toward literacy skills and reading!
*We will continue to award students who get into the ABC, Sight Word, and Number Clubs! Keep working to earn these awards! Our next Flag Ceremony is March 28th! I will be sending home new club award winners soon!
*The school talent show is March 30 at 10 and 2!
*Third Term ended Friday March 16. I will be sending home a copy of your child’s progress report. Please review it with your child and return the slip to school.
*Our Spring Break is April 4-6th! NO SCHOOL on these days!
*We have scheduled a walking field trip to the Canyon Park to do a fun Easter Egg Hunt on April 2! Parents are asked to donate one bag of candy to the class for us to use in our Easter Hunt! I will provide you with more information as this date becomes closer! Parent Volunteers are welcome; so let me know if you want to help with this field trip!
*We are also planning a walking field trip to the Heritage Center to watch the play Peter Pan! This will take place on April 3rd! Students must donate $1 for a ticket to the show! Volunteers are welcome to join for $1 as well! Permission slips for these events will be coming soon! Please sign them and return ASAP!
*We will have centers on Mon., Tues, and Wed. I will be having center times on Mon. and Tues at 10:00. Centers on Wednesday will be at 9:15. I REALLY need some center parents on Wed. at 9:15. Any volunteers are welcome! All parent volunteers will need to begin signing in each time they are in the classroom to volunteer. There will be a volunteer sign in sheet next to the door of our classroom. I will show you where it is when you come to volunteer next.
Books: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick, If You Were a Plus Sigh, If You Were A Minus Sign, Rain, The Wind Blew, Weather, Rabbits and Raindrops, More Bunny Trouble, An Egg is Quiet, Hopper, In My Garden, Bunny Trouble, Easter Egg Hunt, My First Easter, I am a Bunny, The Easter Eggs, What’s The Weather
Writing:
*We will continue writer’s workshop and be writing in our Kindergarten Journals and Scribble Journals.
*We will practice proper pencil grip and handwriting.
*We will practice handwriting upper and lowercase letters and numbers to 30.
Announcements:
*READING FOLDERS are due March 26. Please be filling out your reading record, so your child can receive two new books. Remember once your child has completed 210 minutes of reading he/she will receive a prize and a new reading record! Please remember to practice the alphabet using the chart in this folder also! It is GREAT practice since we use the same chart at school!
*Please work on the next bonus sight word list and Skill Sheet #7 with your child! We are practicing these words and concepts in class! Return the skill sheet as soon as it is completed.
*Please check out our class BLOG if you need to access the newsletter. To access the blog, go to the school web page and click on Teacher Websites. Click on my name below my picture and you will see our blog!
*Just a reminder: Library is Friday so remember to return books, PE is Thursday so wear appropriate shoes, computer lab is Friday, and Book in a Bag is once a week on Tuesday. Remember to return book in a bags! I have been putting several kids into leveled books! These are books the kids can now read TO YOU!
*Our class will be collecting box tops for education. If you have any of these, please send them in a baggie in your child’s homework folder! Thank you1 *Remember that if your child is going to be missing a day of school to call the office and excuse them. In addition, if you are going to be picking up your child early, please make sure you check them out in the office before picking them up from class.
Early Out Wed. Times: AM class – 8:55-10:55. Please be on time to avoid tardies and classroom distraction.
*Birthdays: Keane 3/30
(You may bring a class treat on the day we celebrate your birthday. Please bring treats for 27 students.) Optional
Leader: Jacob Schott (We will do your poster and parent letters on Tuesday!) (You may bring a class treat on the Friday that your child is the leader. Please being treats for 27 students.) Optional
REMINDER: Please continue to remind your student to turn in their EAGLE FOLDER EVERY DAY! It would also be a good idea to remind your child on Monday to bring their blue READING FOLDER into the classroom to switch books! New books are always exciting!
HOMEWORK: We will have homework on Monday and Wednesday. Please sign your name under your child’s name on the homework sheets. That way I know you have worked on it with your child. Please make sure you DO NOT have your child do homework with a pen, marker, or crayon. Pencil is best when handwriting.
Please make sure your name is on your homework and do you BEST work!
Questions or Concerns:
sarah.george@ironmail.org
Home Phone: 586-2493
Call or come in if you have any questions
Class Themes: Weather, Seasons, Water, Animals
