Newsletter for Nov. 7-11

Curriculum  

Alphabet: *We will practice the capitol and lowercase letters. We will introduce R and S,  and practice handwriting and sounding those letters in our ABC books!

Word Wall: 

*We will practice the sight word “you”.

Math: 

*We will practice calendaring skills, counting to 10, counting by 10s, 5s, and 2s, one to one correspondence, graphing, patterning, phonemic awareness, and shapes. 

*We will work in our number books.

*We will practice sorting and classifying.

*We will continue our morning work folders. 

Literacy

*We will continue the Harcourt and Fontas and Pinnel literacy programs.

*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 writing sounds we hear in words (beginning, middle, and end). 

*We will continue decodable books from Harcourt.

*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 centers this week! I REALLY need my Wednesday volunteers to come this week so I can discuss times with you! It is very difficult to run centers with only a couple volunteers, so if you are able to come, please do so and we can discuss a possible time change that may make centers a little better on Wednesday. Centers this week are Mon., Tues., and Wed., from 10-10:30.

Books: I have various fall and Thankful books, Too Many Pumpkins, A Tree For All Seasons, Pumpkin Pumpkin, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves, etc.  

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 10.

*We will work on writing our last names.

Announcements: 

*READING FOLDERS are due Nov. 7!

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! I am looking for a new mom to help with reading on Mondays! Let me know if you are interested!

*Thanksgiving Break will be Nov. 23-25! NO School on these days!

*Please return your turkey projects ASAP!!

*First term ended Oct. 19. I will be sending progress reports soon! Please watch for these important papers coming home! You will need to sign and return that you have received them!

*Please work on Sight Word List #3 and Skill Sheet #3 with your child! We are practicing these words and concepts in class! Return the skill sheet as soon as it is completed. Make sure to sign each area the child has mastered. 

*Please review test items with your child, so you know what to work on for the next test! 

*Blog! Blog! Blog!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! I have been doing a lot of work on the blog! It is starting to look REALLY good! Jump on the web and check it out!

*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 you!
*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  Jacob 11/7 

(You may bring a class treat on the day we celebrate your birthday. Please bring treats for 27 students.) Optional

Leader: Mayce Dalton (You may bring a class treat on the Friday that your child is the leader. Please being treats for 26 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!

Questions or Concerns: 

sarah.george@ironmail.org

Home Phone: 586-2493

Call or come in if you have any questions

Class Themes: Thanksgiving, Turkeys, All about Me, Seasons, Fall, 5 Senses, healthy foods

Thanksgiving Turkey Family Art Project

I would like the parents of our Kindergarten students to help their child with a fun art project. Please help your child cut out, glue, and decorate their turkey. You can use any materials you would like. Examples include: macaroni, beads, fabric, cereal, stickers, foam, feathers, paper, crayons, markers, paint, yarn, newspaper, etc. Be creative and use your imagination! Return the turkey to school as soon as it is completed. The final due date is Monday November 7! We will display our turkeys until Thanksgiving. Thanks for all your help! I am so excited to see the finished products!

Newsletter for Oct. 31 - Nov. 4

Curriculum
Alphabet: *We will practice the capitol and lowercase letters. We will introduce P and Q ,  and practice handwriting and sounding those letters in our ABC books!
Word Wall:
*We will practice the sight word “of”.

Math:
*We will practice calendaring skills, counting to 10, counting by 10s and 5s, one to one correspondence, graphing, patterning, phonemic awareness, and shapes.
*We will work in our number books.
*We will practice sorting and classifying.
*We will continue our morning work folders.

Literacy
*We will continue the Harcourt and Fontas and Pinnel literacy programs.
*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 writing sounds we hear in words (beginning, middle, and end).
*We will continue decodable books from Harcourt.
*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 centers this week! I am considering changing the Wednesday center time to 9:15. I will talk with the Wednesday volunteers this week to discuss if this time would work for them. Let me know what you think!

Books: I have various fall and Halloween picture books, Too Many Pumpkins, A Tree For All Seasons, Pumpkin Pumpkin, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves, Skelton and the Mummy, The Biggest Pumpkin, etc.

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 10.

Announcements: 

*READING FOLDERS are due Oct. 31!

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!

*We have a field trip planned for November 4 to the SUU Braithwaite Art Gallery. Please sign and return the field trip permission slip so your student can attend! If you are interested in coming along, please let me know ASAP! 

*First term ended Oct. 19. I will be sending progress reports soon! Please watch for these important papers coming home! You will need to sign and return that you have received them!

*The school Halloween carnival is Oct. 28^th! I hope to see you there!

*We will have a Net Safety presentation on Nov 2^nd to teach kids safety skills while on the internet.

*We will have a bus safety presentation on Nov. 1. The bus garage personnel will be visiting our school to teach us bus safety rules!

*Please work on Sight Word List #2 and Skill Sheet #2 with your child! We are practicing these words and concepts in class! Return the skill sheet as soon as it is completed. Make sure to sign each area the child has mastered. I have attached the Nov. skill sheet and sight word list #3.

*Please review test items with your child, so you know what to work on for the next test! 

*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 Faculty. Click on my name below my picture and you will see our blog! I have been doing a lot of work on the blog! It is starting to look REALLY good! Jump on the web and check it out!

*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  None 

(You may bring a class treat on the day we celebrate your birthday. Please bring treats for 27 students.) Optional

Leader: Freya Carlson for Oct. 31-Nov. 4 (You may bring a class treat on the Friday that your child is the leader. Please being treats for 26 students.) Optional

Our class Halloween party is Oct. 31^st! Here are the treat assignments:

Mayce: 1 bag of Oreo double stuff cookies or Oreo Orange Halloween cookies

Freya: 1 jar orange icing and sprinkles

Aiden B.: 1 jar orange icing and sprinkles

Bekcham: 1 bag pretzel sticks

Moroni: 1 bag chocolate chips

AJ: 30 wrapped candies of choice

Abey: 30 wrapped candies of choice

Joshulynn: 30 wrapped candies of choice

Skyler: 30 wrapped candies of choice

Moises: 30 wrapped candies of choice

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 Tuesday and Thursday. 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. 

Halloween Party!

I am SUPER excited about our class Halloween Party! We will be playing Alphabet Bingo, using sorting and classifying skills to sort types of candy into treat bags, playing a spider game to review literacy concepts like rhyme, beginning sound, blending, and segmenting, and we will be making a FUN Halloween snack! We will be using oreos, pretzels, frosting, chocolate chips, and sprinkles! If you were asked to bring one of these items, please make sure to have it to school on or before October 31!  Thanks!


Our spider snacks will look somewhat like this, with a few alternate ingredients! The kids will LOVE them!

100 Days Feb. 10th!

In Kindergarten, we will be celebrating the 100^th day of school on Thursday Feb. 10! Along with this celebration, we are challenging our students to gather 100 different autographs before the 100^th day of school! Schoolmates, teachers, classroom visitors, staff members, family members, and neighbors can gather these autographs. Students who complete this activity will receive a special prize!

Valentine Party Note!

Dear Parents,

Our class Valentine Party exchange will be Monday February 14^th! Please send valentines for _25-pm 22-am__ students. There is no need for you to fill in the “To” section of the Valentine; however, please allow your child to fill in the “From” section with his/her name. That way when we pass out Valentines, it will be easy for each child to receive one from everyone in the class! We will be making Valentine bags at school to put all our special cards and treats in!

In addition, we will be decorating Valentine cookies that day. The following is a list of students who need to furnish items for this party:

AM Class

15 Unfrosted sugar cookies             Ashlee

15 Unfrosted sugar cookies             Braden

1 container pink frosting              Brynlie

1 container pink frosting               Audrey/Jessica

Sprinkles and 25 plastic knives        Carlos/Lindie

PM Class

15 Unfrosted sugar cookies             Laynee

15 Unfrosted sugar cookies             Abraham

1 container pink frosting              Daniel/Mason L.

1 container pink frosting              Michael/Tylan

Sprinkles and 25 plastic knives        Keilin

One final note: Feb. 9 is our 100^th day of school in Kindergarten! We will be doing some special activities that day to celebrate it! 

Curriculum  

Word Wall:

*We will practice/review the capitol and lowercase letters.

Students need to be recognizing, writing, and able to make the sound for each upper and lower case letter.

*We will practice the sight word “for”.

Math:

*We will practice calendaring skills, counting by 10s, 5s, 2s, graphing, and shapes.

*We will continue time to the hour, and learning about analog clocks and digital clocks.

*We will learn about numbers 0-30.

*We will practice patterning.

*We will practice one to one correspondence.

*We will work on fewer and more.

*We will continue estimation. I will continue sending home estimation jars for the kids to worki on. Please watch for these jars coming home. There will be a sheet explaining what to do with the jar when it is your turn to estimate.

*We will continue addition.

*We will continue learning about money and coin values.

*We will begin part/whole lessons.

Literacy

*We will continue the Harcourt and Fontas and Pinnel literacy programs.

*We will continue the Intensive Phonics program. Please watch for the homework sheets associated with this program.

*We will continue our Nursery Rhyme book.

*We will be learning about sentence structure.

*We will work on beginning, middle, and ending sounds, and rhyming.

*We will discuss sounds we hear in words and segmenting sounds.

*We will continue nonsense words.

*We will continue our predecodable books.

*We will discuss Beginning, Middle, and Ending of stories. We will discuss characters, setting, problem, and solution.

*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 continue our POWER HALF HOUR GROUPS! POWER HALF HOUR CONSISTS OF INTENSIVE SMALL GROUP WORK TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR READING SUCCESS!

Books: Snowflake Bentley, Various winter, snow, Heart of the Arctic, Tacky the Penguin, The Money Book, and mitten books, Various alphabet books to celebrate our completion of the ABC book!

Writing:

*We will be working in our scribble journals and our Kindergarten Journals.

*We will practice handwriting skills.

*We will continue writing stories to share with the class!

These will be homework assignments. Please watch for them coming home!

	Class Themes: Comprehension (Predicting, Summarizing, Questioning), winter, snow, mittens, Alphabet, Mapping, Bears, Hibernation, Penguins, Groundhog Day

 

Announcements:

*READING FOLDERS are due Feb. 7! Please have the reading record filled out, so your child can receive two new books and a new reading record.

*Please work on your GOLDEN SNEAKER! Make sure your child’s name is on their calendar!

*Second term has ended. Attached are the progress reports as well as test scores from the Kindergarten assessment and Dibels assessment.

*Please work on the FEB. skills sheet and sight word list! I have had a couple parents interested in getting flash cards for the first three lists. I have attached these today.

*Valentine’s Day is Monday FEB 14!!!! We will be having a Valentine Party and exchanging valentines! I will send you a list of who is on this party committee and a note explaining what to do for Valentines Day exchange on Mon Feb. 7!!!! Please be watching for this!

*We have a student teacher in our classroom! Her name is Mrs. Dodds. She is excellent! She is doing a unit on mapping for the students. We are enjoying her in the classroom!

*We will continue our Book In A Bag program. Students will receive a book in a plastic zip lock bag each Tuesday. The book must be read that night and parents will initial on the slip provided in the bag. The book may be returned the next day or during the week. As long as it comes back before the next Tuesday, the child will receive a new book. These books are to be read by parent to students.

 *Remember that computer day is Tuesday and Music and P.E. are on Thursday. Wear appropriate shoes for P.E.

*Library Day is Monday. Please return your books each Monday!

*I will continue sending home the Bear Bag activity backpacks. If your child is chosen for a Bear Bag, please complete the activities and return the bag on the date indicated. Students may receive the bag if they are consistent with turning in homework, and their reading and homework folders.

*Our school is now collecting box tops. Please send any that you have collected in your child’s homework folder.

*Please check our class BLOG if you need to access the newsletter. To access the blog, go to the school web page and click on Faculty. Click on my name below my picture and you will see our blog! I intend to post the newsletter each week as well as class pictures and upcoming events as I become more confident with blogging! I think it will be a lot of fun1

*Classroom volunteers will continue this week! Remember that I have volunteers for Monday and Friday coming from 9:30-10:00. I had to change those two days to accommodate for power half hour. This ONLY affects Friday and Monday Volunteers. The other days will remain the same.  *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.

*Remember EARLY OUT WEDNESDAY! A.M. schedule is 8:55 to 10:55. P.M.

Please be on time to avoid tardies and classroom distraction.

*Birthdays:  Luis  2/10

(You may bring a class treat on the day we celebrate your birthday. Please bring treats for 25 students.) Optional

Leader: Kameron and Nathan (You may bring a class treat on the Friday that your child is the leader. Please being treats for 25 students.) Optional

Progress Report

Academic: Areas of concern will be circled, and I

will add comments if needed.

Alphabet                    Writing

Literacy                    Math

Sight Words                Homework

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Behavior:

Satisfactory                Needs Improvement

_____________________________________________________________________________________________

HOMEWORK: We will have homework on Monday and Wednesday. Please make sure you SIGN YOUR NAME under your child’s name on the homework. 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.

Questions or Concerns:

sarah.george@ironmail.org

Home Phone: 586-2493

Call or come in if you have any questions