Some Student Work Samples!

Such GREAT work! So sorry about the red line. My scanner was having some problems.

Cute Kids At The Park!

Reflections!

Reflections time once again! We would like to invite you to encourage your students to enter this year! There are eight different categories and students can enter as many as they want, but not twice in the same category. The categories are as follows: dance choreography, film production, literature, musical composition, photography, visual arts, theater, and 3D.

This years theme is "The Magic of a Moment..." and entries are due in the office by 4 P.M. on Friday, October 26th. 

Please remind your students that they can't have their name on the front of their work. There are other specific rules and guidelines for each category and you can see them online at www.utahpta.org, click on Reflections on the left hand side, or you can pick up a list of the rules in Mrs. Isom's office. 

A Few Reminders on Reading, Sight Words, and Skill Sheets!

I just wanted to remind everyone to be working on their reading calendars (blue sheets), sight word lists (orange sheets), and monthly skill sheets (green sheets). Make sure you are reading with your student for a minimum of 15-20 minutes each night and recording your reading time in the reading folder using the blue reading record. Please write the title of the book, time read, and initial in the space. Students who consistently return their reading folders and blue record sheets will receive prizes in the folders! Great job so far! Remember orange reading folders are due each first day of the week! Remind your student to turn it in!

Next, make sure you are practicing the sight words each night. Please sign the slip and return it to school with the list when your child is ready to pass it off! Sight word list #2 will be coming in October!

Finally, please work with your child on passing off each section on the green skill sheet. Sign the bottom and return it to school as soon as you have completed the sheet and your child has mastered each concept! A new skill sheet will be coming next month! Good luck! We are making progress and diving in to new concepts!

Sign and Label Activity!

Attention Parents:

We have been learning a lot about signs, labels and environmental print in our class. We will be reading a book called I Read Signs and creating a class sign and label book. I would like each child to bring three signs and/or labels to class by Tuesday, Sept. 18. Examples of signs and labels include: well known cereal labels, snacks, or foods (Lucky Charms, Cheerios, fruit snacks, McDonalds, etc.) and pictures of environmental print or signs in the community (stop signs, cross walk signs, exit signs, etc.) As long as your child can recognize the sign or label, I will accept it. Please cut out the labels and signs, so they will fit inside an envelope with your child’s name on the front. I will collect these labels on Tuesday and we will create a class book on Wednesday. Thanks for all you do! 

Mrs. George

The Kindergarten Core

Mrs. George’s Class News

September 17-21

Core Curriculum

Word Wall: 

*We practice the sight word “a”.

Alphabet:

We will practice letters D and E. We will write the upper and lowercase letters and practice their sounds.

Math: 

*We will practice calendaring skills, counting to 10 by ones and tens, one to one correspondence, graphing, shapes, patterning, and colors.

*We will practice counting and writing numbers to 10. We will work on 3 and 4. We will practice counting, writing and manipulating these numbers. 

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 work on syllables.

*We will work on rhyming. 

*We will learn color words.

*We will learn about parts of a sentence.

*We will discuss book orientation and fiction and nonfiction.

*We will work with environmental print. 

Books: Brown Bear Brown Bear, Mrs. Bindergarten Gets Ready For Kindergarten, Curious George At School, Look Out Kindergarten Here I Come!, Mouse Paint, Little Blue and Little Yellow, Chrysanthemum, Moo Moo Brown Cow, 

Writing: 

*We will continue Writer’s Workshop and continue drawing and writing in our Kindergarten Journals. 

*We will practice handwriting skills and proper pencil grip. 

Event Picking

* Reading Folders are Due Monday Sept. 17. Please work on filling out your reading record, so your child can receive two new books. Prizes will be given weekly and monthly for students who complete their reading!

*Our first Dibels literacy assessment has been rescheduled to this week! I will be sending these scores home along with your child’s beginning Kindergarten Assessment as soon as all the scores are compiled. 

*Please check the class blog! Go to the school web page and click on faculty. Click on my name below my picture and you will see our blog!

*Please work on skill sheet #1 with your child, sign the paper, and return the sheet at the end of the month. I will send home a skill sheet each month until the end of the year! Thank you! I have now received three skill sheets! Keep up the good work!

*Please practice Sight Word List 1 with your child. When he/she is ready to pass off the list, return it with the signed slip! Students need to be able to read each word fluently to pass off the list. One student has already passed off list 1!

*We will have a vision screening on Tuesday Sept. 18. 

*Our first Flag Ceremony will be Friday Sept. 28. 

*We have ANOTHER change of plans for our library day. The library will be used ALL week to do Dibels testing, so we will NOT be going to the library again until Monday, September 24.  We were able to go once last week on Tues. Sept. 11, but we did NOT check out any books yet.

*P.E. and Music day is every Thursday! Wear appropriate shoes for PE.

Early Out Wed. Times: AM class – 8:55-10:55. Please be on time to avoid tardies and classroom distraction.

*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. 

Apple Of My Eye!

*Birthdays: None

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

Leader: Easton (You may bring a class treat on the Friday that your child is the leader. Please being treats for 27 students.) Optional

I just want to express how AMAZING I think these kids are! They are growing and learning new things each day, and becoming better and better at classroom routines and procedures! AWESOME!

Questions or Concerns: 

sarah.george@ironmail.org

Home Phone: 586-2493

Call or come in if you have any questions

Homework: We will have homework on Monday and Wednesday this week! Please remember to have your child do the homework neatly in pencil and sign your name under theirs, so I know you have looked at it! Homework needs to be done NEATLY WITH BEST HANDWRITING! I will NOT accept sloppy homework. 

Evacuation Drill

On Friday September 14, we will be having a practice Evacuation Drill. The purpose of the drill is to have a meeting place for all students at our school if there were ever a reason that we needed to evacuate the building. We will be walking to Canyon Park, which is our school meeting place. We will then return to school for the reminder of the day.