Kindergarten news for the letter Xx and the week of March 12th

Kindergarten News for the week of March 12^th - 16^th

Next week we will be working on the letter Xx as in the end of fox and x-ray.  Students will go on a treasure hunt throughout the building to find the “X” that marks the spot of their hidden treasure!  This treasure hunt will be on Friday.  How exciting!!!  There will be NO Show and Tell.

I hope you enjoyed the newspaper activities this week!  Please send in my ad for a small treat! 

In reading this week we will read the story Mayday! Mayday!.  This is an informational text.  We will discuss cause and effect.  Continue to read the little books I send home for fluency practice. 

In kidwriting the children are beginning to attempt to write 2 or more sentences on their own each day!  This is scary for some children but some took right off with it! 

In math we will work with tangram pieces, identify small and large shapes, begin to measure length, graph a picture on a pictograph and explore slides, flips and turns with shapes.

***Please remember that gym is always on DAY 3---wear sneakers!

Monday will be day 1 on our rotation schedule. 

***Library day is always on day 2!  Please help your child locate his/her book so they can get a new book each week!

Kindergarten week of March 5th - 9th

Sorry folks!!  I must be rushing the month!  I have the wrong dates for my previous post, but the information is correct!!  Have a wonderful weekend!  The weather looks great for later next week!  I'm ready!

Kindergarten week of March 7th - 11th

Kindergarten News for the week of March 7^th – ^11th

This week in phonics we will be learning the letter Jj as in jar.  We will be identifying the vowel sounds heard in words.  They will begin a new take-home reader called Pig’s Jet.  We will begin to discuss what an accent is and how to find it in a word.  I will test word list 15 .

In math this week we will be making an ABBC pattern with pattern blocks, divide by sharing, comparing numbers through 10, identifying left and right, and beginning to explore tangrams.

In reading this week we will read the story Max Takes the Train. The main character of this book is Max, from Max and Ruby.  This is an animal fantasy book.  We will review the comprehension skill of realism vs. fantasy.   Watch for homework this week! And Jj show and tell. 

We enjoyed having visitors from Bloomsburg University teach us a lesson for Read Across America day! (Dr. Seuss’s Birthday!)  We also had guest readers.  We will be learning about St. Patrick’s day, reading some leprechaun stories and Irish tall tales. 

Please don’t forget to look for my ad in the classifieds this week.  Your child will get a treat if they bring it.

Please make sure your child has their library book on library day.  Some children are telling me they can’t find them. 

We wish Devin good luck in his new school and had a good-bye party for him!  We also make cookie, marshmallow and licorice Cat in the Hats!

Kindergarten News for the week of February 27th - March 2nd

Kindergarten Newsletter for February 27^th – March 2^nd  

This week in school we will be learning the letter Vv.  This is easy for the children!  They seem to understand it after Valentine’s Day!  The formation is simple too!  We will count the number of syllables in words.  We will practice the words on word list 14 each day. We will have homework again next week and we will have show and tell on Thursday!  If I ever forget to send a bag, you can use any bag and our show and tell is always on a Thursday!  When I send oral reading stories home in the purple folder, you only have to read the most recent one---not all of them!  I’ve had some questions!

In math we will be paying for items up to 50 cents using nickels.  This is difficult if your child can’t count by 5’s to 50!  We practice this every day in class.  If you see your child struggling, you may want to practice at home as well!  We will divide by sharing, identify and order numbers and compare sets of objects.  We will compare numbers up to 10.  Please review skills as they come home each day.

Monday will be day number 1.  Remember, we have gym every time it is day 3.  Your child needs sneakers to be able to take gym.

In reading we will finish Unit 4 reading a story called Abuela.  This is a fictional story about a girl and her grandmother going on an adventure flying around the city.  We will again learn the term setting. 

Congratulations to the children who did a great job with their Dinosaur project!!  Many children helped us all learn more about their chosen dinosaur. 

We will celebrate Read Across America day on Friday March 2^nd .  We will have guest student teachers from Bloomsburg University come to teach a lesson using a Dr. Seuss book!  I would like to invite any parent to come in to visit and read at the end of any day except a Thursday.  (We have reading buddies on a Thursday at the end of the day!)  This could happen any day after 2:45.  Please let me know if you are interested!  It does not have to be a Dr. Seuss book, but I do have a large collection of them if you would like to choose one!    

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Kindergarten News for the week of February 20th - 24th

Kindergarten News for the Week of February 21st – 24th
There is no school for students on Friday- February 17th or on Monday- February 20th .
In phonics next week we will be learning the letter Dd. We will be doing dinosaur projects and your child should have a paper with the dinosaur name they selected and their assigned date. We will not have our regular show and tell. We only have 6 more alphabet letters to learn. The girls are anxiously waiting to be queens for a day when we learn the letter Qq! Unfortunately, it is the last letter we learn! Don’t forget to study the next word list that was also in your child’s folder today!
In math we will be learning the following math concepts: identifying nickels, counting by 5’s to 100, comparing events according to duration of time, counting nickels to 25 cents and paying for objects up to 25 cents, identifying a cylinder and ordering objects by height, and making ABC patterns.
In reading we will begin reading the story If You Could Go to Antarctica. This is an earth science story and is considered an informational text. We will learn to classify and categorize.
Book orders are due to me by Thursday – February 23rd if you are interested in buying anything. You may also order them online. Use my code when entering your order on Scholastic.com .
A big “Thank You” to the homeroom mothers for planning a great Valentine party!! We had a wonderful time. Thank you also for sending in party money!
I did want to let you know that our school phone system was down last week and I lost all messages in my voice mail box! If you even call me and I don’t get back to you, please call back! Sometimes in this world of technology, these things happen!

Kindergarten week of February 6th - 10th

Kindergarten News for the week of February 6th – 10th
We will have our Valentine Party on Tuesday- Feb 14th . Your child should make sure they have a valentine for everybody in our class and bring them on Monday morning. Just in case you haven’t done the Valentine cards yet, it’s easier if you would please PRINT all names. The children cannot read cursive writing!
In math this week we will be copying line segments and designs of varying complexity on a geoboard. We will measure objects using nonstandard units. We will also be making patterns more difficult by making ABC patterns.
In phonics we will learn the letter Ee as in elephant and equal. Some of the concepts that will be reviewed this week are same/different words, rhyming, alphabetizing words and recognizing the /e/ when heard in words. The sound is difficult for the letter /e/! We will practice. In reading next week we will be reading a story One Little Mouse. This is considered a rhyming/concept book. We will discuss the sequence of this story. We will also discuss the concept of consonant blends.
Please check the note in your child’s folder that will tell you about the special dress days for Bully Awareness Week!
We learned how to make predictions this week for Groundhog day and the super bowl!!
Monday is day 3 on our rotation week! We have gym! Please wear or bring sneakers!