Kindergarten News:

 

Important Dates:

 

October 8th – 2 hour early dismissal for students October 16th – Field trip to the Pumpkin Patch October 18th – Evening parent teacher conferences October 19th – SCHOOLS CLOSED ( State/regional educational training)

Language Arts

Kindergarteners are working on basic sight words that are necessary for students to read with fluency.  Some of those words are I, the, and, we, will, go, to, like, up and you.  You can encourage your child to find those words in books and poems that you read together and even in signs and labels that you see around your house or neighborhood.  Also, they are working on instant recognition of the alphabet and on letter sounds.  Songs are sung about the sound letters make; hopefully your child will come home and be able to sing them to you. Students will also learn how to identify and generate rhyming words. 

Literature

Our language arts focus this month will be on reading informational text.  We will be looking at how non-fiction books look different from fiction books and how they are used for different purposes.  We will be reading about fall things such as apples, pumpkins and scarecrows. Students will use the details from these nonfiction books to write facts about apples, pumpkins and scarecrows. 

Math

The focus this quarter is on giving students many meaningful opportunities to develop their sense of numbers and quantities, read and write numbers to ten (and beyond),  to count and compare amounts, and to measure objects by comparing them directly.

Social Studies

We are working on a unit about being helpers at home and at school.  The unit also focuses on how we work together, take care of things and listen to others.

Science

Students have been learning about Matter and Heat.  For example, they will be describing objects by using their five senses.  Next, they will learn what happens when an object experiences a change in temperature.

 

Thursday Folder

Please be sure to review the papers and empty the folder.  The folder needs to be returned to school the next day.

Library books are due on the morning of your Students’ media lesson special.  Please try to help your child remember his/her book.  The children need to return their book before checking out a new book. Happy reading!

 Cafeteria

Please help us by reviewing the cafeteria rules at home.

1) Stay in your seat and raise your hand if you need anything (i.e. utensils, bathroom)

2) Use quiet, indoor voices

3) Use walking feet in the cafeteria

4) Keep your hands to yourself

5) Throw away all trash

6) Listen when an adult is giving directions over the microphone

Notes and Reminders

 

¨       If there is a transportation change, please send a note to school with your child.  If there is an emergency change, please fax or email the request, followed by a phone call to the office prior to 2:00 p.m.

¨       If your child is absent, please send a note in explaining their absence.

¨       Please provide a change of clothes (including socks), marked with your child’s name, in their backpack.

¨       Please return the emergency transportation form to your child’s teacher as soon as possible

¨       Please read and return your students reading bag and sight word cards each day.  We use the little books during reading group each morning. 

¨       Please check your student’s take-home folder each night. 

¨       Please keep the monthly behavior chart in your students take home folder. This is how we communicate if your student received a warning, reflection, documentation or office referral. 

 

Happy Fall!!!