November News Letter

Kindergarten News Letter

November

November 2nd-End of Term 1 November 5th-Teacher Work Day, No School for Students November 6th-Election Day, No School November 21-25-Thanksgiving Break, School Closed

Welcome Tiffany Carpenter

Please welcome Tiffany Carpenter who is taking over for Mrs. Ramsburg while she is on maternity leave.

 

Report Cards

Report cards for Quarter 1 will be coming home mid-month.  The report card is a snapshot into your child’s progress for the first 9 weeks of school.  It provides feedback on their mastery of skills directly taught during the Quarter and is based on the Quarter 1 expectations.

 

Language Arts

Students are continuing to work on recognizing basic sight words, identifying letters and letter sounds, recognizing rhyming words, segmenting and blending syllables and compound words and using letter sounds in their writing.

Literature

This month we will focus on literary (fiction) text and understanding story elements such as character, setting, problem and solution.  Students will also work on their oral language skills by discussing books read aloud as a class and with a partner. 

Math

Throughout Quarter 2, students will be describing objects by measurable attributes such as length and weight.  They will be using vocabulary such as “more of/less of, taller/shorter,etc.” Students will also be learning postitional words such as “above, below, beside, in front of, behind and next.”   By the end of Quarter 2 in January, students will be expected to count to 20 by ones and to write numbers 0-20.

 

Intervention/Enrichment Block

Kindergarten students have just begun to switch classes Monday-Thursday for 30 minutes per day for our Intervention and Enrichment Block.  The students are in groups based on their current needs.  Some of the skills the groups are working on are: letter recognition and sounds, sight word practice, oral language skills, fine motor skills, social skills and enrichment reading and writing.  After 4 weeks, our groups will change and the focus will be on current math needs until we return to a language arts focus for the following 4 weeks.

 

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!

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. As the season changes, please make sure that the extra clothes you child has at home are appropriate for the weather.

¨       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!!!