Kindergarten Newsletter
September 30th - October 4th
Homecoming
is
over!
We had
a
blast
and
made some FUN memories! I
was
dog
tired
by
Friday
after
the
game!
Emerson and JT did a wonderful job
representing our K5 class. I am so proud of them. We will keep moving
through our alphabet, working with some
rhyming, sight words, working
on handwriting,
and diving deeper into our numbers to 10. We will work with things like before
and after,
making
different ways
to
make
10. It’s hard to say on numbers
0-10 because it gets monotonous but I have to keep telling myself that they
need a firm understanding of how to recognize, write, and manipulate these
numbers to understand the bigger numbers. We are entering a new reading unit
too. We will spend some time talking about weather. It’s pretty fun in
kindergarten because the will learn more than *** what’s the wear like today, like
today, like today…. *** We’ll talk
about the types of weather, about how weather is formed, and the effects of the
sun to just name a few. We are also jumping on into the “holiday season”. From
now until after Christmas we have a holiday and we surely ENJOY them in
kindergarten. In October we celebrate Halloween of course but we’ll talk about
bats, spiders, and do some pumpkin investigations! I would like to ask a favor!
For our pumpkin investigations we use different types of pumpkins. If you don’t
mind sending a pumpkin that would be GREATLY appreciated. I need different
types/colors/sizes/textures. Walmart has green, white, and orange. I’ve seen
some neat ones
at
Lowe’s and Home Depot. If you
decide to pick up one PLEASE text me so I can be sure we don’t end up with 5
green ones! We will need them by October 11th.
Things
to work on:
•Sight
Words:
•red,
orange, yellow, the, a, green, blue, is, go, purple, pink, white, black, had, I
, see, brown, he, and, gray,
has, you, we
•
•Letters/Sounds/Writing
A-Z, rhyming words, differentiate between a letter, word, and sentence,
small/tall/fall letters
•Numbers
0-10 : id, writing, before/after, making
10
•Upcoming
Events:
•10/3-
Pom Pom
Practice 3-4pm
•10/4-
Pink Out : Wear PINK
•10/4:
Scholastic Order due
•10/4:
National Taco Day!!!!
•10/4:
$1 for ice cream
•10/7:
No School for kiddos
•10/8:
Pom Pom
Practice: 3-4pm
•10/10:
JT’s 5th
Birthday!
•10/11:
Wear NEON!
•10/11:
$1 for ice cream
•10/18:
Wear CAMO!
•10/18:
$1 for ice cream
•10/25:
Wear HAWAIIAN!
•10/25:
$1 for ice cream
•10/30:
National Candy Corn Day!!!
•10/31:
Raines’ 5th
Birthday!!!
•10/31:
Halloween!!!!!
•Reminders:
•Don’t
forget to be collecting box tops! Box tops=free money for LSC!!
•PLEASE
don’t forget drinks in your kiddos lunchboxes to have a lunch time.
•If
you have any gently loved uniforms that you’d like to get rid of please
consider donating to the school. We have a $5 spot where anyone can come and
purchase uniforms!
•Idea:
Send a thermos of water for the playground. It helps to have a bottle to bring
out to the playground during these HOT days!
•Don’t forget to send nap mats back after we wash! J
•Please sign
and return those “sign and return” papers asap. I use these to guide
instruction and would love to have them back. If you want/need a copy let me
know! I’ll be glad to send one! J
•Secret
Tips:
•Your
toolkit has a “fridge” and a container with magnetic letters. Please feel free
to use those to work on letters and sounds. This is another neat way to
practice. You can just lay the letters
out on the table and give your kiddos a letter sound. Have them find the letter
that it matches with and have them place it on the fridge.
•Use
the vowel and consonant cubes to work with letter id as well. If you kiddos has
the letter id down pat then move on to sounds. We want these sounds to be as
fluid at possible because when they start reading we do not want them spending
“brain power” trying to remember the sound.