Kindergarten Newsletter

September 16th - September 20th  

We have flown all around the world and back again! I am so glad that we do that unit because the kiddos have such a great time with it! It’s so eye opening and they LOVE learning about people that are different and similar to themselves. We will stop our journey for now and pickup a new journey. Our second unit is on kindness. It’s such an important unit because in the crazy world we live in today we need to teach our children the value of kindness. We are going to continue working on rhyming and introduce the idea of a letter, word, and a sentence. It’s a basic concept but it is very important for them to recognize the difference. We will also talk about what makes a sentence or not (very basic – like does that make sense or not). I’ve put sent 2 of the sight word sentence in your binders. I did not take out set 1 because it’s very likely your kiddos hasn’t mastered those yet. If they have WONDERFUL! I’m going to do another letter and sound check this week as well. You’ll see some growth for sure! J We will continue working on our numbers 0-10. We are identifying, writing, counting, making, etc. and so on! It’s very important for us to be able to do ALL these things before we move on to those PESKY TEEN NUMBERS!!!! We need class dues as soon as you can! We are ordering a special K5 t-shirt for field trips and such. We take several “messy” field trips and do not want to ruin uniforms! Please send your child’s shirt size asap too!! J J J We also have picture day on September 18th. These are our yearbook photos so we are required to wear our uniforms. We will be able to dress in our choice in the spring pictures. We have pictures at 9:00 so we will still be nice and pretty/handsome before we go play at PE!  

•Upcoming Events:

•9/17- Homecoming Shirt Order Due w/ payment

•9/18- Picture Day!! Wear UNIFORMS!

•9/19- National Talk like a Pirate Day

•9/20- $1 for ice cream

•9/20- Projects coming back home!

•9/23- First Day of Fall!

•9/26- Johnny Appleseed Day!!!

•9/23-9/27- Homecoming Week!!

•Monday: Let’s go over the rainbow! WEAR pink!

•Tuesday: Which is Which?! Dress like one of your teachers, administrators, or coaches!

•Wednesday: lions, tigers, bears, OH MY! Dress as your favorite animal!

•Thursday: twister, wacky Thursday! Dress in your wacky tacky attire!

•Friday: There’s no place like Lakeside! Wear your HC shirt or LSC gear!

•9/27- $1 for ice cream

•10/1- Pom Pom Practice 3-4pm

•10/4- Pink Out : Wear PINK

•10/4: Scholastic Order due

•10/4: National Taco Day!!!!

•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!

•Secret Tips:

•Use your witch fingers, eye glasses, pointer light, or just your finger to practice reading. It is so important for us to be able to point to a word to read. That is a very developmental step that will come with practice. It will also go away when your child becomes a fluent reader (between 2nd and 4th grade-ish). Please help me reinforce this reading strategy.

•If you kiddos is starting to “memorize” these sight word sentences feel free to do them out of order or make up your own! You could even use your sight word cards in your toolkit to physically build sentences like the one on the left (The orange container.)

•Go ahead and use the sight word cards in your toolkit. I’ll get the other half to you soon!

•We like to “battle” with these words in class. I literally throw them in the floor and we have a partner to race to find the word that I call out. Simple but they are OBSESSED! You can do this at home. Another fun activity is to use the finger light to “shine” on the word card being called out. If you think of some fun activity PLEASE share it with me!!!

•Don’t forget that when we are writing our letters to do your best to promote correct letter formation! There is a paper in your binder that helps with this.