Kindergarten Newsletter
October 28th – November 1st
We
are going to keep right on moving. We will celebrate Halloween and Red Ribbon
Week. We will keep moving through our ABC’s. We have a couple of people
that
are
close
to
mastery but that typically take at
least until Christmas at the soonest. When I say mastery, I mean can fluently
give the letter and the sound with no hesitation. This makes reading words much
easier. It’s important to not skip this step. We’ll do another letter/sound
check soon. Look out for that growth! I am so glad I made the decision to time
out on the sight words. We spent last week really digesting them and I think it
helped already. We will keep making sure we are have them down pat and I’ll add
some more soon. J
I have the new sight word cards ready to go
home.
I’m
sorry
if
they
don’t
match
the
color of the previous
cards.
Just
cut
them
out
and
put
them
in
your
toolkit.
We will keep working on decoding
and blending words with /a/ and /i/
right now. We’ll keep working through our math numbers to 10. We are starting
to really break down our numbers to 10. This is our secret path to
understanding addition later and
bigger numbers very soon! I
AM PROUD
TO
ANNOUCE
THAT
WE
ARE
GOING
TO
START
MOVING INTO OUR TEEN NUMBERS!!!!!
These numbers are hard! I teach them with the base ten concept. Basically, 11
is 1 ten and 1 one, 12 is 1 ten and 2 ones, etc. We’ll start slow and move on
as we need. Now that they weather is FINALLY getting cooler, please label all
jackets, coats, and sweaters! It’s
SO
hard
to
keep
up
with
jackets
in
K5. Also, if you haven’t sent back
your money for the pumpkin patch please do so ASAP! We won’t need any lunch
for
the
pumpkin
patch.
It
will
be
provided.
Look
on
the
backside
of
this
newsletter for more pumpkin patch
information.
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, of, am, it
•Letters/Sounds/Writing
A-Z, rhyming words, differentiate between a letter, words, sentence,
small/tall/fall letters, onset
and rime, decoding and blending words, and beginning
and ending sounds
•Numbers
0-15:
how to write them, making numbers to 10 in different ways, more and less
Upcoming
Events:
•10/27:
Wear something RED
•10/28:
Wear CRAZY
socks
•10/30:
National Candy Corn Day!!!
•10/31:
Raines’ 6th Birthday!!!
•10/31:
Halloween!!!!! – Halloween Party at Backyard Orchards
•No
lunch needed
(will be
provided)
•Please
NO Halloween
costumes. Wear your new K5 tribe shirt with shorts/jeans and shoes that can get
dirty!
•You
are dismissed
after the
party. I will be going back to
school if your kiddo needs to come back until the end of the day though.
•We
will leave
school at 8:15. You can come and follow me OR meet us there at 8:30.
•11/1:
dress like a Hippie!
•11/1-
$1 for ice cream and $1 for smash
the car
•11/5:
National
Donut Day!!!
•11/7:
Harper Lee’s 6th
Birthday!!!
•11/11:
No School
•11/14:
National
Pickle 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!
•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
•PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE LABEL JACKETS!
•Secret
Tips:
•Don’t
forget to be working with your toolkit! Especially those sight words!
•Go
ahead and start using those cubes in your toolkit and starting making words! We
are making words at school and they are LOVING it! This
will be
something we do ALL year!
•WORD
GAMES!!!
•Guess
my word-
give your child clues to a word you are thinking of. It rhymes with . . . It starts with . . . It would be used
to describe . . .
•Beach
ball words-
write words on a beach ball. Toss it to your child. Have them read the word
under their right thumb and toss it back.
•Magnetic
letters- make words on your
mini-fridge in your
toolkit.
•Sock
game- put
word
cards on the floor. Have your child stand in their socks. Call out the word and
see how quickly they can step on it!
•Shaving
cream- put shaving cream on a plate! Use your finger to make words.
