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.