Kindergarten Newsletter

      October 7th - October 11th  

I hope you enjoyed your 3 day weekend!! I learned a lot at our conferences in Montgomery but would have much rather been with my K5 babies!!  I feel like this year is going by wwwaaayyy too fast!  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 will do some skill checks this week. I’m going to check sight words, letters/sounds, and a few other things. These are easy and kiddos do not even know that we are “testing”. We will continue our weather unit and talk about bats a little. It always fun to enjoy the holidays with these kiddos and they always love talking about bats. Thank you SO much for the people that have donated the pumpkins. We will do the pumpkin investigation next week. This is always so much fun because they get to see various different types of pumpkins and really get some comparing and contrasting conversations going! The past few years we have done our Halloween Party at Backyard Orchards on HWY 431N. It is always a BLAST because we get to explore the pumpkin patch (after doing our pumpkin investigations- add a level of WOW), party and then play! I LOVE getting out there with them and playing. I have a permission slip going home and need it back soon so I can get final arrangements made. Mindy and Lauran are heading up this party. A special thank you in advance for doing that for us! J 

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

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•Letters/Sounds/Writing A-Z, rhyming words, differentiate between a letter, words, sentence, small/tall/fall letters, beginning sounds 

•Numbers 0-10 : id, writing, before/after, making 10 

Upcoming Events:

•10/10: JT’s 5th Birthday!

•10/11: Wear NEON!

•10/11: $1 for ice cream

•10/17: LSC Fall Festival 5p-7p

•10/18: Wear CAMO!

•10/18: $1 for ice cream

•10/21: Picture retakes

•10/25: Wear HAWAIIAN!

•10/25: $1 for ice cream

•10/30: National Candy Corn Day!!!

•10/31: Raines’ 5th Birthday!!!

•10/31: Halloween!!!!! – Halloween Party at Backyard Orchards

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.