November 25th- November 29th

It's TURKEY week! :) What a fun time of the year! Monday will be a regular school day- or as regular as we can make it! 

Tuesday we have our Thanksgiving FEAST! :) It's going to be absolutely the BEST day! We'll start at 8:30 and party until about 11:30, FEAST, and play some games afterwards! 

We'll be out Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Enjoy your break! When we come back we'll begin our CHRISTMAS adventure! :) 

Kindergarten Newsletter
November 18th- November 22nd  

I am so proud of all these little people are accomplishing! They amaze me every single day! We are continuing to rock and roll through kindergarten! We are winding our way through November way too fast. We will keep right along with our sight words, manipulating beginning, middle, and ending sounds, and starting something called phoneme segmentation. That is a fancy word for making sure we hear every sound in a word. This skill will start slowly but will speed up as we progress. The purpose for this skill is to lay the ground work for blending and decoding words on their own, especially reading fluency and writing. We had a fun week with our "real reading". They are so funny when they realize that they can actually do it! We been working on our numbers 0-15 and now we are going to tackle some more! They are picking up very quickly on these because of our understanding of our numbers 0-10. We haven't make Forky with our senior friends because I promised them that we'd wait on everyone to be at school! We will have our Thanksgiving fun day on Tuesday! I'm going to send home more information as we go. We've decided to order lunch (ham, mac and cheese, and beans) and have our party parents bring extra fixings. Be on the lookout for a form!  

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, at, to, as, have, in, is 

Letters/Sounds/Writing A-Z, rhyming words, differentiate between a letter, word, sentences, small/tall/fall letters, onset and rime, decoding and blending, and beginning and ending sounds. 

Numbers: 0-15: how to write them, making numbers to 10 in different ways, more and less 

Upcoming Events:  

11/18: Pom Pom Cheer at Varsity game 

11/19: I'll be out- Tripp's dental procedure 

11/19: Class pictures - wear uniforms

11/19: Pom Pom Cheer at Varsity game 

11/26: K-3rd grade Thanksgiving Feast 

12/3: Eufaula Downtown Christmas Parade 

12/5: Christmas Program in gym 

12/6: Elf School : 5-8pm: Holy Redeemer Catholic Church 

12/9: Pom Pom Practice

12/10: Pom Pom Cheer at 5pm

12/16: Big/Little Chief activity in gym- 1:20

12/20: 1/2 Day

12/20: Christmas Party

1/6: Students return to school 

Kindergarten Newsletter
November 11th- November 15th 

We are continuing to rock and roll through kindergarten! We are winding our way through November way too fast. It's already mid-month! We will keep right along with our sight words, manipulating beginning, middle, and ending sounds, and starting something called phoneme segmentation. That is a fancy word for making sure we hear every sound in a word. This skill will start slowly but will speed up as we progress. The purpose for this skill is to lay the ground work for blending and decoding words on their own, especially reading fluency and writing. I'm so excited because we are going to start some actual reading this week. We've dipped our toes in the reading but we are going to make a dive. Another thing that I have decided that we'd do after Christmas is start our spelling tests. They are not traditional spelling tests so no worrying. I'll explain more about that later. We have already been working on our numbers 0-13 and now we are going to tackle some more! They are picking up very quickly on these because of our understanding of our numbers 0-10. We will celebrate National Pickle Day this week and ***fingers crossed*** make Forky with our senior friends! Bonnie (in Toy Story 4) made her in kindergarten so we are going to fully take advantage of that! :) 

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, at, to, as, have, in, is 

Letters/Sounds/Writing A-Z, rhyming words, differentiate between a letter, word, sentences, small/tall/fall letters, onset and rime, decoding and blending, and beginning and ending sounds. 

Numbers: 0-15: how to write them, making numbers to 10 in different ways, more and less 

Upcoming Events: 

11/12: Pom Pom Practice 

11/13: National World Kindness Day! 

11/14: National Pickle Day! 

11/14: Pom Pom Practice 

11/18: Pom Pom Cheer at Varsity game 

11/19: I'll be out- Tripp's dental procedure 

11/19: Class pictures - wear uniforms

11/19: Pom Pom Cheer at Varsity game 

11/26: K-3rd grade Thanksgiving Feast 

12/3: Eufaula Downtown Christmas Parade 

12/5: Christmas Program in gym 

12/6: Elf School : 5-8pm: Holy Redeemer Catholic Church 

12/9: Pom Pom Practice

12/10: Pom Pom Cheer at 5pm

12/16: Big/Little Chief activity in gym- 1:20

12/20: 1/2 Day

12/20: Christmas Party

1/6: Students return to school 

Kindergarten Newsletter

November 4th  – November 8th   

Last. Week. Was. WILD! I sat down on Friday night and thought to myself- “how did we survive that!?” It was so much fun though! We had a FAB day with our senior friends on Friday as well!  We made this slime mixture and did ALL sorts of things with it! J I was able to do some checks on the kiddos. I’ll send those home soon. They are all growing! J I am so proud! This week we will introduce the concept of push and pull. We’ll also start talking about Thanksgiving and getting ready for our feast! J It’s always a day of so much fun.  We will keep moving right on along in our reading skills – letters/sounds, decoding, writing letters correctly, forming sentences, and beginning, middle, and end of words. These skills take time but will make reading so much easier. In math, we’ll work on our numbers 0-15. I teach teen numbers with the base ten concept. Let’s make ten and then see how many more. That is one reason why we spend so much time on understanding our numbers 0-10. We will also be supporting Operation Christmas Child and the Relay for Life Queens. I’ll send home a sheet that breaks down what we need. Do not feel obligated. Please see the back for field trip information! I bought lunch (turkey & ham sandwiches, apples, yogurt, chips, drinks, and cookies). I spent about $55 dollars so any bit of help will be appreciated!  There is also more than enough for adults too!

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, 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:

•11/1- $1 for ice cream and $1 for smash the car

•11/5: Pumpkin Patch field trip! J

•Leave school at 8:15 or meet us at the pumpkin match at 8:30

•Lunch will be provided

•Let me know ASAP if your child will need a ride! J

•11/6: National Donut Day!!!

•11/7: Harper Lee’s 6th Birthday!!!

•11/8: Christmas Child/ Relay for Life Queen Visit to Children’s Hospital Donation Due!

•11/8: Turkey in Disguise due!

•11/8: Scholastic book order due!

•11/8: Veteran’s Day Program – 8:15

•11/11: No School

•11/14: National Pickle Day!!!

•11/19: I’ll be out- Tripp’s dental procedure

•11/26: K-3rd grade Thanksgiving Feast- more information to come

•12/5: Christmas program

•12/20: Christmas party – more information to come

•12/20: ½ day!

•1/6: Students return to school

•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!