Kindergarten Newsletter

January 13th - January 17th

Thought: Do you ever look at your kiddos and start smiling? Not because they did something amazing, just smiling because that's who you've been blessed to love everyday? Well, I sure do! 

The kiddos were not too happy with me this past week. They didn’t like the no naps and the “extra” work. Hopefully, this will end soon. We are going to spend this week working with short –an words, reviewing sight words, and finishing our second benchmark testing. In math, we’ll work on reviewing numbers 0-20, making numbers to 10, and working on recognition of larger numbers. On January 15th, we are leaving at 8:30 to head to Auburn for our STEM day. I NEED ALL FORMS ASAP!!! Don’t forget your information for the time capsules! This is going to be so special! We will celebrate the 100th day of school on the 24th. We will dress like 100 year olds or make a shirt with 100 things on it. It’s totally up to you and your kiddo about which you do! We will also do a lot of fun things that revolve around the number 100 that day! Don’t forget your spelling words! We will take our very first spelling test of Friday! It’s very easy and we will practice all week! The biggest thing is knowing the letters and sounds that make up those words. 

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, like

Spelling Words:

  man, fan, can, van, pan 

Upcoming Events:

•1/13- time capsule stuff due

•1/13- $10 for Auburn field trip due

•1/13- pom pom practice

•1/14- pom pom game – 6pm – dressed and ready to go!

•1/15- Auburn STEM Field Trip – more info to come!

•1/16- pom pom game- 5pm- dressed and ready to go!

•1/17- Scholastic Order due: online code is NXBBV

•1/20- No School

•1/24- 100th day of school

•1/30- Open House for new families- 6pm - if you know of any families that may be interested PLEASE forward them this information!

•1/31- Shadow day : Any student that may want to attend Lakeside can come spend the day with us! 

Reminders:

•NO NAP MATS!!

•NO TOYS or STUFFED ANIMALS!!

•Don’t forget to be collecting box tops! Box tops=free money for LSC!!

•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! 

•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:

•We are starting to move forward and going to really start manipulating words. The best thing we can do for our kiddos is to get them to hear sounds and be able to build words on their own. When working on spelling words and words in general make sure that you are giving them the letters and sounds instead of just   memorizing. When I give a test to them I will tell them that there are three   letters and three sounds (this will be important when we start adding in more     complicated sounds). I will then break it down one letter/sound at a time.