Kindergarten Newsletter

January 26th - January 30th

What a fun week last week! This is my favorite time of kindergarten because they start growing and progressing faster! It takes a little bit to get over the “hump” of having more responsibility and such but they are adjusting well. We had so much fun on the 100th day of school. It is always one of my favorite days. We will continue working with short a words and adding a few sight words. I am going to have to be out a couple of days this week due to my sweet baby boy being sick with the flu. He’s been in quarantine and is on the uphill stretch. That mess is awful. Jolie hasn’t been around him and isn’t showing any signs. I’ve cleaned with so much Lysol that I think it’s a part of my DNA now! Haha! Anyway, we have Mrs. Jenny. The kids love her and she loves them so the days should be awesome. We will have our open house for new students this week. If you know any families that would be interested bring them or send them! We want our school to grow and we also want more children to be able to benefit from all the good we can offer! J Also, if you haven’t gotten in your time capsule box and materials try to have them in by Friday so we can go ahead an finish those. It is going to be an amazing keepsake for our babies.

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, can, him, his, be, out

Spelling Words:

  pad, sad, mad, rad, lad

•Upcoming Events:

•1/28- Honor’s Day for older students: Kindergarten is included with end of year honor’s day.

•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!

•2/7: I’ll be out this day for a training class.

•2/14: Valentine’s Day Party

•2/17: No School: President’s Day

•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:

•Everyone did so great with sounding and blending this past week. Use the blocks and the magnetic fridge to practice building spelling words. Remember! It’s not   memorization! Get them to hear those sounds. That will be the best benefit that  you can give to them as beginning spellers and readers.

•With the readers, take them slow! The BEST thing to do is do a picture walk first. All that means is to use the pictures to figure out what is happening without reading any words yet. Then, go through and see if you can point out any sight words. Lastly, practice reading. It’s always a good idea to read it multiple times to build that fluency!