Kindergarten Newsletter

February 10th - February 14th  

What a fun week! How about February is just about halfway over. Let that sink in! It’s going way too fast. We are rocking and rolling and moving and grooving. I’ve put a list of names in your binder to address Valentine’s Day cards. Dana and Beth are in charge and we’ll have our party Friday at 1:00 p.m. J We are moving in with our plant unit. It’s grueling to be doing this unit in February but life happens. We’ve planted some bulbs and we will read a book called Tops and Bottoms. It is so good because it focuses on all the parts of plants a plant and how you can benefit from them all. We have some fun things to do with this book. We will also be working with time and I’m going to introduce some money to these kiddos too. Now, I don’t expect them to be able to fluently tell time or count money by the end of kindergarten. It’s more about exposure at this point. We will also continue to work with manipulating words. It’s a HUGE goal in kindergarten to be able to auditorily manipulate words. This includes rhyming, segmenting words into syllables and sounds, deleting and substituting sounds. We are moving right along with this. J

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, boy, they, one, two, was, that, too

Spelling Words:  beg, leg, peg, Meg

•Upcoming Events:

•2/14: Valentine’s Day Party

•2/17: No School: President’s Day

•2/21: Scholastic Order Due: Please consider ordering!

•2/22: Serra Blakley’s 6th Birthday!

•3/2: Dr. Seuss’s Birthday!- Dr. Seuss Week!

•3/9: I’ll be out for an appointment.

•3/21: Emerson’s 6th Birthday!

•3/23: SPRING BREAK!!!!

•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:

•Readers use letter sound relationships to figure out words by looking at the letters and using the sounds they make. We can help them with this cueing system by asking the kiddos “Does it look right?”

•We’ll start talking about Lips the Fish which is reminding the kiddos to get their lips ready for a word rather than just pausing and then guessing.

•Stretchy Snake will come next. This encourages kiddos to stretch the word out (sound it out) instead of guessing.