Week 4

Welcome to another glorious week in kindergarten!

I had so much fun meeting the grandparents this week!  I know the kids had a great time eating with them and giving them a tour of our room.  Please thank them for coming!  If they were not able to come (but can do so at a future date) they are always welcome to eat with their grandchild any day. 

       

The letter Rr says Rrrrr.  Last week we road our cars on our Rr roads practicing the sound. 

We ate really good raisins! 

And we had a visit from Hazel’s Rabbit.  Thanks Hazel for sharing!  

Then we learned how to draw a rabbit and write the letter Rr.

For the letter Tt we ate

terrific tiny tomatoes!  We also discovered we can make letters with our body.

We played with Mrs. Scalise’s taxi on a track.

We ended the week with a Teddy Bear Tea (lemonade) Party with Teddy Grahams. 

       STUDY BUDDY’S 

This week we met our 4^th grade Study Buddy.  They are Mrs. VanPatten’s students.  We interviewed each other and got to know them.  We will get to read to them (and have them read to us) along with helping us practice our snap words, every week!  Ask your child about his or her buddy.

We have spent the first 4 weeks working on how to spell our first name.  At this point your child should be able to spell and write his/her first name without any help.  This includes starting their name with a capital letter and the rest of their name in lower case letters.  Have your child write their name for you at home.  If they can’t do this with 100% accuracy without any prompting then they are behind and I highly encourage you to work with them at home.  Have them practice writing it in sand or on a cookie sheet in salt.  Writing it in shaving cream is also fun!

Thanks to all the families that are being PROACTIVE with your child’s homework each week!  Please take a look at the following list to make sure your child receives full credit for their homework each week.

This is what a completed Home Learn packet looks like:

• Each assignment is completed 100%
• All handwriting is done in PENCIL (not pen, crayon, or marker)
• Pictures are colored with 3 or more colors (when coloring is indicated)
• The colored Home Learn Bookmark is still attached to the packet & returned
• You have initialed or placed a check mark next to each assignment on the       bookmark
• You have logged at least 60 minutes reading time each week

New this week – Reading Minutes

Make sure you look for this on the bookmark attached to the homework packet this week.  It will explain the way we will be tracking your child’s reading minutes each week (instead of a monthly reading log).  You will be keeping track of the time you read to your child and/or the time they read to you.

Please help your child learn this important skill of completing homework and returning it each Thursday.  Plus, they get to “clip-up” on our Responsibility Chart when then return it on time.

THIS WEEK…

Language Arts Quiz

This will be coming home in your child’s Home Learn Folder.  Take a look at it and celebrate everything they got right.  Then, practice, practice, practice any letters and/or snap words they missed.  All students should be able to identify the letters: Mm, Ss, Rr, Tt & words: my, the, a, and.

Try practicing writing them in a cookie tray with salt or writing them in shaving cream.  They can also make them out of Play-Doh or search for these letters while at the store or driving in the car.

Math

Our first math unit has been all about sorting and classifying according to attributes (size, shape, and color).  They have learned how to group objects that are similar or identical.  On Thursday we will take our first math assessment on these concepts to “Show what we know and where we did grow!”  

DONATIONS NEEDED…  1 APPLE from each child

This week we will be learning about the letter Aa, it’s long and short sounds.  
To do this I would like each child to bring one apple from home by TUESDAY.

In math we will be graphing using the apples and then eat them.  So they will not be coming back home.

Sept. 19^th              Picture Retakes

Sept. 21st & 22^nd  Thursday and Friday

• Thursday is a minimum day.  Our class will be dismissed at 12:45. 
•  Friday there is no school.  These 2 days are Professional Development for the teachers in the OPA building.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful

citizens can change the world.  Indeed,

it is the only thing that ever has.”

~Margaret Mead

Have a fabulous week!

Mrs. Scalise