Mrs. Scalise's Kindergarten Eagles: Week 7

Oct. 18^th & 19^th

Thank you for being so proactive and signing up for a conference time! We already have 18 parents signed up. If you would like to conference another day before school or after school please contact me to make those arrangements. I need to meet with every parent and I can be flexible. When you come make sure your child comes, too. This is because the children will be presenting their work and show their progress in their Leadership Binders to you. I can’t wait for them to shine as leaders and “Show what they know and where they did grow”!

If you still need to sign up for a time refer to last week's blog post. I have posted the link there.

The motion for this letter is to point your thumb down and say /d/ /d/ /d/ down. We drew dinosaurs and ate dates. Yum!

The motion for Gg is to act like a gorilla and beat your chest 3 times saying the sound /g/ /g/ /g/ gorilla. It also “copy-cats” the letter /j/ sound, like in the word giraffe.

We made green grass G’s and ate giant green grapes on the green grass with a gorilla named George (thank you Brie for the green grapes). We also wore green glasses that glowed in the dark. It was great fun!

The motion for Ff is to put your hand out and say /f/ /f/ /f/ give me five. We also made a forest fire picture and talked about fire safety at home and school.

When we write a sentence we say, “Letters make words. Words come together to make sentences. Sentences begin with a capital and end with punctuation.” Have your child show you the actions we do when we say it. Our goal last week was to write a complete sentence with spaces between words, using our sight words: we, go, to. I was so excited to see the kids progress and the ideas they came up with!

Last week we learned what a preposition is. It is a position word. We did many activities centered around learning these words. These are some of the prepositions we learned: in front, beside, over, under, behind, in, out

This week pay special attention to our homework. We want your child to teach their homework helper about what it means to be A 4 STAR writer, drawer, and colorer. We do not expect perfection, but this rubric is a great way to start conversations about stretching our abilities. Look for this rubric in the folder and keep it handy. Refer to it often as a guide.

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Over the past several weeks lots of your child’s homework assignments have been to cut apart and sort into groups different pictures into categories that are identical. All of that practice was to get them ready to for our spelling program.

This week your child will bring home a spelling sort (a new one will come home every week) in a yellow manila envelope. There are 5 different spelling group levels:

2 letter sorts
3 letter sorts
4 letters sorts
Short Vowel Words
Digraphs

I have assessed each child and placed them in one of the above groups according to their abilities at this time. As they grow and learn they will have the opportunity to advance to the next level.

A schedule of how to practice their sort on Mon. – Thurs. will be in their Spelling Envelope (in their Homework Folder). You can also see a video demonstration of how to help your child practice on Mrs. Maag’s blog:

http://angiemaag.blogspot.com/p/dearparents-it-is-now-that-time-of.html

Each Friday your child will be given a test to show what they know. If they are in the 2, 3, or 4 Letter Sort group they will be sorting their pictures and writing ONLY the beginning sound. If they are in the short vowel or digraph groups they will be writing 10 of the words from their sort. Each test will be worth 10 points.

Please let me know it you have any questions.

We have now finished learning how to write and count the numbers 0-10. The children should be able to recognize and read the numbers in a random order and write each of them.

This week we will be having a...