Hello Kindergarten Families!
Happy 12th week of kindergarten! This week we will focus even more so on all of our blessings! I am so thankful for the opportunity to be your child’s teacher! I am so thankful for the amazing school and terrific people I work with at Miller. I am also so thankful for all of you and all that you do for your child’s success! I wish all who are celebrating, a very Happy Thanksgiving!
PLEASE remember to send a healthy snack to school with your child tomorrow and Tuesday! There will be no cooler snacks. Thank you!!!
We will have a Kindergarten Parent Meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 22nd at 9:00AM. This is a meeting for all parents of our amazing Kindergarten students. Please plan on attending. The meetings will take place in our classroom. You will learn lots of valuable information that you can use to help your child with reading.
We will not have school on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week! Enjoy this time off of school with your families! Please take this time to get your child started with Clever, MobyMax, and MyOn.
Homework: Practice letters, books, and sight words in your child’s reading bags. Write first name and last name, count to 100, write numbers 1-20. We have been noticing that books and items are missing from the reading bags we are sending home. Please help your child to put these items back in their reading bags when you are finished with them at home.
Please be sure your child comes to school wearing a jacket and gym shoes every day. Your child MUST bring a winter to school every day. The weather is getting very cold. Please label your child’s gloves, hats, and scarves with their name.
Reading: This week we will continue to review narrative story elements, such as setting, characters, and plot. We will also practice re-telling with beginning, middle, and end. In addition, we will work on identifying rhyming words!!! (ex. hat/cat, fish/dish) The children will also continue working on blending sounds to read a word. (ex. b-a-t blended reads bat) We are still practicing our independent Daily 5 time with Read to Self, Work on Writing, and Word Work. We will begin Listen to Reading as another independent Daily 5 choice. Please encourage your child to read their sight words and books from their reading bags each day! Please practice the sight words that have been sent home in your child’s reading bag.
Math: We will continue to practice recognizing and writing numbers 0-20 as well as representing the quantity the number represents. We will also continue to practice counting to 100 by 1’s and 10’s. We will work on simple addition using pictures and objects.
Science: We will continue the unit on physical science called “Pushes and Pulls”. We will observe and discuss these two types of forces. We will explore how to use force to make objects move.
Social Studies: We will begin a new unit called “How do I get what I want?” We will continue to discuss the concepts of needs and wants. (ex. clothing, food, water, shelter, and air are needs. Computers, toys, and candy are wants.) We will also discuss the historical event of the first Thanksgiving.
Writing: We will continue the unit on Opinion Writing. Opinion writing is writing that tells how one feels or what one thinks about a topic. We will practice writing our opinions as a reflection to the narrative stories that we read. (ex. I think the Little Red Hen should share her bread because it is nice to share.) We will work on using a period at the end of our sentences as well as finger spaces between words.
Thank you for all you do!!!
Have a excellent week!
Mrs. Mehrhof