Hello Kindergarten Families!

Happy 18th week of Kindergarten! We are off to a beautiful start to the new year! This is a short but busy week!

Wednesday, January 18^th, is a late start! School will begin at 9:30AM.

Thursday, January 19^th, is our first Kindergarten Field Trip! Please remember to pack a lunch for your child on this day! ALL lunches must be packed in a bag that can be thrown away after lunch. Please send a bottle of water for your child to drink. Do not send milk or pop. Children need to dress in comfortable clothing with gym shoes. Please see me if you have any questions or concerns about the field trip. We are very excited for this opportunity to experience more hands on science!

Friday. January 20th is a movie night for all Miller families. This event is sponsored by Miller PTA.  🙂

We will take the NWEA test on Friday!!! Be sure your child gets plenty of rest the night before the test and eats a healthy breakfast. This is a very important test that provides information about your child’s academic strengths and weaknesses.

We hope that each one of our students is able to login and access Clever for awesome learning opportunities with MobyMax and MyON. Please see me if you have questions about Clever. These online tools are great ways to practice for the NWEA as well as strengthen math and literacy skills.

Homework: Be sure to complete the daily homework assignments on the January calendar. If this was misplaced, you can find it on the blog at the top.

Spelling: Here are the words for this week. Please be sure to help your child practice EVERYDAY! The test is on FRIDAY! Your child will be tested on three word family words and three sight words. * I will also give your child a “cold word” to spell. This is a word that follows the pattern of the word family. (an ex. is tan)

1. fan
2. pan
3. ran
4. is
5. the
6. to

Reading: We are practicing many reading strategies. This week we will practice reading strategies using informational books. We will also spend time learning how to blend the beginning sounds with the rime.  We will also practice identifying rhyming words as well as number of syllables in a word. In addition to these strategies, we ask and answer questions about the text. Please practice the following sight words: (These are words your child needs to recognize and read by sight.) 

Review: am  so  be                                                           New words: of   has   by

Math: We will review 2D and 3D shapes. We will compare the shapes by looking at their features such as corners and sides. We will also review computation with adding and subtracting objects.  Your child will be tested on counting to 100 this week.

Science: We will review concepts learned about pushes and pulls. We will explore how objects move when pushed or pulled.

Social Studies: We will work on distinguishing between today, tomorrow, and yesterday. We will also discuss ways we can learn about the past.

Writing: This week we will finish our informational writing about penguins and review opinion writing before taking our opinion writing test. Please practice writing by stretching for the sounds, using spaces between words and periods at the end of sentences. I will also be looking for detailed drawings with labels on the drawings that match the student’s writing.

Thank you for all do!!!

Have an amazing week!

Mrs. Mehrhof