Hello Kindergarten Families!
Happy 7th week of kindergarten! We are looking forward to another beautiful week in Miller’s Kindergarten!
TOMORROW IS PICTURE DAY!!!! Please be sure to complete the picture form and insert the correct amount of money for your order. Our picture time is usually in the morning. I’m hoping that is the case tomorrow. 🙂
Thursday, October 20th is our Family Engineering Night beginning at 4:30 and ending at 6:00. Please join us for the awesome family event. You and your child will love all of the science stations to discover.
Please help us help the people in our community who are in need this season by bringing in canned goods! We will be collecting canned goods for the next two weeks! Our school goal is to collect 5, 000 cans! Our class goal is 100 cans!
Please be sure to check your child’s backpack everyday as well as empty out any old papers.
Please remember to put the items your child brings home in their reading bag back into the reading bag when you are done using them. The children are bringing home books and sight word cards to practice. Please help your child be responsible with these learning tools. The reading bag contains homework items for your child. Please work with these items for 20 minutes each day.
Spelling: Please help your child practice writing the following letter this week: Cc and Vv. In addition, please help your child practice writing his/her first name. *The test will be on Friday!
- C
- c
- V
- v
- Your child’s first name. Please be sure there are no backwards letters and that only the first letter is uppercase. The rest of the name should be lowercase. Recognizing and writing names are very important and will be practiced every day!
Ex. Ryan not…RYAN or ryan.
Reading: This week we will begin our first unit on informational reading. We will learn the differences between a fiction and non-fiction book. We will work on building our comprehension skills by identifying the main topic of an informational book. The children will also begin 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. Please encourage your child to read their sight words and books from their reading bags each day! Please practice the following sight words: (These are words your child needs to recognize and read by sight.)
Review: the it we NEW words this week will be: here in look
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.
Science: We will continue learning about the 5 senses. These are see, hear, smell, taste, touch. We will conduct our next science investigation this week using the 5 senses as well as the scientific process of investigating a question with a hypothesis and using data to determine the results. We will focus on investigations with pumpkins!
Social Studies: We will continue a unit called “How to Get Along with Others”. This week we will continue to discuss a classroom issue and brainstorm ways we can work together to solve the problem together. We will also have our first test in social studies on the concepts we have learned about getting along with others.
Writing: We will begin our first informational writing unit. This week the children will learn that informational writing is factual writing about a topic. In kindergarten, at this time of the year, we expect the children to use their drawing oral dictation to tell one fact about the topic we are writing about. The children will learn the concept of what is a fact.