Greeting Flyers Family,
I would like to update you regarding our Kids Heart Challenge that ended on March 1st. With your support we have raised $10,850 for the American Heart Association this year. Amazing work!
Even though our donation window is closed for this school year, we still have one more week to sign up online and take the challenge for a stronger and healthier life. I am encouraging all of our students to “Take the Challenge”, choose water over sugary drinks, exercise for 60 minutes daily or do a kind deed daily. It is free to sign up, and students will receive a glow in the dark wristband for their dedication to a healthy lifestyle. If we can get 50% of our student population here at Lindbergh to Take the Challenge, we will be able to receive an additional $500 to purchase new PE equipment for the students to enjoy! We are only 5 students away! The deadline to register and/or raise donations for the American Heart Association is Friday, March 8th. Let’s all get healthier together!
Jump online, take the Challenge and be a Heart Hero!
https://www2.heart.org/site/TR?pg=company&fr_id=3998&company_id=168622
Thank you so much for supporting healthy habits and the American Heart Association!
Mr. Harvey
Reminders: Library is tomorrow. Please bring the books to school!
March is Reading Month– Please look at the calendar to see our schedule. There is an event going on daily. We would like students participation, especially on dress up days! The calendar is attached to the blog if you do not have a copy!
Shamrock’s are due on Tuesday. They need to be cut and colored before they are turned in!
Language Arts We are still practicing long vowel words with the silent e. You might hear your child come home and tell you the “bossy e” story (ask them about it:)). We have practiced reading, listening, and writing the long vowels a,i, and o so far. We are also working on narratives in writing. We practiced using a 3-part picture plan to help us write 3-sentence or more stores. We also began practicing adding titles to our pieces of writing. Keep writing at home as one of the Literacy options for homework. Make sure the children are stretching out the sounds they hear. Make sure reading bags and spelling notebooks are coming home nightly!
Math/Science/Social Studies In Math, we are working on the concept of addition by using number bonds. Our goal is to complete lessons 5-9 this week. Module 4 books should be home already so you can make sure you are completing the homework daily. In science, we are talking about weather! This is a very exciting topic and I am proud of how much Kindergarten knows already! We have also been discussing changes in weather from morning temperatures to afternoon temperatures. You can discuss at home why temperature changes throughout the day and what might cause the temperature to warm up in the afternoon. In Social Studies, we are still completing our map unit. We have learned about our classroom, school, and community. This week, we are learning about our state and our country. We are working on terms such as model, key, symbols, and direction.
Letters/Digraphs Of The Week: long o with a silent e
In Review: Ss, Mm, Rr, Bb, Tt, Nn, Aa, Dd, Oo, Ii, Cc, Gg, Hh, Ff, Pp, Ee, Vv, Zz, Uu, Ll, Ww, Jj, Yy, Zz, Kk, Qq
Long Vowels A, O, I, E, U, Digraphs ch, sh, th, wh, qu, cl
Words of The Week: your, got
Words in Review: the, I, can, see, like, to, look, at, come, and, a, we, go, in, my, he, is, has, are, for, here, you, this, little, did, not,she, said, get, it, big, an, me, went, with, am, have, put, on, make, by, they,us, no ,want
Spelling Words -ap nap, lap, tap
Homework:
Math: Module 4, lessons 5-9
Spelling: Practice pattern words and personal words in Spelling notebook. Tests will be every Friday
Continue practicing reading, sight words, and spelling words daily. Use at least 1 night a week for writing practice with your child. They can write about what they did in school, family time, friends, practices, ect. Goals include capital letters at the start of the sentence only, punctuation at the end, spaces, and details in the writing. We should be at about 2-3 sentences on 1 topic.
Leader In Me
We will continue to learn about Habit 4: Think Win-Win
Picture day is on March 12th, not the 8th.- Note from the office.
March’s Reading Month is kicking off on Friday! I have attached the calendar so it is easy for you to check out our events! I will keep you updated with any changes or special things going on.
** A lot of things are coming home in mailboxes. The cut out and color lego paper should be in by now! The other deadline is building a lego masterpiece. Please fill out the half sheet if your child is interested in participating in this. More things about leadership day and leader in me will be sent home soon- please keep checking red folders!
Reminders: We have library tomorrow, so please send in library books if your child wants to check out a new one! Module 3 math books are also coming home today. We are starting the next module after we finish up our assessment today. Some pages may not be filled out in Module 3 because we did some lessons whole group together.
Please start doing the homework in the Module 4-6 book according to the pages we complete on the blog. I will be sending homework books home as well this week.
Lego Note: Thank you for returning the colored brick Lego for Leadership day. There is another note coming home today about Legos, but it is different. We are asking that students build a Lego Master Piece for Leadership Day. It has to be original masterpieces and they are due on later than Friday, March 1st. If you are interested, you need to fill out the form and return it to school:)
Language Arts This week we are working on sorting different texts (poetry, make believe, and informational) and being able to identify the author of a book. Please encourage your child to read different genres and types of text at home to reinforce this skill! Please keep all spelling notebooks in the reading bags and have them returned to school each day since we will be using them in class. Please help remind your child these should all be lowercase letters and practice b/d at home.
Math/Science/Social Studies In Math, we are finishing up our Module 3 assessment. We are starting Module 4 this week. We plan to do lessons 1-4. We are working on decomposing numbers and introducing number bonds (this will take some time to get used to!). Please practice adding up to 5 at home. In science, we are just finishing up building our shade structures. They are turning out awesome! We will move into learning about weather next. In Social Studies, we are continuing with map skills.
Letters/Digraphs Of The Week: (l) cl, gl No homework being sent home for this, we are doing it in class. We are also learning long vowels with a silent e this week (focusing on i).
In Review: Ss, Mm, Rr, Bb, Tt, Nn, Aa, Dd, Oo, Ii, Cc, Gg, Hh, Ff, Pp, Ee, Vv, Zz, Uu, Ll, Ww, Jj, Yy, Zz, Kk, Qq
Long Vowels A, O, I, E, U, Digraphs ch, sh, th, wh
Words of The Week: no, want
Words in Review: the, I, can, see, like, to, look, at, come, and, a, we, go, in, my, he, is, has, are, for, here, you, this, little, did, not,she, said, get, it, big, an, me, went, with, am, have, put, on, make, by, they, us
Spelling Words -un pattern. bun, fun, sun
Homework:
Math: Module 4 Lessons: 1-4
Spelling: Practice pattern words and personal words in Spelling notebook. Tests will be every Friday.
Literacy: Long I page
Continue practicing reading, sight words, and spelling words daily. Use at least 1 night a week for writing practice with your child. They can write about what they did in school, family time, friends, practices, ect. Goals include capital letters at the start of the sentence only, punctuation at the end, spaces, and details in the writing. We should be at about 2-3 sentences on 1 topic.
Leader In Me
We will be starting to introduce Habit 4 this week: Think Win-Win. More information will be coming out shortly!
Lego Papers with directions were sent home this week in mailboxes. They will be displayed on the stairwell for Leadership Day- so please encourage your child to do one and to try to do their best work:) The only other direction that is not on the paper, is to cut the lego out before turning it into me! Legos are due next week. If you need an extra copy, please let me know! Happy Friday!
I will be sending a long a practice page home tonight as apart of the literacy homework to do at home! If you do not have a nightly literacy recording sheet, please let me know. I sent them home last week and they should be getting filled out weekly!
I am not sending a new dipragh packet home this week. We are going to work on qu and this will all be done in class.
Please remind your child to bring their reading bags and spelling notebooks home nightly. I am reminding them as we pack to go home, but some are getting left behind. Make sure to give a daily reminder so we can finally get into our new routine!
We are updating our data boards in the hallway and I would like to do a quick individual assessment this week with how high we can count. If anyone is available to volunteer to come in and listen to some of our Kindergartener’s count, the help would be much appreciated! Please e-mail me if you are available.
News We are trying to accomplish as much as we can with another short week! Hopefully soon, we will start feeling back to our normal routine. Reading bags and spelling notebooks should be going home nightly. I will not send a reading book home unless the bags are at school. We use community books and need to make sure they are kept safe and return back to school! Please check this week- books should be coming home:)
Language Arts- Please continue to have your child complete their nightly literacy recording sheets. I collect them every Monday! Spelling tests are turning out great! Please make sure to not only practice the pattern at home, but the personal words as well. We will continue now to have tests every FRIDAY. Spelling notebooks should be returned to school daily for practice at school. You will notice I am marking scores on the spelling tests. I do not mark wrong for capital letters. Please make sure to practice letter reversals at home (for example, b/d). I will start marking those wrong because it changes the word. Keep up the good spelling practice!!
Math/Science/Social Studies- In math, we are wrapping up the unit on comparing sets. Please use words like fewer and more than at home to review! Details about our next math assessment will be posted soon. In Science this week we will be building shade structures! In Social Studies, we are continuing to learn about neighborhoods and maps. Please keep working on learning home phone numbers and addresses– Kindergarten should know this by the end of the unit!
Letters/Digraphs Of The Week: ng
In Review: Ss, Mm, Rr, Bb, Tt, Nn, Aa, Dd, Oo, Ii, Cc, Gg, Hh, Ff, Pp, Ee, Vv, Zz, Uu, Ll, Ww, Jj, Yy, Zz, Kk, Qq
Long Vowels A, O, I, E, U, Digraphs ch, sh, th, wh
Words of The Week: they, us
Words in Review: the, I, can, see, like, to, look, at, come, and, a, we, go, in, my, he, is, has, are, for, here, you, this, little, did, not,she, said, get, it, big, an, me, went, with, am, have, put, on, make, by
Spelling Words -op pattern cop, hop, mop
Homework:
Math: Module 3 Lessons: lessons 27-30
Spelling: Practice pattern words and personal words in Spelling notebook. Tests will be every Friday.
Literacy: Continue practicing reading, sight words, and spelling words daily. Use at least 1 night a week for writing practice with your child. They can write about what they did in school, family time, friends, practices, ect. Goals include capital letters at the start of the sentence only, punctuation at the end, spaces, and details in the writing. We should be at about 2-3 sentences on 1 topic.