Newsletter Week 14 (Recap and NEW Info)!

Spelling tests start the week of December 3rd!  Homework will reflect the 10 spelling words we are focusing on each week.  Our spelling tests will generally take place every Friday. Each test, for the whole year, is taken in 1 booklet. Our FIRST spelling test is this Friday, December 7th.   I will grade the tests over the weekend and send the booklet home with your child the following Monday for you to view. Please look through the test on Monday (to see how your child performed), sign on the parent signature line and send the booklet back in their green folder on Tuesday. Please make sure that the booklet comes back every Tuesday so I can collect them to distribute again on Friday for the following test.   If for some reason your child loses the booklet, you will be responsible for making them another spelling booklet. Remember: your child will have to spell and write each word in the booklet. When you practice the words, please make sure your child is forming each letter correctly.  Your cooperation is appreciated!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, Module 3 starts in math as well.  Please make sure you are following the lessons in Module 3 at home:).

Urgent: If your child wears a pair of SNOW boots to school, please pack your child a 2nd pair of shoes to wear in the classroom.  We want to prevent the snow from tracking onto our rugs and our floors, so please teach your child how to change out of their boots and into their school shoes.  I myself, can’t change students out of their boots and into their shoes at arrival due to the morning obligations I need to address. Each child should be practicing this at home and doing it independently at school.  Thank you for your cooperation:)

  

What we did during our week:

Language Arts: We had a fun week learning about letters K & P.  We learned the letter name, words that start with each letter and the sound each letter makes.  Next week we will focus on letters L & O. Spelling tests start next week too! List 1:the, I, a, cat, bat, rat, mat, sat, fat.  Bonus words to study at home: hat, pat. Make sure to practice the bonus word (10th word) at home for homework.

Writing:  We will begin to learn about sentence structure in the classroom.  The students will learn that every sentence starts with an uppercase letter,meatball spaces and a punctuation at the end of each sentence.  Please practice this strategy at home as well with your child. Thank you!

Math:  This week we completed all of Model 2 and the students were assessed on 2D/3D shapes.  Next week we will start Module 3 Lessons 1-7.

Science: We wrapped up our weather unit.  Next month we will talk about seasons and winter weather:)

Social Studies:  We wrapped up our unit on Needs and Wants.  Next month we will talk about goods & services.

Scholastic Reading Club:

Class Code – RKYTJ  Order Due Date –  12/17/18

LAST book order for 2018:)  

Dear Families,

This is a friendly reminder that your Book Clubs orders are due by 12/17/18. You can place your orders online at scholastic.com/bookclubs using my class activation code: RKYTJ

Happy Reading, Mrs. Fillmore

Other:

• Reading bags have launched in Kindergarten!  Just to reiterate, these bags come home and come back to school every, single day.  Please keep the books inside the book bag. We use these bags during Daily 5  instruction. Please read these books at home with your child, and have them work on reading the books independently. We are working on one-to-one finger pointing. This mean that they should be pointing to each word as they read it. We are also working on reading words from left to right, using picture clues to help with “unknown” words, spotting sight words easily in text, stretching sounds out when coming to an unknown word and also retelling the story using the retell rope method!  Make sure to jot down your child’s reading in the reading log each night! Thank you:)

• Please consider buying something from our Scholastic Book Club at: https://clubs.scholastic.com/  Activation code: RKYTJ.  The December orders are due by December 17th.  There are a lot of great books for your child at a very reasonable price and FREE shipping.  Books make for a great gift or even for a family story night:) Thank you to Ethan for purchasing something from our book club!
• Please make sure you are reviewing your child’s classwork each night.  Monitoring your child’s classwork is a great indicator of how your child is doing in the class. If for some reason your child doesn’t finish his/her classwork in class, I will send it home for homework to be completed at home and returned the next day.  Thank you for your support!
• Please make sure you provide your child with a NUT FREE snack.   We are a NUT FREE classroom. Thank you for your cooperation!

Housekeeping items:

• Monday is our library check out date.  I have a handful of students who do not bring in their books, which in turn leaves a very sad child without a new book for the week.  If the book is not returned, there will be a cost the parent will have to pay. Please keep the library book in a safe place at home, or you can leave it in your child’s backpack until the next check out.  Remember: Every monday is our library check out. Thank you!
• The cold/winter season is upon us, which means cooler temperatures!  With cooler temperatures comes coats, boots, hats, scarves, gloves, etc.  It is important to teach your child how to properly put on a coat, zip up a coat, unzip the coat and take the coat off.  We have a handful of students who constantly need help putting on their coats etc, which means more time is taken away from recess because the teacher is zipping up 24 coats!  Also, please continue to practice tying shoes with your child. It is very hard to tie 2 pair of shoes X 24 students a day! That equals 48 shoes a day I would be tying, which would take up a lot of time during large and small group instruction.  We are encouraging students to become independent learners and with independence takes a lot of dedication and teaching your child at home. Thank you for your cooperation:)
• If your child is bringing a home lunch, it is OK to pack a juice for the lunchroom!  Remember to pack a water bottle each day for the classroom:)
• Please pack your child’s snack SEPARATELY from your child’s home lunch.  This will help your child become less confused about what is for lunch and what is for snack.  Thank you:)
• Great news!  The PTA has a blog for all sorts of fun information going on in the school.  I may not have a lot of opportunities for all families to volunteer in the classroom, but the PTA is ALWAYS looking for extra hands to help in the school.  Please take a look at their blog and sign up for the fun events they may need help with:)  https://parents.dearbornschools.org/haigh/

Upcoming Events:

December 3rd- Book check out.  Start of Module 3: weight, capacity and measurement.  

December 7th- Spelling test: List #1, Homework due

December 11th- Return spelling booklet

December 12th- Late start.  Students arrive an hour later at 9:40am

December 13th- Spelling test: List #2, Homework due

December 14th- NO SCHOOL for Kindergarten and Young 5’s only!

December 20th- PBIS Celebration- Movie Theater/Polar Express/PJ Day (more information to follow)

December 21st- Spelling test: List #3/ LAST day of school!

December 24-January 4th- NO SCHOOL…Holiday Break!

January 7th- School Resumes/ Happy New Year-Welcome back!

Reading Buddies: Today our 4th grade buddies prepared weather slides, on the Chromebooks, for their buddy!  It was a great way to wrap up our weather unit in Science.  Thank you Ms. Cronin’s class for creating these presentations for our students.  Enjoy the pictures:)