Dates to Remember:

Thursday, September 19 – Parent Informational Meeting 4:00-4:30 pm. Parents please come to the Parent Kindergarten meeting so you can learn about our curriculum program at Howard in Kindergarten. It is also a good time to address any questions you may have about Kindergarten. Hope to see you on Thursday!

Friday, September 20 – Half-day for all students. Students will be dismissed at 11:45 am. There will be no lunch served on half-days.

Thank you for coming to Open House on Thursday. I enjoyed meeting all of you! I can’t thank you enough for the donations of supplies for the class room too!! We made it through our first full week of school and students did really well. Most students are finding time flies when your learning and having fun.

Please let me know if you are not subscribed to Class Dojo or my Class Blog these are two important communication tools I use throughout the year.

Peek at the Week:

Letter of the Week – Mm – Reading/Writing/Sounds

Daily Five/Literacy – Learning about the cover of a book, back of a book, where the title is located on a book and what does the title tell us? Reviewing what an author is and what an illustrator is. We have started Daily Five which is a Literacy Block of time – students are engaged in Writing, Reading to Self, Working on Word Work and Reading to Someone along with Listening to Reading. We will continue to build our stamina in Read to Self and Word Work this week.

Writing – Writing about what we love. We will make a chart of things we would love to write about. Each day we are writing stories and adding details to our writing. This week we will continue to add a setting to our stories. A setting is where the story takes place – outside, inside, at the park, at the beach, etc. The beginning of Kindergarten you will find writing is drawing pictures or labeling and writing words with a picture.

Math – We are moving along with counting within circular and scattered dot configurations of numbers 3,4,5 and finding hidden partners. We will model and decompose the number 3 with materials, drawings and expressions. 1+2 and 2+1. Understanding the meaning of zero. Writing numeral 0. Ordering and writing numerals 0-3 to answer how many questions.

Social Studies – This week we will focus on preparing for drills (fire, tornado and lock-down drills). As well as build on character units with Fairness. What does it mean to be fair? Modeling and applying fairness in and out of the classroom.

Please continue to work with your child at home on writing their name beginning with a upper-case letter and the remaining letters in lower-case.

Have a great weekend!!

Mrs. Polgar