Dates to Remember:
Wednesday, October 9 – PBIS Kick-off Assembly. Introduction to Positive Behavior Intervention in school.
Friday, October 11 – Half day of school. Students are dismissed at 11:45 am. All teachers will attend district professional development workshop.
Monday, October 21 – Zoo Field Trip. Please sign and send in permission slip for zoo along with admission fee of $8.00. (Cash only) Children 1 yr old and under are admitted for free. If you would like to chaperone a small group of students (2-3) please sign on permission slip along with $8.00 fee.
If you would like to meet us at the zoo and just wish to chaperone your child and have other children attending please indicate on permission slip or note. Please send in money for your children and yourself for group rate of $8.00. More information will be sent regarding time and such.
Peek at the Week:
Letters of the Week: Kk (kangaroo) Gg (goat) Sight word – like (I like candy).
Phonics/Phonemic Awareness: Rhyming two words. (bat – cat). Counting syllables/clapping syllables. (el-e-phant, gar-den, Oc-to-ber)
Daily Five/Literacy – Last week I introduced Read to Someone and students loved reading to a buddy. This week I will introduce Listen to Reading. Students will listen to stories read aloud on Epic Books (a free website for educators with many book titles). We continue to build stamina in Daily Five and have been working hard in centers.
Reading Comprehension – We will focus on an Apples this week with reading/writing. Focus on sequencing a story, looking at poetry with apples and noticing text features.
Writing – we will continue working on narrative writing. Last week we read narrative stories to understand a narrative has a beginning, middle and end. We will write a narrative piece this week about going to the park. Learning to write with a beginning, middle and end with pictures/words.
In the beginning of the year in Kindergarten writing is labeling with letters and words. We are still learning to stretch words/sounds. Listening to the sounds in words and writing down what we here. We are also learning about writing a sentence and the parts of sentence. Sentences start with a capital letter, there are spaces between words and we end sentences with punctuation (period).
We practiced writing sight words we have learned and wrote those in a sentence about fall. I see a red leaf. For most it was the first time writing a sentence. I thought the class did really well!
Math – Finishing up with number 8 and learning different configurations and finding number/counting paths. Topic F will focus on numbers 9-10 and organizing/counting 9 with shapes. Writing 9 and counting in a circular and scattered configuration. Writing number 10 and counting in all configurations.
Science – we continue to learn about the five senses. How do scientists use their senses in science?
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Polgar