Dates to Remember

November 19-20 – Parent Teacher Conferences – Please remember to be on time, conferences are only held for 20 minutes. I have a tight schedule this week. Thank you.

Thursday, November 20 – Brainstormers Skywriter Show. Students participate in a fun writing strategy assembly.

This week we also have the Scholastic Book Fair – I apologize I am not sure what day I scheduled are class to buy books. A Scholastic flyer went home in your child’s blue folder last week with the date. If you would like your child to purchase some books, you can send some money for the book fair.

Parent Teacher Conference Appointments

Wednesday, November 19                                                          Thursday, November 20

4:00 PM – Harrison Taylor                                                              4:00 PM – Laylah Rempert

4:20 PM – Fatima Hamie                                                                 4:20 PM – Jonathon Alomari

4:40 PM – Ali Zahr                                                                               4:40 PM – OPEN

5:00 PM – Joshua Price                                                                    5:00 PM – Sarah Morrison

5:20 PM – Thaddeus Dietrich                                                         5:20 PM – Amat Alwahibi

5:40 PM – Chase Gilbert                                                                    5:40 PM – Mohsin Hubaishi

6:00 PM – Jacie Dowgiallo                                                               6:00 PM – Tyler Munroe

6:20 PM – Tessa Rankel                                                                     6:20 PM – Roman Wright

6:40 PM – Sofie Lehmbeck                                                               6:40 PM – Mason Laige

Letter of the Week – Mm     New sight word – look (Please review previous sight word list with your child). Your child should be able to automatically read sight words from the sight word list.

A paperback Thanksgiving booklet went home on Friday. Your child was to read this booklet 3 times to a family member. We worked on pointing to each word as we read and sounding out words in reading/writing. You may keep this booklet at home and have your child add this book to their reading collection. Reading book bags will be coming home this week with a reading log and information to help you read with your child.

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Mrs. Polgar

 

 

 

Dates to Remember

Wednesday, November 12 – Late Start – School starts one hour later.

Thursday, November 13 – Parent teacher conferences begin this week. I will send home a reminder in your child’s blue folder. If you were unable to sign up for a conference, I will send an appointment card home. The conferences are only 20 minutes long. Please come at your scheduled time. Report cards and NWEA test results will be given out at the conference.

Below are the scheduled conferences for Thursday, November 13.

4:00 PM – Dez Lefebvre

4:20 PM – Madeline Schommer

4:40 PM – OPEN

5:00 PM – Brooklyn Givhan

5:20 PM – OPEN

5:40 PM – Matthias Hamilton

6:00 PM – Molly Jude

6:20 PM – OPEN

6:40 PM – Ariella Rosario

Peek at the Week

Letter of the Week – Ll       New sight words – the, can     Reviewing letters and sounds.

Writing Workshop – Informational writing – All About Turkeys

Math Workshop – Writing numbers – 1-20. Students should be able to count up to 50 by ones for the 2nd quarter. We will practice counting by ones up to 100. Counting by tens up to 100. Counting by fives up to 50. Using a pan balance to compare objects in weight. Using dominoes and comparing numbers along with saying numbers names in order.

Social Studies – Unit Needs and Wants. Distinguishing between goods and services.

Physical Science – Learning concept of gravity, force using scientific principles.

Language Arts – Daily Five – Identifying first sounds in reading/writing, recognizing when two words rhyme, comprehension- retelling stories with a beginning, middle, end and including characters, setting and events. Matching word by word in poetry.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs. Polgar

 

 

Dates to Remember

Tuesday, November 4 – No school

Friday, November 7 – 1/2 day of school. Dismissal 11:45 AM

Wednesday, November 12 – Late Start – school starts an hour late.

Wednesday, November 26 – No school (Conference Release Day)

Thanksgiving Break – No school – Thursday, November 27 and Friday, November 28

Parent Teacher Conferences  are held after school on November 13th, 19th and 20th. Please make sure you see me to sign up for a conference, if you have not signed scheduled a time.

Thank you to all the parent volunteers who helped out at the Halloween Party on Friday. Also, thank you to all the families who donated items for the party. The class had a great time!

New student of the month – Congratulations! Sofie Lehmbeck

This week a letter assessment and letter sound assessment went home in your child’s blue folder. The assessment gives you some feedback what letters and sounds your child needs to master. Please keep in mind, we do letter and sound strategies daily in whole group and small groups, which helps build the memory muscle of the brain. At times, I will send home additional support materials if I feel a child needs it.

Peek at the Week

Letter of the Week – Jj   Review sight words – I, a, and, see, we, like, my. Review – “at” word family.

Writer’s Workshop – Informational writing. Using pictures and words to tell about a topic.

Math Workshop – Estimating, counting, strategies on counting, number stories, symmetry and decomposing numbers.

Daily Five – Strategies: recognizing when two words rhyme, identifying the first sound in a word, working with punctuation – periods. Comprehension:  retelling familiar stories using pictures.

Science – Push and Pull unit – Physical Science

Social Studies – Needs and Wants – Economics

Have a great weekend and stay warm!

Mrs. Polgar

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dates to Remember

Friday, October 31 – Mrs. Polgar’s Halloween Party 12:20 – 1:20 PM. Volunteer sign-up sheet is in the classroom. Please make sure your child’s costume is placed in a labeled bag with their name. No masks, play weapons are allowed at school.

Tuesday, November 4 – No school. Teacher Professional Development Day.

Friday, November 7 – 1/2 day of school. Students are dismissed at 11:45 AM

Peek at the Week

Letter of the Week – Ii     Sight word of the week – my   Review – I, a, see, we, and, like.

Writer’s Workshop – Beginning informational text – how to locate important facts in a non-fiction text.

Math Workshop – identifying/matching coins, patterns, identifying tricky teens, writing numbers 1-20. Counting to 30 by ones and fives. Understanding place value with cubes.

Social Studies – Beginning in a new unit in Social Studies – How do I get what I need and want? Understanding needs and wants.

Science – Students will take the five senses unit assessment on Monday or Tuesday.  We will begin a new unit in Science studying physical science with gravity and force.

Daily Five – Introduction to Listen to Reading, CAFE board strategies; recognizing lower-case letters, understanding parts of a sentence, recognizing when two words rhyme (Homework packet – “at” endings), comprehension – retelling a familiar story using the pictures.

Please make sure your child dresses appropriately for the ever-changing weather. Michigan weather at it’s best – Monday is suppose to be 70 degrees.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Polgar

Dates to Remember

Monday, October 20 – Family Pumpkin Project due.

Friday, October 24 – Nowlin Fall Festival. Wear your Halloween Costume and join in the fun with games and prizes. Information went home on Friday in your child’s blue folder.

Friday, October 31 – Mrs. Polgar’s Halloween Party starting at 12:20 and ending at 1:20. Families are welcome to join us at the party with the exception of younger siblings. Students will change into their costumes after lunch. No masks, play guns, and weapons of any kind will be allowed at school. Mrs. Dowgiallo will be calling volunteers to help out at stations and clean-up. I will also have a volunteer sign-up sheet inside the classroom on the front desk.

Volunteer – Chaperone History Form – A Volunteer and Chaperone form must be filled out if you plan on volunteering in the classroom or being a chaperone on a field-trip. Also, a copy of your driver’s license is required. You can stop in the office and turn in the form or put it in your child’s blue folder. The office can make a copy of your driver’s license, if you would like.

Homework Packets – Most kindergartners are emerging writers – drawing pictures is writing and labeling pictures with the first letter sound is beginning writing in Kindergarten. Students that do know their letter sounds can practice stretching out first, middle and ending sounds when writing. If you find your child is struggling with their homework, please do not continue. We do not want them to get to the point of frustration. Please let me know if you have any questions, I am always happy to meet with you.

Progress reports – In the next week or so, you will receive a report on your child’s progress on their recognition of upper-case letters, lower-case letters and sound recognition. Along with the report will be a Letter/Sound chart and Number chart that you can use as an aid for homework. The charts are also resourceful to practice letter i.d., sounds and number i.d.,along with the formation of letters and numbers for writing.

Letter of the Week – Hh

Sight word of week –  we

Review of sight words – I, a, see, and, like.  Color-words – green, yellow, red.

I am very pleased with the progress I am seeing in our small groups during reading. Students are moving along with letter recognition/sounds and reading emergent readers. Each student has a book box with good fit books for reading. We are practicing matching word to picture when we read and reading sight words we have learned fluently. Thank you for your support at home. We make more leaps and bounds in learning when there is support at home.

I will not be in the classroom on Thursday, October 23. I will be attending another district conference. Ms. Leslie will be subbing for me again. The children enjoy having Ms. Leslie in the classroom.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Polgar

 

Dates to Remember:

Tuesday, October 14 – PTO meeting at 6:30 PM followed by Parent Meeting at 7:00 PM.

Friday, October 31 – Halloween Classroom party. More information will be coming, as I will be meeting with homeroom mom’s this week to plan our party.

Peek at the Week

Students will continue with NWEA testing in the computer lab. Students did quite well for taking a test on the computer for the first time. I am very proud of the class!

Letters – Practice reviewing letters A-F  New letter for week – Gg

Sight words – Practice reviewing sight words – I, see, a, and, red, yellow, green.

New sight word for week – like.

Math Workshop – Working with shapes, using directional words – below, next to, between, behind, in front of, around, over, under, inside, outside, above, beside, up, down, left, right, writing and recognizing numbers, counting numbers 1-30, counting by 5’s and  studying patterns.

Writer’s Workshop – This week opinion writing will be introduced and students will learn about the difference between fact and opinion. Students will state their opinion in their writing; I like . . .

Science – We will finish up this week with our 5 Senses unit.

Social Studies – We will finish up with our unit on How Do I Get along with Others? Ending with learning about fairness and voting.

Language Arts – Daily Five – We will review Read to Someone and learn different ways we can read to someone. How to choose a partner and how to sit with a partner when reading a book. We continue to work on recognition of upper-case letters, lower-case letters, sounds and concepts of print to get us ready for reading text.

Homework packet – This week we will talk about fire-safety in class.

Have a great day!

Mrs. Polgar

 

 

Dates to Remember

Tuesday, October 14 – PTO/Parent Meeting – Topic: Homework and making the Most of Parent Teacher Conferences. 6:30 begins PTO meeting following will be the parent meeting at 7:00 pm.

This week the Kindergarten class will take the NWEA test in the computer lab.

Blue folders/Red folders – please return on Tuesday, October 7.

I will be out of the classroom on Wednesday, October 8 for a conference and on Friday, October 10 my son is having surgery. Ms. Leslie will sub in my class and is very familiar with classroom routines.

Student of the Month – last month the student of the month was Brooklyn Givhan. For the month of October the calendar helper is Tyler Munroe. Congratulations!

Letter of the Week – Review Ee and Introduce Ff

Sight word of week – Review sight words – I, a, see.   New word – and   Review color words – red, yellow, green

Homework – Homework packets are due on Tuesday, October 7. Also, students were to read their Apple books in their blue folder three times to a family member. We are working on matching word by word in a text by using our reading finger (pointing finger).

Peek at the Week

Writer’s Workshop – we are working on Personal narratives and learning about story elements. Adding characters, setting, words to our story. Matching story to picture.

Math Workshop –  We will focus on ten frame counting,  writing our home address with numbers, making shape collages, counting by ones and fives, and writing our numbers.

Language Arts – I will review Daily Five – Read to Someone and we will work on Daily Five strategies; recognizing upper-case letters and lower-case letters, and matching word by word in a text.

Science – Five Senses – we will work in centers on the sense of smell and touch this week.

Social Studies – Continuation of Unit 1 – How Do I Get Along with Others?

Have a wonderful break!

Mrs. Polgar

 

 

 

Dates to Remember

Monday, September 29 – Picture Day. Return picture order form if you would like your child to have their picture taken.

School break – Friday, October 3 and Monday, October 6.

Tuesday, September 30 – students are asked to bring an apple to school for Science. Information went home on Friday in blue folder.

Red folders did not go out this week because I was not in class for two days.  Please talk to your child about classroom behavior; always listening, following directions quickly and keeping hands to self.

If you did not make open house and did not sign up for Parent Teacher Conferences, please stop by and schedule a time for a conference. Parent-teacher conferences are November 13, 19, 20.

Letter of Week – We will review letter Dd.

Sight words – we will review sight words I, see, a

Numbers – We will review writing numbers 1-5. Please practice writing numbers 1-5 at home.

Please practice letters and sounds of alphabet and writing first name. Once they master their first name we move to the last name.

Writer’s Workshop – K.W.3.1 Use pictures and words to tell about the events in a story. We are writing personal narratives and learning about story elements. Using characters and setting in our writing.

Math Workshop – We are comparing body height, counting numbers 1-20, writing numbers, distinguishing different shapes, and learning about ten frames.

Science – S.IP.00.11 Make purposeful observation of the natural world using the appropriate senses. We will study the sense of taste and touch this week.

Social Studies – K.C5.0.1 Describe situations in which you demonstrate self-discipline and individual responsibility. We are learning about responsibility and citizenship. Using role playing story time to understand terms.

Reading – We have learned three components of the Daily Five Literacy Block. Read to Self, Work on Writing and Word Work. I am really pleased with how students are independently working during Daily Five. I will introduce Read to Someone this week in Daily Five. Kids love reading to a buddy!

Have a great day!

Mrs. Polgar

 

 

 

 

 

Dates to Remember

Wednesday, September 24 – Library check-out and students return library books.

Letter of the Week – Dd   Sight Word of the Week – see 

Please review the letter/sound and sight word of the week with your child weekly. We will do activities in class to review letter and sound recognition weekly. Also, please continue to work with your child on writing their first name. Their first name should begin with an upper case letter and all other letters should be written in lower case.

A Peek at the Week:

I have included the Common Core standards along with what we are learning in each subject area.

Everyday Math Lessons – Comparing coins, graphing numbers, writing numbers, understanding numbers on a number line; what number comes before and after a given number and recognizing and counting numbers 1-20.

Writing –K.W.3 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events. Students will be given the district writing assessment this week. They will write a personal narrative for the assessment. Students are working on details in their story and will learn about settings in their stories this week.

Social Studies – K – C5.0.1 Describe situations in which I can demonstrate self-discipline and individual responsibility. Unit 1 Who Am I – Students will collaborate and demonstrate concept of self-discipline and individual responsibility at home and at school.

Science – S.IP.00.11 Make purposeful observation of the natural world using the appropriate senses. Students have been working on the five senses. This week students will explore the senses; hearing and touching.

Language Arts – We have started Daily Five in class and are working on Reading to Self, Working on Writing and Working on Word. Daily Five is a literacy program where your child is engaged for a block of time working on writing, reading, and spelling. We have learned Daily Five CAFE strategies; where to begin reading on a page, reading from left to right,  learning to listen with understanding when read a story aloud and recognizing the cover and back cover of a book, recognizing the author and illustrator of a book.

I will not be in class Wednesday, September 24, and Thursday, September 25 I will be attending a 2 day conference. There will be a substitute in my place, Miss. Leslie.

See you on Monday. Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs. Polgar

 

 

I wanted to thank my class and families for a great year. I was very touched with the  class gift, year end gifts and flowers from everyone. Thank you all for your kind words and support through the year.

Enjoy the summer!

Mrs. Polgar