Week of 10-1-18

Letters of the Week:  O, I (complete alphabet book and hand in Friday).

Words of the Week:  come, and

Math practice book:  No new lessons.  One on one math assessment with teacher for Unit 1

Thursday:  First monthly reward party for students who stayed on “green” for at least 18 days in the month of September = extra recess.

Please return library books every Monday.

Apple Orchard Field Trip Permission slips due Friday.

Have a good week!

 

Lindbergh Holiday Boutique Basket Raffle

The Lindbergh Holiday Boutique is held in November.  At the boutique there is a classroom basket raffle.  The money raised by this raffle goes directly to the teachers to use in the classroom.

Before picking a random “theme” for our basket and asking for donations I thought I would reach out to see if any of our families had any business connections or resources for a large donation.

For example, last year one of my classroom parents worked at a hotel downtown and we were able to get a 1 night free stay and dinner – so we designed a basket theme around that.

Please email me if you can help!

Thanks in advance!

Friday Newsletter, 9-28-18

News and Information:

Tuesday, October 2nd:  PTA meeting, 6:00

Monday, October 8th:  Field Trip to the Apple Orchard

Wednesday, October 17th:  Late Start

What We Did This Week:

ELA: 

  • Our letters of the week were Aa, Dd
  • Our sight words were come, at (we will add these to our ring of words Monday).
  • We read stories with rhyming words, we talked about “the characters” of our stories and the beginning, middle and end of our stories.
  • Our Poem this week was “Look!”
  • We rotated through Daily 5 (read to self, work on writing and word work).  We are beginning to meet in small groups.
  • In Writer’s Workshop students wrote in their journals after participating in a “shared writing” with me.  They are helping to record the sounds they here in words.

Math:

  • We had 4 lessons this week on forming numbers 4 and 5, number sentences and breaking apart numbers.

Leader in Me/ Social Studies:

  • We are developing our mission statement.
  • We discussed the needs for rules in our community (our classroom) and we talked about how to get along.

Science:

  • We introduced pushes and pulls

We visited Gym, Art, Music and Media.

We checked out our first book from the library.

We played during Free Choice Time.

  • Alphabet Books were due Thursday (Letter A and Letter D page).  I will return them on Monday.
  • Nightly Literacy Homework for September can be turned in Monday.  October sheets will be sent home on Monday.

**Please remember to pack an afternoon snack separate from the lunch box.

**Please remember to eat a good breakfast every morning.  We do not have morning snack.

**Field Trip Permission slips are due by Friday, October 5th.

Have a great weekend!

 

Week of 9-24-18

Letters of the Week:  A, D (complete alphabet book and hand in Friday).

Words of the Week:  look, at (review sight word flashcards in student reading bag).

Math practice book:  lessons 13-16

First library book check out today.

No school Friday for Kindergarten and Y5 students.

Have a good week!

Friday Newsletter, 9-21-18

News and Information:

No School for Kindergarten, Friday, September 28th

What We Did This Week:

The students continued to learn school rules and classroom procedures.

ELA: 

  • Our letters of the week were Tt, Nn
  • Our sight words were like, to
  • We read stories with rhyming words.
  • Our Poem this week was “I Like to Go to School”
  • We rotated through Daily 5 (read to self, work on writing and word work).
  • We wrote in our journals during Writer’s Workshop.  Students are being encouraged to add lots of detail to their drawings.
  • Sight word flashcards have been added to student reading bags

Math:

  • We had 4 lessons this week on adding and number formation.  Feel free to complete the practice pages at home through lesson 13.

Leader in Me/ Social Studies:

  • We talked about characteristics of a leader.
  • We are developing our mission statement.

Science:

  • We discussed the tools scientist use to observe.

We visited Gym, Art, Music and Media.

Library Book check our will begin Monday.

We played during Free Choice Time.

  • Alphabet Books were due today (Letter T and Letter N page).  I will return them on Monday.
  • Nightly Literacy Homework continues for the month.  These can be turned in every Monday to show progress.

**Please remember to pack an afternoon snack separate from the lunch box.

Have a great weekend!