Order form coming home today.

Next week’s letters will be W w F f (not H h I i…those will be the following week.)

Lots pf activity and excitement going on in here. I finished assessing each student on the letters, words, and numbers from the notice that I sent home last week. I will go over the results when I meet with you at our conference.

Here’s what’s coming up this week…

LETTERS H h I i

WORDS To to go go

Reading Comprehension: Responding to questions about BATS. We’ll learn some things about BATS!

PHONICS Ending Sounds of swords

WRITING We’ll be writing OPINION sentences about SPIDERS AND BATS.

MATH We will begin Module 2, 2D and 3D shapes. Have some discussion this weekend about shapes. Reminder that Math Packets will go home Monday, Oct. 28 and are due the following Monday, November 4.

SCIENCE FORCES Push and Pull

THURSDAY 1:30-2:00 will be our Halloween Parade around the track

FRIDAY Half day for students 11:45 dismissal

PM Teacher Duty Day

Please don’t wait for me to introduce letters, words, math concepts. I post the following topics and teaching points every Friday so that the students can be exposed and work with some of the topics at home before arriving on Mondays. Also, please keep up a DAILY review of all letters, sounds, and words that I do each week. I am building on previous weeks and the lessons. I can always tell those who are reviewing at night, reading their books from their Book Bags, practicing Math concepts (like “1 more than 15” or “What is 1 less than 12?”), making sentences with their reading /writing words. Just 15 minutes every day is such a help to your child and teaches them the value of responsibility to their own learning. Of course, READ TO THEM EVERY NIGHT!!!

Have a good weekend!

BOO!

“Your deeds are your

monuments.”

-inscription on an Egyptian tomb

We will have our All School Halloween Parade next Thursday. the Parade will be from 1:30-2:00 outside around the track. The Homeroom Mothers are managing the snacks, etc for our party, courtesy of your party money donations. Thank you.

Students may bring their costume to school in the morning and I will help them change into their costume after lunch. If you’d prefer, you may take your child home for lunch at 11:45 and bring them back in costume at 12:45. It will be an exciting day for “my little pumpkins!”

See you there!

Thanks to all of the parents who volunteered to chaperone our trip today. What perfect weather!

I thought you would have taken lots of pictures at the zoo so I thought I’d show you what your kids looked like on the bus ride home.

Apologies to Max…he was sitting up forward and I didn’t see him.

During READ TO SELF time, I told the kids that I if they could read one of their books in their Book Box, that I would Love to have some readers share their reading with the class. Well… I had so many that wanted to read their book, I only had time for a few. How exciting! Here are some of Friday’s readers…

Taher

Ali

Annie

Sorry that I couldn’t get the images to rotate so that I could label the readers with their name. New computer…I’ll work on it.

See you in the morning for the trip!

Mrs. Smith

Tomorrow, Friday, October 18 is Picture Day!

Monday is our Field Trip to the Zoo. Parents chaperoning should meet in my room at 9:00. Bus will leave around 9:15 carrying the students. Parents will follow in car pools. At the end of our trip, ALL STUDENTS ARE TO RIDE THE BUS BACK TO SCHOOL and can then be dismissed to parents. NO students are to leave with parents from the zoo.

*comfortable walking shoes

*sack lunch

*dress for the weather

We are very excited about the trip, especially riding the bus!

Mrs. Smith

Lots happening this week…

All Field Trip money is due TODAY. Trip is next Monday, Oct., 21. Remember to wear weather appropriate clothing. It might be cold! Also, wear comfortable shoes and bring a sack lunch. For those parents not chaperoning, your child will be assigned to another parent. Parents meet at school to carpool. Only students ride the bus. Parents may follow in cars. Bus will probably leave around 9:15 ish and return around 2:30. I will confirm our return time when I speak with the Bus Driver.

WEDNESDAY-LATE START

-LIBRARY BOOK DUE

FRIDAY-School Pictures

READING COMPREHENSION-We will work with sequencing story events. Try this at home…”Before you left for school, what did you do today?” “Before bed tonight, what 3 things do you need to do?” “Retell me this story.”

READING BOOK BAGS -Going well. Students are remembering them and I am getting some great 1:1 time with each reader. Thank you for your support at home. Keep practicing those sight words!!

PHONICS-Initial Sounds First sounds in words

WORDS/ LETTERS- The the S s T t

WRITING- We will begin Opinion Writing. Ask your student his/her opinion about something. Have them say their thought in a complete sentence. ie. “Which was your favorite food at dinner tonight?” “My favorite food tonight was—-.”

MATH-Counting 10 objects in different configurations, matching numeral with dot cards (can use dominoes), stating “1 more”

MATH HOMEWORK PACKET is coming home today. Remember that the homework packet is due on Mondays.

Enjoy your week.

Mrs. Smith

“Every hour of light

and dark

is a

miracle.”

-Walt Whitman

The days are getting cooler and are flying by our eyes!

Please remember to dress your child for the weather. We will go outside as long as it’s enjoyable. we went outside this morning to see what we could detect using our senses of sight and hearing. We also collected leaves to fit with our unit on LEAVES.

We came back and wrote a book titled LEAVES. Please have your child point to each word as they read the book to you. Pretty great for only day # 27 of Kindergarten!

Next week:

PHONICS: WE will continue with Rhyming Words

LETTERS: K k G g

WORDS: like

By now, your child should know how to read, write, and spell the following words…

I can see a Please help them practice these words so they can read and write them easily. Next week I will add like to the list of known words. The same goes for the letters that we have done M m A a T t D d Find things that start with these sounds. Next week I will be assessing them on the letters M m A a T t D d and I can see a

WRITING; We will continue with NARRATIVE WRITING (telling a story). Create some stories of your own as you are driving in the car, waiting at soccer practice, etc. Stories do not have to be long.

MATH: We will be working with ways to make 9…in horizontal/vertical directions, in a circle, an array and different ways to make 9. Practice this with spoons at the table, shoes, crayons, anything…

SCIENCE: We will continue discussing our 5 senses. So far we have done seeing, hearing, and smelling.

Next week I will be involved in 2 meetings. Mrs. Hespen, a very dear friend, former Howard teacher, and an excellent sub will be here for me. I will be in the building.

Next Friday, October 11:

-half day for all. PD for staff dismissal will be 11:45 am

-Also money for 10/21 field trip is due. If you have a zoo membership you must be present with your child to attend. Copies of the membership card will not be honored.

Next Late Start is 10/16

Have a glorious weekend. Pumpkins, fall, apples, donuts….yum!

“You are your own little light,

Shine brightly so that everyone can see it.

-Elizabeth

27 of Kindergarten!