We have a busy week coming up! \u00a0Please make sure your child is well fed, well rested, and here at school.<\/p>\n
All students will be taking the MAP, which is an assessment tool to mark their progress. \u00a0They took this assessment last October, now it’s time for a mid-year check, and they will take one more in the Spring.<\/p>\n
All students will have a District Writing Prompt. \u00a0This assessment also happens 3 times a year.<\/p>\n
This week is also Howard Spirit Week. \u00a0The students always enjoy these events. \u00a0A yellow note went home yesterday detailing the events but here’s a repeat.<\/p>\n
Monday-Mismatch\/Sports Day \u00a0Wear clothes that don’t match or wear something to cheer on your favorite team.<\/p>\n
Tuesday-Class Color day \u00a0 Kindergarten’s color is BLUE. \u00a0PTA is sponsoring a Science Assembly. \u00a0Thanks PTA!<\/p>\n
Wednesday-Hippie Day \u00a0 Students can come to school dressed like a hippie \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0It’s also\u00a0LIBRARY DAY\u00a0<\/strong>for my class. \u00a0Please have your<\/span> student<\/span> put their Library Book in their backpack on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n Thursday_Character\/Movie Day \u00a0 \u00a0Dress like a movie or book character and we’ll enjoy a movie in our room.<\/p>\n Friday-(their favorite day! ) \u00a0 Pajama\/Crazy Hair\/Birthday Bash day \u00a0Students can come to school in their PJ’s and with crazy hair. We’ll also have a birthday treat to celebrate everyone’s birthday!!<\/p>\n Spelling Tests Begin This Week<\/strong><\/p>\n READING-We will begin Unit 6 \u00a0OUR NEIGHBORHOOD<\/p>\n We’ll be discussing places in our neighborhood (Library, Police Station, Fire Station, School) \u00a0We’ll be discussing\u00a0main characters and details<\/strong> in stories. \u00a0Look for these when you are reading at home or even watching TV. During the middle of a story or during a commercial, ask “Who is the main character in this show? \u00a0What is the problem in the show? \u00a0How was the problem solved? \u00a0What were 3 details in the story\/show?” \u00a0Get them thinking!<\/p>\n LETTER- \u00a0H \u00a0h<\/strong><\/p>\n WORD- Are \u00a0 are<\/b><\/p>\n SPELLING-Here are the spelling words for this week. \u00a0Spelling Tests will be on Fridays (usually \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n We’ll work with the “at” family. \u00a0We’ll have known words (words we’ve had previously from first semester) and new weekly words. \u00a0So, this Friday’s words are: \u00a0\u00a0cat \u00a0mat \u00a0fat \u00a0 can \u00a0 I \u00a0 are<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n WRITING-We’ll be writing\u00a0dialogue.<\/strong> \u00a0Can you believe it…writing with\u00a0dialogue\u00a0<\/strong>in Kindergarten??!!<\/p>\n SOCIAL STUDIES-Students will work in groups to create a map of a town. \u00a0They will be using these maps the following week for their writing.<\/p>\n MATH-Graphing using Tally marks, pictures, etc. \u00a0How do we read the graph? \u00a0What shall we title the graph (because all graphs have titles!)<\/p>\n Next week we’ll work with money. \u00a0Get your coins ready!<\/p>\n We are entering the second semester of Kindergarten. \u00a0Expectations will be stepped up. \u00a0Keep the reading, writing, math, discussions, thinking, problem solving, going at home.<\/p>\n Enjoy your weekend!<\/p>\n Mrs. Smith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have a busy week coming up! \u00a0Please make sure your child is well fed, well rested, and here at school. All students will be taking the MAP, which is an assessment tool to mark their progress. \u00a0They took this assessment last October, now it’s time for a mid-year check, and they will take one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}