Jan. 27, 2017

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Literacy: We read the book Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner .   The children focused on strategies that good readers use when they read.  The focus strategy this week was retelling details. The children worked with partners to identify important details and retell the story. They really enjoyed sharing information about the story using picture cards.

*Attached are Jolly Phonics Tricky Words that the students are learning to read and use when they write sentences.  The children may keep this list to use at home.

Math: “How Big Is A Foot?”   The children found out why it is important to have a standard unit of measure.  They compared their cut out foot to an actual foot sized foot. They soon discovered that there is a big difference in size and measurement.

Valentine’s Day: Valentine’s Day is fast approaching.  We will be having our Valentine’s party on Tuesday, Feb. 14^th from 12:30 to 1:30p.m. Your child may bring Valentine’s for his/her classmates.  If your child is showing an interest in reading and writing his/her classmates name, please help him/her print them on each envelope (see list below). If not, please leave the envelopes blank, but sign the cards.  Your child will pass Valentine’s to every child in the room.  Please write on all of the envelopes or none of them.  Thank you!

Brychan   Eddie     Evelyn    Izzy           Seth

Keelan    Karter         Taylor    Livia     Oliver

Henley    Arybella       Cade      Emilee         Tatum

Lathen    Leah           Aleena

Important Dates:

Feb. 1^st – Global Day of Play (note  sent home 1/24/17)

         Feb. 6^th – Teacher In-service No School

Feb. 9th – 100^th Day of School Celebration

Feb. 14^th – Valentine’s Day Party

*Parent-Teacher Conferences will be Feb. 13^th and 16^th

(2:15 Dismissal both days)

Feb. 17^th -No School Parent/Teacher Comp. Day

Feb. 20^th -No School President’s Day

Jan. 13, 2017

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Shared Reading: We read the book The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats.   The children focused on strategies that good readers use when they read.  The strategies focused on this week include predicting, retelling details, inferring, making connections, and sharing their opinion about the story.

Math: This week the children had fun tracing their feet and measuring different things in the classroom. They worked with partners to measure.  One person moved the foot cut out and the other counted the steps.

Sharing Reminder: The children are no longer sharing every morning.  We are now now devoting our scheduled sharing time to learning Jolly Phonics Tricky Words.

 

FAST Assessments: The week of Jan. 23rd the students will be taking FAST (Formative Assessment System for Teachers) assessments.  The Universal Screening materials included: Onset Sounds, Word Segmenting, Nonsense Words, and Letter Sounds. The aReading assessment will be the final component of the Winter FAST for Kindergarten students. It would be beneficial for the students to be well rested and have a nutritious breakfast all that week. The FAST results will be shared during conferences with parents.

Jolly Phonics: Please continue to review letter sounds at home. Thank you for working with your child on word lists that are sent home in the Jolly Phonics Envelopes.

Important Dates:

         Jan. 16^th – Report Cards sent home

         Jan. 23^th  –Feb. 10^th  FAST Assessments

Feb. 7th – 100^th Day of School (If school is cancelled due to weather this date will change.)

Jan. 6, 2017

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Happy New Year!

Writing:  We read the story titled Feelings by Susan Canizares. We then composed a class story about feelings. The children discussed different feelings and shared stories.  

Please have the children practice writing sentences that go along with their pictures they create at home.  Remind them to use their Jolly Phonics sound sheet when sounding out words.  We have been working on starting a sentence with a capital letter, leaving two finger spaces between words, and using punctuation to stop a sentence.

Math: This week the children learned about the passage of time and order of events. Each child made a sequencing time line of daily events.  They drew pictures of what they did in the morning, afternoon, and at night.

Science: We read many books about snow this week. They completed snow related activities. The snow projects are displayed in the hall.

Important Dates:

         Jan. 9^th -No School

         Jan. 10^th – PTO Meeting 6:30 Discovery Center

         Jan. 16^th-    Report Cards sent home

         Jan. 23-Feb. 10^th- FAST Testing