Jan. 13, 2017

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KB News

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.)