Monday, November 29, 2010
Nov. 29- Dec.3
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving spent with family and friends! Here's what's happening this week:
Literacy
We are talking about the letter Cc. Our alphafriend is Callie Cat. We really only hit on the hard /k/ sound for c. You can discuss the soft /s/ sound with your child, but they won't get formal instruction on that until first grade.
Our word this week is to. We talked about how there are more than one spelling of the word and the other meanings, so please help reinforce this at home.
We cleaned out our writing folders today. We are really going to focus on being able to read the stories that we write, so please have your child read his/her stories to you if they can.
Math
We have started a new chapter this week on geometry. We talked today about the solid shapes: cube, cylinder, cone, pyramid, sphere, and rectangular prism. This topic is just introduced in kindergarten and will be assessed in first grade. The rest of the week we will be talking about plane shapes: triange, rectangle, square, and circle.
Early Out
Please remember that tomorrow is an early out day. The kids will be dismissed at 2:18.
Literacy
We are talking about the letter Cc. Our alphafriend is Callie Cat. We really only hit on the hard /k/ sound for c. You can discuss the soft /s/ sound with your child, but they won't get formal instruction on that until first grade.
Our word this week is to. We talked about how there are more than one spelling of the word and the other meanings, so please help reinforce this at home.
We cleaned out our writing folders today. We are really going to focus on being able to read the stories that we write, so please have your child read his/her stories to you if they can.
Math
We have started a new chapter this week on geometry. We talked today about the solid shapes: cube, cylinder, cone, pyramid, sphere, and rectangular prism. This topic is just introduced in kindergarten and will be assessed in first grade. The rest of the week we will be talking about plane shapes: triange, rectangle, square, and circle.
Early Out
Please remember that tomorrow is an early out day. The kids will be dismissed at 2:18.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
ooops!
So I realized it's almost Wednesday, and I haven't posted about what's going on this week! Ooops! Sorry! So here it is!
Literacy
We are working on the letter Vv. Our letter friend is Vinnie Volcano. We're also continuing to learn how to sound out words, like cat, man, or top. We are looking at the -ap work family this week to help the kids learn to read and recognize words. Along those lines, we are also learning about the word 'and' this week. You should have gotten the word wall words in your second quarter homework packet. The blue words are the ones the kids need to know for this quarter, so really focus on those, however, once they've mastered those, feel free to move onto the green ones for third quarter.
In writing we are continuing to work on sounding out words and drawing pictures with details.
Math
We are finishing up a chapter 4 this week. I will be assessing the kids by the end of the week on the numbers 6-10. They need to be able to count, recognize, and write those numbers, along with the numbers 0-10. So, be using those number cards, tens frames, and notebooks in the homework bag!
Other
Picture retakes are on Friday, is you would like your child have his/her picture retaken, please have that info sent to me by Friday.
Stone Soup
A note went home yesterday about Stone Soup. We have been reading Stone Soup stories this week, and will be making it next week. I received a few volunteer slips today, so if you do want to volunteer, please send your sheet back! Also, if you can spare, we do need vegetables for the soup so go ahead and send those to school with your child by Monday!
Literacy
We are working on the letter Vv. Our letter friend is Vinnie Volcano. We're also continuing to learn how to sound out words, like cat, man, or top. We are looking at the -ap work family this week to help the kids learn to read and recognize words. Along those lines, we are also learning about the word 'and' this week. You should have gotten the word wall words in your second quarter homework packet. The blue words are the ones the kids need to know for this quarter, so really focus on those, however, once they've mastered those, feel free to move onto the green ones for third quarter.
In writing we are continuing to work on sounding out words and drawing pictures with details.
Math
We are finishing up a chapter 4 this week. I will be assessing the kids by the end of the week on the numbers 6-10. They need to be able to count, recognize, and write those numbers, along with the numbers 0-10. So, be using those number cards, tens frames, and notebooks in the homework bag!
Other
Picture retakes are on Friday, is you would like your child have his/her picture retaken, please have that info sent to me by Friday.
Stone Soup
A note went home yesterday about Stone Soup. We have been reading Stone Soup stories this week, and will be making it next week. I received a few volunteer slips today, so if you do want to volunteer, please send your sheet back! Also, if you can spare, we do need vegetables for the soup so go ahead and send those to school with your child by Monday!
Monday, November 8, 2010
November 8-12
I was reminded by a student this morning that I never sent out the lunch/specials calendar for this month! I apologize and that will be sent home today!
Literacy
We will be talking about the letter Hh. Our alphafriend is Hattie Horse. We will start trying to hear more sounds in words this week also. I will say the sounds in a word, /k/ /a/ /t/, and they should be able to tell me the word is cat. We will also be working on reading and writing simple, one syllable words. Included in that are words from the -at family: sat, cat, hat, etc.
Our sight words this week are: at and me
In writing we will be talking about using capital letters, art, punctuation, and spaces. We'll do this by talking about the CAPS man! We will also talk about adding good details to our pictures.
Math
This week in math we will continue to talk about numbers. We will focus on the numbers 9 and 10 and play some games counting and recognizing those numbers.
Homework
I will be sending home the new homework supplies for second quarter. Add it to your current homework bag and begin working on the snowflake sheet. Those will be due at the end of the second quarter which will be in January. Please let me know if you have any questions about the homework sheets or new materials!
Literacy
We will be talking about the letter Hh. Our alphafriend is Hattie Horse. We will start trying to hear more sounds in words this week also. I will say the sounds in a word, /k/ /a/ /t/, and they should be able to tell me the word is cat. We will also be working on reading and writing simple, one syllable words. Included in that are words from the -at family: sat, cat, hat, etc.
Our sight words this week are: at and me
In writing we will be talking about using capital letters, art, punctuation, and spaces. We'll do this by talking about the CAPS man! We will also talk about adding good details to our pictures.
Math
This week in math we will continue to talk about numbers. We will focus on the numbers 9 and 10 and play some games counting and recognizing those numbers.
Homework
I will be sending home the new homework supplies for second quarter. Add it to your current homework bag and begin working on the snowflake sheet. Those will be due at the end of the second quarter which will be in January. Please let me know if you have any questions about the homework sheets or new materials!
Monday, November 1, 2010
November 1-5
Wow! November, huh?! This year seems to be flying by! I hope you all had a great Halloween and didn't eat too much candy! :-) Here's what's happening this week:
Literacy
We will talking about the letter Nn. Our alphafriend is Nyle Noodle, so have you kiddo think of things Nyle would like! We've also been working on breaking words into onset and rime. This means that I say /k/ - /at/, and they have to be able to tell me that it's the word cat. This is something they will need to be able to do by the end of second quarter, so it's something you could do with your kids as you're driving in the car and see things as you go! And our word wall words this week are yes and no. So you could have your child practice writing these in a variety of different ways!
In writing we will continue to work on writing words on our stories. We will work on counting how the words we want to write and using the word wall to help us spell words.
Math
We will be talking about he numbers 6-8 this week. We will focus on identifying and writing the number and also counting that many objects.
Other
We will be having attendance assemblies on Thursday at 9:30. If your child is receiving a certificate for oustanding attendance you will get a letter in their folder today. We will also be handing out certificates for returning the apple homework sheets at this time, so if your child still hasn't returned his/hers, they still have time!!
Literacy
We will talking about the letter Nn. Our alphafriend is Nyle Noodle, so have you kiddo think of things Nyle would like! We've also been working on breaking words into onset and rime. This means that I say /k/ - /at/, and they have to be able to tell me that it's the word cat. This is something they will need to be able to do by the end of second quarter, so it's something you could do with your kids as you're driving in the car and see things as you go! And our word wall words this week are yes and no. So you could have your child practice writing these in a variety of different ways!
In writing we will continue to work on writing words on our stories. We will work on counting how the words we want to write and using the word wall to help us spell words.
Math
We will be talking about he numbers 6-8 this week. We will focus on identifying and writing the number and also counting that many objects.
Other
We will be having attendance assemblies on Thursday at 9:30. If your child is receiving a certificate for oustanding attendance you will get a letter in their folder today. We will also be handing out certificates for returning the apple homework sheets at this time, so if your child still hasn't returned his/hers, they still have time!!
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