The Bailey Bunch Kindergarten News
Ms. Bailey & Mrs. Shumpert's Class:Week of January 18-22
We have started the first two weeks of the New Year with a BANG! It's hard to believe, but we have already made it half-way through our kindergarten year. We look forward to lots of learning and fun as we continue to develop new skills and build upon what we already know. Please practice all the comments written on report cards and go over daily home work with your child. If you have any questions or would like to set up a conference, please feel free to email me sbailey@rhmail.org or call the school 803-981-1550.
Thanks for all you do for OUR kids. :)
SPECIAL REQUEST
-cutting with scissors
-holding pencils correctly
-tying shoes
-writing his/her name (first and last)
-reading and practicing popcorn words
-bringing books and materials to school daily
-writing letters correctly with or without models
Thanks for any extra time you can give your child to refine these skills. Just a few minutes a day will help to reinforce what we do in class. We always say, "Practice makes you better!" January is always a magical month in the life of Kinders. With your help, your child will truly amaze you in the next few months.
Thanks for all you do!
Winter Wonderland
Hocus Pocus
Do You Believe in Magic
When Is a Knot NOT a Knot?
Can I Have a Volunteer?
Dates, Reminders, and Information
- Jan 18 No SCHOOL- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Jan 20- Immersion Parent Meeting- Dr. Pew (Our Superintendent) will host an Immersion Parent Meeting at 6pm at Sullivan Middle School. All families interested in Immersion or currently enrolled, are invited to join the meeting.
- Jan 30 Back the Pack Winthrop Basketball Game-Details coming soon. We want Ebinport to have the most in attendance. Hope you all can make it.
Kid's Korner
A Peek at the Week
Read Alouds: Non-Fiction Texts
Biographies: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks
Informational Texts (animals and science)
Math-
*Addition and Subtraction to 10
Counting objects from 1-20, understanding that the arrangement of the objects doesn't change the number, adding one more makes the quantity bigger, last number said while counting objects equals total amount, greater than, less than, equal to, counting from a given number and continuing on, subitizing-- (seeing a dot arrangement for a few seconds and making a mental picture to quickly to determine a way to find the number of dots)
Writing Workshop-
Writing sentences about what we draw.
Using upper-case letters at the beginning of a sentence and for the pronoun "I".
Ending sentences with periods.
Reading Workshop-
Exploring Non-fiction books (Informational texts and biographies) and text features such as:
Table of Contents, page numbers, bold print, photographs, labels, drawings, glossary, and index
- Weather- What makes ice? How does weather affect us? What do we wear in winter? How do we keep ourselves and pets safe in cold weather?
Name Writing- Please help your child practice writing his/her first name using the proper letter formation and only capitalize the first letter. See examples of letter formations in your child's binder if you need assistance.
Counting- Please help your child by putting items in a line and practice counting, saying the number name, and touching each object as he/she counts aloud.