Kindergarten Announcements
December 1, 2017
Attendance and being on time is so important to your child's success at school!!
Please remember to send in your the gingerbread goodies for our STEM activity next Friday.
Dates to Remember
Gingerbread House STEM Activity - December 8
Polar Express Day - December 14 (wear your pajamas and watch the Polar express!Grinch week - December 18-20
Holiday Party - December 20
Holiday Happenings in Kindergarten
This week Kindergarten classes have spent time talking about diversity and how each of us celebrate holidays in different ways. The students are learning about Kwanzaa, Hanakah, and Christmas. Please let your child's teacher know if your child is unable to participate in holiday activities. Some of the activities include building gingerbread houses, having a Grinch Day, and riding the Polar Express!
End of Term Assessments
Over the next two weeks, kindergarten teachers will be assessing students and looking for mastery of the standards that have been taught for GKIDS and report cards. Report cards will be administered after the Winter Break.
Please practice the following skills with your child if he/she does not have mastery of these:
- Reading all sight words taught this year
- Writing at least 1 - 2 sentences about a topic, with capital letters at the beginning of a sentence, correct spacing between words, and grade appropriate spelling.
- When writing the word "I," capitalizing it. (i.e. My mom and I walked home).
- Coins and their values (penny, nickel, dime, & quarter)
- Counting from 1 - 100
-counting objects in a set and recording the correct number
- Writing numbers 0 - 20 written correctly & legibly
-composing and decomposing numbers into tens and ones (18 is one ten and 8 ones)
Literacy Learning
I have been spending time this week formally assessing your child's current reading level. I am so pleased with how well students are learning to read and the strategies they are using. I can tell that your child is learning how to look at pictures, analyze word parts, and even use their own oral language to help them decode and read fluently. Students are learning to read sight words quickly and it's even carrying over into their writing. Thank you for helping your child begin a lifelong journey into the world of reading!
For the next two weeks, we will be reviewing literacy skills taught in these 9 weeks. Our focus will be on main idea and details, making connections between stories and characters, and learning how to use unknown words in a text. You can help with this at home by reading with your child and discussing the characters and action in the story. Also, talk with your child about the pictures and what they see that helps them to understand the story better. Ask them questions such as "What evidence from the story makes you think about.....?" When reading words your child does not understand the meaning of, you can prompt your child to look at words before and after the unknown word to find clues that will help them to understand the text better. Looking at the picture will help them too!
Please encourage your child to turn in their guided reading books. These books need to be returned to the book room for other students to use. The cost for lost or damaged books is $5.00.
Math Memo:
Next week we will be reviewing math concepts taught in the 1st and 2nd nine weeks. Our focus will be on composing teen numbers using ten frames and place value (tens and ones) counting objects with 1:1 correspondence, more/less and money. I will be sending home your child's most current math test. Please go over the test with your child.
It's Beginning to Look A lot Like Winter!
Events December 4-8
Library: Monday
Build Gingerbread Houses-Friday (please don't forget to send your donated item)