This Week in Kindergarten
February 19, 2016
True Blue Practice
True Blue Practice will be coming home again on Friday. This practice is designed to provide your child with extra practice opportunities to work on key skills. Each Friday, we check progress on the spelling of sight words included in the practice with a short assessment. Thank you so much for your continued partnership in your child's education.
What are we learning in Kindergarten this week?
Math: In math we will explore balance and find the missing parts of a balance equation. We will review 3 dimensional shapes.
What can we work on at home?
-Identifying numbers 1-10
-Counting to 100 by 1's 5's and 10's
-Writing Numbers 1-20
Language Arts/ Social Studies: In writer's workshop, we will gather information about a topic of interest using different features of informational text. In reader's workshop, We will ask questions that will help us understand informational text. I know I have it when I can ask questions and find answers about informational text.
What can we work on at home?
-Review letter names and sounds for all letters of the alphabet.
-Writing first name correctly on lined paper with only the first letter capitalized
-Correctly identifying and writing letters
-Stretching out sounds to write simple words
-Reading and writing sight words
-Writing sentences that start with a capital letter and end with punctuation.
Science: In science, we will observe and identify the stages of the lifecycle of a frog.
Kindergarten Contact Information
Kristen Abernathy: kabernathy@nisdtx.org
Claire Baker: cbaker02@nisdtx.org
Katy Beazley: kbeazley@nisdtx.org
Diane Koestler: dkoestler@nisdtx.org
Nancy Shuster: nshuster@nisdtx.org
Alyssa Stas: astas@nisdtx.org
Location: Samuel Beck Elementary School, Parkview Drive, Trophy Club, TX, United States
Phone: 817-215-4750
Twitter: @abernathykinder
Important Reminders:
-Please be sure that your child's personal belongings are labeled with his or her name. These items include jackets, hats, gloves, lunchboxes, etc. This is an important step in returning your child's items if they are misplaced. Thank you so much for your help with this.
-Guided Reading books are due back to school on Friday of each week.