News of the Week
February 7-12
Dear Parents,
- Mrs. Williams
Important Reminders!
- We had such fun on STEM Day today! Ask your child about building towers from cups, cubes, and popsicle sticks. They were great problem solvers and tried all kinds of ways to make it taller!
- We will be doing a Valentine exchange on Friday. If your child would like to pass out cards, please have them bring 20 with them to school on Friday. You can have them simply fill out the "From" section; when writing their name at home, help them to use a capital letter only for the first letter. It may be best to have them do a few cards each night during the week instead of 20 at once!
- Skate Night will be Wednesday, February 10th from 6-8pm
- Our Father/Daughter Dance is coming up on February 19th! Please see the flyer in Friday Folders. This is one of my MOST favorite events, I always volunteer to work at it because the girls are just TOO cute!
- We could really use some glue sticks! Being a glue stick or a marker in a kindergarten class is a tough job! =)
- Don't forget to log-on to My Payments Plus to pay for our March 21st field trip, the cost is $14 and the online payment option will end on March 10th. If you need a paper copy instead, please e-mail me.
- Our eClass page now contains Homework Ideas for the Week... please visit our page to see the information! Scroll down for directions on how to log-on!
How to Log-on to eClass
2) Type in your child's student number (200....)
3) Their password is their initials, the month of their birthday, and the day of their birthday (i.e. mine would be lw1224)
** If content on our page is not loading, but sure to look in your address bar for the security shield and click 'load unsafe scripts' or whatever your wording may be! **
Reading & Writing Skills of the Week
- Check your reading- does it look right, sounds right, and, make sense?
- New kinds of picture power for harder books
- Reading sight words with endings
- Making predictions
- Sight words: then went
- Letter: X
- Similarities and difference between books on the same topic
- How does an author support their points?
- What are the key details in the book?
Writing:
- Persuasive/opinion writing: State an opinion on something and tell reasons why you think that/believe that.
Ongoing...
- Beginning a sentence with a capital
- Capitalizing the pronoun "I"
- Ending punctuation
Math Skills of the Week
- Counting to 100 by ones and tens
Numbers
- Compose and decompose numbers less than or equal to 10. Compose (put together) and decompose (take apart) numbers between 11-19 into tens and ones.
Categories
- Sort objects into categories/groups and and count amount in each group.
Science & Social Studies Skills of the Week
- Nocturnal animals
Social Studies
- President's Day:
Learn about and discuss the contributions and traits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and the current president.
Links to Try...
Balance Game (we played it at STEM Day)
http://pbskids.org/sid/balancingact.html
Purpy's Shapes
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/ngames/shapes.htm
Greenelle's Numbers
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/ngames/numbers.htm
Color Game
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/colors/colorgame.htm
Sight Word Bingo (choose Pre-Primer level to start)
http://www.abcya.com/dolch_sight_word_bingo.htm
Sight Word Song