News of the Week
February 15-19
Dear Parents,
- Mrs. Williams
Important Reminders!
- No School on Monday! Happy President's Day!
- Early Release Days are coming up on February 24 and 25. The conference scheduler is open now, please see Friday folders for directions on how to sign up for a spring conference with me. This will be our last official conference of the year. If none of the available times work for you for some reason, please e-mail me and we can work something out to meet another time!
- 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!
- Need a Six Flags form to get your free ticket this summer? Visit: FMES website > School Info tab > Forms. You will see the form to print at home. They are due February 25th.
- 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?
- Making predictions
- Reread Power
- Extra strength book talk power
- Sight words: went, and
- Letter: W
- 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:
- Writing letters to reach readers (tell about a problem/want/need/concern)
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 (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
- What are rocks?
Social Studies
- Abraham Lincoln
- President Obama
- White House, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial
- Washington, D.C.
Links to Try...
Decompose Numbers less than 10
http://pbskids.org/sid/balancingact.html
Curious George Bubble Pop (Counting by ones)
http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/busyday/bubbles/teacher.html
Curious George Train Station
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/ngames/numbers.htm
Sight Word Bingo (choose Pre-Primer level to start)
http://www.abcya.com/dolch_sight_word_bingo.htm
Sight Word Song