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Reminders/Tips:

·      December 22^nd – 2:00 Dismissal

·      December 23^rd – January 2- No School

·      January 3^rd – School Resumes

·      January 9^th – 2 hour late start

·      Please work on reading at least 1 book each day during break!

·      Practice numbers (reading and writing) as far as your child can go!  Try for 100! 

Reading

We all are working very hard on our book club books.  We will re-test our levels in January.  Please be sure to read the take home books at home they will help!  We are spending a lot of our time on the story elements.  Ask your child questions about their stories!

Math

We have been super busy in our math this month of December!  We just finished up our Chapter 6 on Measurement.  We spent the last few days before break reviewing a numbers to 30.  Our chapter on measurement was a lot of fun and the students did excellent on it.  We were able to play some games about taller/shorter, using a balance to weight objects in our room, and even working on capacity.  We will be ready for the new unit in January!

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Reminders

December 12^th – 2 Hours Late

December 22^nd – 2:00 Dismissal

December 23^rd – January 2- No School

January 3^rd – School Resumes

January 9^th – 2 hour late start

Tips

·        Start working on telling time to the hour.

·        Begin working on the number words zero through ten.

Math

We have been very busy starting our new unit on Measurement.  We have been measuring all sorts of things with cubes and paper clips.  We also spent some time this week working on capacity.  They are really doing a nice job in this area.  Keep working at home!

Reading

We are continuing our work in our Daily 5 routine.  The students have really made some tremendous improvements in their work on writing.  They write in a journal daily.  We are really working on making nice sentences.

SS/Science/Health

In Social Studies we are discussing maps and states.  Science has started a new unit on weather.  They are learning about the different types.  In Health they are busy talking about emotions.

The Holiday Season is in our classroom!

We have been very busy preparing for the holiday season.  In our classroom we each created our own stockings to hang on the "fireplace" and are hoping that Santa makes a stop in our classroom. 

 Next we spent a lot of time creating some one of a kind "reindeer" to hang in our hallway.  It has been so much fun!  Hope you enjoy looking at these photos!

Read to Someone....reading our own books!

Here are some pictures of us reading to our friends and many of us are reading our own books that we can actually read!!!

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Dates/Tips

November 22^nd – 2:00 Dismissal

November 23-25 – No School

November 28^th – 2 hour late start

December 12^th – 2 hour late start

December 22^nd – 2:00 Dismissal

December 23- January 2^nd – No School

* Have your child count to you and see how far they can count.

*  Begin having your child spell you some two and three letter words.

Reading

We are close to having our first 25 word wall words all introduced in our classroom.  Some students have already passed these and are working on challenge words.  Keep up all the hard work on these words.  We will be working on our last half of the words after Christmas.  Please practice these papers as they come home!

Other Areas

In math we have been busy working on our numbers to 30.  This has been a challenge for many of our students.  We even took last week to review them by doing a variety of activities.  We took our Chapter 5 test on the numbers on Monday.  Keep working on these at home.  In Social Studies we have been spending some time talking about the Indians, Pilgrims, and the First Thanksgiving.  The students have been making a variety of things like the Indians and Pilgrims did at the First Thanksgiving.  Ask them about it!

 

 

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Important Dates

November 14^th – 2 hour late start

November 22^nd – 2:00 Dismissal

November 23-25 – No School

November 28^th – 2 hour late start

December 12^th – 2 hour late start

December 22^nd – 2:00 Dismissal

December 23- January 2^nd – No School

Tips

·      Work on counting, writing, and sequencing numbers to 30.

·      Read a book each night with your child.

·      Ask your child something they did in their Daily each evening.

Reading

During our reading time we are still doing our Daily’s and meeting with the teacher to work on a variety of skills.  We have been working very hard on the ending sounds in words, writing words how they sound, and talking about the concepts of print.  We are going to continue this plus add more to what we already have been doing.  Please keep reading and practicing reading at home.

 

Math

In math we have been busy working on our numbers to 30.  This is a tough concept for all the students to understand.  We have counted items to 30, wrote the numbers to 30, and sequenced the numbers to 30.  Please work on this at home as this is a goal we have for Kindergarten.

 

Social Studies

This month we are going to spend our time discussing the Pilgrims, Indians, and the First Thanksgiving.  The kids are very excited to learn about all of the interesting things that happened during this time.  So watch as your child brings home some items that might have been at the First Thanksgiving.

Halloween Fun!!

Check out our Halloween fun!  Here are some pictures from out "party" and our whole class!

Our silly faces for you!!  :)

Kindergartner's Hard at Work!

Check out how hard we work each day!

 Practicing word wall words!

 Working on writing words and sentences!

 Reading a book club book.

 Playing a word game on the Leapster Explorer!

 Spelling words on our mat!

 Reading a book!

 Look at the words I spelled!

 Spelling more words to add to the collection!

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Important Events and Tips

October 28^th – No School

October 31^st – 2 hour late start

October 31^st – Halloween Parade in the gym 2:30

November 14^th – 2 hour late start

Work on your numbers all the way to 30 by counting and writing.

Practice saying words and having your child clap out the syllables in the words.

Math

We have been very busy Kindergarteners in math these past two weeks. In math we have been busy working on our numbers to 30.  This is a tough concept for all the students to understand.  We have counted items to 30, wrote the numbers to 30, and sequenced the numbers to 30.  Please work on this at home as this is a goal we have for Kindergarten.

 

Reading

We are continuing all of our work in our Daily’s.  The students have been working very hard on their writing in their journals.  Each day they have a sentence to copy and fill in the ending of it with a variety of different words.  Their job is to sound them out the best they can to figure out the spelling of the word.  They are doing a very nice job.  Ask them to write something for you at home to see how much they have improved.  We have been working on final sounds in words.  This can be tough so practicing at home is helpful.

Halloween Parade

Please send a simple costume to school with your child on Monday, October 31^st. We will parade into the gym at 2:30 for you to watch.  It is important that this costume be something your child can put on independently.  Also please remember to follow our No weapons policy at school.  Thanks for everything!

Word Wall Words!

Hello!

We hope that you are noticing a green paper with 2 to 3 words on it coming home at the beginning of each week.  On the top of this paper is states, "Word Wall Words".  These are some of the Kindergarten Word Wall Words and these are the ones that we are focusing on during that week at school.  So I will send that paper home for you to practice with your child.  You can have them say the word and if they already know the word then you can move on to having your child spell the words.  Please remember even if your child knows these words they are still very important words to practice and have in our memories.  These words are constantly in the books we read and it really helps if your child just knows them by heart.  :)

After a couple of weeks I will start sending home challenge words with students who already know the first 25 words.  We have a list that has a total of 155 words on it they can work on.  If they would end up knowing all those we then will spend some time working on how to spell these words as that is crucial when they go into 1st grade.

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Reminders

v  October 17^th – 2 hours late

v October 24^th – 2:00 Out

v October 24^th – P-T Conf.

v October 27^th – 2:00 Out

v October 27^th – P-T Conf.

v October 28^th – No School

Tips

v Begin practicing working on two letter words with your child like if, it, is, etc.

v Start looking at the numbers in the teens for your child to recognize.

Reading

We have been working very hard in our Daily’s every morning.  We now have all 5 of them in place and do three each morning for 20 minutes.  While the students are doing their Daily’s I am working with small groups on a variety of reading skills.  Some are working on letters, sounds, blending, and reading books.  Keep working hard at home on all these skills.  It will show in the classroom!

Math

We have spent the last 2 weeks working on counting to 10, writing numbers to 10, comparing numbers to 5 and 10, and finally ordering numbers to 10.  We have been very busy.  Please work on ordinal numbers to 10 as this is very hard for the students.  Also please continue to practice writing numbers at home as we do occasionally still write them backwards.  

SS/Sci/Health

We have been busy in these areas for the past two weeks.  In SS we have been working on homes and Christopher Columbus.  In Health, the students are wrapping up feelings and have been working on how to express when they are worried.  Finally in Science, the students are still working on trees and now have moved on to discussing the parts.

 


 

Morning Daily Time!

Here are some photos of our Daily time all going on!  Hope you enjoy them.  The students are working very hard on their reading skills!

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Reminders

October 3^rd - 2 hour delay

October 5^th – Picture Re-takes

October 14^th – No School

October 17^th- 2 hour delay

October 24^th/27^th – P-T Conferences- 2:00 Out

October 28^th – No School

Tips

·       Practice writing their name with only the first letter capital and the rest lowercase.

·       Work on counting objects to 10 or more!

Reading

We have spent a lot of our mini-lessons on working with the syllables in words.  The students have had a great time clapping out the sounds in the words and stating how many syllables they hear.  Ask them to do this at home and see how well they are doing.   We also are beginning to discuss the initial sounds you hear in words.  This can be a tricky thing to understand.  We will say a word slowly and try to hear what the first sound in the word is.  Please work on this at home as it takes a lot of practice to pick up on this skill.

Math

During our math time we have been reading, writing, and counting items to 5.  The counting has been pretty simple but sometimes writing our numbers can get a little tricky.  So we have number poems we have been using and they our in our BEE folders for you to use at home also.  We also worked on our ordinal numbers to the fifth.  We had a lot of fun lining up this way.  Ask about some of these things! 

 

More Areas

We are very busy in our writing time lately.  We really are trying hard to get all our handwriting done so we can begin working on sentences.  We are making our way through the uppercase and will do numbers then work to lowercase.  We also have been finishing some sentences and creating pictures to go along with them.  We keep some of class books and others we bring home to share with you.

 

Mrs. Hendershot's Cupboard is Empty!

We are calling all snack!  We are running dangerously low.  If you could please send 1 or 2 boxes with your child in the next week that would be wonderful!  Thanks!

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Events and Tips

September 19^th – 2 hour delay

October 3^rd - 2 hour delay

October 14^th – No School

* Practice the sounds each letter makes in the alphabet.

* Begin writing numbers to 10 and beyond. Watch for backwards numbers.

Reading

We have now started all of our 5 Daily areas.  The students are very excited to be in all of these different centers.  We are reading to ourselves, working on our writing, doing word work, reading to a buddy, and listening to reading.  They love being able to pick their jobs!

More Areas

In math we are continuing to work on our patterns.  It has been fun creating our own and showing each other what we came up with.  In social studies we have continued to talk about families, celebrating, school, and discussed some map skills.  Finally in science we are continuing our work with trees.

 

 

Read to Someone

We have begun our Read to Someone time right after snack!  This is part of our Daily 5 system but we use it at another part of the day.  We only rest the first week and a half of school and then we begin to learn how to Read to Someone.  The students practice sitting, taking turns reading, and asking questions during this time.  We really enjoy hearing stories by all our friends.  Check out how much fun we have together!

Work Work!

We have finally started our Word Work time!  We are very excited!  During this Daily area we get to use Wikki Sticks to make words, magnet letter tiles, rhyming puzzles, ABC puzzles, and magic boards.  We love to use all these items and even play a couple of games like "Pop" and "Cookie Monster".  Please ask your child about these games.