First 3 Days of School Newsletter!

Important Dates

August 20^th – Late Start

August 31^st – 2:00 Dismissal

September 3^rd – No School

September 17^th – Late Start

September 20^th – School Pictures

 

Tips

·       Start practicing letters and sounds.

·       Begin to practice counting to at least 10.

·       Continue to work on writing their name.

Our First Three Days

This week we were super busy learning all about school!  We had a wonderful time and I cannot wait until next week.  We spent a lot of time learning about each other, some of the procedures in our classroom, and made a lot of fun things to start off our first days in Kindergarten.  I hope you are as excited about everything we have done as we are!

Reminders

* I send out a newsletter every two weeks!  I would LOVE to send it all through email.  I will email it to those who have provided an address to the school or myself.  If you would like me to send it to a different one please let me know.  Thanks!

What is Coming Up?

·      Next week we will start working on our math.  We hope to use our new math books! 

·      We will also be starting our Daily 5 Reading Program.  A note will be coming home with more information soon!

First Day of School!!

WOW!!!  We had an awesome first day of school today!!  We spent a lot of time working on our routines and the rules to school!  Everyone did a wonderful job of listening and working hard!  We also are very good at following directions!  I am impressed.  Here are some photos of what we did and even a group photo!  I can't wait until tomorrow!

Hope you enjoy!!  I know I had a fabulous day!

The Start of a New School Year!!

We are at the start of a new school year today!  Tonight will be our Open House from 4 to 7!  Please stop by and check out our room and bring your supplies while you come!  I am very excited to meet all the new students in my room!  Please check back as the days continue for new pictures and posts!  Let's have a great school year!!

Math Daily

We have been working on money, adding, and subtracting during our math time this last month of school!  We love going to a math daily after we have finished our math work to help reinforce these skills!  Hope you enjoyed checking out what we have been up too!

Newsletter Information

Dates:

May 14^th – Late Start

May 15^th- IMC closes!  Return books!

May 22^nd  - Kindergarten Picnic – more details will be coming!

May 23^rd – 11:00 Dismissal and Last day of Kindergarten!!

Tips:

·      Work on counting pennies, nickels, and dimes.

·      Work on telling time to the half hour.

·      Have your child write you a story using at least five sentences.

Reading:

We have spent a lot of time working on our Reader’s Theatre and ABC’s of Kindergarten.  It has been a lot of fun to see how they have grown through the year.  We hope you enjoyed our Kindergarten Reading Celebration!  Now we are working hard on our book club books.  We were all just re-tested and trying out our new levels before summer.  Please keep reading over summer!

Math:

We spent the last 2 weeks working very hard on money.  This can be very tough but we are beginning to really understand it. We are now moving on to addition and subtraction like they will see in 1^st grade!  They are very excited to experience this new adventure!  Keep it up!

Science/SS

In Science they are discussing living and non-living things.  They are very excited because this will lead into an animal report!  In SS we just finished up our unit on People, Places, and Events.  We are now focusing our last unit on People and the Government.  We are excited to learn about all of this!

Newsletter Information

Reminders/Tips

* April 30^th – 2 hours late

* May 14^th – 2 hours late

* May 22^nd  – Kindergarten Picnic- more info coming!

* May 23^rd – Last Day of School – 11:00 dismissal!!

* Start working on telling time to the half hour.

* Practice writing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

 

Math

We have been very busy in our math.  We spent the last week working on counting by 10’s to 100, 5’s to 100, and 2’s to 10.  We got the 10’s and are making progress on the 5’s and 2’s.  We will also start working on money.  We first have to recognize the penny, nickel, and dime.  Then we will learn their amounts!

Reading/Writing

We have been really pushing through our book club books.  We are very close to getting re-tested to see if we are able to reach our final level of the year.  Please continue to read at home as this will help when I do begin to test for their final level.  In writing we have spent some time working on adding our own voice to the things we write!  We have talked about words that will allow a reader to know how we feel.

Newsletter Information

Reminders

·      April 16 – 2 hours late

·      April 30 – 2 hours late

·      May 14 – 2 hours late

·      May 23 – Last Day of School!!

Tips

·      Continue to work on recognizing and counting penny, nickel, and dimes.

·      Start talking about place value the tens and ones.

·      Continue adding and subtracting!

Reading

We have really been working on a variety of comprehension strategies in our classroom.  We are working on Metacognition, Schema, making a picture in your mind, determining importance, questioning, and inferring.  All of these take a lot of time and require your child to think about what they are reading in their book club books.  Please ask them to tell you what each of these mean!

Math

We started our new math chapter on numbers to 100 this week.  It has been a lot of fun to work with larger numbers and see how far we can count and write.  Everyone has worked very hard on all of their math.  Please keep working on writing and counting to 100!

Science/SS/Health

In Science we are continuing to work on their wood unit but have moved to the paper side of it.  The kids love testing out the different papers!  In SS we have been discussing map keys and how to use them.  We also spent a little bit of our time discussing how to help others.