Newsletter Information

Reminders

September 3- No School

September 17- 2 Hours Late

September 20 – School Pictures

October 1 – 2 Hours Late

October 15 – No School

Tips

v Have your child practice writing their name at home to help improve their skill in this area. 

v We are starting to work on the letters and sounds so working on these too will help.

Reading

We started our work on the Daily 5 this week.  The Daily 5 will be our reading time this year.  There are 5 centers that the kids will be doing during this time while I will be meeting with groups of kids to work on different reading skills.  There will be more information about this Daily 5 in the Spartan Scoop for September be sure to check it out.  We have been working on the 3 ways to read a book: read the pictures, read the words, and retell the story.  Then we began 1 of our 5 centers in the Daily 5.  We started Read to Self.  We worked hard to increase the amount of minutes we can read to self this week.  Ask your child how many minutes we are up to.

Math

This was the beginning of our math in Kindergarten.  We are very excited about all the fun things we have done.  We began by talking about positional words then did a lot of activities with left and right, moving on to same and different, then did some sorting, and finally began our work with patterns!

Writing

We worked hard on our handwriting this week.  We worked on our letters.  All of these papers we practiced with came home throughout the week.  Please continue to work on all of the letters with your child as we progress in our writing skills.