Newsletter Information

Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Dates:

    November 1^st – No School

    November 6^th – Early Out

    November 14^th - End of 1^st Trimester

    November 15^th - No School

    November 20^th – Early Out

Daily 5:

We have spent these last 2 weeks working on blending together 3 and 4 sound words.  We also have been putting our focus on the ending sounds in words.  This can be very tricky as we are used to working the start of words but now we have moved to the final sound.  We take our time and really sound out the word to figure out the last sound you hear.  Please time some time at home and give your child a couple words to figure out the ending sound!  It is great pratice!

Math:

We have been very busy Kindergarteners in math these past two weeks. In math we have been busy working on our numbers to 20.  This is a tough concept for all the students to understand.  We have spent much of our time reading and writing the numbers to 20 currently and will start going to 30 the following week. Please practice this at home. The teens are tough!

Writing:

Now that we are finished with our handwriting we are moving on to doing some of our own writing.  We still utilize all that practice from the handwriting curriculum because it is important we are forming our letters correctly.  We spent the last 2 weeks doing a lot of writing about Halloween and being drug free.  We have written about our costumes, favorite candy, pumpkins, and how it feels to be drug free.  We will continue our writing as the time goes on!

Helpful Hints:

    Practice writing numbers to 30.

    Practice counting as far as your child can go.

    Work on our word wall words that we have brought home.

    Continue to work on writing names with a capital to start and the rest lowercase.