Newsletter Information

Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Dates:

     November 20- Early Out

     November 22- Report Cards go home

     November 27-29- No School

     December 11- Early Out

     December 12- 6:30 Kindergarten Concert- HS AUD

Daily 5:

We have 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 are working on the last half of our words now.  Please practice these papers as they come home!

Math:

We just began our new unit on measurement.  This unit is a lot of fun because we are able to do a lot of hands on activities.  We started out comparing sizes, then moved to actual measurements of different objects.  We found them all around the room and would measure them using cubes, paper clips, and a worm tape measure.  Ask your child about all the fun we are having in math!

Social Studies/Health:

We have spent the last week and a half continuing our discussion with the first Thanksgiving but we have also thrown in a twist of discussing healthy foods.  We created a list of the foods we believed were at the first Thanksgiving and then foods we eat now.  We discussed which were healthy or not healthy.  We even did a sort of the foods.  Finally we drew our plate at Thanksgiving to see how much of each food group we were getting.  It was a lot of fun!

Writing:

WOW!!  We have been busy writing up a storm this past week and a half.  We have really been working on what makes a sentence.  We discussed how you need a “who” and a “what”.  These parts are important so people can understand what you write.  So please practice this at home to see how well we are doing!

Helpful Hints:

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

    Have your child spell some two and three letter words.

    Please continue to read the take home books and return when done.