Weekly News & Homework: March 4th-8th


We had so much fun dressing up and celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday. Thank you for all of your help, time, donations, and to all of our guest readers! Make sure to check out our pictures on the ParentSquare post. 

The school has been working hard to get our class enough iPads for each student to have their own to use in class!! As of this week, we have enough!!! That being said, you may send a pair of headphones for your child to use on their very own iPad at school each day if you would like to. (If you are unable to, I do have extra headphones.) If you DO send some in, please clearly label them with your child's name, so I know which iPad to connect them to! THANK YOU! :)

Parent Conferences for this trimester will be on a NEED ONLY basis and will be taking place the last week of school before Spring Break. Report cards will be going home digitally this trimester on Friday, March 15. 

Over the next two weeks, your homework job as a family is to build a tricky leprechaun trap! We are going to be talking and writing about how we might catch a leprechaun. You will have two weeks to build your leprechaun trap with your family - be as creative as you can! A good idea is to google or pinterest leprechaun trap examples for lots of fun ideas! You will bring these traps to school to share next week, Monday through Thursday, with Thursday being the LAST day to turn it in! We are going to set up our traps around the room! Have fun! 


Continue to work on your community service projects. These will be due the first week of May - They will need to be turned in before May 11th to qualify for the Leadership Banquet. 
Community Service is part of the expectation for every student who attends ILCS.  Each kindergarten student will need to commit to 6 to 8 hours for their individual service project.  Students will present their community service project to their class by the end of the year. 

The Service Project should include the following: 
1) A Service Log Listing 6 or more hours
2) A Visual Presentation that is Organized and Student Created
3) An Oral Presentation that is clear and well prepared
  1. 4)A Written/Typed Paragraph explaining what you did and what you learned. 


Upcoming Events:

Friday, March 15: ST. PATRICK'S WEAR GREEN DAY AND CENTERS
March 18-March 29: SPRING BREAK! 
   


What Are We Learning This Week?:

Sight Words: OVER, UNDER, LEFT, RIGHT, PUT.

Letter Team:  DGE (sounding like "j" like in BADGE, LEDGE, and FRIDGE).

Reading: Our focus this week is FICTION books. We will learn to identify the characters, setting, problem, solution, and plot (beginning, middle, and end of a story). 

Writing: We are focusing on picking a topic and writing five sentences on that topic using our proper conventions!


Math: We will continue to focus on decomposing and composing numbers within ten. You can help at home by asking your children problems like, "If I need 10 cupcakes and I only have 4, how many more would I need?" We will also work on addition strategies. 

Leadership: We will continue to ROAR and discuss what it means to have a growth mindset!

Homework: March 4-8

Flashcards: Don't forget to make new flashcards for each sight word and letter team. New words for this week are: OVER, UNDER, LEFT, RIGHT, PUT and the new letter team is: DGE - (sounding like "j" like in BADGE, LEDGE, and FRIDGE).

Phonemic Awareness: Please work with your child on: rhyming, blending, segmenting, syllables, and beginning/middle/ending sounds. 


Reading: Make sure you read your Book Bag every night. This includes: fluency passages, paper books, sight word and letter team pages, and library books. Continue to log onto Smarty Ants for 10-15 at least a few times a week. You can also read leveled books on RAZ-Kids and take quizzes on books read.  Play Smarty Ants for 10-15 minutes each night. 


Writing: Write three to five sentences in your at-home journal. 


Math: Play Dreambox for 10-15 minutes each night. Continue to discuss ways to make 5 (and ways to make 10!), numbers in base ten (in the number 16, how many tens and how many ones?), addition and subtraction number problems and word problems, 2D and 3D shapes, and the Doubles Song. Count the money in your wallet.


QR Codes: Download and print the QR Code practice pages on ParentSquare. Work on these pages together. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Meet Mrs. Bobrink!

Image
Hello! My name is Brilane Bobrink and I am beyond excited to be your child's kindergarten teacher! I am looking forward to having a successful academic year! This is a big step for your little one, so please allow me to share a little about myself. :) I have earned a Master's Degree in Education with a teaching credential from the University of California, Riverside, where I have also received a Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Studies. My passion has always been working with children! This will be my seventh year teaching Kindergarten here at Inland Leaders. I have also had the opportunity to work in 1st and 3rd grade classrooms, tutor students from elementary levels to college levels, teach dance at a local dance studio, work as a summer camp counselor for young children, and teach Sunday School  (preschool through 5th grade). Aside from teaching, I love to dance! I have  20+ years of ballet training and experience.   I used to dance and perform at Disneyland!  My other
Read more

Letter Teams

Letter Teams   Scroll to the bottom of the page for fun letter team songs! This is our list of ALL letter teams we will be learning this year in kindergarten (in the order we will be introducing them). Please make a flashcard for each letter team and study them every night. Also try to find letter teams in your everyday reading! Letter Team List   ee, th, sh, er, ch, oo, wh, ce, ci, ow, ou, ing, ay, aw, au, ar, igh, oy, oi, ur, ir, ge, gi, ink, kn, ew, ed, wor, tion, ck, ang, ank, ong, onk, qu, wr, ph, ai, oa, ea, oe, ui, ey, tch, dge, eigh, ear This is what the letter teams look like in words.  This will help with the sounds each letter team makes. ee  b ee,  s ee th   th makes 2 sounds, a soft sound like in tee th  and  Th ursday and       hard sound like in  th e and  th en sh   swoo sh ,  sh ip,  sh e er   h er , mark er  known as the “er” of her ch  ch eese,  ch ip oo  has 2 sounds like in l oo k, b oo k-the other sound is like in b oo , t oo
Read more

Weekly News: March 16th-20th

Image
Weekly News: March 16-20  We will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day on Tuesday by wearing green, sharing our Leprechaun Traps and having fun St. Patrick's Day centers.   There are no electives and there is no Success Academy this week! This is our last week of school before spring break. We will have NO SCHOOL for the next two weeks. Spring break is a perfect time to work on your Community Service Projects! I hope you have a wonderful two weeks off with your families!  We will see you back on Tuesday, April 7th.  What Are We Learning This Week?: Sight Words:   There will be no new sight words introduced until after Spring Break.  Please take this time to review ALL of our words introduced so far.  Remember, sight words are words that your child should recognize instantly.  These are not words your child should be sounding out!  Please continue to work on these words.  Letter Team:   There will be no new letter teams introduced until after Spring Break.  Please ta
Read more