Weekly News & Homework: September 3rd-7th
I hope you enjoyed the three day weekend with your families! We are looking forward to a short, but busy week in kindergarten! There is a lot of information and I appreciate you taking the time to read.
School picture day will be THIS Thursday, September 6th! Be on the look-out for a flyer being sent home soon!
We will begin our fun apple unit this week. We are learning about apple parts, the life cycle of an apple, and this week we are tasting apples and writing about which apple we like the best. A sign up for apple donations is on ParentSquare if you are able to donate apples for this week.
Remember to save the Date for our Parent Workshop next week on Thursday, September 13th from 6:00-7:00. We will meet in our classroom and go over all of our kindergarten standards/goals for the year, exactly what they mean, and strategies for how you can help your child with these goals at home.
If you would like to order any Scholastic Books, please be sure to put in your online order by September 14th! :) (See paper that came home for details!)
If you would like to order any Scholastic Books, please be sure to put in your online order by September 14th! :) (See paper that came home for details!)
We will be going on two field trips this year - in October, to Greenspot Farms and in February, to the Children's Museum of the Desert. For these field trips, we are asking each family for a one-time generous donation of $35 for the entire year. This will cover the cost of both field trip and bus expenses. Thank you so much for your support! Here is the link to donate on Dollar A Day: Dollar A Day Link
What Are We Learning This Week?:
Sight Words: look, here, this
Letter Team: CH (like in "cheetos") and OO (we are learning that OO can make two sounds: OO like in "look" and OO like in "pool".)
Word Family: AM - like in yam, ram, Sam, Pam, etc.
Reading: This week, we will begin reading books about apples and Johnny Appleseed. Students will continue to read little books in class that include sight words and letter teams. Some of these little books will come home. Please keep them inside your special home book box that you shared on the first week of school and practice reading them every day! As your child become a more fluent reader, more of these paper books will be coming home throughout the year to live with you - if they have a big star or stamp on them, that means your child has read it for me fluently and they can now keep them at home! We will continue to learn that vowels make 2 sounds - a short sound and a long sound. Ask your child to sing you the vowel songs! We are writing/reading a new class book this week titled, "My Number Book".
Writing: We just finished our first month of writing. Your child's August journals came home on Friday. Please take a moment to read through these journals and celebrate your child's first attempts at becoming a writer! Every step is so exciting and worth celebrating! We are continuing to use an uppercase at the beginning of a sentence, finger spaces between our words, and a period at the end. We are also learning to use our sight words in our sentences and to listen for the sounds in all unknown words using our sound chart.
Math: This week, we are learning our 3D shapes - cone, cube, sphere, pyramid, cylinder, and rectangular prism. We will learn to describe 3D shapes by their faces and vertices. You can help at home by asking your child their shape names and attributes! We will also learn to count by ordinal numbers (first, second, third...).
Leadership: We have been having so much fun discussing Growth Mindset and reading our new Class Promise together:
#1: We are smart!
#2: We can get it!
#3: We belong here!
#4: We won't forget it!
For the month of September, our whole school will be focusing on the first R of ROAR: Respect. We will discuss ways that we can respect ourselves, others, and our school.
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN TO THE HOMEWORK POST TO SEE ALL OF THE HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEK.
As I said at Back to School Night, our Homework Program in Kindergarten is a little different. Instead of giving out packets and having work be returned, I ask that you work with your child at home at their level on what they need. This past Friday, I sent home our September homework assignment that DOES need to be turned in. See Turn-in homework at the bottom!
Flashcards: Please make flashcards for our sight words (LOOK, HERE, THIS), our letter team of the week (CH and OO) and our word family (AM - Pam, Sam, ram, etc.) Study these flashcards every day. Have your child read the word, spell the word, read the word. I would suggest making a little flashcard box that you can add to throughout the year and reading through those flashcards a few times a day. Make a game of it. Put the sight word CD on and sing and dance to the sight words. We will have a Reading Test on these sight words, letters and letter sounds, and letter teams each Friday. We will also have a Sentence Test on our sight words every Friday. A sentence test means we will be asking your child to write a sentence that we give them using our sight words of the week. We will not only be looking for correct spelling of our sight words, but also for an uppercase at the beginning, spaces between words, a proper punctuation at the end. An example of a sentence is, "We can see a man."
Phonemic Awareness: Work on blending words (say: "sssssuuuuuunnnnnn, what word did I say?") and segmenting (saying: "tell me all the sounds in the word hat" child says: "h-a-t")
Reading: Reading at home is SO IMPORTANT! My hope is that you are reading TO your child every night and discussing the stories you read. when reading with your child, have them point out the front cover, back cover, spine, title, author, illustrator, and title page. My hope is that your child is also playing on Smarty Ants for 10-15 minutes at least a few times a week. On Friday, your child will be bringing home some of their little books we have been reading in class. These little books can live in your special book box that you made together.
Writing: Our writing homework will change throughout the year and may look different for each student since each student may be at a different place developmentally. This week, your child's August journal came home. Take some time to go through this journal with your child, celebrating their first attempts at becoming a writer! Remember, we learn to write by WRITING!
Math: We are working on: Counting to 30, Counting to 50 or Counting to 100 (depending on where the student is at), writing numbers to 10 or 20, identifying numbers out of order to 30, and recognizing and describing shapes. Please work at home on these skills. Remember to also go over our "Daily Math" practice pages that we do every morning in class - take a moment to go over these practice pages to see if there is anything specific your child needs to work on. Math homework every week also includes Dreambox. My hope is that your child is logging onto Dreambox at home and playing for 10-15 minutes at least a few times a week.
Our school code for Dreambox is X2we/inlandlcs
QR Codes: Download and print those QR Codes each week from ParentSquare and have your child work on those at home!
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