Mrs. Bobrink's Kindergarten Class

Happy Autumn! This week we will be reading and writing all about fall.  What Are We Learning This Week?: Sight Words:   TAKE, AN, BECAUSE, UP.  Letter Team:    OW/OU  (like in COW, FLOWER/OUCH, HOUSE) and the long OW sound (like in YELLOW SNOW).    Word Family:     -AN. Please help your child with word families of the week by asking them to create different words with the word family -an (can, man, pan, etc.)   Reading:  This week, we will begin reading books about Autumn and leaves.  This week, we will also study our first science unit about pushes and pulls. We will read/write a big book about pushes and pulls together. Writing:  Students will help me write a book on our science topic: pushes and pulls. We will continue practicing sight words, our ABC's with nice penmanship, and sentences in our journals. Our focus is to start sentences with an uppercase letter, use finger...

We had so much fun making apple pies! Thank you for all of your donations and a special thank you to all of our fabulous parent helpers for ALL of your help making our pies! Be sure to check out our apple pie pictures on ParentSquare. This week we will finish our unit on apples by making applesauce together! YAY! Thank you to the families that attended our Parent Workshop. I truly appreciate you taking the time to join us in the classroom and I hope that it was informational and helpful. :) If you were not able to join us, I sent home a packet on Friday of all of the kindergarten standards that we went over!  Next week I will be doing "Running Records" with the students to determine their current reading level (as discussed at Parent Night).  Thank you all so much for all of your contributions, planning, and cards/gifts to help me celebrate my birthday this week! We had an amazing time celebrating!  Thank  you SO much!!! :) What Are W...

The class had so much fun tasting apples on Friday.  This Friday, we will be making apple pie as we continue our study on apples. You can sign up on ParentSquare to bring items for this event! Thank you so much! We could not do it without you!  Our Parent Workshop is THIS THURSDAY from 6:00-7:00. Please remember this is a parent-only event. 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. I hope you can make it - there is so much valuable information.  I will be placing our first class Scholastic Book Order on Friday (the 14th)! Be sure to put your orders in online if you would like to! 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 $3...