Week 19 - Jan. 21 - Jan. 24, 2020

Thanks also to all parents that are rocking the reading at home!  Check your child’s reading log.  Does he/she have at least 238 reading steps?  Many of the students are right on target or above the target for SCHOOL / HOME reading steps.  Way to go!  Keep reading at home- it can only result in more reading growth for your child :)!  If your child has less than 238, please continue reading for 30 minutes together and logging in 2 Home steps and consider reading an extra 15 minutes each day (1 extra Home step) until he/ she is back on track. 

This week we will:

• Begin learning about fish (don’t forget what you know about mammals. birds, and amphibians!)
• Practice reading Power Words at FLASH SPEED  (and  why  on)
• Find Power Words in messages that we write or books we read together
• Learn about the short vowel /a/ as in alligator and name and read words that have

–at –am –an –ag –ad –ap (rat, ram, ran, rag, mad, map are some examples)

• Use beginning sounds to decode and read new words
• blend sounds to read words
• use letters and sounds to write sentences
• identify numbers to 100
• identify the number that comes before or after a given number
• review equal parts of a shape and a set (half)
• count to 100 by 1s and by 10s

Homework for the week:

• read for 30 minutes each night and log in 2 HOME steps in your reading log
• read an extra 15 minutes if you need to catch up on Home steps
• practice old (especially the wh, w, th, and h words) and new Power Words- and  on  why

Important dates to remember:

• Jan. 24 – Snow Ball dance @ 6:00

• Jan. 30 and 31 - Teacher Work Days / No school for students

Week 17 ~ Jan. 6 - Jan. 10, 2020

Happy New Year!  And welcome winter!  As the weather gets colder, please remember to dress your child accordingly.  We will go outside to play every day unless the temperatures / wind chills are extreme.  Also, if you haven’t packed that set of extra clothes in your child’s backpack, now is a good time.  It is still REALLY muddy on our playgrounds.

      

Now, back to the business of kindergarten.  Here are a few reminders: 

1.    Remind your child about GREAT citizenship at school.  EXPECTATION #1 (Rule #1) IS TO BE KIND..

2.    Check and sign the red folder every day.

3.    Send a note if there is a change in your child’s dismissal procedure.

4.    Send a note if your child is absent.

5.    Homework every night is to read for 30 minutes and log in 2 Steps.  It is okay to read books that you have at home, library books, or reread favorite books.

6.    Practice Power Words every night so that your child can read them at Flash Speed. 

***#’s 5 and 6 are very hard to catch up once your child gets behind.

      

Thanks so much for helping your child meet with success at school!

This week we will:

• Begin learning about the short /a/ sound and look at patterns in words with short /a/ - at, an, ap
• Practice reading old and new Power Words at Flash Speed    all, look, will
• Use letters and sounds to spell
• Write our ideas down on paper
• Count syllables in 1, 2, and 3 syllable words
• Identify characters, settings and events in read alouds
• Learn all about reptiles – recall characteristics of mammals and birds
• Learn about equal parts of a shape (fair shares)
• Count by 1s, 5s and 10s

Homework for the week: 

• cut apart your new Power Words and add them to your bag  - all, look, will
• practice your new Power Words all week
• read for 30 minutes and log in two Home Steps every night

Upcoming dates to remember:  

·      January 20 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday – no school

·      January 30 and 31 – Teacher Workday/ Professional Development – no school for students