Events of the Week: It’s hard to believe that we have three weeks of school under our belt- and what a busy week it has been.
Math: In math, we learned about sorting, classifying, counting, and categorizing data. You can practice this skill at home by giving your child several objects and then asking them to sort them by size, color and shape (what the item is or is used for).
Language Workshop: We continued our theme of All About Me. Our Shared Reading for the week was Me Too. We also read Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns to Listen, Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns We Can Get Along, and Don’t Need Friends and made self-to-text connections with the characters in the stories.
This week we introduced the sight word is. Your child should now be familiar with two sight words: I and is.
Reading Workshop: This week we started a unit over reading routines. During these lessons we will be learning who we are as readers, how to take care of books, what rules we follow during Independent Reading (IR) time, and how to share books with friends. Our goal by the end of the year is to look at books and read independently for up to twenty minutes every day.
Writing Workshop: We practiced correctly forming the letters B and M. We practiced always starting at the top and we used our whiteboards to help. We also went on a letter and word hunt around the room and made an anchor chart that helps us distinguish between a letter, word, and a sentence.
Word Study: We had fun learning about the letter B and M this week. We listened to several songs about each letter, went on a letter hunt around the room, talked about the sounds each letter makes and played some games to help identify each letter.
Important Dates:
- Aug. 31st- Volunteer Training at 2pm in the Clever Conference Center
- Sept. 5th- Labor Day-No School
- Sept. 8th- Cox CARE Mobile---The Cox CARE Mobile will see infants up to age 18. The Care Mobile is a FREE medical office on wheels with services provided by a Nurse Practitioner. They will do well check-ups, see sick kids, pre-k physicals & sports physicals. Contact Nurse Sarah at 743-4810 if you need to make an appointment.
- Sept. 9th- Grandparent’s Day 2:30pm-4:00pm (see below for information)
- Sept. 16th- No School for Students (Staff Professional Development)
Grandparents Day
Classrooms will be open for visitors during that time as students will be asked to escort their grandparents through the building. Weather permitting, visitors may park in the open field west of the school as parking around the building may become limited. Visitors should enter using the K-4 office entrance or the 5-8 office entrance.
Important Information and Reminders:
1. Please be sure to send all money to school in an envelope with:
a. Child’s Name
b. Teacher’s Name
c. Purpose of Money (i.e lunch money)
d. $ Amount
2. When the weather gets too hot, too cold, or too rainy, we will have inside recess. It is a good idea to leave a small toy in your child’s backpack for inside recess.
3. Please make sure to write your child’s name inside of his/her lunch boxes, jackets and coats. It is amazing how quickly our lost and found fence gets filled up!
SIGHTWORDS
Has your child said anything about sight words?? In kindergarten, we learn sight words. These are common words that tend to “pop up” all over the place. By mastering words, such as our sight words, children become more fluent readers. Also, it is so much fun to see the boys and girls get excited when they find a sight word in a book and can read it! These are the sight words we have learned so far. Your child should be able to read each of these words. Please practice them at home with your child.
I is
Shapes Assessment
You will notice a shapes assessment paper in your child’s folder today. After we spent last week learning to identify five basic shapes (circle, square, rectangle, triangle and hexagon), I assessed your child over their knowledge this week. They were given a score depending on how accurate your child identified these shapes. Each score corresponds with an achievement level (advanced, proficient, basic and below basic). Definitions for these terms are as follows:
Advanced: *Goes above and beyond meeting the standard
*Very few of our assessments in Kindergarten lend themselves to the possibility of advanced
Proficient: *Meets grade level expectations regarding understanding of the standard
*Consistently and independently demonstrates understanding of standard
Basic: *Shows some success on assignments related to standard
*Meets expectations on only some parts of the standard
Below Basic: *Rarely shows success on assignments related to standard
*Does not meet expectations for understanding of the standard
If your child did not score Proficient on the shapes assessment, please continue to work on this skill at home. We will continue to work on this at school as well and I will re-test them at a later date. This is how your child’s performance will be reflected on the kindergarten progress report.
7 parents have already signed up for Seesaw. I would love to have the rest sign-up as well. It’s a wonderful way for you to see what your child is doing and learning in our classroom. If you have any questions about how to register, please let me know and I will be happy to help you.
Next Week:
- Our theme will be Families. Please complete the family page that was sent home today and return it on Monday. We will share these with the class.
- In math we will finish our topic over sorting.
- Our sight word will be a.
- We will begin introducing letters, their correct handwriting formation and the sounds they make. Our letters next week will be Rs and Ss.
Have a Great Weekend!!
Mrs. Vaughn
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