Mrs. Vaughn's Kindergarten

***Reminder:  Mrs. Vaughn and Mrs. Rush will be gone on Friday for Kindergarten screening.***

Friday Note: April 27, 2018

Events of the Week: This week we continued our Author Study on Laura Numeroff.  

• Language Workshop: We read several “If you give books”. The students enjoyed hearing about the cat, dog, pig, and mouse. We identified the characters and setting in each of the books and compared the stories. We also had several fun crafts the students made this week associated with the books.

• Writing Workshop: We continued series of events writing.  We practiced by writing the steps we take to get ready for school.  We started by using a graphic organizer to write the process of getting ready in the mornings.  Then we used the organizer to transfer it to our published copy.

• Reading Workshop: We are continuing to work every day on applying the reading strategies to figure out unknown words in our books.  I am excited about the progress the girls and boys have made so far this year.  I will be assessing end-of-year reading levels in the next couple of weeks.  Please encourage your child to use the reading strategies when he/she is reading with you at home.

• Word Study: Our sight words for the week were “no” and “so” and our bonus words were “who” and “well”. We also learned that a noun is a person, place, thing, or animal.

• Math: We have started learning to compose and decompose numbers 11 to 19 into sets of tens and leftover ones.  We are also writing the number sentence to match (example: 10 + 8 = 18).

Important Dates:

• May 2 - Kindergarten Field Trip
• May 15th- Cox Care Mobile
• May 23 - Last Day of School- we will dismiss at noon.

Cox Care Mobile

The Cox Care Mobile is scheduled to be at Clever schools on Tuesday, May 15, 2018.  This will be the last visit for the school year. If your child is needing immunizations, sports physicals, or preschool physicals, call your school nurse today to schedule an appointment.  Thank you!

Next Week:

• We will continue our author study on Laura Numeroff.
• In math we will continue learning about numbers 11-20.
• We will continue working on sequence writing.
• During word study we will continue to work with nouns and introduce verbs.
• Our sight word will be “am” and our bonus words will be “eat” and “ran”.

Have a great weekend!

-Mrs. Vaughn and Mrs. Rush-