October 2, 2015

We've made it 32 days in Kindergarten!  As we enter into the month of October, we begin Daily 5 (literacy centers) and Math Stations.  You may notice the work getting a little more challenging and students making more progress!

Reminders:
DIBELS assessment results went home on Wednesday.  I will be contacting some parents to meet to go over the results.  It is crucial that you are reading to/with your child every night at home.  The experience of reading will help them progress this year.

Also, please review the alphabet awareness assessment.  At this point, your child should be able to identify at least 20 of 26 capital and lowercase letters.  They need to master the letters and the letter sounds before they can read!  Please practice any letters they do not know and then work on letter sounds.  Let me know if you need any help or have any questions.

Thursday, October 8- No School

Friday, October 9- Our field trip to the Dinges Fall Festival pumpkin patch is next Friday.  Students must bring a bag lunch (somthing that can be thrown away not a lunch box) on this day.  They can wear jeans and a Friday shirt or school polo.  If your child is getting picture retakes, they can bring their jeans and Friday shirt to change into after their pictures.  Parents are welcome to drive separately and join us, but keep in mind that this is the students' time to interact with their 8th grade buddy socially.  We'll have other opportunities throughout the year to go on field trips with your child.  However, if you would like to meet us there, please let me know ASAP so I can add it to our numbers.

Tuesday, October 13- 2:00 Dismissal



Theme: Harvest/Fall

Sight Word: to

Letter: Ll

Author of the Month: Mercer Mayer (Little Critters)

Word Family: -at (bat, cat, mat, chat, fat, flat, hat, pat, rat, sat, that)

Poem: Scarecrow

Listening Center: Skip to My Lou

Religion: The Church Year
                Hail Mary

Reading: nouns
               sensory words (adjectives)

Math: more or fewer (use the word fewer when it's something you can count, use the word less when it's something that you can't count, like liquid)

Science: Five Senses


To Practice at Home:
- writing numbers 0-10
- sight word (writing them, recognizing them in books, painting them, etc)
- one-to-one correspondence (touching each item as they count it)
- counting to 100
- shapes
- patterns
- letter identification
- letter sounds


Have a great week!  Go Irish!