Friday, May 27, 2016

May 27, 2016

Wow!  I can't believe we're to the final days of kindergarten.  Thank you for all the support you've given your child this year and all the support you've given me!  My favorite thing about teaching kindergarten is how much they grow throughout the year!
My suggestion is to keep working throughout the summer.  I believe every kid deserves a break, but kids lose SO much when they are not in school!!  My recommendation is to read every day and then work at least 30-40 minutes a week on additional work...10-20 minutes on writing, 10 minutes on phonics, and 10 minutes on math. Please let me know if you have any questions!

Monday- No School

Tuesday- Movie Morning- Students may bring pillows, blankets, and a small stuffed animal.
Egg Drop- We'll be doing our Egg Drop in the afternoon (weather permitted).

Wednesday- Field Day!  This is the best day of the year to many of these kids.  They will be receiving their t-shirt on Tuesday, May 31.  Please have them wear that shirt, uniform shorts, and tennis shoes.  Lunch is provided, but if your child does not want pizza, please pack a lunch.

Thursday- Last Day of School
Awards Ceremony at 8:15 (Mostly for the older students, but parents are welcome to attend.)
Mass at 9:45
2:00 Dismissal


Have a wonderful summer!

Friday, May 20, 2016

May 20, 2016

DIBELS Testing-  The results from our DIBELS reading assessment went home on Thursday.  A few helpful notes...
- TRC (Text and Reading Comprehension) is a combination of reading and comprehension levels.  Please note this level might differ than the reading level of class leveled books due to the comprehension questions.  I also try and challenge the students by moving them up when they are ready to conquer the next level.
- FSF (First Sound Fluency) is not measured at the end of the year.
- LNF (Letter Naming Fluency) is where student name capital and lowercase letters in a random order. They have one minutes to name as many as they can name.
- PSF (Phoneme Segmentation Fluency) is where children must give all the sounds in a word.
- NWF (Nonsense Word Fluency) is where students have one minute to sound out nonsensical CVC words like "mup".  They are given points for CLS (correct letter sounds) and points for WWR (whole words read).
-  WR (Word Recognition) is a list of sight words.  It is recommended that students know all 24 of the sight words on List A by the end of kindergarten.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the assessment results.

We need a few Magic Erasers to help clean up our classroom.  If you could send one in, that would be great.  I also need 1 dozen eggs for our Egg Drop on Tuesday, May 31.  If you can send it in, please email me.

Friday, May 27- Last Meeting with 8th grade buddies
Monday, May 30- No School
Tuesday, May 31- Movie Morning (Students may bring pillows and blankets.)
The Great Egg Drop STEM project in the afternoon
Wednesday, June 1- Field Day
Thursday, June 2- Last Day of School

Theme: Pirates

Sight Words: could, again

Word Families : -ud (bud, mud, spud, thud)
-up (cup, pup)
- us (bus, plus)

Wonderful Word: faithful

Poem: Pirate's ABC Chant

Authors of the Month: Oliver Jeffers and Doreen Cronin

Religion: We Celebrate that Jesus is Our Friend

Writing Prompt: Tell me about your year in kindergarten.

Language Arts: word ladders (replacing a letter to make a new word)

Math: fact families
addition and subtraction fluency

Have a great week!

Friday, May 13, 2016

May 13, 2016

Upcoming Dates:
All Library Books Due- May 18
No School- May 30
Field Day- June 1
Last Day of School/2:00 Dismissal- June 2

Theme: Plants

Sight Words: they, where

Poem: Parts of a Plant

Authors of the Month: Oliver Jeffers and Doreen Cronin

Wonderful Word: deserve

Word Family: -y (by, cry, dry, fly, fry, my, sky, sly, spy, try, why)

Religion: We Care About Others as Jesus Did

Math: addition and subtraction story problems
          addition and subtraction fluency

Reading: Magic e Words
               Vowel Teams

Science: observing and journaling about plants

Have a great week!

Friday, May 6, 2016

May 6, 2016

Remember that Tuesday, May 10th is at 2:00 Dismissal.

I have started our end of the year Dibels reading assessment.  I will let you know when I'll be sending home the results.


Theme: Plants

Sight Words: who, did

Poem: The Parts of a Plant

Authors of the Month: Oliver Jeffers and Doreen Cronin

Word Family: -old (bold, cold, fold, gold, hold, mold, scold, sold, told)

Wonderful Word: remarkable

Math: greater than, less than, and equal to
           how many more make 10

Religion: We Care about Others as Jesus Did

Phonics: short and long vowels

Science: describe and compare living plants

Have a great week!