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Dana Dry
ETHAN H SHIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Ethan H. Shive Elementary School 

Welcome 

to 

Mrs. Dry's 

Kindergarten Class

 Web Page!

Where We've Got Miles of Smiles!

Dear Parents,  

Please remember to look for your child's BEE NOTEBOOK (Bring Everything Everday) every night.  Check inside for special notes, ect. and be sure to sign it every night and send back to school the next day. 

Just a note to any parents or family members that may be reading my web page, we will be in great need this year more than ever.  With the economy in the shape that it is and all of the budget cuts and teacher's pay being decreased in so many ways it is important that we receive any and all the support we can get.  Please just ask if you are interested and able to donate any classroom supplies, food, printer cartridges, color copy paper, games etc. to our class!  We have a corporate sponsor program that has been a tremendous help in years past to receive much needed new items for our classroom!  Things such as my class loft, copier printer fax, indiv. cassette players, beanbags, books, games etc. have been donated.  This year we will not even receive class startup money to buy the usual items we use, let alone any extra fun things.  So please let me know if you, family or neighbors have a business and would be willing to donate to our classroom in ANY capacity!  We REALLY would like to have a colorful classroom calendar carpet.  That is around a $400 item, but we would also gladly accept $20 just to buy extra glue sticks or folders that are used all year long and NOT supplied by the school. Just send me an email, call, send me a note to school or come by to see me and we can discuss how you can be invloved!  Thanks so much!

                                Thanks For Your Support!                    

                                         Mrs. Dana Dry 

Math

Numerals 11-20 - recognizing, writing, and building sets - These are often the most difficult numerals for children. Please work on them frequently, finding a pattern to order the numbers.

Patterning - Continue to work with patterns as a pre-algebra skill. We have worked extensively with AB, AAB, ABB, AABB, ABC, and ABBA. Build and extend these pattern types.

Addition Concepts - Kindergartners do NOT need to memorize addition facts and families, but they DO need to understand the concept of putting two groups together to arrive at a sum. Practice adding common objects at home.

Measurement - Kindergartners work with non-standard units of measurement. This means we do not use inches, centimeters, feet, and yards, common units of English measurement. Practice measuring things around your house with pennies, toothpicks, footsteps, and other small objects. Make learning fun!

Reading Language Arts

Rhyming recognition - Children will be listening to words to determine like ending sounds to discover new rhyming words. Working with this skill will help your child learn to change only the beginning sound to make a new word. We will be making words in various word families. (-am, -et, -ig, -ot, -ug)

CVCs - consonant-vowel-consonant words - These simple three- (and sometimes four-) letter words can be easily sounded out and spelled. Let your child practice sounding out these words slowly, listening to beginning, middle, and ending sounds.

Comprehension and retelling skills - As we move out of our Book and Print Awareness Skills and into our DRA reading levels, comprehension of a story becomes a major focus. Please use every story you read with your child as an opportunity to name characters, sequence important events, and talk about the story. Books need to be more than a spoken word.

Writing

CVCs - Students should be able to listen to short three-letter words and stretch the words to listen to all beginning, middle, and ending sounds. It is an important skill to transfer these sounds from the spoken word to paper.

Detailed Drawings - By this point in kindergarten, children should be using markers and crayons to draw a DETAILED picture to convey a message. Drawings shoould include a character (most likely themselves), details to show where they are, details to show what they are doing, and be neat enough for others to notice what is going on. Be thorough and colorful!

"Readable" Sentences - All drawings should be accompanied by at least one (but hopefully two!) sentences. Pay close attention to capitals at the beginning, punctuation at the end, and spaces between SOUNDED OUT words. Students should be able to write beginning and ending sounds for all words but should try for some, if not all, of the medial sounds, too!

Basic Kindergarten Skills

Please work on these at home!

tying shoes                  zipping coats

home address          home phone number

formation of uppercase and lowercase letters

birthday          days of the week

months of the year        writing last name

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(Friday may change due to flex schedule)