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Kindergarten Letter November 16, 2009 Dear Parents and Guardians: If you volunteered to work this weekend at the Bazaar your child will receive a dress down day this Friday, November 20th. Please let me know on Monday if you did volunteer your time for this Parish event. Please remember to send in your child’s library book on Tuesday. This is a full week of school and next Monday the 23rd is a noon dismissal. There is no school for students Tuesday the 24th through Friday the 27thdue to conferences and the Thanksgiving holiday. Parent-teacher conferences are scheduled for Monday afternoon and evening and Tuesday morning. I look forward to meeting with everyone during the conferences. Please think about any questions you may have and write those down to bring to the conference. You will receive your child’s first Kindergarten Progress Report. In religion the theme will be Thanksgiving and thanking God for everything we have been blessed with including the earth, animals, families, and friends. We will discuss the Pilgrims and why they celebrated the first Thanksgiving holiday.Please help your child think of what they are thankful for. The students will make a Thanksgiving wreath which displays what they are thankful for (family,friends, pets, food, homes, church, etc.) The letter of the week is Oo. The students will learn the short and long sound of Oo. Please help your child think of works that begin with the sound of short O as in olive, octopus, ostrich and long O as in open and ocean. The students will learn the middle sound of o in the word families: -op: hop, mop, pop, top,and –ot: dot, hot, pot, spot, and –og: dog, fog, log, frog. New high frequency words covered this week are: /you/ and the word /on/. We will review all the letters covered to this point in the school year and continue to work on blending the letters together to form words. The students will use the word families to make rhyming words and read as well as reading the word wall words. A story in the language arts unit this week is The Velveteen Rabbit. I’m sure many of you are familiar with the story of the rabbit that was very special to a child.On Friday your child may bring in a stuffed animal that is special to him or her. Please help your child practice talking about why the stuffed animal is a special friend in a few sentences. The students will share their special friends in small group on Friday. The math chapter on numbers 0 - 5 will be completed this week and the new chapter in math covers the numbers 6 - 10. The students will practice counting,writing, and identifying the numbers 6 – 10. The life science unit will cover reptiles this week. We will look at their homes, the types of skin covering and how they are different from other animals. This letter will be the last one until after the Thanksgiving holiday. Mrs. Vulcan and I wish you and your family a safe and thankful holiday! Mrs. Broomall Word Family Words: -at - at, bat, cat, fat, hat, mat, Nat, pat, rat, sat -ad - bad dad, glad, had, mad, sad -ag - bag, rag, sag, tag -am - am, ham, jam, Sam, Tam -an - an, can, Dan, fan, man, Nan, pan, ran, tan, van -in - in, bin, fin, pin, tin -ig - big, dig, pig, wig -it - it, bit, fit, hit, sit, mitt -is - is, his -id - hid, kid, lid, Sid -og - dog, fog, frog, log -op - hop, mop, pop, top -ot - dot, hot. not pot, spot Word Wall Words: a, am, and, are, be, by, can, cat, Dan, dad, did, I, it, in, is, me, my,
Words covered through November 20th: a, am, and, are, be, by, can, cat, Dan, dad, I, it, in, is, me, my, Nan, on, ran, Sam, see, said, the, that, we, you. In addition the students should be able to sound out and read the following word family words: -at (cat, bat, etc), -an (Nan, Dan, can, etc), -ag (bag, flag, tag), - ad (sad, dad, mad, etc), it (kit, sit, hit, etc), -ig (pig, big, wig, dig), -in (tin, pin, win, etc), -ip (zip, rip, dip, etc).
Words students need to be able to read by the end of Kindergarten
a, an, are, am, and, bag, Ben, bet, bib, box, can, cat, cup, cot, cut, dad, Dan, den, did, do, dog, dot, duck, fan, fit, for, fox, fun, glad, go, got, has, have, he, hen, hop, hum, Jen, I, in, is, it, kick, lap, let, lid, log, mad, man, me, Min, mom, my, Nan, not, nut, pack, Pam, pan, pen, pick, pot, pup, quick, quit, quiet, ran, rat, rod, Ron, rock, sad, said, Sam,, sat, see, she, sick, sun, tag, tan, that, the, Tam, Tim, Tom, to, top, up, vet, was, we, with, yip, you, zig-zag, zoo
red one Sunday blue two Monday orange three Tuesday green four Wednesday purple five Thursday yellow six Friday black seven Saturday brown eight pink nine white ten
January February March April May June July August September October November December
Primary Grading Scale P – Demonstrates Proficiency G – Very Good Progress S – Satisfactory I – Improvement Needed N – Not Yet Demonstrating
Specials: Tuesday– Library Wednesday– Physical Education – students are to wear their gym uniform, but they may wear their sweatshirts over their ICS t-shirt Thursday– Art and Computer Friday– Music
This note will explain the discipline guidelines in Kindergarten for the upcoming year, which will begin on Monday. I use two methods: Positive Reinforcement and 1 2 3 Magic. Positive Reinforcement: Each child receives either a chart or a shape to correspond with the season to keep at their seat. When Mrs. Vulcan or I see a child listening and following directions they receive a sticker. When the child has received 20 stickers they will have a prize of some type. For September, I will let the students purchase snack on any day they choose. October will be Halloween pencils. So each month the prize will be different. 1 2 3 Magic: This is a program that really seems to work like Magic! Sister Dorita, our Spiritual Counselor, has the book and DVD on the 1 2 3 Magic program available for parents to checkout if you are interested in using the program at home. Each child will have a stick in the stoplight. The program involves 3 opportunities to listen and follow directions. After 3 reminders/prompts the child will move his/her stick on the stoplight from green to yellow. After 3 more reminders/prompts the stick will move to red. This will be reflected in the daily communicator that comes home each day for you to review and sign. Donations that are always needed:Band-Aids Disinfectant Wipes Hand Sanitizer Kindergarten Homework Ideas Although I give homework each week, these suggestions are supplements for those families that want their child to have additional homework.
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