8 years ago
By Amanda Sturgill
Language, Orally spells first name.
Months year and days of the week.
Reading:
Recognizes letters Aa-Mm.
Writing letter from MEMORY Aa-Mm.
Sight words review daily: a, the, and, one, red, blue, green, yellow, orange, one, two, three, four, five
Color Day of the week is orange.
Math: Counting orally to 20 and writing numbers to 10
Science: 5 senses (seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling)
7 years ago
Language:
Orally spells first name and last name.
Students will work on writing their first and last name.
Reading:
Recognizes letters Aa-Zz.
Writing letter from MEMORY Aa-Zz.
Sight words review daily: a, the, and, he, had, I, one, red, blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, white, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Color Day of the week is white
Math: Counting orally to 30 and writing numbers to 20
Students need to be able to recognize numbers 0 to 20 individually and out of order.
Science: Reviewing 5 senses (seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling)
Social Studies: Betsy Ross-sewed the first American Flag (and she was asked by George Washington, who was the first President).
This week we will be working on writing our complete alphabet and writing our numbers to 20.
We will be working on counting by 5s and 10s this week as well.
We will be beginning a new reading unit, By the Sea. Project for concept and question board will be about the Sea. You can have your child illustrate a picture to send to school.
There will be no school on November 6, 2018 due to Election Day.
We will still be working on getting all of the students handprints up on our wall at school. Please continue to talk to your child about bullying. This includes ways to prevent and stand up to bullying. If you need any helps or tips, the Department of Education has a great website for any questions you may have about bullying.
There will be a Veteran's Day program and our kindergarten classes will be performing a couple of songs for the veterans in our community. If anyone in your family is a veteran, please encourage them to come to our program. Please help us spread the word and invite anyone in the community that is a Veteran.
Language Arts: This week we will be working on sentence structure in language arts. Students should know that a sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with punctuation or as we call it in kindergarten, an end mark. A . is a telling sentence, ? is a asking a question sentence, and ! is showing strong emotion sentence.
Math: Please continue to review number recognition to 30. Recognizing the numbers seem to be the challenge for our students. We will continue number charts.
Counting by 1's, 5's, and 10's to 100.
Math: We are working on counting by 5's and 10's. Continue working with number recognition. We are practicing writing numbers from 1-30.
Reading: Please continue working with your child on the sight word list and the decodable books that were sent home.
Language Arts: We are beginning practice writing the Alphabet on wide rule paper (writing on two lines and skipping one line.) We will review rhyming, beginning sounds, final sounds, and alphabetical order.
Math homework due by Friday.
December, 19, 2018-Wednesday-the Drama Club will be performing a Christmas play at 7 p.m. for everyone to watch.
At 2:00, students will be be participating in a sing-along (approximately 20-30 minutes) directed by Leanne Clifton.
December 20, 2018-Thursday We will be having Christmas snack from 1:30 to 2:30. Please send $3 for pizza. If you can, please help us provide drinks and other snacks (Capri sun, Kool-Aid Jammers, cupcakes, chips,plates, cups, paper towels, etc.) for our snack. Please send stocking stuffers for our class.
December 21, 2018- NO SCHOOL- start of Christmas Break
January 7, 2019- School starts back from Christmas Break
We also wanted to let all our parents know that we will be starting spelling tests in January. These will be words your child has seen and know. Please make sure to study with your child nightly. These spelling tests will have a numerical grade and count toward their language arts grade on their report card.
Language Arts: Spelling test on Friday. (a, I, go, the, and) We will be working on alphabetical order with 5 words.
Reading: Please review sight words nightly with your child.
Math: We are learning about ordinal numbers. We are continuing working on counting orally by 1's, 5's, and 10's to 100. Please work with your child writing by 1's to 30 by memory.
Thank you for all of your help.
Lanugage: This week we have our Second spelling test. I put a list of the new spelling words in each student's folder.
Our spelling test will be Friday, January 18, 2019.
The spelling words are:
at
mat
sat
fat
rat
hat
bat
that
pat
red
Homework assignments are
Monday morning- 3 times each spelling words 1-5
Tuesday morning- 3 times each spelling words 6-10
Wednesday morning- put words in ABC words 1-5
Thursday morning- write all spelling words 3 times each
These words are rhyming words and we have talked about rhyming words in class. Just remind your child that rhyming words sound the same at the end of the word. This should help them remember and make spelling the words easier.
Reading: Study Sight Words Nightly
Math: We will be starting fractions.
Please look for the Graduation memo that was sent home. This memo gives you the option to let your child hold the cap or wear it in the photo. Last year the photographer did not give the option for students to wear the cap, all students held the cap in the photo. This year, the option may be given for the students to wear the cap.
Cap and Gown for graduation is $35. If you have an old cap and gown from a sibling that you would like to use, that is fine, Please notify me if you are using a sibling's cap and gown or your child's own from a previous year,
Spelling words for this week are:
rug
bug
mug
tug
hug
dug
jug
Our test will be Friday, March 15, 2019.
Math we will be working on addition up to ten. IXL Skills level B and skills I and J
Open House will be March 19,2019 from 4-7 pm. There will be no Boys and Girls Club on this day due to Open House.
Please continue to work on sight words.
The spelling words for this week are:
Our spelling test will be Friday, March 22, 2019.
Math: We will be review addition fact to 10. We will begin subtraction. Number recognition of numbers 1-30 review.
Language: Writing the alphabet, full names, nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
Spelling Words:
Math: Will will be review addition, number recognition, and money.
We will be starting subtraction.
If you miss the opportunity to order Cap and Gown pictures and would still like to do so, please send money by tomorrow, April 23, 2019. They will have extra order forms in the office.
We will be taking a field trip to the Buchanan County Public Library and the movies on May 1, 2019. Permission forms were sent home today. We will be leaving at 8:20 and return to school at the end of the day. Parents are welcome to follow the bus and attend the movies, but they must purchase their own ticket. Students are asked to bring $6 for the field trip; $2 for the bus driver and $4 for the movie, popcorn, and drink at the movies. Money for the field trip is due by April 29, 2019.
Cap and Gowns will be delivered to our school mid-May.
Class t-shirts have been ordered and will be delivered within the next week.
We are selling Seaver's donuts as a fundraiser for the school. Please sell all you can. The money that is raised will go towards end of year activities. Collect money at the time of sell. Orders are due May 3, 2019 and the orders will be delivered May 8.
We will begin MAP testing on May 1-10, 2019.