By Abby Stiltner 

This week we will be learning about the color black.  I realize that our color weeks have gotten mixed up.  I did not have any of the extra color week papers that we sent home at the beginning of the year. I asked one of the other teachers and she told me it was gray week by mistake. I realized this on Friday when we had color day. I figured maybe we could switch our color days around.  

In math, we will be learning the number 10. We have been working on writing our numbers and recognizing them. Please continue to work on these at home with your child.  

We have started a new unit in Reading. We have started Unit 3, Finding Friends.  Please have your child draw a picture, or find a picture that shows what friendship means. We all have different definitions of friendship. We have been talking about what it means to be a good friend and what a bully is. 

We have been and continue to work on parts of speech and the writing process in language arts.  We have also been working on writing first and last names.  Please practice and work with your child daily.

Our Halloween snack will be Friday, October 26, 2018.  We sent a memo home about this Friday.  The Halloween buckets have already been purchased for each child in kindergarten. Please send candy or bucket stuffers for each student in our class by Friday.  We have 18 students in our class; 10 boys and 8 girls.  

Our school district has been very fortunate to purchase the IXL program in language arts and math for our students to use.  This is an online program that students can use for extra practice and remediation. I would love for our class to start using this. Students have a username and password that they must use to log in.  Once on the site, students can choose different math concepts and language arts concepts to practice. The program keeps track of which concepts have been mastered at 100%.  Students earn stickers and trophies once a concept has been completed, If you would like to see how the program works, you can visit the website at www.ixl.com and do a practice run with your child.  

This program will help students learn how to operate the mouse and better control a computer. The program even reads the question and answer to the students.  If you have access to a computer or table at home, I would greatly appreciate your help in working with your child.  This will better prepare them for our benchmark testing in December and at the end of the year.  If you do not have access to a computer at home, do not panic. I am going to let the students begin working on IXL in computer lab this week, Please be on the look out for usernames and passwords to be sent home. 

As always, if you have any questions, do not hesitate to call, email, or message me.  I always make time for my parents. I appreciate all you continue to do!