**Thanks for your attendance at our Kindergarten Curriculum Night. We had a great turn out! If you were unable to attend on Thursday, a packet of curriculum materials will be sent home with your child today. As always, if you have any questions about our program, feel free to contact me.
**In your child's folder this week, you will find many pieces of information. Please review them carefully.
**District 97 Effective Student Behavior Handbook and Parent Handbook are enclosed.
**Your child's KRT (Kindergarten Readiness Test) screening score is enclosed with accompanying information. Please review it. If you have any questions, please contact me. If you would like more information, I will happy to meet with you at your convenience.
**Look for LEXIA home login information. Students are working on rhyming patterns, beginning and ending sounds and segmenting words. Contact me if you have any questions.
**Scholastic Book Orders are due September 28th. This can be done online (Click on the book on my blog) or you can send the flyer and money to school with your child.
**Is your child interested in being a Student Council Rep? We discussed what it takes to be a rep for our room. I will be choosing 2 reps. Read over the information and fill out the sheet if interested.
**Spelling City has been updated. Have fun. Practice your words. Play games!
**Last call for Friday Station Day helpers!!! I will be putting together a rotating list. If you haven't already--send in the flyer or email me.
**Fall Trimester 1 Parent/Teacher Conferences for Ms. Gullo's Class will be held on Tuesday, October 18th, Wednesday, October 19th and Thursday, October 20th. Many of you have already signed up. I will send a formal letter to you next week. If you have not signed up, let's chat about a time that is convenient for you.
** Our Green Team Rep, Salome is reporting that the team did some weeding and cleaning around the planting beds. Our bed has many GREEN tomatoes!! We will be receiving spring bulbs to plant in October. I will be looking for some green thumb volunteers to assist. Stay tuned!
**Composting and recycling of lunch items is moving quicker. Our Green Team Rep, Salome reminded us about what is recyclable and what we can compost.
** What--More math homework???!! The students are requesting additional math assignments. Say hello to Challenge Math---Do one, some, all or none....you decide!!! Are you up to the challenge??
**We will begin our next cross curricular theme--"Apples and Autumn" on Monday.
This week:
It was all about our ABC's. We sang about them, matched them up, found their lowercase partner, wrote them, used our mirrors to observe how our mouths looked when we made their sound, spelled our name with them, spelled other words with them, used their sounds to create words, read some books about ABC adventures, put them in order, tried to say them in reverse order, figured out what type of lines we needed in order to make them and used them in many games and activities. We used our mini letter cards. What fun!!!!
Reading: We have completed our Treasures prep unit called Start Smart. The students created a chart to compare and contrast the story selections, "Jazz Baby" and "Made from Clay." What is a fiction story? What is a nonfiction story? What are the elements of each? We continued to use a selection of rhymes and songs to target key letter sounds . The students reviewed their sight words--I and Can. The students took turns creating sentences featuring these words. We read our final unit paper story, "I Can." The students took turns reading the sentences by pointing to each word and picture. We reviewed the position words under, on, over, in. The students spent the rest of the week with a blast of the upper and lowercase alphabet activities. Our mini match cards were so much fun. The students worked in a variety of small group work stations to strengthen their knowledge and recall of upper and lowercase letters. Next week, we will begin Treasures UNIT 1 theme: My Family and Me.
Math: We continued our work on simple and complex patterns. We looked for patterns around our room. The students are discovering there is a relationship between patterns and math!! We made our counting cards from 0-15 and practice putting them in order. The students worked in small groups and played number match, number memory and what number is missing. We continued to take a closer look at coins and played a matching coin game. We used our sense of touch when we felt sand paper numbers. Very scratchy! The students played a simple hopscotch game that reinforced number recognition and motor skills. Can you hop or jump to the next number? We are learning about balance. The students worked on recognizing digital and analog clocks. It was great fun building a crazy clown out of pattern blocks and recording how many hexagons, trapezoids, rhombuses and triangles it took to construct it.
Writing: The students continue to work on the writing prompts from our reading series. Frog Jump letters P, B and R were introduced. The students really enjoy the WET-DRY-TRY routine for practicing their letters. In writing workshop activities, the students are beginning to work on sentence structure and what makes a sentence. A sentence names and tells. (subject /action) Journal drawings are containing more details and are reflecting the words the students use to describe them.
Literature: "A--My Name is Annabelle," "School Day,""Smile if you are Human," "Getting Along," "Alphabatics," "Arthur's Back to School Surprise," "Chester Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully," "Match Up Fun," "ABC I Like Me," "My Alphabet Book."
P.S Our IPAD Doodle Buddy Projects remain on display. Just scroll down!
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