Monday begins our 2nd quarter. Your children have been in kindergarten for a 9 full weeks!!!
Community Limits
We are continuing to spend a lot of time discussing what it means to be a classroom community. In a community, each person is important and each person has a role to play. We talked about how I am responsible for keeping them safe and helping them learn because I love and care about each of them. We also discussed their responsibility to obey. Obedience is one of our classroom limits which allows me to keep the children safe and help them learn. That explanation seemed to make a lot of sense to them and they have been eager to work with me. The children actually decided what obedience should look and sound like in our classroom. They had some excellent thoughts! They also decided that being kind, nice, happy and taking care of our materials should be added to our list of limits for our classroom community.
Homework
Homework calendars came home this past week. Verbal tasks should just be initialed on the calendar. Written tasks should be dated and completed in the HW notebook and then initialed on the calendar. Parents should do homework with their children or review/correct it when it is completed. Homework calendars should be turned in at the end of the month for a reward.
Students should also be reading each night and working on the specific foundational skills each night like building their sight word vocabulary, blending 3 letter words, identifying letters or sounds, counting to 100, etc... We will send a second copy of sight words home this week, in case you no longer have the one from the beginning of the year.
Conference Week is 10/17- 10/21
Thank you so much for your quick response to getting our conferences scheduled! This is a great opportunity for us to sit down and discuss your child's progress.
Remember that school will end 2 hours early at 12:20.
We will have specials each day from 8:05-8:35 and lunch will be at 9:50 - 10:20.
Academic skills
Comprehension skills: Main idea, sequencing
Writing: Formation of Ll,Mm,Nn, using pictures, words, and dictation
Math: counting to 100 by 10s and 1s
Social Studies: Columbus Day
Community Limits
We are continuing to spend a lot of time discussing what it means to be a classroom community. In a community, each person is important and each person has a role to play. We talked about how I am responsible for keeping them safe and helping them learn because I love and care about each of them. We also discussed their responsibility to obey. Obedience is one of our classroom limits which allows me to keep the children safe and help them learn. That explanation seemed to make a lot of sense to them and they have been eager to work with me. The children actually decided what obedience should look and sound like in our classroom. They had some excellent thoughts! They also decided that being kind, nice, happy and taking care of our materials should be added to our list of limits for our classroom community.
Homework
Homework calendars came home this past week. Verbal tasks should just be initialed on the calendar. Written tasks should be dated and completed in the HW notebook and then initialed on the calendar. Parents should do homework with their children or review/correct it when it is completed. Homework calendars should be turned in at the end of the month for a reward.
Students should also be reading each night and working on the specific foundational skills each night like building their sight word vocabulary, blending 3 letter words, identifying letters or sounds, counting to 100, etc... We will send a second copy of sight words home this week, in case you no longer have the one from the beginning of the year.
Conference Week is 10/17- 10/21
Thank you so much for your quick response to getting our conferences scheduled! This is a great opportunity for us to sit down and discuss your child's progress.
Remember that school will end 2 hours early at 12:20.
We will have specials each day from 8:05-8:35 and lunch will be at 9:50 - 10:20.
Academic skills
Comprehension skills: Main idea, sequencing
Writing: Formation of Ll,Mm,Nn, using pictures, words, and dictation
Math: counting to 100 by 10s and 1s
Social Studies: Columbus Day