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Today at recess.  

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Kindergarten News

Week of Sep. 12^th-16th, 2016

Back to School Night will be THIS Thursday, Sep. 15^th in your child’s classroom.  PK-2 meets from 5:30-6:30.  This is a parent only evening.

Each day please send a water bottle, healthy snack, towel, and daily folder.  When packing a snack, please send something simple, such as goldfish.  One snack is plenty.  Also, please do not send juice with your snack.  We are trying hard to keep our new building nice and clean.  The children have access to their water bottles during snack.

Attached is information from our counselor, Jenn Buchert, on nominating your child for the Gifted and Talented program.  In kindergarten, we rely heavily on parent input for this, as we’ve only known your child for a short time. 

This week we will explore the following:

Theme: The Colors Around Me!

Reading:  Shared reading and Interactive read-alouds of books focus on color. We will use what we know and clues from the text to ask and answer questions. We will identify characters and sequence the text, as well.

Writing:  We will continue with King and Queen of the Day and list writing.  This week we will make literacy connections to text while we create lists utilizing colors.

Word Wall Words:  red, green, yellow, black, purple, white, can, see

Word Study: We will focus on the letter sounds of G and T.

Math: Our focus this week will be on counting to 20 (from any starting point), counting from 10 backwards, working on correctly writing 0-5, Identifying 2D shapes and describing them using the appropriate attributes (circle, square, rectangle, oval, triangle) and graphing.

Science: We will continue exploring like a scientist and observing using our 5 senses!

Social Studies:  We will continue to explore our roles in our homes and our classroom.  We will talk about key community helpers in our world.  Happy Constitution Day on September 17^th!

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·        Monday:  Make a list of things that start with G & T

·        Tuesday:  Practice numeral writing in the bubbles tonight at bath time!

·        Wednesday:  Write the color words using the appropriate crayon/marker!  Teach mom or dad a color song you have learned.

·        Thursday:  Write your name 5 times using rainbow colors.  Did you use an upper case letter for the first letter and the rest lower case?

Friday: Bring back your library books and reading log on Monday!

Word Study

We began word detective this week with our word study.  We were detectives searching the room for words that started with a B or an M.  They did really well for their first time.  

Number Formation Poems

Number Formation

This week we are practicing number formation.  We are doing the numbers 0-9.  Today we watched the number formation poems and practice writing numbers on our partners backs with our fingers.  

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Kindergarten News

Week of September 5^th-September 9th

Monday, September 5^th is Labor Day.  There will be no school!  Enjoy the holiday with your family. 

Reminder:  Our school day starts a little earlier this year!  The tardy bell rings at 7:55.  If your child is not in class when the bell rings, they will be counted tardy.

The last day to turn in a Big Form is Friday, September 9^th.  The Big Form is where you can order directories and yearbooks, join PTA, reserve a spot on the Birthday Marquee, and sign up to volunteer.  Visit https://cwsclients.wufoo.com/forms/the-pta-big-form/  to get your Big Form completed.

Friday is also the last day to order Spirit Wear.  Click https://cwsclients.wufoo.com/forms/spirit-wear-fall-201617/ to order yours today! 

We encourage every family to list their information in the RCE directory.  Simply visit this link  https://www.myschoolanywhere.com/new-family.a5w?fam=RummelCreekElementary44268 and use the join code RCEFAM to include your family in the directory.  The deadline for directory information is also Friday, September 9^th. 

Please remember your child needs a snack, a water bottle, a towel for resting and their blue folder every day. 

Several parents have expressed an interest in coming to help with kindergarten lunch.  This is not to replace the teacher on duty or to have lunch with your child, but to provide extra hands to help open yogurt tubes, drink boxes, containers, etc.  We would love to have 1-2 parents per day come to help us.  To choose a spot, visit the sign up genius:  http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c48a5ab28a6fd0-kindergarten

This week we will explore the following:

Theme: Five senses!

Reading:  Science and Language Arts will be very integrated this week.  Our shared reading and Interactive reading will focus on our five senses. 

Writing:  Our letters of the week are b and m.  We will continue with King and Queen of the Day and writing lists.  Shared writing will center on describing what we see, hear, smell, feel and taste. 

Word Wall Words:  Our list of friends’ names in the class continues to grow. 

Sight words for the week are  like, to

Math: We will work on number formation and number sense with numbers 0-4.  We’ll also look at characteristics of 2-dimensional shapes and find them around us.

Science: Using our five senses as scientists continues. 

Social Studies:  We will identify and discuss rules in our classroom, our homes, and our community.

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·        Tuesday:  Make a list of at least 5 b words and 5 m words!

·        Wednesday:  Practice writing your numbers 0-5.

·        Thursday:  Use sidewalk chalk or play-doh to spell the fast words my, is, like and to!

·        Friday:   Have mom or dad read a story to you.  Talk about where the story takes place.

TGIF

We had a great week in Kindergarten and we are so EXCITED that Kindergarten won the RCE spirit stick!!  Next week we get to have it for one whole day and carry it in our line.  

Today in math, we finished up sorting with a fun goldfish sorting activity.  We colored, sorted and then graphed which color fish we had.  Then we got to eat them, of course, their favorite part.  

I hope you all have a fantastic long weekend!!  See you on Tuesday.