September 24-28, 2018

Ms. Thompson, Kindergarten

DATES:

Fun to be fit

September 28: 1:30 is when the race begins!  Meet us up at the football field before 1:30! We will be on the track about in front of the press box.  All are welcome!!  You are welcome to take your child home after the race.  If you ordered a t-shirt they will be handed out on Thursday.  If you didn’t order a t-shirt the children can wear their gray Kindergarten shirt or a Rambler shirt.

OCTOBER 3:  STUDENT COUNT DAY

Friday, October 12:  Kindergarten progress reports go home.  We are on a different schedule than the rest of elementary!

Kindergarten will have report cards in November, February and May.  If you ever have any questions please call or email me! 

OCTOBER 15:  DELAYED START

**There is a parent survey to complete on the school website.  I also linked it on my blog. 
https://goo.gl/forms/bvWzlvYVf0j0qd2f1

If you ordered from the book club your order should arrive this week!

PLEASE remember shoes on Monday and Thursday! Children need sturdy gym shoes to be safe.

Please also send folders back to school emptied out every day!  The work the children do is important to them!  Take a look at it and read it with them!  It impresses to them that school is important to you and it’s a great review for your child!

The children received a book from me last week!  It is theirs to keep!  I had a couple that already had the books so I’ve ordered different ones—they should be here soon!

READING:

They have more books now from our reading series.  Please read and re read these books!  It puts sight words in to context and means more to them!

We are working on the letters Tt-Zz this week.  We will continue  listening to rhymes.  The children will be introduced to the Beanie Baby Lips the fish—it reminds them to look at the letters and think of the sound it makes.

WRITING:

We will begin to talk about small moment stories this week.  The children will also be working on capital and lower case letters when making words.  We will talk about our names having a capital first, but general words don’t have a capital letter unless in the beginning of a sentence.

As we continue to learn about being a scientist we will go out and draw and write about weather in our notebooks

We are continuing to draw and write in our journals daily.

MATH:

Our number hats  9& 10 are the focus this week.  We are working more on shapes –especially the triangle. We are practicing counting to 25 with our count and sit game!

We will also be using our dot cards to work on being able to see different quantities!  JACK HARTMAN SUBITIZING VIDEO is a favorite to help with this!

SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES:

The first day of fall was this past weekend.  We will be talking about changes we are seeing.  We will also be talking about different kinds of weather and charting it every day.

The last of our butterflies are beginning to emerge.  I received tags from the conservation group so we are tagging the last 5 as we send them off to Mexico. 

Dr. Prissel (our Superintendent) came in this morning and the children taught him how to identify male and female Monarchs!

We continue to discuss school rules and how to feel good about school and doing the right thing!

Happy Fall (Saturday!)

  Melissa

melissa.thompson@mcbain.org