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Ms. Pettet's Kindergarten Class

JANUARY

Important Dates:

January 20th~ SCHOOL CLOSED: Martin Luther King Day

Where we've been......

~practiced counting to 20

~learned to identify all of the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make.

~learned the sight words I, a, my, go, to, the, like, he, here, come, this, me

~identified shapes and colors

~practiced writing our names

~learned how to write numbers 1-10

~learned left and right

~learned about various winter holidays

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Where we're going....

~putting letters/sounds together to form words

~learning about bears, hibernation, penguins, and Black History

~learning about syllables in words (counting syllables in words)

~learning about rhyming words (identifying rhymes and producing rhymes)

~learning our addresses, birthdays, and phone numbers

~learning to add and subtract

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Continuing our journey...

Here are skills we can always be working on:

Handwriting (numbers and letters)

Counting from 1 to 100

Skip counting by 2's, 5's and 10's

Recognizing sight words

Patterning

Rhyming

Sound Matching (cat starts like can; baby starts like bear) spelling-spelling with the sounds we hear

Inventive spelling (trtl for turtle; prsnt for present)

Cutting on lines

Reading storybooks daily for enjoyment and to answer who,what, where, why

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Websites to Enhance Learning

Reading Eggs http://readingeggs.com/ (Students have individual login and password. Contact Ms. Pettet if you misplaced your login information letter.)

Math Seeds http://mathseeds.com/ Same login and password as reading eggs.

Star Fall http://www.starfall.com/ (practice letters, sounds, reading, etc.)

PBS Kids http://pbskids.org/ (Practice a variety of math and readingskills. Science and social studies too!)

We are looking forward to a rewarding and successful school year! If you have any concerns or questions, please contact us. (Write to us on the behavior log, email us, write to us on Class Dojo or call me at 856-783-2300 ext. 4105.) Thank you for your support! Together we can enrich the lives of our children.

~Ms. Pettet and Mrs. Stang