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Days of the Week Cycle Day Special Misc...
Monday, December 8, 2025 B P.E. (Wear sneakers)
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 C Library (Bring your book.)
Morning Parent/Teacher Conferences ( I believe that I'll be in the office conference room.)
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 D Art
Before school Parent/Teacher Conferences (In my classroom.)
Thursday, December 11, 2025 E Music
Gingerbread Craft House Day (roof...) Signed up volunteers at 2:15-3:15
Friday, December 12, 2025 F P.E. (Wear sneakers)
Gingerbread Craft House Day (decorating...) Signed up volunteers at 2:15-3:15
Trimester 1 report cards are available to view in your child's portal.
-Making new friends
-Learning about school, classroom and school rules, playground rules, following routines and learning how to get around PES.
-Learning to identify & write your name "the kindergarten way" (First letter uppercase and the rest in lowercase.)
-Learning to hold your pencil with "your 3 working fingers)
-Smart board daily attendance activities and smart board activities.
-Heggerty Phonics activities: rhyming words, ending sounds in words, blending words to make compound words, deleting & adding parts of compound words and ending sounds, blending syllables, beginning sounds in words
-Weekly Fundations Letter/Sound/Picture/Handwriting: reviewing t, b, f, m, n, i, u, c, o, a, g, d,s, e,r, p, j, l, h, k, y, x, v, w, z, q
-Fundations Reading & Writing:
Unit 1 (12 weeks)
Letter-Keyword-Sound for consonants
Letter-Keyword-Sound for short vowels
Letter Formation for lowercase letters (a-z)
Sound recognition:
consonants and short vowelsPrint and word awareness
Phonological awareness: rhyming, alliteration, syllable awareness
Phonemic awareness: initial and final sounds
Story retelling
Beginning composition skills
Fluency/phrasing with echo and choral reading
Center & Morning work Activities:
-"Sweet Treats": dot-to-dot
-Gingerbread house coloring
-Gingerbread house sight words
-Gingerbread house addition
-Gingerbread Man craft
-Social Studies- "O" state
-Craft Mitten coloring
-Mini book: You and I
-"Deck the Halls"- patterns
-"O" letter puppet book
-Spell-it puzzles
-Number sliders 1-10
-Addition match-up puzzles
-Simple subtraction
-"D" letter puppet cover page
-Continue Reading Wonders Unit 4/Question/Theme: What do people use to do their job?
-Continue Letter/Sound/Puppet: Oo
-Start -Reading Wonders Unit 4/Question/Theme: Who are your neighbors?
-Letter/Sound/Puppet: Dd
-i-Ready Math Unit 3: Addition & Subtraction Within 5 & Shapes
i-Ready Math Unit 4: Numbers to 10 & Shapes
-Purposeful Play: Playing with tools needed in jobs. Building a lego & lincoln log bridge for the Gingerbread Man to cross.
-Social Studies/Science: Weekly Reader-Gingerbread or Hot cocoa
-S.E.L. (Everyday Speech) - Unit 1: Self Awareness
*F.Y.I. and Reminders*
-Always send in a note for dismissal changes (A green notepad went home on the first day.)
Upcoming Dates & Events
-Fri. 12/5 PES Holiday concert @ 9:30 & 1:30 (Wear your fesitive holiday attire.)
-Thurs. 12/11 & Fri. 12/12 Kindergarten Gingerbread Craft House Days @ 2:15-3:15 with our signed up volunteers.
-Week of 12/15- PES Holiday Spirit Week
-Friday, 12/19 Kindergarten Polar Express Day (wear p.j.'s) @ 2:00-3:00 with signed up volunteers.
Mrs. Winnick's Important links:
Mrs. Winnick's Bitmogi Virtual Classroom:
Mrs. Winnick's Parent Orientation Packet
Please click on this link to access my Parent Orientation Packet. You may want to save this on your computer for easy access of procedures and our class list.
Click here for information on Parent Clearances - Please complete clearances asap so that you can be involved at PES when we return to school and the state health and safety plan allows for school visitors.
If you are interested in volunteering this year clearance requirements have been changed effective July 2016. The link below takes you to the school website which lists the clearances required to volunteer at school (i.e. field trips and other opportunities).
Homeroom Parents:
Bev Sullivan bevc1383@gmail.com
&
Anne Van Horn davisa08@gmail.com
Lisa Winnick
PES Kindergarten Teacher
Last Newsletter
Days of the Week Cycle Day Special Misc...
Monday, November 17, 2025 A Technology
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 B P.E. (Wear sneakers)
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 C Library (Bring your book.)
Thursday, November 20, 2025 D Art
Friday, November 21, 2025 E Music
-Making new friends
-Learning about school, classroom and school rules, playground rules, following routines and learning how to get around PES.
-Learning to identify & write your name "the kindergarten way" (First letter uppercase and the rest in lowercase.)
-Learning to hold your pencil with "your 3 working fingers)
-Smart board daily attendance activities and smart board activities.
-Heggerty Phonics activities: rhyming words, ending sounds in words, blending words to make compound words, deleting & adding parts of compound words and ending sounds, blending syllables, beginning sounds in words
-Weekly Fundations Letter/Sound/Picture/Handwriting: v,w, & reviewing t, b, f, m, n, i, u, c, o, a, g, d,s, e,r, p, j, l,h,k,v, w,
-Fundations Reading & Writing:
Unit 1 (12 weeks)
Letter-Keyword-Sound for consonants
Letter-Keyword-Sound for short vowels
Letter Formation for lowercase letters (a-z)
Sound recognition:
consonants and short vowelsPrint and word awareness
Phonological awareness: rhyming, alliteration, syllable awareness
Phonemic awareness: initial and final sounds
Story retelling
Beginning composition skills
Fluency/phrasing with echo and choral reading
Center & Morning work Activities:
-"N" letter puppet book
-Numeral dice toss
-"N" states in the U.S.A.
-“C” puppet cover paper
-Turkey addition
-What comes next? :Number sequencing
-“Flashy Feathers”: color by key
-Reading Wonders Unit 3/Question/Theme: "What are the different sounds we hear?
-Reading Wonders Letter/Sound/Puppet: Nn
-Purposeful Play: Playing games- "following the rules"
-i-Ready math- looking for shapes on our playground
-Nature: Raking leaves/sorting leaves. Looking for pinecones/leaves to look closely at with a magnifying glass.
-i-Ready Math Unit 3: Addition & Subtraction Within 5 & Shapes
-Social Studies/Science: Weekly Reader- American Sky Show
-S.E.L. (Everyday Speech) - Unit 1: Self Awareness
*F.Y.I. and Reminders*
-Always send in a note for dismissal changes (A green notepad went home on the first day.)
Upcoming Dates & Events
Tuesday 11/11
Veterans Day Assembly @ 9:30-10:15
Picture ReTakes on 11/18 at 11:00-12:00
11/24-11/26
Half days - dismiss @ 12:25
11/24-25
conferences
11/27-28
Additional conferences before school conferences on 11/19 & 11:20
Happy Thanksgiving - NO SCHOOL
Mrs. Winnick's Important links:
Mrs. Winnick's Bitmogi Virtual Classroom:
Mrs. Winnick's Parent Orientation Packet
Please click on this link to access my Parent Orientation Packet. You may want to save this on your computer for easy access of procedures and our class list.
Click here for information on Parent Clearances - Please complete clearances asap so that you can be involved at PES when we return to school and the state health and safety plan allows for school visitors.
If you are interested in volunteering this year clearance requirements have been changed effective July 2016. The link below takes you to the school website which lists the clearances required to volunteer at school (i.e. field trips and other opportunities).
Homeroom Parents:
Bev Sullivan bevc1383@gmail.com
&
Anne Van Horn davisa08@gmail.com
Lisa Winnick
PES Kindergarten Teacher
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