WHAT A BUSY WEEK!

It's just about time for us to leave the farm, however we couldn't leave without learning some interesting facts about sheep. Did you know that sheep can communicate through vocalizations called bleating? Lambs can identify their moms by the unique sound of her bleat! Ask your child what male sheep, female sheep and young sheep are called... they should know! 

We continued to work on listening for beginning and ending sounds in words and finding words that begin and/or end with the same sound. Listening for the same ending sounds has been a little tricky for some students.  We are also learning about synonyms and antonyms.  In math, the students worked on addition, as well as, counting backwards from 20 to 1 and counting from 1 – 100. In social studies we learned about patriotism and ways we can show love and pride for our country.  Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance daily is an important way that we can show respect for our flag and the United States.

BOOK BAGS

Four books went home today in your child’s book bag. Please have your child read each of these books daily. These books are on your child’s independent reading level, which s/he should be able to read with 90% accuracy. Some books may seem too easy for your child, but we want them to practice reading the books fluently (reading like they talk) with few errors. Reading independent level books also helps build your child’s confidence.

Some of the reading strategies for students to use:

· Point to each word (very important for beginning readers)

· Use the pictures for clues

· Go back and re-read

· Look at the beginning letter(s)

Here are some additional ways to use these books after reading them:

· Read the pictures to tell the story

· Look for word wall words

· Retell the story – what happened in the beginning, middle and end

· Ask how this story relates to real life; can they make any connections

Your child will need to return the bag every Friday and s/he will get four new books. Please have your child keep the book bag in their backpacks when they are not reading them. If we need to switch out books on a different day, their bag will be here. This will also help minimize the chance of any books getting lost, as there is a $10.00 fee for each lost book. Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to watching our readers grow.

THANK YOU

Thank you very much to everyone who has donated to our classroom snack supply.  

We are all set for awhile thanks to your kindness and generosity!  

LETTER ID and SOUNDS

Your child should be able to confidently identify (within 3 seconds, in random order): 

20-26 upper case letters    20-26 lower case letters     20 -26 letter sounds

SIGHT WORDS

These are the sight words we learned this week:

go    to  

review all words

Below is the list of the kindergarten sight words for the entire year. We may not cover them all and we may add in some of our own.  Each week we will learn two or three new words. Please review these words with your child. Students are expected to read, write and spell these words.

Sight words we have learned so far:

a   the   I   see  am  at  did  in  my   by

RED RIBBON WEEK 

OCTOBER 28th - NOVEMBER 1st

Curriculum Objectives

Language Arts: 

I can identify the sounds the letters make and identify words that begin and end with the same sound.

I can identify the sound I hear at the end of a word.

I can read my sight words.

Math:                                                                                                                                                 

I can model the action of joining to represent addition with sums to 5.

Science: 

I can describe and predict how a magnet interacts with various materials and how magnets can be used to push or pull.

Social Studies: 

I can identify patriotic things and explain what patriotism means.

I can show respect when I recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States flag.