Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
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September 1st: No school, Labor Day
September 3rd: School Picture Day
September 9th: GTE at Great Skate Night
September 9th-16th: Book Fair
Septemeber 10th: 1st PTO meeting in the Art Room from 3:45-4:15
September 15th: Late Start, school will start 2 hours late
September 26th: No School, Professional Development for Teachers
October 1st: Meet at Boulevard Park and Walk to School together Day
October 6th: 2 hour Late Start
October 8th: PTO meeting in the art room from 3:45-4:15
October 16 & 17: Chompy Shop sales before school
October 17th: Costume Parade
2 Hour Early Release
Trunk or Treat in the GTE Bus Loop
October 29th & 30th: Fall Conferences
October 30th-November 4th: Fall Break, No School
Please join our PTO! It is a GREAT way to get involved, meet people in our community and in your child's life!
You don't have to attend meetings to become a member, it is FREE!
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Kindergarten Schedule
Kindergarten Schedule
The sight words we have learned are...
The sight words we have learned are...
Please practice these words at home. Some ideas are writing them on index cards and hanging them around the house to hunt for, writing them with sidewalk chalk, etc.
Sight words will be listed here!
Reading
Reading
We will work on concepts of print. Understanding how books work and that they tell a story in order to teach us something. We will follow print when reading and going from left to right pointing under each word.
Here is a great FREE online resource to practice reading at home!
https://portal.flyleafpublishing.com/learners-resources/
Read with your child EVERYDAY and talk about the books you read! This is so important for your child's reading and language development.
This week's vocabulary words:
chores, contribute, member, organize, accomplish
Writing
Writing
We will be telling stories through our pictures and adding labels. We will also work on writing sentences and showing students that sentences start with a capital, have spaces between words, we write a letter for each sound we hear, use good handwriting, spell the sight words correctly and end with the correction punctuation.
UOSPH_GK_Alphabet_Desk_COLOR.pdfPhonics
Phonics
Letters, Sounds, and CVC Words
We will hit the ground running learning all 26 letters letters and sounds of the alphabet! As we learn more letters we will be working really hard to hear all the sounds in a word. We are listening for a beginning, middle and ending sound and making sure we write a letter for each sound we hear.
Sight Words
Sight Words
Each week your child will be introduced to several sight words. Hang these words around the house to help your child see them constantly and remember them! There is a poster to help learn a word too!
Phonics Practice:
Phonics Practice:
Here is a wonderful website to use to practice various phonics skills with your child: https://phonicsandstuff.com/
How to learn a word.pdfUse this chart to help your child practice the sight words that are listed in your child's daily folder!
Math
Math
First quarter we love to start with our geometry unit! We will be comparing solid and flat shapes as well as identifying them.
We will also work on writing our number to 10 and counting to 25.
Science
Science
We are so lucky to be able to utilize two programs to meet our science curriculum standards in Kindergarten!
Nature Unfolds:
This is the curriculum from our Missouri Department of Conservation. We will learn to observe nature using our 5 Senses by studying the plants and animals. We will even get to go on a field trip to Busch Wildlife to help us explore the world around us.
MySci:
MySci are amazing, hands-on science kits we get from Washington University in St. Louis. It is such a great program to get the students involved and really fall in love with science. We will do three units from MySci on our 5 senses, push and pull, and end our year learning about the sun and shade.
Design Challenges:
We love to read books and solve the problems or think about real problems in our world and create and design ways to fix them! These are hands-on creates that the students get to design. Through these designs we learn about the engineering processes. We will complete several design challenges throughout the school year!
We love walking to our Kindergarten Tree in Boulevard Park to observe the changes throughout our school year!
We love walking to our Kindergarten Tree in Boulevard Park to observe the changes throughout our school year!
Social Studies
Social Studies
Great Gators Are Safe, Respectful, Responsible Learners!
Great Gators Are Safe, Respectful, Responsible Learners!
The following are links on the importance of learning through play and different video lessons on sharing and kindness for your kids! We will also go over The Essential 10, our Green Tree Expectations. Showing use of the Essential 10 will help your child earn points for his or her house!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg-GEzM7iTk&feature=youtu.be&list=PLc695sWmPGpybRuxvaPgvwd2s8eGqAWYj
Leader In Me
Leader In Me
The Leader in Me program is an evidence-based, comprehensive educational leadership & school improvement model that empowers students with life-skills they need to be successful. We will learn the 7 habits...
The Leader in Me program is an evidence-based, comprehensive educational leadership & school improvement model that empowers students with life-skills they need to be successful. We will learn the 7 habits...
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin With The End In Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
Habit 5: Seek First To Understand and Then To Be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen The Saw
Bonus Habit 8: Find Your Voice!
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