Dragon News News for you to Know about Kindergarten

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September 23rd27th, 2013 contact me @ 988-6221 or

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A Peek at the Week

New Words to know:

Popcorn Words/High Frequency

New Skills include: Language Arts Making Predictionsthis week we will focus on Making Predictions as we read books. We may make predictions in the middle of a book or at the end of a book. Your child will need to draw a picture of their prediction. What will happen next? A prediction has to make sense according to the story clues given in the story leading up to their prediction.

Words to know and learn

child will be responsible for learning and tested on in Kindergarten practice weekly!

these are words your

I a see me

review words :

red

Continuation of: Print Concepts

yellow blue, green, purple, orange, we, can ,like, at, black, brown, the, and, see, to, pink, white gray, come, me

-- Counting words in sentences. This is a skill that goes with print concepts and increasing your childs awareness of text in books as they read. When you are reading books to your child at home , have them count the words in a short sentence. (3 to 5 words) Have your child tell you how many words there are. Often the students want to count the letters in every word in the sentence. We will continue to practice at school as well.

This weeks words: with, my

Handwriting:

Letter Oo this week. Practice writing letter Oo Know that O is a vowel and has 2 sounds!

Math o

Number formation 0-10

-Use the poems that were sent home to practice the correct number formation when writing each number. We will work on reviewing formation of numbers and also work on counting out objects to represent a numeral and ordering numbers. The assessment for writing numbers will be next week! Practice writing 0-10 at home with your poems.

Books we are Reading: My Five Senses, Listen, Listen Reading Theme this week is: Senses

Mrs. Hays Dragon News pg.2

More for this week:

Homework Calendars are due this Friday September 27th Continue coloring in your Reading logBooks are intended to help your child understand Print Concepts. Directionality Identifying sight words in sentences Understanding the pictures match the words Pointing to words as words are read The intention is for your child to read with an adult NOT all students will be able to read independently-Several students are still identifying letters and sounds!

Happy Fall Yaall This week we will spend time talking about the changing Seasons! We will discuss Squirrels, leaves, and the word autumn!

From the Teachers Desk:

It is jacket weather! Be sure your child has a jacket each and every day. Sometimes they may want a light jacket even in the school building. The temperature changes from day to day and room to room. We are practicing taking our jackets off the correct way.. There is a correct way? Well if you are in Kindergarten there is because if you take your jacket off wrong your sleeves end up inside your coat. Guess What? When the sleeves are inside they are hard to get out. Teach your child to hold their sleeves on their coats and jackets when they are taking them off. Teach your child to reach in a pull their sleeves out if they are stuck inside

Reminders !

Conference forms

Conference form #1 will came home on Friday. Conference form #2 will have a scheduled day and time for you to confirm on the form. Teachers are scheduling conferences for families with siblings this week. These families have to be scheduled together so that they can go from teacher to teacher in the same time frame. Please understand that many families request conferences after 5:00 p.m. However, with 26 students to conference not all can be scheduled in the late evening in 2 days. Be sure to mark your calendar for October the 9th and 10thboth of these days are designated for Parent Teacher ConferencesConferences will be after school and through-out the evening. Students with siblings at Bridgeport get the first priority for scheduling times- we have to coordinate times with the siblings teacher(s)

AND most importantly start letting your child zip or fasten their own coat! YEP on their own..thats how they learn.
Winter will be here before you know it and students need to be able to zip and or fasten their own coats daily.