Week of October 7th, 2013

Kindergarten News for October 7^th -11^th 

Monday will be day 4 on the rotation schedule.  This is art class and the children will be painting.  You may want to send an extra old tshirt with them to wear as a smock over their clothes!

We will be learning the letter Aa as in apple and acorn.  This letter is a vowel and has a short sound as in apple and a long sound as in acorn.  Right now we will focus on the short sound.  We will learn the long sound later in the year more thoroughly.  We will review Ll, Oo, Gg, Hh, Tt and Pp.  Your child should recognize each letter and be able to give the sound for each letter.

We will finish reading Life in an Ocean  in Reading.  This is an informational text and has “real” pictures.  Your child should know the words I, am, the, little, to, a, do,what, was and is.  We also practicing counting syllables and rhyming.

We will be starting the next unit in math.  This will be teaching the numbers 7,8,9, and 10.  We will practice counting, reading and writing with these numbers.

Thursday- October 17^th will be our Kindergarten Fall Festival.  All parents or grandparents who have their clearances on file can help!  All activities will be outside on our field if the weather permits!  The dress code does not need to be followed for the fall festival.   Children can dress down for this event---gym clothes are OK.  Sneakers are suggested.  We will have fall festival in the morning and afternoon with breaks for and recess and lunch.  The kindergarten will have special partners for this event.  Their reading buddies will accompany the kindergarten children so they make sure they do everything!  Our class is paired with Mrs. Herring’s fourth grade students.

Please return fall festival money as soon as possible.  The parents who are planning the event need to shop for supplies and goodies.  I am missing money from 9 children.

We will be discussing fire prevention next week.