Weekly Newsletter-October 17th-21st

                                                                     

Dear Families,

This week, we have worked on the letters s, p, x, and k. Students were asked to build, sort, and read these words.  We have also worked on the star words "in" and "at" Be sure that your child knows these words and the other star words that have been previously introduced. 

This week we read the story Pumpkin, Jack.  It is a fiction story where the main character, Tim, grows a pumpkin and all the steps it takes to grow a pumpkin.  During this story, we learned about new vocabulary words of mold and generous.  Ask your kindergartner what these words mean.  We also learned about the life cycle of a pumpkin.  Do you know that pumpkins are at one-time green!?

At community writing, the students labeled the different parts of a pumpkin.  We worked on identifying the beginning sounds.  Students were then able to create their own pumpkins with labels.  These projects are hanging out in our hallway for all to see and learn from!

Class created pumpkin- labels that students were able to identify the beginning sounds

Individual pumpkins that students created

In writing, we are working as a class to create show and tell stories.  In these stories, we look and think about an object.  We next draw our object, then write about it, and last we can add more.  We work hard at spelling words that we don't know how to spell.  We aim to write down all the sounds we hear in a word.  It is okay if it is not spelled correctly, we can always go back and get it fixed later.  We also work on doing all-star work.  This means that we stay in the lines, have no white spaces, and use colors that make sense.  We can make pictures the way that we want when it is free-choice time.  During writing time and other times during the day, our goal is to do all-star work.

During math class, we have been working hard at making combinations of 5 and of 10.  This is called decomposing.  We take a big number like 5 and break it down to 1 and 4 or 2 and 3.  We practice this concept through hands-on activities and games.  One of the new games that were introduced was "Which bug will win" Students had an opportunity to spin one of the spinners and keep track of which bug would get to 10 first.  

Take a peek at the game here 

https://student-activities.mathlearningcenter.org/?f06d4976

Reminders:

Be sure to LABEL your child's cold weather gear.  Many students do not know that a certain item of clothing belongs to them.  

Pack TWO snacks for your child to have during the day.  Thank you to many of the families that have donated spare items for those times a snack has been forgotten.


Thank you!