Update 1/29

Hi kindergarten families,

Highlights for this week:

Sight words: my, are, with, he, she, was, said

Phonics: digraphs wh, ch, th, sh, and CVC words

Literacy Essential Question: What can you find growing in nature?  We will also be making predictions about Groundhog Day!

Writing: We will finish publishing our how-to stories, and use a rubric to set goals as we finish!

Math: 2D shapes and how they fit together to make other shapes, sorting and classifying, teen numbers as well as addition and subtraction fluency through 5. 

Specials:

Monday: PE

Tuesday: Enrichment

Wednesday: Music

Thursday: Music

Friday: Enrichment

Monday: Art

Homework:

IPads will be sent home on Tuesday to charge fully!  Please have your child choose to do 10 minutes on the My Story app writing, or on Writing Wizard practicing letters, numbers or words.  Homework for the 100th day of school came home last Thursday, and is due Feb. 8th!  Please let me know if you have any questions.

Ralston Valley and Three Creeks Wish Week Spirit Week is this week!  Please read this letter explaining the Make A Wish we are participating in with Ralston Valley High School!  Our goal is to raise over $18,000 to sponsor 2 year old Porter, who has leukemia and his dreams to have a jungle gym in his backyard.  Ralston Valley also has other events for us to participate in - details linked here!

Wish Week Spirit Days:

Monday 1/29 - Crazy Hair Day

Tuesday 1/30 - Snowed in Day & Miracle Minute - send your child with your donation

Wednesday 1/31 - 80’s day

Thursday  2/1 - Green Day - Porter’s Favorite Color

Friday 2/2 - Super Hero Day

Have a wonderful week!

Update 1/22

Hi kindergarten families,

Highlights for this week:

Sight words: she, was, said, some

Phonics: digraphs ch, th, sh, and CVC words

Literacy Essential Question: How do we stay safe in bad weather? We will explore texts about the weather work on the comprehension skills of visualizing and finding key details in the story.

Writing: We will continue working on writing our own How-To stories!

Math: We are continuing to work on teen numbers as well as addition and subtraction fluency through 5.

Specials:

Monday: Enrichment

Tuesday: Art

Wednesday: Art

Thursday: Enrichment

Friday: PE

Monday: PE

Homework:

IPads will be sent home on Tuesday to charge fully!  Please try to log in to Wonders to have your child read their leveled book to you.  We have refreshed our brains after break and practiced logging in to Wonders at school, so your child should be able to tell you how to log in.  If you are unable to connect, please read a book at home.

Thursday: Reading folders will be sent home on Thursday with a book for your child to read to you.  Please sign and return on Friday. 

Book orders were sent home in Friday folders last week! Books always make great Valentines and new books are awesome motivators! Please order online with our class code: P7N6N

Ralston Valley and Three Creeks Wish Week Spirit Week is coming up next week.  Please read this letter explaining the Make A Wish we are participating in with Ralston Valley High School!  Our goal is to raise over $18,000 to sponsor 2 year old Porter, who has leukemia and his dreams to have a jungle gym in his backyard.  Ralston Valley also has other events for us to participate in - details linked here!

Wish Week Spirit Days:

Monday 1/29 - Crazy Hair Day

Tuesday 1/30 - Snowed in Day & Miracle Minute - send your child with your donation

Wednesday 1/31 - 80’s day

Thursday  2/1 - Green Day - Porter’s Favorite Color

Friday 2/2 - Super Hero Day

Have a wonderful week!

Update 1-16

Hi kindergarten families,

On Friday, in your child's folder, you found their DIBELS testing scores as well as MAP math testing scores. 

If your child is red or yellow on DIBELS skills, here are some ideas to support your child at home with these literacy skills:

• Work on letter sounds both in context of reading and in the form of CVC words.  Make letter sounds a game!  What sound does the letter s make?
• Work on segmenting words (stretching out words) Ex: give the word dog, child would stretch out each sound d-o-g.

If your child is below benchmark on MAP math scores:

• Work on counting fluently to 30.  Pay close attention to the teen numbers!
• Work on recognizing written numbers to 30.
• Work on simple addition and subtraction through a total of 5. 

Highlights for this week:

Sight words: she, was

Phonics: digraphs ch, th, sh, and CVC words

Literacy Essential Question: What happens in different types of weather?  We will explore texts about the weather work on the comprehension skills of visualizing and finding key details in the story.

Writing: We will be working on writing our own How-To stories!

Science: We will be using the scientific method to make predictions and experiment how to make things move using push and pull forces.

Math: We are continuing to work on teen numbers and the concept of a teen number being a group of 10 plus some ones. We will also be working on addition and subtraction fluency through 5. 

Specials:

Monday: No School

Tuesday: PE

Wednesday: Enrichment

Thursday: Music

Friday: Music

Monday: Enrichment

Homework:

Please be sure to read this section each week.  I post homework here on the weekly update each week so that parents know what to do, especially when you child brings home their iPad!

We will be sending home iPads on Tuesday to charge fully!  Students can choose to work 10 minutes on the My Story app or the Writing Wizard app.

I know that it has been difficult for some parents to connect at home, particularly with Wonders.  I am planning to put together a video to take you through the steps that students should take to correctly log in to Wonders.  Students seem confident with logging in at school, but it might be different at home.  I hope to get this to you next week! 

If assignments come home and you are unable to make it work on the iPad after trying for 10 minutes or so, please don't worry, and just move on to read a book that you have at home!  I don't want parents or students to be frustrated by iPads or homework!

I will be sending home a book order this Friday as well!  Books always make great Valentines and new books are awesome motivators!

As always, thank you for your support and partnership in your child's learning!  Have a great week.

Update 1/8

Welcome back!  I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break, full of family time and lots of memories! I can't wait to see all of their smiling faces back at school!

This week we will be reviewing our classroom expectations and getting back into the swing of school!  

Literacy Essential Question: How are the seasons different?  We will explore texts about the seasons including Snowmen All Year, and working on the comprehension skill of visualizing. 

Sight words: my, is, little

Phonics: digraphs th, sh, and CVC words

Writing: We will be using a new app, My Story, to write and illustrate stories about our winter breaks!  We will also be working in the next few weeks to master writing our last names.  This would be a great thing to practice at home!

Math: We are continuing to work on teen numbers and the concept of a teen number being a group of 10 plus some ones. We will also be working on addition and writing equations.

Science: We will be introducing our unit on Motion: Push and Pull.  We will read and explore more about motion, and use the scientific method to make predictions and experiment how to make things move using push and pull forces.

Specials: 
Monday: Enrichment
Tuesday: Art
Wednesday: Art
Thursday: Enrichment
Friday: PE

Homework: We will be sending home iPads on Monday to charge fully!
iPads will also come home this week on Thursday to read students' leveled reader in Wonders, and so that students can share their Winter Break Book with you!

I hope you all have a great week!