Hello Families,
A few reminders:
1. Parent Teacher Conferences are this week. We look forward to meeting with you to discuss your child's transition into kindergarten. Please CLICK HERE for the conference schedule. Conferences are 15 minutes in length with a 5 minute transition between conferences. Please be on time and knock on the door when it is time for your conference. This helps us stay on schedule! :)
2. Our Kindergarten Halloween Parade will be on Friday, October 30th shortly after drop-off. If your child would like to participate, he/she should wear his/her costume to school. We will be having a Halloween Craft morning from 9-10am. A sign-up is posted in our classroom!
- Please make sure you SELL the Pony Plop tickets that went home with your child last week. If you are able to sell more, please do! You can get additional tickets in the school office. Invite family, friends, and neighbors!
- Please sign up to VOLUNTEER at the Fall Fun Fest! We need you! This is a great way to meet other parents and have fun while helping our school. Sign up HERE!
10/19 Monday- Snack:Gabriella
10/20 Tuesday- Music (11:00-11:30), Snack:Grayson
10/21 Wednesday- Homework Packet Due, Library Book Due, Black Book Bag Due, Snack: Hawk
10/22 Thursday- Picture Retakes (please let us know if your child is getting retakes), Snack: Teacher
10/23 Friday- Mrs. Niehaus (former K teacher) will be subbing for Mrs. Vazquez today. Visit School Library (9:00-9:20), Firemen Visit (9:30-10:15), Computer Lab (10:45-11:25), Snack: Julian T.
What We're Learning
- October is Fire Safety Month! This week we are learning about fire safety, a subject very close to my heart. I lost a student a few year ago in a house fire. Please take this week to replace batteries in your smoke detectors and teach your child what to do if there is a fire in your house. The fire truck will be visiting our school this Friday to give a wonderful presentation on fire safety!
- Math: ID 2D & 3D shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, hexagon, sphere, cylinder, cube, cone), ID colors, days of the week, ABAB patterns, days in school/beginning place value. We are practicing sorting by color, shape, and size, counting 0-5 objects, writing numbers 0-5, counting to 30, counting by 10's.
- Science: We will be studying bats and other nocturnal animals.
- The adjective nocturnal comes from the Late Latin nocturnalis, which means “belonging to the night." You've probably heard of nocturnal animals, like bats and fireflies, who sleep during the day and come out to play when the sun goes down
- Language Arts:
- Our letter/sound of the week is Nn for nocturnal. Optional- Your child can bring something for sharing on his/her sharing day that begins with the letter N.
- Sight Words: Your child should be able to read, write, and spell the following sight words that we have studied over the past few weeks: a, the, I, see, my, go, to, like, can. Please practice reading, writing, and spelling these sight words at home!
- Writers Workshop: we are starting to sound out words phonetically in our stories. At this time, some children may only hear the beginning and ending sounds in words. That is okay. Please do not tell your child how to correctly spell the word. Instead, encourage them to "say it like a snail, stretch it like a snake, write down the sounds you hear." Your child may want to practice writing stories at home too...attach them to your homework for extra credit! Writing is meant to be a fun activity so keep it positive! Please join us in praising your child for all his/her attempts!
- In Reading this week, we will practice our Reading Superpowers with the book Bat Loves the Night by Nicola Davies.
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