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This Week in A2

Dear Families,  

A few reminders:

1.  We would appreciate donations of baby wipes for the classroom.  We use these daily to keep our hands clean.  Thank you!

2. There is no school next week.  Happy Thanksgiving!

3. Report Cards are based on end of the year kindergarten standards.  At this time of the year, you should not expect to see a lot of 3's (meeting standard).  Students are working towards end of kindergarten standards.  Also, in your report card envelope (going home on Friday), you will find a list of the 1st 50 high frequency words and a list of fun spelling activities.  Kindergartners are expected to be able to read, write, and spell the top 30 words, but some students want the extra challenge!  :)

Our Week: 

Star Student: Luke.  Awesome Poster!  We enjoyed listening to you share about yourself this morning.

11/16 Monday- NED/Yo-Yo Assembly (9:30-10:15) , Snack:Anthony, Volunteers: Sharon V. and Keri A.

11/17 Tuesday- Music (11:00-11:30), Snack: Brooke, Volunteer: Brittany

11/18 Wednesday- Homework, Book Bags, and Library Book Due!  Volunteers: Sheila & Cherish R., Snack: Bryn

11/19 Thursday- Snack: Donovan, Volunteers: Michelle G. & Dory

11/20 Friday- Mrs. Glasgo teaches today, Charlotte's School BD, Today is spirit day (wear inside out clothes), Library (9:00-9:30), Computer Lab (10:45-11:25), Snack: Charlotte, Volunteers: Brianna M. & Amber M., Report Cards Go Home Today.  There will be 2 copies in your envelope.  Please sign one copy and return the Monday after Thanksgiving Break. 

** NO SCHOOL NEXT WEEK!  THANKSGIVING BREAK!**

What We're Learning

• Math: This week we are working with numbers 0-20 as well as different ways to make 10 (10 and 0, 1 and 9, 2 and 8, 3 and 7, 4 and 6, 5 and 5, etc.)

• Language Arts:  Letter/Sound of the week Tt.
• Sight Words: Your child should be able to independently read, write, and spell the following sight words: a, the, I, see, my, go, to, like, can, look, you, went. This week's sight word is 'come'. 
• Writers Workshop: This week we will continue our unit on Pattern Books.  

Math Centers

Thank you so much to the person who generously purchased the sterilite plastic containers for our math centers! (Amazon did not tell me who you were, but thank you!!!)  I'm so excited!!! Today the kids learned and played a new math game which they will be able play with partners during math centers. Each partner gets 10 unifix cubes in a specific color and a die. Each player rolls his or her die and writes his or her number into the partner equation "___ and ____ make _____." Each parter then counts out their number of unifix cubes and puts them in the middle. The partners then count how many unifix cubes altogether and write the total in the equation. They did a great job today and had so much fun! Can't wait to play with them again on Thursday! 

This Week in A2

Dear Families,
Thank you SO for your super generous donations!  The kids are so excited about our new books for the class that support our reading workshop and the decks of cards to play war and other math games.    

A few reminders:

1. We have fun new math centers in the works that support your child's math curriculum!  We are still in need of many "clear, large 8x11 Steralite Click Boxes" to organize these math centers.  Please See Amazon Wishlist for better description of boxes.  Thank you SO much!   

2. With all our writing, illustrating, arts, and crafts, we also desperately need donations of crayons and glue sticks for our classroom! 

3. There is no school on Wednesday, 11/11, in honor of Veteran's Day.

Our Week: 

Star Student: Mary-Margaret.  We look forward to seeing your poster and learning more about you.

11/9 Monday- Emergency Drill, Psychomotor (9:20-10:00) , Snack:TJ, Volunteer: Sharon V.

11/10 Tuesday- Angelina's Birthday, Music (11:00-11:30), Snack: Angelina, Volunteer: Sarah M.

11/11 Wednesday- No School/ Veteran's Day

11/12 Thursday- Homework, Book Bags, and Library Book Due, Snack: Tony, Volunteer: Michelle G.

11/13 Friday- library (9:00-9:30), Computer Lab (10:45-11:25), Snack: Angelo, Volunteers: Brianna M. & Brittany H., (10:45 Incoming Kinder Parent Tour)

What We're Learning

• Math: A fun game that we have been practicing at school is "War" with a deck of cards (face cards removed).  Play this at home to help your child practice number ID, and concepts such as: more than, less than, equal to.  We continue to practice ID 2D & 3D shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, hexagon, sphere, cylinder, cube, cone), ID colors, days of the week,  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, counting by 5's.

• Language Arts:  Letter/Sound of the week Mm.
• 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, look, you. This week's sight word is 'went'. Please practice reading and spelling these sight words at home as well as writing them in sentences!  Make flashcards, play a memory card game, do practice spelling tests, do back tracing, etc.   
• Writers Workshop: This week we will start our unit on writing Pattern Books.  We are also working hard on sounding out words phonetically in our stories.  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!