Dragon News News for you to Know about Kindergarten

Highlights!
New Skills include: Language Arts:
Color word: gray other new words: to, the We will continue to learn about story elements Characters in stories! We did a great story called Blueberries for Sal last week. Ask your child who the characters in the story were? Little Sal Mother Mama Bear Baby Bear Ask them why they are characters? Because they are people or animals in a story! Your child has to be able to identify characters in stories for their first report card.

September 17th-21st 2012 contact me @ 988-6221 or

teresa.hay@wayne.k12.in.us

A Peek at the Week

New Words to know:

Popcorn Words/High Frequency Words to Practice

red, yellow, a, I, blue, green, we orange, purple, like, at, black, brown, see, it pink, white, go, my

New Words: gray, to, the

Continuation of: Print Concepts

-- Counting words in sentences. This is a skill that goes with print concepts and increasing your childs awareness of text in books as they read. When you are reading books to your child at home , have them count the words in a short sentence. (3 to 5 words) Have your child tell you how many words there are. Often the students want to count the letters in every word in the sentence. We will continue to practice at school as well.

Handwriting:

Math o Number formation 0-10

Letter Aa this week. Practice writing letter Aa Know that A is a vowel and it has 2 sounds instead of 1. Writers Workshop:We are learning about books and storytelling! Last week we worked on a story called I go Students have to orally tell the story to Mrs. Hay using their detailed illustrations discussing the beginning, middle and ending of their story.

-Use the poems that were sent home to practice the correct number formation when writing each number. Matching sets one to one, counting sets

Conference forms Please be sure to return your conference forms with your preferred date and time slot.
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More for this week:

Keep working on your September Homework Calendar Other homework for extra practice: Handwriting was sent home for practice with writing upper case and lower case letters of the alphabet and writing numbers 010 Be sure you are working on this at home your child will be assessed on this for his or her first report card. Always.practice writing your name the correct way. Log on to scoot pad and do a few lessons Count as high as you can without skipping numbers Say your letters and sounds (the blog has a song by Jack Hartman for your child to practice with) Practice your sight words

Be sure to mark your calendar for October the 8th and 9thboth of these dates are
designated for Parent Teacher Teacher Conferences Priority Time Slots will be given to parents with 2 or more students at BPE because those conferences have to be scheduled together back to back with other classroom teachers. Remember there is only so much time between 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Some parents will need to do conferences between the hours of 3:00 to 5:00. Your child is a priority and you should be able to get off work for the short time it will take to conference,

From the Teachers Desk:

Reminders !
performance

September 20th-School Talent Show an evening September 21st- conference forms for request of date and time slots are due back September 21st-your child will get to watch the Talent Show during his or her school day September 24th- Reading Assessments begin for Kindergarten Students will be assessed to see what Reading Level they are currently at. September 25th-Chick fil a Family Night PTOmark your calendars and come for dinner

The newest class Behavior Program started the week of September the 4th and you all should of gotten an email with a graph of your childs behavior progress for the week. My hope is to send the progress graph at the end of each week so that you are seeing your childs weekly behavior. I realize several of you would like B r daily behavior reports, however it is not feasible to stop every day and do reports for 27 students. This i does not utilize teaching skills in the classroom. Time n spent correcting behavior needs to be a minimum at g school. Please address behavior very seriously so that learning can take place at school. m Students need to be actively engaged in learning so that o they and others around them can participate in the learning environment. n If you are not receiving an email report with your y childs behavior graph. Please let me know. You can email or call me.

f o Hopefully this everyone. r i e l d t r i p

communication will be helpful for

Have a great week. f Mrs. Hay