Dragon News News for you to Know about Kindergarten

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September 24th-28th 2012 contact me @ 988-6221 or

teresa.hay@wayne.k12.in.us

A Peek at the Week

New Words to know:

New Skills include: Language Arts: Making Predictionsthis week we will focus on Making Predictions as we read books. We may make predictions in the middle of a book or at the end of a book. Your child will need to draw a picture of their prediction.what will happen next? A prediction has to make sense according to the story clues given in the story leading up to their prediction.

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 gray, to, the These are all the words your child will be tested on for the 1st 9 weeks report card! This assessment can happen anytime in the next 2 weeks.

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:
Letter Ff this week. Practice writing letter Ff Know that F is a consonant produce the sound for F. Writers Workshop: We are working on telling and know writing about things that we like. We will attempt our first official writing prompt that will be scored and then explained at Parent teacher conferences this week

Math o Number formation 0-10

-Use the poems that were sent home to practice the correct number formation when writing each number. We will work on reviewing formation of numbers and also work on ordering numbers this week. Students will be assessed on writing their numbers this week. Pracrice!

Conference form #2 will come home this week. It will have a scheduled day and time for you to confirm on the form. Teachers are scheduling conferences for families with siblings this week. These families have to be scheduled together so that they can go from teacher to teacher in the same time frame. Please understand that many families request conferences after 5:00 p.m. Hoewever, with 27 students to conference not all can be scheduled in the late evening in 2 days.
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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

Happy Fall Yaall This week we will spend time talking about the changing Seasons! We will discuss Squirrels, leaves, and the word autumn!

HOMEWORK PACKETS ARE DUE THIS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER TH 28 !

Reminders !
September 24th- Reading Assessments begin for Kindergarten1 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 October 8th and 9th- Parent Teacher Conferences- 3:00 to 7:30 p.m. FALL FESTIVAL IS COMING! BOOK FAIR IS COMING! WATCH FOR DATES AND DETAILS

From the Teachers Desk:

It is jacket weather! Be sure your child has a jacket each and every day. Sometimes they may want a light jacket even in the school building. The temperature changes from day to day and room to room. We are practicing taking our jackets off the correct way.. There is a correct way? Well if you are in Kindergarten there is because if you take your jacket off wrong your sleeves end up inside your coat. Guess What? When the sleeves are inside they are hard to get out. Teach your child to hold their sleeves on their coats and jackets when they are taking them off. Teach your child to reach in a pull their sleeves out if they are stuck inside

AND most importantly start letting your child zip or fasten their own coat! YEP on their own..thats how they learn.
Winter will be here before you know it and students need to be able to zip and or fasten their own coats daily.
Have a great week! Mrs. Hay