Dragon News News for you to Know about Kindergarten

Highlights!
New Skills include: Language Arts:
-- 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.

September 9th13th, 2013 contact me @ 988-6221 or

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A Peek at the Week

New Words to know:

Popcorn Words/High Frequency

Words to know and learn

child will be responsible for learning and tested on in Kindergarten practice weekly!

these are words your

I a see me

Handwriting:

review words :

red

-Can your child place objects that are alike and different in categories and tell me why they put them there? By size, shape, color, and kind??? Assessments are this week.

Writers Workshop: Continuing our Writers Workshop Procedures. Learning about wordless books and how to tell a story in the order it happened. Beginning, Middle , and End. We have also started labeling some of our pictures.. Have you noticed your child trying to write at least the beginning sound? Math o Review: Shapes and Sorting o Writing numbers: number formation poems have been sent home and we have worked on 0-3 so far.. we will continue this week. o

We will begin the letter Ii this week in isolation. Our focus will be on the proper handwriting formation for Ii , the letter identification and the sound the letter makes. Both the long sound and the short sound for I. Students will learn that this is a vowel. .

yellow blue, green, purple, orange, we, can ,like, at, black, brown, the, and

This weeks words: see, to, pink, white

Books we are Reading: Pizza at Sallys Everybody Works Reading Theme this week is: Jobs

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More for this week:

Homework Calendars have started! Reading Homework has also now started! Your child is now bringing home a reader in the back of their folder. Be sure you are reading it with your child atleast 3 or more times per week. Please keep the reader in your childs back folder pocket all week because we will be using these books in class too. Work on the highlighted skills on the Reading Log sheet. Color in one book for each time your child reads the book with an adult!!

Students have been asked each night to go home and learn the number poem for the next day! If we did the number 3 in class then students were asked to go home and learn the poem for 4. Some students were so excited to come and tell me the number poem for the day!! They got extra clip ups!! The number poems were attached to last weeks newsletter so be sure you have those poems in a safe place or on the refrigerator so you can help your child earn a clip up! These poems will help your child learn to write the numbers correctly!

From the Teachers Desk: Special Classes.. Is there a schedule?

This weeks schedule Monday Art Tuesday Music Wednesday Gym Thursday Library Friday Art Remember G.L.A.M. The letters are the first letter of the special class and it continually rotates.

Reminders !
September 9th-Cookie Dough orders and money are due!

September 11 - Muffins with Moms in the a.m. before school please RSVP if you are coming Silent Dismissal in honor of 9/11 in America!
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September 19th Family Chuckie Cheese Night- Fundraiser

for BPE 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Be sure to mark your calendar for October the 9th and 10thboth of these days are designated for Parent Teacher ConferencesConferences will be after school and through-out the evening. Students with siblings at Bridgeport get the first priority for scheduling times- we have to coordinate times with the siblings teacher(s)

Have a great week-Mrs. Hay