Math Facts

I am so excited to announce we had a total of 4 kindergartner's to pass the Principals math facts test. These lucky kids will be taking the next grade level test when they attend the math facts test next month. Congratulations to them!
Please keep working with your students. I am sure we will have more as the months go by.

Math Facts Club

We will be starting our Math Facts Club for the year. The first Principals test will be on February 14th. In order to qualify the students will need to be able to do 25 addition and subtraction problems in 5 minutes with an 80% or better.

You can go to www.mathfactcafe.com to make practice sheets.

New Journals

New journals went out yesterday. We will use these journals until Spring Break. If your child looses it or it gets damaged please make sure they are still turning in their written entries. It does not have to be just in the journal any paper will do. Journals just make it easier for us to keep track of their growth.

Good bye

We are so sad to say good bye to Mrs. Flore. She will be done with her student teaching this Friday Dec. 9th. Please help us say good bye to her by having the kids make her something to let her know how much we will miss her. It could be as simple as a card made by the child.

Thank you for your support

Thanksgiving

We have a regular short day tomorrow. Please remember to send in your pie and juice for our celebration.

Smartphone

If you have a smart phone Jupiter grades has an APP you can download and it will give you real time grades.

Pumpkins

Please remember to send in your donated Pumpkin for us to carve and raffle off on Friday.

This Week!

Please help me welcome Mrs. Flore to our class she will be doing her student teaching with us until December.

Reading:

We are moving into word families. We are focusing on short a word family and then will move on to other short vowel word families.

Introduce High Frequency words

Segmenting two to three sounds in a word.

Comprehension – sequence or events in the story

Math:

Working on number quantities 0-10

One to one correspondence

Order numbers 0-20

Counting 0-50

Writing:

Draw a pictures and label parts

It was nice to read journals. Please help them with spacing and punctuation. Please make sure the children are using their letter sounds and word wall words to communicate their ideas. DO NOT WRITE IT FOR THEM!! Phonetic writing is encouraged.

Please make sure you are signing your child’s calendar every day. If they do not have a stamp or have colored their behavior they WILL NOT HAVE FUN FRISDAY!!!

Next Week

Reading:

We are moving into word families. Most of the children have mastered letter sounds I am so proud of them.

Introduce High Frequency words

Segmenting two to three sounds in a word.

Comprehension – sequence or events in the story

Math:

Working on number quantities 0-15

One to one correspondence

Order numbers 0-20

Counting 0-30

Writing:

Draw a pictures and label parts

Journals are beginning this week. Please make sure the children are using their letter sounds and word wall words to communicate their ideas. DO NOT WRITE IT FOR THEM!! Phonetic writing is encouraged.

Please make sure you are signing your child’s calendar every day. If they do not have a stamp or have colored their behavior they WILL NOT HAVE FUN FRISDAY!!!

Focus for week of Sept 19-23

Reading:

So many of our kids have mastered all their letter sounds or are so close. Please keep working with them at home with our zoo phonics cards.

Identifying beginning sounds in words.

Introduce High Frequency words (I, like)

Segmenting two to three sounds in a word.

Comprehension – identify characters in the story

Math:

Working on number quantities 0-15

One to one correspondence

Order numbers 0-20

Counting 0-30

Writing:

Draw a pictures and label parts

Please make sure you are signing your child’s calendar every day. If they do not have a stamp or have colored their behavior they WILL NOT HAVE FUN FRISDAY!!!

Yee Ha

If your child come home saying they got a YEE HA today that means they were tested on their letter sounds and were able to give them all in a random order.
If they did get this honor please begin to work on our next goal which is letter names and sounds in random order.

So far we are doing great, and I am sure we will make our goal. As you remember I wanted all the children to master all their sounds by the end of the first quarter. The end is in just two weeks.

Thank you for all your help and support!!!!!!!!

lockdown

We had our lockdown this morning and it went well. Some of our students had a hard time being completely quiet but for the most part it was a good first run.