Story of the week: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Phonics: Ss /s/, Mm /m/

Math: Measurement

Science: Weather and Seasons

Social Studies: Benjamin Franklin

Reminders:

·         Health screenings will be on Thursday morning. Please be sure your child arrives to school on time.

·         Send in your snack contributions

·         Happy Birthday to Hayden on Friday!

Dear Parents,

            We are moving right along as we enter September. This week our focus is on the Weather and Seasons. Students will become familiar with different types of weather and seasonal changers through books, poems, songs and American Sign Language. Backpack Bear shares his favorite books about rainbows. This week we will:

·         Learn and practice Mm /m/ and Ss /s/

·         Discuss cause and effect

·         Learn about inventive spelling (kidwriting)

·         Get to know Benjamin Franklin

             In Math, we will continue our study of measurement. We will begin learning numbers and shapes next week. Kindergarten has changed A LOT since you may have attended. Kindergarten students are now responsible to know the following shapes, the number of sides they have, and be able to describe their special attributes: Circle, triangle, square, rectangle, hexagon, and trapezoid. PLEASE be sure that if you are talking about HEXAGONS at home that you are showing them hexagons and not octagons! We don’t learn about octagons this year. J After we master 2-D shapes we will move on to 3-D shapes (sphere, cone, cube, cylinder).

            We have finished learning our purple words as a group. I will be giving assessments this week. If your child can quickly identify our words, they will receive a purple rain drop under their cloud on our bulletin board and a certificate sent home.  Please practice with the cards that I sent home at the beginning of the year. If your student does not show mastery of these words, a progress report will be sent home identifying the words that they struggled with. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!

            Today we practiced our lock down drill. We talked about what it would be like if a dangerous person was in our school. We went through our school procedures we have in place in case of this type of emergency. It might be good to have a conversation with your little one about dangerous individuals and how to avoid them. We will cover this topic again in a future guidance lesson.