Hello Kindergarten Families!

Here is what's going on in Kindergarten next week:

New Theme: Apples! Throughout this theme, students will learn about graphing, measuring, sorting/patterning, colors, and the life cycle of an apple. If your child has not turned in the apple to decorate at home, please help them finish it and turn it in ASAP. Help them have fun and get creative with this since they will be sharing their apples in front of the class and these apples will be displayed on our classroom "Apple Tree".

Words of the Week: "a" and "to".

Students will practice writing an "I like to ______." sentence with their own ending word. Whichever word they decide to write at the end of sentences, we want them to sound out to the best of their ability. It's normal at this stage of writing for students to write only 2 or 3 sounds in each word and that's all that we want them to write for now. For example if they want to write the word "school" and they only hear the sounds "scl" that's totally fine. I just want them to feel successful in hearing and writing the main sounds of each word. Also, when they're writing at home, remind them to use "bunny ear finger spaces" between words, a capital first letter and a period at the end of the sentence. Of course we are just at the very beginning stages of writing, but it is always good to keep these things in mind :)

Math Focus: counting (1:1 correspondence), writing numbers correctly and patterns

Handwriting Focus Letters: P,p H,h F,f and E,e

In your child's homework folder last Friday you will found a math book called "Bridges: Home Connections". Each week in this email update we will post the pages that we would like your child to complete at home and return to us by the following Friday.  Once your child completes it, please rip out the page and return it in your child's homework folder.  We will keep it and check it off on our homework log.  This week, please help your child complete pages 1-2.

Reminder: Friday is Picture Day!

Have a great weekend,
Catherine Werner