DATES TO REMEMBER:
-Wednesday, October 3rd—Pupil Count Day
-Friday, October 5th—Progress Reports Sent Home
-Monday, October 15th—Delayed Start
-Tuesday, October 23rd—Title 1 Night
STUDENT OF THE WEEK:
Our student of the week is Jonathan Wiggins. Jonathan enjoys fishing, skiing, riding his tractor, and going to Disney World. His favorite place to go is to the beach in Florida. When he grows up, Jonathan would like to be a construction worker and drive the big equipment. Congratulations to Jonathan on being Student of the Week!
**I select a new ‘student of the week,’ every other week so that their posters can be on display for 2 weeks; I select students based on the order that they bring their posters in.
BOOK-IT CALENDAR:
Attached to your child's newsletter you will find an October Book-It Calendar with an informational letter. Just keep track of the days that you read with your child, send back your calendar @ the end of the month, and I will return your calendar with a Pizza Hut certificate. Pizza and Reading: what a great combination!
PROGRESS REPORTS:
Progress reports will be sent home this Friday with students. We are really beginning to fall into a nice routine here at school and gel together as a class. The progress report will give you an idea of how your child is doing socially and with following the rules and routines at school. You will also receive your child’s DIBELS results and hopefully their Aimsweb results (I am still waiting on this data). A couple of things to keep in mind with these screeners: their score indicates how many correct responses they had in 1 minute, also it takes time and practice for Kindergartners to learn what the assessor is asking them to do. However, it does give us a starting point as we begin targeting skills and needs. If you have any questions regarding your child’s progress at school, please don’t hesitate to give me a call or stop in.
TITLE 1 FAMILY NIGHT:
Attached to your child's newsletter you will find an invitation for our upcoming Title 1 Family Night; it will be a great night of food, learning & fun! RSVPs are needed back by October 17th and you only need to send back 1 RSVP per family. Hope to see you there!
READING:
This week we will be reading The Wheels on the Bus as we work on comprehension & vocabulary skills. Our focus letters for this week are V, M, C, & J and we will introduce our first sightword: the. We will continue to work on rhyming and retelling the familiar nursery rhymes: Humpty Dumpty & The Itsy Bitsy Spider. This week we will introduce a new beanie baby strategy for Comprehension: Spinner the Spider, who helps us make connections as we read. During Read to Self time, students will have the opportunity to share some of their favorite books from home with a partner; we will also begin adding some new materials to our book boxes from the classroom so that students can bring their books back home soon.
WRITING:
Today we read through our September Journals and talked about how good writers go back and ‘edit’ their work. Students are bringing their journals home to share with you. Please take a few minutes to look through them with your child. Some things we worked on this month are: drawing a big picture and using at least 3 colors. This week we will begin our October Journals, build rhyming spiders, and create a class book about The Itsy Bitsy Spider.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
This week we will begin our Science Unit on Living and Non-Living Things. We will continue to observe the changes that occur in the Fall and have a visit from Scrappy the Squirrel (puppet) who will have plenty to share about Fall. We will also read several narrative and informational texts related to spiders.
MATH:
We will continue to work on patterning, identifying and naming shapes, counting and comparing amounts, and identifying and comparing numbers.
