What
an amazing week we had learning with Brianna! I am excited to use all my new
learning in the classroom to support and encourage our students to keep
growing! I keep hearing from substitute teachers and other teachers in the
building that this group is so sweet and hardworking! We have a great bunch in room 82!
Upcoming
events:
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October 9: Homecoming- Wear Black and Orange and Crazy Hair
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October 9: Homecoming Parade
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October 16th: Math Morning
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October 20: Grandfriends and Goodies Family Night-Tell your grandfriends to mark their
calendarsJ
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October 22-23: No School
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October 27th: Field Trip to Heckrodt Nature Center
PSC News
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Did you know? The PSC gives a Birthday Book to each NDLC student
during the school year. Make sure to ask your child about it near their
birthday (or half-birthday)!
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Join us! The next PSC meeting is Monday, October 5, at 6 p.m. in
the school library.
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN
KINDERGARTEN THIS WEEK
Reading: This week we will be having
a celebration to mark the end of our first reading unit. Students have worked
so hard to learn to retell their old favorite storybooks using the exact words
from the book, sounding like the characters, and using connecting words to keep
the story going. We have also done some amazing work in our learn about the
world books. Students said everything they could about what they were learning
on the page and worked with a partner to say how the pages of the book went
together! I can’t wait to see how they continue to grow as readers!
Writing: We are now writing true
stories! Students will learn to plan their story across pages, add more details
in pictures and words, and add speech bubbles to their writing. At home, you
could help your child generate ideas to write about! Practice telling the story
orally and asking questions to add more details. This helps students to write
more vivid stories. We will practice story telling at school since kids need to
be able to verbalize ideas before they can write them!
Math: There are four new centers
this week:
1. Students will sort pictures
that show different quantities of animals. The pictures show groups of 2,3,4,or
5 animals. After sorting, the students will draw their own pictures that they
can sort.
2. Students will use unifix cubes that link
together to compare numbers. They will use language such as “Five is more than
three because the five tower is taller than the three tower.
3. We will play the Hidden
Number Game with a partner. Partner 1 chooses 4 cards from a deck of 1-10.
He/She places them in counting order and flips one card over. Partner 2 decides
what the hidden number is. They flip the card over to check!
4. Students will practice
forming numbers using an app on our classroom iPads.
Word
Study:
We have four stations that students rotate around throughout the week.
1.
In a game called “I have, Who has”, students will identify
letters and/or their sounds. One student will have a card that says, “I have
‘A’. Who has ‘F’?” The student with ‘F’ will say “I have ‘F’. Who has ‘M’?” And
so on.
2. Students will play Boggle to
work on letter recognition and simple sight words.
3. Students will use
highlighters to identify certain letters on a page. Page one will ask the
students to highlight all of the ‘A’s they see and so on.
4. Sand writing: This week, the
students will use the sand boxes to continue to write the letters in the
alphabet as well as sight words (words that occur frequently in the books they
will begin to read).
Social
Studies:
After learning about who the different school community helpers are, we will
start to interview some of these helpers to learn exactly who they are and what
they do at our school. We will be conducting interviews with Mrs. Geoffery (our
school nurse), Mrs. Mitchell (our Administrative Assistant in the office), and
Mrs. Frischman (our principal) Then, the students will create books based on
what we learned! I am excited to start this projectJ
As
always, if you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to call or
e-mail.
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