Hello
Kindergarten Families!
I
can’t believe we are in the fourth week of school already! The Kindergarteners
have been doing a great job trying out the strategies and skills they learn in
the minilessons!
Brianna
Pralitsis, our staff developer from New York, will be joining us at the end of
this week. There will be a sub in our room for parts of the morning on
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday so that I can partake in staff development with
Brianna. She will also be doing some work in our classroom with the kids. This
is very exciting for our school! There is so much to learn from Brianna and I
can’t waitJ
Upcoming
events:
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September 22nd: No School
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September 24th: Family Night—Hot Dogs and How to Help
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September 26th: Simon Cheese Fundraiser
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October 16th: Math Morning—this date is different from the original one sent out—make sure you
mark your calendarJ
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October 27th: Field Trip to Heckrodt Nature Center
PSC News
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Information on Saturday’s Simon’s Cheese fundraiser comes home
Monday. You MUST use a flyer for NDLC to receive credit for your purchase. Need
more for family and friends? Print them from
ndlccharter.org/parents/parent-school-committee.php or pick some up at
Thursday’s Family Night. See you at Simon’s Cheese!
·
Can you help? We need
parent hosts at Saturday’s fundraiser to help greet customers, open doors, and
be personal shoppers. Volunteer slots are one hour long – the fundraiser runs
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sign up now at http://vols.pt/vt9rHf.
·
Learn more about the Parent-School Committee and how you can
help at Thursday’s Family Night. Whether volunteering your time and talents,
saving BoxTops and Labels or signing up for fundraisers, our success depends on
YOU!
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Join us! The next PSC
meeting is Monday, October 5, at 6 p.m. in the school library.
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Questions? Email NDLC.PSC@gmail.com
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN
KINDERGARTEN THIS WEEK
Reading: This week in Reader’s
Workshop, the students are working on retelling and saying more and more of the
story. We will also learn to use special connecting words, such as then, after,
and, & later, to connect the words of a story. Students will focus on words
and lines that are repeated by characters in our story so that we can use the
exact same words when we retell the books! Towards the end of the week, we will
focus on pointing to words in the book that we can read already! This will set
students up for the more conventional reading that is coming soon!
Writing: Our writing shifts from
writing informational stories to writing true life stories this week. Today, we
used a checklist to make sure our informational writing had everything it
needs! On Wednesday, I will introduce narrative, or true story, writing to the
class. On Thursday, they will do an on demand writing. That means, the students
will have the entire writing block to write a true story without my coaching.
This allows me to see what they are already doing as writers and figure out
what they need to push their writing forward! I am excited to read some of
their true stories!
Math: Students will rotate through
4 math centers after a minilesson each day. The minilessons will focus on
adding/subtracting, writing numbers 1-5, and comparing numbers 1-10, and shapes.
There are four new centers this week:
1. We have been reading Anno’s
Counting Book in math to focus on numbers 1-10 and count the number of items on
each page. Students will create their own counting book.
2. Students will use a comparing
mat to show which number is more and which is less.
3. Students will work with a
classmate and counting chips to find the different partners of numbers 1-5. For
example, 3+2 and 4+1 are partners of 5.
4. Students will sort shapes
based on different attributes. They could look at the number of edges, number
of corners, straight sides, etc.
Word
Study:
We have four stations that students rotate around throughout the week.
1.
Salt writing: Students will be writing letters in boxes filled
with salt.
2. Students are working with
puzzles that match lowercase letters with their uppercase partner.
3. ABC Busted!: In this
game, students pick a card out of a bucket. They tell the group which letter is
written on the card. When someone picks up the card with the sticker on it,
they are busted! Everyone puts their cards back into the bucket and start over.
4. Students are using stamps to
match uppercase and lowercase letters.
Social
Studies:
This week, we will begin our School Study unit. Throughout the unit, we will be
exploring who the community helpers are in our school and conducting interviews
to learn more about what they do! We will be learning about interviews and
planning what kinds of questions we are going to ask our school community
helpers.
As
always, if you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to call or
e-mail.
Thanks,
Molly Santkuyl
(920) 766-6116 ext.3387
Kindergarten Teacher
New Directions Learning Community
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