News 09 Nov 16th-20th

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A Peek at the Week

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New Skills include: Language Arts:

This week we will begin the –an family. We will learn how words can change by deleting and adding a different letter and sound at the beginning of a word. Students have been working on the –at family and should have a good grasp of how a beginning sound can change a word. We are also working on the Reading Strategy of Retelling a story. Students will learn how their hand can become a tool for retelling as we work on the story of The Three Little Pigs.

Handwriting:

Last week we worked on the letters Bb and Xx. This week we will do letter Pp and Ee.

Writer’s Workshop:

Our Concept books are almost complete. Ask your child what they picked to write about. We had several concepts including, weather, seasons, farm animals, clothes, wild animals and even furniture chosen by your children. They are beginning to do better with stretching out their words and developing some confidence with writing. This week we will share in our Author’s chair our books- we get to ear an “author’s crown when we are sharing our completed books.” We will begin to discuss writing about one topic and write in sentence format this week. Our Principal Mrs. Lewis will do a special “prompts with the principal” activity this Friday and will be giving us a topic to try to write about. This is being implemented one time per month as a part of our School Improvement Plan. I will score your child’s writing using the report card writing rubric and be sending home the results.

• Math We have completed learning about proper formation for writing numbers 0-10. We have begun to do ABC patterns in class Assessments:

Number recognition 0-20. Oral rhyming—I will be asking your child to give a word that rhymes after I give a word to them orally. Example: Teacher states: goat: child may say: Coat, tote, etc. There is no one correct answer and they are allowed to give a nonsense word for a response Example: cat, --student responds /tat/

New Words to know: Popcorn Words/High Frequency First 9 week words: I, a, see, me, red, yellow, blue, green, can do, orange, purple, the, brown, black, to, like, pink, white, we ______________________________________ Review: gray, go, my, you, am, is, yes, no, at, -at family words (cat, sat, rat etc..), for, and New words this week: an, -an family words (fan, can, ran, etc..) are

Books we are Reading: The Three Little Pigs, Mrs. WishyWashy’s Scrubbing Machine, The Farm Concert

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More for this week:

Keep working on November Homework and don’t forget to use your Math workbooks for extra reinforcement of skills. This week workbook pages 133-150 would be good to do at home for practice.

Our Miss Spider Tea party Photos are finally posted on the blog—Sorry I did not get them up sooner. Be sure to check them out- there are some great shots of your children. http://mrshaysdailydragon.blogspot.com/

Tom the Turkey disguises- Your Family Project” are due this Friday November the 20thCheck out some great examples on the Blog of Turkey disguises if you are struggling with this fun project.

- Reminders ! Thursday November 19th- Mrs. Hay out of the classroom for ½ day Professional Development. A.M. only guest teacher. Friday November the 20th- cafeteria Thanksgiving Meal- If you r.s.v.p.-ed see you in the café on this special day with your child. Our lunch is from 10:45 to 11:15 a.m. November 26th-27th –No School Thanksgiving Recess. Class Compliment Competition begins on 11/24-12/4: Students will compete for getting compliments in the hallways, cafeteria, special class etc.. Blue Hallway students K-2 will be competing to get a traveling trophy. “The Golden Shield” The class with the most compliments during the designated time frame will get to display the trophy until the next compliment time frame. Let’s work for those compliments!! Big Event for 2nd 9 weeks: December the 18th: Students need to have appropriate behavior during the 2nd 9 weeks in order to attend this special event. If a child receives 2 level 4’s- they are ineligible to attend. Yikes!!

Save Tome the Turkey!!

From the Teacher’s Desk:

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As always we are so busy in our Kindergarten Class- I am proud of all the students accomplishments so far this year. It is amazing how they have changed since their first day of Kindergarten. Thank you for all the continued support on your end as this is so important for your child. I appreciate you as parents reinforcing skills, reading newsletters, and participating in your child’s education. This November I am Thankful for all the great BPE Parents that I have the opportunity to work with.

Mrs. Hay