Thank you for your attendance at the Cluster Meeting on Thursday. I appreciate your support. Room 114 will have a great year.
Our math time is busy with understanding number sense. We ended the week with games that needed a ten frame, taking turns and keeping your eyes closed until when told. Click on this link for photos for ten frame fun. Here is the link for the game that I talked about in the cluster meeting for five frames: five frame game. Once your child is strong and automatic with five frames then move to the ten frame version: ten frame game. I will be introducing new math vocabulary to the students of: compare, greater, less, same number, match, more, and fewer.
We will visit the library on Monday to get a new book. Remind your child to place the library book in his/her bookbag Sunday evening.
Our poem from last week was full of rhyming words. Encourage rhyming at home and it is perfectly fine if your child makes up a nonsense rhyming word. The focus is if your child can hear/understand that rhyming words have the same middle and ending sound. Find rhyming words in the books you are reading at home. When you are sitting at a red light, give your child a word and ask for the rhyme. Remember that oral language development is essential at this age. Visit your public library and look for these titles that are full of rhyming words: children's literature with rhyming words . Send back the poetry journal on Monday and look for it on Friday. Our entry this week will help us learn our phone numbers.
In reading, we will focus on recognizing the letters: Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn. We continue to work on I, am and add the, and little to our mix of high frequency words. High frequency words need to be read upon sight. If flash cards don't impress/bore your child then here is a link for several multi-sensory ways to make sight word practice successful based on the learning style of your child: sight word practice.
The first PTA meeting is this Tuesday at six. Mugshots will be there selling hamburgers to make dinner time less stressful on you. The discount card fundraiser ends this Thursday. Return money and/or unsold cards. Thank you for supporting the PTA.
Information and permission slips were passed out last Thursday for our upcoming field trip to Lanark. Field trip money can be sent in any day of the week. Be sure to mark if your child will need a sack lunch from the lunchroom and/or if you are chaperoning. Deadline to turn these items in is Tuesday, September 16.
An author/illustrator was revealed in Room 114. A student came to school with a book she had written at home about a unicorn. We listened and celebrated her story. The writing foundation is starting to take shape in Room 114. Provide a space with tools for the blossoming writer that lives at your house.
It might be a big week in Room114...it was observed that the ten frame board on our calendar will be filled on Monday. The children know that a filled ten frame board means a visit from the Queen of Ten.
Contact me with any questions or concerns you have. Remember there is no school on Monday, September 15. Teachers have meetings so have extra fun for me!
Upcoming events:
9.9 PTA General Membership meeting at 6:00
9.11 PTA discount cards fundraiser ends
9.12: Box Top collection day
9.15: No school for students. It is a teacher in-service day.
9.19: Kindergarten Field Trip to Lanark (Alabama Nature Center) in Millbrook
9.25: Teacher Treat Day (K and 5th grades - host)
10.13: No school for students. It is a teacher in-service day.
10.16: Blount Fall Festival
We will visit the library on Monday to get a new book. Remind your child to place the library book in his/her bookbag Sunday evening.
Our poem from last week was full of rhyming words. Encourage rhyming at home and it is perfectly fine if your child makes up a nonsense rhyming word. The focus is if your child can hear/understand that rhyming words have the same middle and ending sound. Find rhyming words in the books you are reading at home. When you are sitting at a red light, give your child a word and ask for the rhyme. Remember that oral language development is essential at this age. Visit your public library and look for these titles that are full of rhyming words: children's literature with rhyming words . Send back the poetry journal on Monday and look for it on Friday. Our entry this week will help us learn our phone numbers.
In reading, we will focus on recognizing the letters: Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn. We continue to work on I, am and add the, and little to our mix of high frequency words. High frequency words need to be read upon sight. If flash cards don't impress/bore your child then here is a link for several multi-sensory ways to make sight word practice successful based on the learning style of your child: sight word practice.
The first PTA meeting is this Tuesday at six. Mugshots will be there selling hamburgers to make dinner time less stressful on you. The discount card fundraiser ends this Thursday. Return money and/or unsold cards. Thank you for supporting the PTA.
Information and permission slips were passed out last Thursday for our upcoming field trip to Lanark. Field trip money can be sent in any day of the week. Be sure to mark if your child will need a sack lunch from the lunchroom and/or if you are chaperoning. Deadline to turn these items in is Tuesday, September 16.
It might be a big week in Room114...it was observed that the ten frame board on our calendar will be filled on Monday. The children know that a filled ten frame board means a visit from the Queen of Ten.
Contact me with any questions or concerns you have. Remember there is no school on Monday, September 15. Teachers have meetings so have extra fun for me!
Upcoming events:
9.9 PTA General Membership meeting at 6:00
9.11 PTA discount cards fundraiser ends
9.12: Box Top collection day
9.15: No school for students. It is a teacher in-service day.
9.19: Kindergarten Field Trip to Lanark (Alabama Nature Center) in Millbrook
9.25: Teacher Treat Day (K and 5th grades - host)
10.13: No school for students. It is a teacher in-service day.
10.16: Blount Fall Festival
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