Cooper was our star student this week. He is a star because he is cool.
Fourth quarter goals:
Reading
Identify rhyming sounds
Isolate beginning, middle and ending sounds
Identify letters in random order
Connect sounds to letters
Write all letters from memory in random order
Match all uppercase letters to lowercase letters
Recognize the following popcorn words: who, what, where, there, say, away, play, they, eat, please, want, with, came, make, ate, ride, was, saw, are, well, pretty, funny, under, find, blue, yellow, red, pink, black, orange, white, brown and all
Writing
Form letters correctly
Math
Count by 1's and 10's to 100
Read, write and compare numbers to 20
Add and subtract to 5 with fluency
Identify and describe 3d shapes: cube, cone, cylinder, sphere
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| We will need to know 94 popcorn words by the end of kindergarten |
IMPORTANT!!!
We put popcorn words from our last three quarters in the "To Be Left At Home" section of our folder. Please keep those words at home for practice. The children were given a new bag for the fourth quarter words. Please look for the words who, what, where, there, say, away, play, they, with, want, please, and eat in the new popcorn bag. We will continue to add this quarter's popcorn words to the new bag.
Next week's words: came, make, ate and ride
POPCORN WORDS are adding up!!! Please be sure to continue to practice popcorn words with your kindergartner. There are quite a few now and we will be adding four words a week soon. See ideas below...
Words We Know (1st-3rd quarter words): I, a, it, in, like, see, big, my, up, run, is, but, can, am, did, not, we, me, on, at, on, ran, for, yes, and, little, so, go, no, the, you, down, he, she, one, come, soon, went, two, three, be, come, went, soon, get, help, now, our, out, will, must, have, here, into, that, this , and new
Some ideas to do with popcorn words: write them in shaving cream, rainbow write, write them in rice, use magnet letters to spell the words, stamp out the word using letter stamps, play memory using the words (you will need to make two sets of each word in order to play), write using chalk, find the words in books or magazines, use letter stencils to make the words, use play dough to make the words. These are all ways to help reinforce these popcorn words.
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| FOCUS and LISTEN...use your attent-o-scope!!! We need to use our eyes, ears and brain when we focus attention on something. We say "Eyes are watching. Ears are listening. Bodies still. Voices off. Or Mrs. Riadi rings the bell. Or we say attent-o-scope. These are all ways we remember that it's time to FOCUS and LISTEN. |
Building our social skills is also important in kindergarten!
POSITIVE BEHAVIOR!!!
Our Good Job PAWS BIN!
Every Wednesday I will be picking three names out of the Paw Jar. These three students will be able to choose a prize from our GOOD JOB PAWS BIN! The more paws they earn the more of a chance they have of getting picked! Ask your son/daughter how he/she can earn paws!
In order to maintain a positive atmosphere at this age, we need to constantly reinforce expected behavior; therefore, I'm asking for your help to build a classroom treasure chest. I am looking for small items such as stickers, pencils, erasers, small toys (McDonald's Happy Meal toys), items that five/six years would be excited to get!
Our Good Job PAWS BIN!
Every Wednesday I will be picking three names out of the Paw Jar. These three students will be able to choose a prize from our GOOD JOB PAWS BIN! The more paws they earn the more of a chance they have of getting picked! Ask your son/daughter how he/she can earn paws!
In order to maintain a positive atmosphere at this age, we need to constantly reinforce expected behavior; therefore, I'm asking for your help to build a classroom treasure chest. I am looking for small items such as stickers, pencils, erasers, small toys (McDonald's Happy Meal toys), items that five/six years would be excited to get!
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| Box Tops!!! |
BOX TOPS: Don't forget to send in Box Tops!!!
This week we reviewed our poems in our poetry folder. We also read the Giraffe poem that we wrote as a class. We highlighted the word "they" in our poem. We found the word "they" eight times. We also reviewed the word families --en, -et, and -ed. Please look for the book bag containing books reviewing those families. If you can, reinforce these word families at home and send the book bag back to school with completed books. Thank you for your continued support! We practiced writing our name this week. You will see the different ways we practiced writing our name at Open House next week. We enjoyed the stories Spring is Here and What Season Is It? We discussed what we see in the Spring. We also learned the saying "April Showers Bring May Flowers". We made our own rain clouds that the kindergartners are excited to share with you at Open House as well. We also enjoyed the Weekly Reader, It's Raining! It's Pouring! We talked about the different things that happen on a rainy day. We also noticed the exclamation mark on all the pages. The children have been working very hard the last couple of weeks to prepare for Open House. They are excited to share their work with you. We hope to see you Thursday night at 6:30. Oh, and don't forget to check out the Book Fair!
IMPORTANT...The kindergartners will need to be able to say 40 random letter sounds in one minute by the end of the year.
***Please practice building fluency with your child. Make flashcards with the letters on them (mix uppercase and lowercase together). Time your child to see how many letters he/she can produce sounds for in one minute. Fluency with letters will eventually help with fluency in reading. We do this in the classroom so the children are familiar with this. ***
This week for math, we worked on counting by tens. The children also came up with different ways to make 5. Please continue to practice adding and subtracting at home. We are continuing to count to 100 by 1's and 10's
Have a wonderful weekend!
