Welcome Back!

Ieva was our star student before Break.  She is a star because she likes to play with her friends.  




Kane County Cougars Game!!
Your child has earned a free ticket to attend a Kane County Cougars Game!  
Keep reading to your son/daughter. 
The scheduled date for our school is on Sunday, April 21, 2013


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, and there in the new popcorn bag. We will continue to add this quarter's popcorn words to the new bag.   

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...

We will need to know 94 popcorn words by the end of kindergarten

This week we learned the popcorn words who, what, where, and there. Please practice popcorn words at home with your child. The popcorn words are found in the red bag in their green folder. The bag should contain the following 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.

Next week we will be reviewing popcorn words.  We will empty our popcorn bag and place words from this quarter into a plastic bag to make room for next quarter's words.

Some ideas to do with popcorn words: write them in shaving cream, rainbow write (the kids know this one), 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.

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!

Thank you to Alexa for her donation to the Good Job PAWS Bin!

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!



Box Tops!!!

BOX TOPS: Don't forget to send in Box Tops!!!

We started off our week sharing all the fun things we did over Spring Break.  The children then finished the sentence, Over Spring Break,  I... and drew a picture to show what they wrote. The children then used the ELMO to share their work.  We did a GREAT job being respectful and listened to our friends share.  We added a new poem to our poetry folder called Come Out!  We circled popcorn words using different colors for different words.  We also noticed a couple of other popcorn words that we highlighted.  We read the story called Mouse's Birthday and talked about the question words Who?, What? and Where? We answered the question words using the story.  We also did this for the story The Story of Half-Chicken.  
The kindergartners brainstormed words that were part of the word families -et and -ed.  We came up with words like bet, met, zet, bed, med, zed.  Some of our words are nonsense words so we put a star next to those words to remind us.

Thank you for sending in the book bag with the word families.  We will review them in class and then I  will send them home with a sticker.  
 

We are done with all of the Jolly Phonics sounds. We will continue to reinforce the sounds as we chop up words. The children will be bringing home the final three groups of letter sounds cards.
 

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. ***

Thank you for sending in the math packet.  We will be working with these numbers more in the fourth quarter.  The children who brought the packet back received a big sticker!  What responsible kindergartners!  Keep up the great work!

Fourth quarter goals for math will be included with your son/daughter's report card on Monday. 

Have a wonderful weekend!