Miss Quinn’s Owl Hoots September 25,2015 Contact Info: (personal number) Cowan website: cowan.k12.in.us Next week’s Poem of the Week: Leaves are Falling Congratulations to: Reagan, Dominic, Delaney, Jay, Jaxon, Madyson, Epic and Kaidance for memorizing this week’s poem of the week! Word of the week: White Thursday, October 1 – Skating Party Friday, October 2 – Field trip to Fire Station October 8 th -9 th – Fall Conferences October 9 – No School for Children October th – Fall Break! October 20 th – Minnetrista Field Trip Many students are struggling with handwriting and writing letters this year. Because of this, we have decided to start implementing handwriting homework each week. This packet will begin on Monday. For the first 5 weeks, there will be a new packet sent home on Mondays that are 6 pages long. The packets will be sent home on Monday night, and are to be returned on Friday morning. You may complete the packet all at once, or do a page each night. The first 5 weeks will cover 5 letters each week, and a review sheet for the 6 th page. There will be an instruction sheet attached to the packet. Please make sure you are checking the packet to ensure your child has written each letter neatly and correctly. As a reminder, parent teacher conferences are on Thursday October 8 th and Friday October 9 th. A reminder sheet will be coming home next Friday with your date and time. Things to work on at home: Writing/recognizing our name. Writing/recognizing all numbers and letters. Color words One to one correspondence (tracking the words with their finger) as stories are being read. Point to the words as you are reading their bedtime stories to help get them in the practice of doing this themselves. Beginning sounds in words. Give your child a random work and asked them what the FIRST SOUND they hear in the word is. After they tell you the sound, ask them WHAT LETTER MAKES THAT SOUND? This week we continued to discuss what the definition of character was, and identifying the characters in the stories we read. Today we wrapped up our two week study of apples by making apple pies! Ask your child the sequence for the steps we followed to make the pies. We had a great time doing this, as all of kindergarten made and ate the pies together. Your child should be able to identify the parts of an apple, explain the lifecycle of an apple, as well as tell you many other interesting facts about apples, as well as Johnny Appleseed. Thank you for completing the handwriting practice this week. We had almost 100% of our class turn in their packet. Please MAKE SURE YOU CHECK YOUR CHILD’S HANDWRITING BEFORE RETURNING IT THOUGH. Several students had very sloppy packets, as well as pages not completed. This is your child’s opportunity to practice forming the letters correctly. It should not take a long time, but the goal is also not to finish it as soon as possible. Check your child’s work and have them fix any that are not neat. Field trip permission slips for our Johnny Appleseed field trip to Minnetrista on October 20 th should be coming home next week. Be on the look out for them! Also, please be aware that the cost for this field trip is $4. If this is a hardship for your family, please let me know. Thank you! For the month of October’s reading homework, we will begin transitioning to the child reading 1 book to you, and you reading one book to the child. Reading groups have been going very well at school, and I am excited for your child to show you what they have been learning here. Have a great weekend!