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The Kindergarten Weekly News
10/ 16/17-10/20/17
This Week’s Themes
Our unit question for our 2nd reading unit is…How are animals and plants unique?
The question of the week: What special animals live in the grasslands?
Our new theme this week is.. Pumpkins and How they grow…
Reading and Literature
Story: Animal Babies
Comprehension: Main Idea
Amazing Words: Sight Words: we, my, like
Phonological Awareness: Syllables, blending onset and rime, initial sounds, distinguishing rhymes and blending sounds to produce a word, segmenting the sounds in a word
Conventions: Adjectives for shapes and colors
Genre: non-fiction; informational text
Letters: Y and Z plus review of letters
Decodable Book:
Themed Activities:
Pumpkin Labeling, 5 little pumpkins, Pumpkin ordering by size,
tear pumpkin craft
Math
This weeks Essential
Question in Math: N/A
Students will be working in Math centers so we can meet with small groups to do Progress Monitoring Assessments for Quarter 1 grading period.
Writing and Handwriting
This week we in our Handwriting Without Tears program we will be learning how to write the letters U,Y and Z and continue practicing using the following verbiage when describing how to write/form the letters and numbers and they are all formed by using the following 4 Phrases: Big Line, Little Line, Small Curve, Big Curve. Please have your child complete the practice handwriting sheets that were sent home today in your child’s folder. We are also working in our journals and writing and drawing about the prompt that is given by teacher.

3. Important Dates to Remember
Field Trip
If for some reason you have not received a field trip information packet, please let your child’s teacher know so they can get you one. Please remember you need to take the volunteer training class to
come with us on the field trip.
Conferences
You should have received a notice from your child’s teacher about Parent /Teacher Conferences. Please make sure you sign up using the web address the teacher sent home and not the school link that was sent out. If you did not receive this notice please contact your child’s teacher. You will be instructed to sign up for your conference on a website PTCFast. If you have any problems or questions with this please contact your child’s teacher. We look forward to see all of you in a few weeks to go over your child’s progress so far in Kindergarten!
Important Dates to Remember
October 16th-20th-Parent Teacher Conference week
October 19th and 20th-Half Days
October 25th- Permission slip for field trip due
October 26th- Book Bash at Peter Piper Pizza
October 27th-Field Trip
October 31st-Kindergarten Fall Festival
November 3rd- School Fall Festival 5-8pm
November 10th- No School Veterans Day Observed
November 3rd-Half Day
November 20th-24th- Thanksgiving Break
Donation Station
You should have received our Fall Festival Celebration Letter for Tuesday, October 31st. We are looking for volunteers and Donations so
please, Please fill
out and return to your child’s Teacher.
Thank You! We
appreciate all you
help and support!