Week of October 4, 2010

Kindergarten Happenings Week of October 4 – 8, 2010

There will be a Fall Festival meeting immediately following the PTO meeting on Monday, October 4, 2010. The PTO meeting is held here at NSE.
Next week in phonics we will be learning the letter Tt. We will have show and tell on Friday as usual. Please send in an object beginning with the letter T.
In Reading, we are going to be reading the story “Miss Bindgergarten takes a Field Trip”. Miss Bindergarten is a kindergarten teacher who takes her class to different places in the community such as a bakery, post office, library, fire station, and park. Our focus skill this week is “classify and categorize”. We will discuss how things in the story are alike and how they are different.
In math, we are going to be having our second assessment. The children will be asked to count orally as far as they can up to 100. Assessment results from the first assessment and this one will be sent home this week. These assessments help us see strengths and /or weaknesses in math skills we are using. We will also be working on ordering numbers 1 – 5, naming shapes by color, shape, and size, describing the relative position of objects, and matching a number care (1-5) to a set of objects.
Please note that the children each have a mailbox at school in our classroom. All papers to go home throughout the day are put in their mailboxes. At the end of the day, the children take the papers out and place them into their folders. The papers therefore are not organized in each side of the folder. Please go through the folder each night and any papers that have been completed and checked can be kept at home. Again, homework has been completed each night by all of the students so I thank you for working on this with your child. They are all doing a great job with the homework!
Please note that the school store is opened each Monday and Tuesday for kindergarten students. The store is opened before the first bell rings in the morning. There are erasers, pencils, rulers, highlighters, folders, and some small toys for sale. Children have to shop at the store before the first bell rings. I just wanted to clarify what the store sells and when it is opened to clear up any confusion you may have about this. The store is run by the PTO.
Have a great weekend! Monday will be day 1 in our four day cycle. We will have art class.