Thank you to all the Volunteers who came in and helped us rhyme. Our rhyming skills are getting better. Our next group of Volunteers will help us figure out the first letter in words. I have many, many, many games and if you would ever like to volunteer, please sign up here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090A44ABAD2EA20-classroom
Halloween information is at the bottom of this email. If you have any questions, let me know. You do not have to sign up on Sign Up Genius to volunteer for the Halloween Party, but you must have a background check on file. If you need a background check form, please text me ASAP.
Tuesday is Cottage Inn Pizza Day- It is one slice of cheese pizza. Please let me know if your child is planning on buying lunch on this day. I need to give a pre-count to the cafeteria.
iReady/Homework– The passwords are on the back of your child’s folder, and the expectation is that they practice 30 minutes a week both in reading and math.
Homework– I sent home Turkey to the Disguise project. It is due on November 1st and will be in the hallway until Thanksgiving.
Phonics– We moved to a new unit that helps us with stretching out sounds and words. We learned new snap words. I will not have a Snap word test this month because we are still learning new words, and it is Halloween. Please continue to practice reading and writing the Snap/Sight words I send home every Monday.
Writing– We are learning to stretch out words and write down the sounds we hear. This is a difficult hurdle to overcome for many kindergarteners. Many students dislike writing alone and risk misspelling a word. I encourage them only to write down the sounds they hear, and their writing does not have to be book spelling. We are using the snap/sight words we know to create a pattern book, and the only word they have to stretch out is the last word. Your child must know how to spell ALL the snap words I send out. If they do not, they fall behind in writing and reading quickly.
Reading– We practiced retelling our favorite stories. We practiced 3 Billy Goats Gruff this week, and you can see the play in the videos. (I put the videos at the bottom of this webpage. They did such a good job, and the videos are super cute) Next week we will do the same thing, but with the books Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina). We learned to read with a “teacher’s voice and not like a robot.” We also learned about Halloween and pumpkins in books with our 5th-grade buddies.
Math– We continued to practice counting and found an easy way to count objects (put them in a row, not scattered all over). We learned about rectangles and continued our work on sorting by feeling.
Social Studies– We learned more about rules and consequences and went to a bus assembly where we practiced evacuating a bus if there was an emergency.
Science– This week’s theme was Pumpkins. We learned about the life cycle of a pumpkin and compared it to the life cycle of an apple. Now we know the pumpkin parts, and I tied in the 5 senses with our study on pumpkins. We will carve the pumpkin later.
