Look into our week: 9/19-9/23

Good morning parents and guardians, 

My kiddos had a good half day with their first sub. I will be out this week for two days (Thursday and Friday). Ms. Tenorio will be taking my class once again on Thursday and another sub will be taking over on Friday. I am fortunate enough to be flying to Atlanta to visit The Ron Clark Academy! I am looking forward to learning some new things, to use in our classroom.

 Please continue to reinforce the following hand signals and rules: 

Hand Signals: (show me the number of fingers in the air)

1 finger: restroom

Encourage your child to use the restroom before school, during recess, during lunch, during PE and after school.

2 fingers:water

Children may bring their own water bottle to keep in class, please LABEL it with their name

3 fingers: pencil

Student may replace their dull or broken pencil for a new one

4 fingers: tissue

when needed, please ask student to sit back down right away

5 fingers: question

question for me to give more information on

Classroom rules:

#1: Listen while the teacher is talking

#2: Follow directions quickly

#3: Respect others, respect yourself, respect your school

#4: Raise your hand to speak or stand

#5: Keep your hands to yourself

#6: Keep your dear teacher happy

If you have any question or concerns please feel free to email me, text back to the reminders I set or stop by the classroom.

School News:

Sept News Letter:Newsletter

Here is a look into our week

-New "Homework" newsletter going home this week
-The Kinder team will now be sending home Bi-weekly practice pages. Feel free to place them in sheet protectors or laminate them for multiple uses. These pages are meant to be fun and used at home to review concepts taught in class.

Language Arts: Unit 1-week 3: "Plaidypus Lost"

Words to talk about: words found in the story

Words to read: HFW/Sight words

• Weekly reading comprehension test: Every Friday (Based on the comprehension skill of the week)
• Song we review in class:  Parts of a story song
• This week's focus: SEQUENCE
• High Frequency Words (HFW-also known as Sight words : Same set of words last for two weeks. These words are meant to be read just by seeing them.
• This week's words: the, little
• Sight Word Sundaes: (HFW word list): Every time your child passes a word list, they will be given the next list to practice and will be given a part of their Sundae. Please color, cut out at home and return back to me. I will be hanging these up in the classroom.

Math: Finish Unit 1-Matching and sorting and begin Unit 2-numbers to 5 (2.1-2.3)

• Unit 1 test on Tuesday
• Students will be able to show same and different
• categories: color, shape, size, pattern
• Students will be able to show partners
• Spoon/fork, paper/pencil, etc.
• Unit 2
• Students will be able to count to 5
• Student will be able to count and show items up to 3
• Students will be able to count and show items up to 4

Science: Chapter 2: Solving Problems (test on Friday)

• Students will be able to identify a problem and a design and materials for solving it.
• Students will note that one can draw and plan, create and test solution
• Students will explain that solutions can be shared in different ways.

Social Studies: Unit 1-Lesson 3-"What can we learn from stories?"

• Student will know beliefs and related behaviors of characters in stories from times past and understand the consequences of the characters' actions.
• Social Studies test on Friday.

Writing: The Writing house

• Tall letters

Please feel free to stop by with any questions or concerns. If you are unable to, you may always email me or text back via my reminders.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Gil