Look into our week: 9/26-9/30

Good afternoon parents and guardians, 
I had an amazing time at The Ron Clark Academy. It was such an inspiring trip as a teacher. I am looking forward to trying some new things in class and as a school. Big amazing changes are coming, stay tuned! I will be out this week once again for one day this week (Monday). Ms. Tenorio will be taking my class once again. Hopefully this will be the last time I am out for a while!

 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 4: "Miss. Kindergarten takes a field trip"

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: CLASSIFY AND CATEGORIZE
• 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: Unit 2-numbers to 5 (2.4-2.8)

• Unit 2
• Students will be able to count and show items up to 5
• Students will be able to make different shapes of 3 and 4
• Students will be able to graph up to 5
• Students will be able to separate items up to 5 to make the same number
• Students will be able to count and say up to 5-trace 1

Science: Apples

• Students will be able to describe parts of an apple.
• APPLE CELEBRATION: Wednesday
• Donation list outside the classroom (THANK YOU TO THOSE THAT ALREADY SIGNED UP!!)
• Feel free to bring in items starting tomorrow

Social Studies: Unit 3-Lesson 1-"What job to people do?"

• Students will match simple descriptions of work that people do and the names of related jobs at the school, in the local community, and from historical accounts.
• Social Studies test on Friday.

Writing: The Writing house

• Hanging 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