Hope everyone is enjoying the last day of break. December will also be another month that flies by! Due to this reason, we will not be sending home a December family project. Enjoy some extra time with your family! Be sure to check our our Shutterfly page for our latest classroom pictures. If you would like access, please email me for a special invite!
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Parent teacher conferences
That time of year is approaching. I will be using an online sign up method as I did last year.
Please click on the link below and sign up for what would work best for you!
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:
Bring Your Own Device information
11/29: Parent volunteer Guidelines meeting @ 5 pm-Rustin
12/5-12/9: Parent teacher conferences
12/6: Last fall session-science club
12/7: Hour of Code
Students may brig in their own devices this day.
Please download any coding apps prior to this. Here are some suggested apps:
Scratch
Tynker
Move The Turtle
Hopscotch
Daisy The Dinosaur
Cargo Bot
Bring Your Own Device information
11/29: Parent volunteer Guidelines meeting @ 5 pm-Rustin
12/5-12/9: Parent teacher conferences
12/6: Last fall session-science club
12/7: Hour of Code
Students may brig in their own devices this day.
Please download any coding apps prior to this. Here are some suggested apps:
Scratch
Tynker
Move The Turtle
Hopscotch
Daisy The Dinosaur
Cargo Bot
12/9: NO SCHOOL
12/14: Caroling and crafts @ senior center
12/16: Awards @ 8am
12/20: Vision and hearing test
Winter performance @ 1 am
We would like Kinder to wear their Holiday best (Red, white and green)
12/21: Holiday Party (more information to come)
NO after school
12/22-1/6: Winter break
Here is a look into our week
Songs to practice at home:
Language Arts: Unit 2-week 6: "Jack and the beanstalk"
Unit test-Friday
-Beginning, middle and ending sounds in words
-cvc words
- rhyming words
-identify words with same beginning, middle or ending sounds
-HFW: have, is, we, my, like, he, for
- reading comprehension
Unit test-Friday
-Beginning, middle and ending sounds in words
-cvc words
- rhyming words
-identify words with same beginning, middle or ending sounds
-HFW: have, is, we, my, like, he, for
- reading comprehension
Words to talk about: words found in the story
Words to read: HFW/Sight words
- Letter of the week: I
- Letter I song-ABC mouse
- Letter I song-Have Fun Teaching
- Letter I song-storybots
- Home activities: Look for the letter I (in all kinds of fonts)
- Say words that begin with the /i/ sound
- Draw pictures that begin with the /i/ sound
- Sound middle Ii-CVC words
- Big Pig Song
- Pig, tip, pin, sit, him,
- Make a list words with these endings
- -ig, -ip,-in, -it, -im
- 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: he, for
- 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 4-ordering numbers finish
- Unit 4-ordering numbers (test-Tuesday)
- Count to 10, even with missing numbers
- Count items for each number up to 10
- Minus one (one less)
- Begin Unit 5: shapes
- Identify similar solid shapes
- name shapes
Science: Gingerbread man
- Students will be able to describe what melts in liquid
Social Studies: Winter holidays-Hanukkah
- Students will be able to describe facts about different winter holidays
- Write CVC words
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
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