Look into our week: Unit 2 week 4 11/13-11/17

Good evening parents and guardians, 

Be sure to check out the new school calendar, notice the change for Thanksgiving break.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 22 is a full day of school with NO AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM.

Be sure to check out our Shutterfly page for our latest classroom pictures. If you would like access, please email me for a special invite. 

Don't forget to use SMARTYPANTS at home. This new, fun reading program can be accessed at home. All students reviewed their log in information last month. If you have any question, let me know.

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 Please help me 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 both recesses, lunch 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:

November Family Project ideas:

DUE 11/17

11/1: Parent Conferences Information went home 
Dates: 12/4-12/7
Click on link to sign up for a date and time

Mrs. Gil's Parent Teacher Conference Sign Up Link

If you are having trouble signing up, please let me know. I would be more than happy to help!

11/14: 50th day of school

11/15: Wacky Inventors Wednesday

11/17: Jog-a-thon

11/22:  Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast
Sign up sheet outside classroom door
No need to send a full lunch this day

12/4-12/7 Parent teacher conferences

12/8-No school

12/11: T1 report cards go home

12/12: Fall picture make up day (uniform only)

Here is a look into our week

Songs to practice at home:

Syllable song

Letter sounds

Count to 100

Count by 10s

Language Arts: Unit 2-week 4

• Theme: Thanksgiving
• Story of the week: "Pete the cat, first thanksgiving"
• Poem of the week: "5 little turkeys"

• Letter(s) of the week: Cc
• Songs of the week for the letter Cc
• ABC mouse
• ABC mouse-Letter C song
• Have Fun teaching
• Have Fun Teaching-Letter C song
• StoryBots
• StoryBots-Letter C song
• Home activities: Look for the letter(s) Cc (in all types of fonts)
• Say words that begin with Cc
• Draw pictures that begin with Cc
• Sound  out  blend CVC words (determine if real or silly)
•  cat, cep, cif, cob, cut

• 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: realism and fantasy

• 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: we, my, like

Math: Unit 4-Ordinal Numbers (4.1-4.4)

• Students will be able to count to 10 in order
• forwards and backwards

Science: Turkeys

• Students will be able to state facts about turkeys

Social Studies: Thanksgiving

• Students will be able to state facts about Thanksgiving

Writing: The Writing house

• Review writing house and lines
• Practice writing vowels
• Missing middle letter in CVC words
• c-?-t, d-?-g

• Practice pages to use at home

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.

Be sure to check grades online. Parents were given access to teacher grade books. I try to update my grade book every weekend.

Have a great rest of the day!

Mrs. Gil