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October 2009
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October 12, 2009
November Newsletter
Happy November from Mrs. Brown's and Mrs. Kessler's
Kindergarten Class
Important Dates to Remember
November 11- Veteran’s Day program at 1:00 for the entire school. Wear your patriotic colors. It’s red, white and blue day!
November 16- Academic Alerts Sent Home
November 16-20 Book Fair
November 18- VIP Lunch K, 2 &4 (Students and Family) Our lunch time is at 10:30 on this day. Please mark your calendar for the lunch change on this day.
November 20- Kindergarten Play 8:15 – This is an event you can not miss! There will be time for group pictures after the play. The play will be about 20 minutes. We are usually finished with play and pictures before 9:00a.m. We hope you can come. It is our only performance for the year.
November- 23-27 Thanksgiving Break
Weekly Curriculum Overview
Language Arts- This week will do a sing-to-read book called Indian Week. We will also practice sight words. I will do some assessing for letters/ sounds and sight words.
Writing- This week we will be writing stories about things they like to do, things they do with their family and stories about friends.
Math- This week we are working on teen numbers. We are learning how to show a number on the ten frame and explain what a teen number is. We will continue to work on more than, fewer than and equal. We are also learning how to combine sets up to 10 using a five frame.
Social Studies: We are learning about Thanksgiving and Veteran’s Day.
August 30, 2009
Newsletter for August 31, 2009
August 30, 2009
Sight Words
Please practice the following sight words: one and see.
Weekly Curriculum Overview
Language Arts- This week we will be reading the story Garden Zoo. We will focus on the following skills: predict/preview, differences between words and letters, reviewing rhyming words, color words, sorting items in a room, and sequencing words.
Phonics- This week we will work on letter recognition and handwriting of Mm, Nn, and Hh.
Writing- This week we will be focusing on drawing a picture of something that has happened to us or something you would like to share with someone else. We will then write some basic sentences to explain what we have drawn.
Math- This week we will begin our next chapter on patterns. We will focus on simple patterns(AB), copying and extending a pattern, and predicting a pattern.
Social Studies- This week we will finish up our unit on Georgia. We will discuss fun facts, location on a map and globe, and the term STATE.
August 18, 2009
Newsletter for August 17 - 24 2009
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August 16, 2009
Open House
Please attend our Open House on Tuesday, August 18th, from 5:30 till 6:00. I will be be going over the ABC's of Kindergarten. This is everything ,and more, that you would ever need to know. I can't wait to see your smiling faces!
August 2009
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August 16, 2009
Weekly Curriculum Overview
Reading- This week we will read the story Today is Monday by Eric Carle. We will focus on the following skills: how to choose books, looking for books on a favorite topic/character, previewing/preditcing, word parts, and sequencing words (first, next last). Our sight words this week are- and, it.
Phonics- We will begin sorting rhyming words for the -at family and the -an family.
Writing- We will continue to develop rules and procedures for our writing workshop.
Read,Write, Rest- This week we will hear the story Chicka-Chicka Boom Boom and do several letter activites.
Math- We will continue working on postional words and we will complete our math pretest.
Social Studies- We will continue our unit on school rules and good citizenship skills.
February 01, 2009
March 2009
Thanks to all for your participation in the
Boosterthon and most importantly for sending in your pledge money so promptly. It was a huge success and we should be able to purchase some technology items with the money we raised.
Weekly Curriculum Overview
For the month of March, please follow the homework calendar for our letter concentration and sight words. Remember, as always, homework is very important in helping the children practice skills necessary to begin recognizing words, making words, writing, and reading.
Week 1: Letter J, j and sight words: have, are
Week 2: Letter U,u and sight words: help, like
Week 3: Letter W,w and sight words: went, was
Week 4: Letter X,x and sight words: he, she, they
Week 5: LetterY,y and sight words: yes, this
We are also working on retelling stories and blending basic CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words.
Math
Our math focus for the next few weeks is measuremennt of time. (calendar, days, months and seasons)We will also start building number combinations, better know as addition.
Science, Social Studies and Health
We will be leearning about living and nonliving things and then move into animals and plants.
Writing
Our writing concentration is still writing a narrative. Every story needs a good beginning, middle and end. I am amazed at the improvements in your child's writing abilities.
March Birthdays
March 11 - Aidan L.
March 17 - Saulo C.
Wednesday's Specials for:
March 4 - Music
March 11 - P. E.
March 18 - Art
March 25- P. E.
Important Dates and Information
March 7 - Change clocks one hour ahead - Spring forward
March 9 - Stevi B's pizza night - See you there!!!
March 17 - St. Patrick's Day and Chick-fil-A night
March 19 - Second Grade Musical Perfomance at 7 P.M.
March 20 - Kindergarten Field Trip to Cagle's Dairy Farm
March 23 - 27 - Penny Wars (more info to come)
March 27 - Spirit Day and Chick-fil-A Biscuits
Everyone should have received a copy of the March homework calendar. Along with this was a field trip permission slip to Cagle Dairy Farm, scheduled for Friday, March 20th. Please check your child's folder and return as soon as possible.
As always, thank you so much for all your support in your child's education.
January 19, 2009
January
Happy New Year from Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Kessler
Hooray for 2009
For the month of January, please follow the homework calendar for our letter concentration and sight words. Remember that homework is very important in helping the children practice skills necessary to begin recognizing words, making words and reading. I have seen much improvement in your children, especially in their writing. I am very proud of them. Keep up the good work and thank you so much for all your help.
Week 1: Letter G, g and sight words: find, six, seven
Week 2: Letter E, e and sight words: here, eight, nine
Week 3: Letter R, r and sight words: little, ten, zero
Week 4: Review previous letters and sounds and all sight words
Math: We will be working on counting to twenty, recognizing number words and counting and making sets to twenty. We will also continue to work on money. The value of, and recognition of a penny, nickel, and dime.
Wednesday's Specials January 7 - Art January 14 - P.E. January 21 - Art January 28 - Music Important Dates: January 1- Happy New Year January 5 - Student Holiday January 12 - Stevi B's pizza night - See you there! January19 - Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday January 20 - Chick-fil-A Night - Chastain Road January 22 - 100th Day of School Celebration January 26 - 30 - Conference Week - Early dismissal at 2:20 each day January 30 - Spirit Day - Don't forget to wear your spirit wear - Be sure to check out all the art work in the halls
November 03, 2008
November 2008
Happy Thanksgiving from Mrs. Brown's and
Mrs. Kessler's Class
Weekly Curriculum Overview
For the month of November, please follow the homework calendar for our letter concentration and sight words. Remember that homework is very important in helping the children practice skills necessary to begin recognizing words, making words and reading. I have seen much improvement in your children, especially in their writing. I am very proud of them. Keep up the good work and thank you so much for all your help.
Week 1: Letter C,c and sight words: you, not, two
Week 2: Letter N,n and sight words: make, look, three
Week 3: Review all letters and sight words
Week 4: Happy Thanksgiving
Math: Solid figures - cubes and sphere, ordinal numbers, recognizing sets and numbers 1-10. We will also be reviewing all our math so far.
Science and social studies: We will concentrate on Thanksgiving and indians as well as continuing with maps and globes. Have your children been working on reciting their address for class recognition?
Writing: We continue to focus our writing on informational writing. Come by and see what a fabulous job your children produced on the information they learned about spiders!
Hoppy Birthday November 5 - Emily M.
November 19 - Liam P.
November 24 - Erin P.
Wednesday's Specials for:
November 5 - P.E.
November 12 - P.E.
November 19 - Art
Important Dates:
November 1- Set clocks back 1 hour
November 4 - Election Day - Student Holiday - Please vote!
November 10 - Stevi B's pizza night - See you there!
November 11 - PTA - Chorus performance - Veteran's Day
November 17 - 21- Scholastic Book Fair Week
November 18 - Chick-fil-A Night - Chastain Road
November 19 - VIP lunch - Please join us for our feast.
November 21 - Kindergarten Play at 8:15
Spirit Day - Don't forget to wear your spirit wear
November 24 - 28 - Thanksgiving Holidays - No School
September 08, 2008
October 2008
Mrs. Brown's and Mrs. Kessler's Kindergarten Class
Fall has finally arrived and the cooler weather is here. The first nine weeks is over and we are off to a great start of the second nine weeks. Please look at the parent rubric enclosed with the report card to help you understand what part of each standard we evaluated.You will also notice that the expectations for the second nine weeks will increase with each standard. The children are expected to recognize ALL upper and lowercase letters and their sounds, name and produce rhyming words, read ten or more sight words, and blend sounds to make words.
Weekly Curriculum Overview
For the month of October, please follow the homework calendar for our letter concentration and sight words. Please remember that homework is very important in helping the children practice skills necessary to begin recognizing words, making words and reading.
Week 1: Review of all letters and sight words
Week 2: Letter I,i and sight words: can, and, pink
Week 3: Letter D,d and sight words: big, gray
Week 4: Letter S,s and sight words: run, white
Math will continue to work with pennies and nickels, and dimes and also work on recognizing and counting 0-10. We will also begin working on two dimensional shapes and solid figures - cubes and spheres as well as measuring using non-standard units.
In science our focus will be motion/gravity and day/night.
In Social Studies will learn about Vetran's Day and Thanksgiving, Maps and Globes and where we live.
Our Writing focus will be informational writing along with learning to write better sentences we will also continue to form all letters correctly.
Important Dates
October 13 - Stevi B's Pizza Night
October 15 - Early Release - 12:20 dismissal
October 17 - Carnival
October 20 - Bus Driver Appreciation Day
October 21- Chick-fil-A night on Chastain Road
October 23 - Field Trip to Cherokee YMCA (please watch the weather and dress accordingly. We will be outside much of the time)
October 29 - Picture Make-up Day
October 30 - Fourth Grade Story Teller's Night 7pm
October 31 - Spirit Day
Wednesday's specials for:
October 1 - Art
October 8 - P.E.
October 15 - Art
October 22 - P.E.
October 29 -
August 23, 2008
Welcome to Mrs. Brown's and Mrs. Kessler's Kindergarten!
We are off to a great start! It has been a very busy first two weeks, but your children (and I) have adjusted well and we are on our way! Thanks to all of you who attended Open House. It is always nice to see your smiling faces and we appreciate your support tremendously. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me.
The name tags helped with transportation for the first two weeks so now, please remember to send a written note if there is a change in your child's usual schedule.
Also, remember to send any written communication, money, etc. in your child's take home folder. Check your child's folder each evening for notes and daily work sent from school.
Next week we will begin our phonics study with the letter T. We will be introducing the sight words I, see, and a. It is a good idea to begin making flash cards to use at home with the words introduced each week.
Our math time has focused on relationship words such as below, above, beside, behind, in front of, inside, and outside. We will also be sorting by size, shape and color and identifying continuing patterns.
Science will be sorting and grouping objects by particular attributes such as size, texture, bouancy,and physical properties. They are enjoying being scientist discovering new things.
Our Social Studies has been focusing mainly on rules. Who makes the rules and why do we need them? We will begin to explore holidays such as Labor Day and we will also talk about jobs in the community. This would be a good time to talk to your child about your job so we can identify how the many different workers help our community as a whole.
Please check the monthly calendar for homework and skills being introduced so that you can reinforce your child's learning at home. The September calendar will be coming home next week.
Important Dates
September 1 - Labor Day/No School
September 8 - Stevi B's Night
September 9 - Sally Foster Orders Due
September 15 - Picture Day
September 16 - Early Release Day (dismissed at 12:20)
September 22 - First Day of Fall
September 26 - Spirit Day, Chick-Fil-A Biscuits, Movie Night
Wednesday's Special for:
August 27th - Music
