Kindergarten Donation List

If you would like to donate any items to our class, I would greatly appreciate it. Please note that all pencils, crayons, and other items donated will be used communally and it is unnecessary for students to bring personal pencils or crayons to school.  Thank You!

Crayons

Kleenex

Large pencils (You can find at CM Supply, Lakeshore, or Staples)

Clorox wipes

Dry erase markers

Large erasers (please no pencil top erasers)

Construction paper

Glue sticks

Elmer's glue

Ziploc bags- gallon size and quart size

Baby wipes

Band-aids

Reams of copy paper

Summer Journals

In class we have been doing what we call June Journals. Each morning, there is a sentence starter written on the board that the students are to copy down and continue with as a topic for an entry in the journal. I have been trying to encourage the students to create a journal for the summer in order to share their thoughts and the activities that they are doing on a daily basis.

Continuing to write on a daily basis throughout the summer will be of great value for them academically. I really want to encourage you as the parents to help them make a summer journal and get them excited about daily writing. Make it fun! Decorate the journals in a cute or cool way that fits their unique personalities and then provide them with fun sentence starters such as: "If I could make my own ice cream, I would use..." or "If I had a jet pack I would fly to..." or " If I could take an animal home from the zoo, I would take a ______ because..." or " In the summer I love to..."

Technology

If your child has an iPad, iPod, or leapfrog that has educational apps, they may bring them to school. There are times throughout the day when students might finish an assignment a few minutes early, usually they get to visit the library and read books. But this would be a great opportunity to use their devise to play an education game. If your child brings their devise to school, they are responsible for bringing it into the class and placing it in the basket and then taking it home at the end of the day. If for some reason a student forgets to take it home, I will lock it away to keep it safe. If you have any questions let me know!

Summer Workbooks

I know that we have a few month until summer, but I am already thinking about it... And of course I am thinking about my kindos and how much they have learned already. But then summer comes... I hope they don't forget!!! SOOO, If you would like to purchase something to work on over the summer for 15-30 minutes a day to keep your student on target for First grade, I found a site that sell them! I highly recommend that you make a specific plan to help keep your student from losing valuable information over the summer. And please plan on reading on a regular basis. If you haven't noticed, your students are really catching on to this whole "reading" thing, so please have them read to you.

Even if you do not purchase these workbooks, please go online to find worksheets for Kindergarten or First grade to work on over the summer!! And please have them practice writing sentences, stories, and/or letters!!

http://www.summersolutions.net/english-grammar/?grade=0k

http://www.summersolutions.net/mathematics/?grade=0k

Read Across America- Dr. Seuss Day

We had a lot of fun on Dr. Seuss Day!

Pajama Day

March 2nd is Dr. Seuss' Birthday and Read Across America. Therefore, we will be celebrating on Friday. We will read lots of Dr. Seuss books and do fun activities. On this day we will wear our pajamas!!! Yay!!

Feb 25- March 1

Language Arts-- Letter "Hh" focus
                           HFW-do, are, that
                           Comprehension- Sequence: First, Second, Then, Last

Writing--- Writing more than one sentence using our Focus HFW

Math--- Comparing Number- One less, one more, two less, two more.

Science- Wrap up our unit on how plants and Animals change (butterflies, frogs, seeds)

Social Studies-- Maps, symbols

Leadership-- Good to great. Going the extra distance.



*** When it comes to writing sentences at home, please encourage your student to sound out the words as best they can. Tell them to write the sounds they hear. Also, if you want to model how to sound the word out, that is okay, but please allow them to write the sounds. At this stage they will spell words incorrectly if they write the sounds they hear, this is called "Inventive Spelling" and this is a Kinder Standard. In the class we often model a sentence and we show them how to sound out words. Then we allow them to write their own sentence and I ask them to sound the words out as best they can.