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Attention Parents: Please sign and return page 73 of your Simon Lake Parent
Handbook as soon as possible.
Please keep the emergency cards updated with any new work or cell phone
numbers.
Make Your Day: Make Your Day is a schoolwide program to help
children take responsibility for their actions. We teach the kindergarten
children that when they do not follow an expectation they get a chance to
think it over and try again. It takes a lot of practice and there are no
time outs or punishments. The children also learn to decide how many points
they have earned for a given period of time based on the expectations they
have followed the best they can. The highest number of points they can earn
is 10. I find it to be a very successful program.
Here are some subjects we will be learning about:
*Math: We will learn about number writing, graphing, patterns,
sorting, numbers between, place value and estimating.
*Sight words: The children will learn to memorize these words:like,
see, it, come, up, we, can, go, can, look, at, here, is, me, my, am, an,and
to, this, in, on.
*Writing: The children will learn to hear sounds in words. We will clap
words into their parts to hear syllables such as /pocket/ /book/. We will
count how many sounds or phonemes we hear in a word like /c/ /a/ /t/.
*Reading: We will focus on story elements: setting, characters,
problem and solution. Try discussing these with your child when
reading a library book. We will work on sequencing: first, next,
last. We will be doing guided reading picking books that are appropriate for
each child. The children learn reading strategies such as, picture clues and
word chunks.
*Writer's Workshop: The children will learn how to become a writer through
units of study: storytelling, letters, lists, labeling, small moments,
author study and all about books.
Important events each day:
*Morning: Reading Workshop, daily
*Morning: Writer's Workshop, Mon., Wed., Thurs.
*Lunch:11:40-12:10.
*After rest we listen to a story on tape and then recess. Recess occurs on
rainy days with gross motor movement in the classroom.
*Afternoon choice time: 1 hour
*Math centers: 45 minutes - 1 hour
Fire Drills: Fire drills occur twice a month. The children will need to
follow me, stay quiet, and remain calm. They should not run or cover their
ears when they hear the alarm. Fire drills only last a few minutes. We are
not able to get coats on chilly days.
Conferences: If you would like to have a conference please do not
hesitate to ask. Also email me whenever you have a question or
concern.
cjones@milforded.org
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