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Week of A= ugust 31^st-September 4th

Individual Picture Day

Please remember that <= u>TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1^st is PICTURE DAY! Don’t forget to fill out the= Life Touch picture envelope and mark your picture package. All students will have his/her picture taken for the yearbook photo even if you are not choosing to purchase pictu= res. Dress nicely for the photo and get= those smiles ready!!<= o:p>

Notificati= on Through E-Mail:

Please sign up for the Parent Notification Through Email which is located on Mrs. Bower’s Class Web Page. This will enable you to receive up= dates through email when I have updated our class newsletter for the week. If you are having trouble receivin= g my email updates, please let me know.

THINGS TO REMEMBER THIS WEEK:

*Media Center-is on MONDAY. Don’= ;t forget to have your child return his/her library book.

*Support = Relay For Life-Bring a dollar to donat= e to Relay For<= /span> <= span style=3D'font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:red'>Life and your= child may wear a of his/her choice to school!

*Poetry Notebooks-<= /b> Remember= to return your child’s Poetry notebook on MONDAY!

*Snack-Please remember to send your child to school each day with a nutritious= snack!

*Labor Day Holiday-No School on Monday, = September = 7^th.

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Unit Study

This week our class will continue our unit study on BEARS! Don’t forget that your child= may bring his or her favorite teddy bear to school for the next few weeks in the classroom (please do not send a bear that your child needs to sleep with each night). We will be using= our teddy bear= s for a var= iety of activities during our BEAR study. Our BEAR study will be integrated throughout the kindergarten curriculum= and Georgia standards.

Our focus bear books this week include Corduroy and Ira Sleeps= Over. The children will be brainstorming places where they think Corduroy’s lost button has gone. In Ira Sleeps Over, the chi= ldren will be giving their bear a name (if they don’t already have one) and eating “bear biscuits” (with honey of course!) This week our cl= ass will create patterns using colorful teddy bear counters, make patterns using Teddy Grahams, and practice positional words using our teddy bears. We will continue to learn about di= fferent types of bears and graph our favorite types of bears (Grizzly, Black, Polar, Panda Bears) on a class graph. We have been talking a lot about interpreting information from a graph (most, least, same).

On Friday, September 11^th, we will celebrate the end of our BEAR study by having a TEDDY BEAR OLYMPIC DAY and TEDDY BEAR PICNIC! The children and their bears will = be competing in many Olympic activities including the Teddy Bear= Toss, = Teddy Bear Balance Beam, 50 yard Teddy Bear Dash, and more!

Following the Teddy Bear Olympics, all the kindergarten classes will have a bear picnic with our favorite bears…..teddy grahams and a= pple juice will be served!! The Ol= ympics begin at 10:00am….parents are invited to c= ome by and watch all the excitement!

LETTER OF = THE WEEK/PHONICS:

Words of the Week: me, my

Letter of= the Week: Mm

Our letter focus is the letter Mm. Literature for the letter = Mm<= span style=3D'font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'> will inc= lude If You Giv= e a Mouse a Cookie, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, and more.= We will practice listening for wor= ds beginning and ending with the consonant Mm sound.

THE SOUND MUNCHER is hungry for objects beginning with the beginning Mm<= span style=3D'font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'> sound. Have your child bring one object to school that begins with Mm by TUESDAY!

During Shared Reading, we will continue to focus on concepts of print (front/back cover of a book, top/bottom, where to begin reading and tracking words as we read and sequencing events in a story). Through rich literature, we will f= ocus on using the cover to choose a book, looking for books on favorite topics a= nd characters, and more!

In Handwriting this week, we will practice writing upper and lowercase Mm<= span style=3D'font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'> along wi= th writing our first names (beginning with an uppercase letter, followed by lowercase letters).

Proper pencil grips are very important…..bad pencil grip habits are difficult to break! We are using pencil grips (large size) from Lakeshore Learning (located in the Michael’s shopping center) and they are available at The School Box if you would like to reinforce the proper pencil grip that we are using at school.

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In Math, our class will conclude our unit on Sorting and jump= into our unit on Patterning! This is one of = my favorite Math units…we will be creating ABABABAB, = AABBAABB, = ABCABCABC<= /span> patterns= using teddy bear counters, unifix cubes, teddy graham= s, M & M’s and more this week! Have fun looking for Patterns around your home or make up your o= wn patterns using movement (clap/stomp, clap/stomp)!!

During Calendar Math, our class is working on our standards of sequencing the days = of the week, months of the year, positional words, place value, patterns, data collection, identifying the penny and nickel, comparing sets as equal to, m= ore than, or less than! This week we will begin practicing ordinal numbers 1st-5^th on our daily calendar. On Fun Friday= , we will celebrate our 20^th day of school…… ZERO THE H= ERO (our school super-hero) will be flying into our classroom!

Social St= udies

Our class will read Me On the Map and learn “Where We Live on Earth”. We will travel = from our bedrooms to our houses to our streets, city, state, country, nation and finally our continent!

Our class will learn about the holi= day of LABOR DAY as we talk about workers in our school community!

Show &= Tell Day !

On Fun Friday (September 4th), please have your child bring in something = GREEN to share with our class (must be s= mall enough to fit inside a bookbag). We will sort and graph our = GREEN items as we work on our sorting and graphing standard= s in Math.

The following is a list of Dolch Si= ght Words your child will be learning this year. We call these words our RAINBOW WO= RDS (Dolch Words) in class…we have separated the wor= ds into colors of the rainbow. The ch= ildren will record their progress on individual rainbows in their reading/writing folders in class.

At home, please practice these words beginning with the “red” rainbow words and progress down through each color of the rainbow when your child can read each word by sight!

Happy Reading!

Mrs. Bowe= r

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RAINBOW WORDS:

RED Words-= me, my, see, I, no, he

ORANGE= Words-can, for, a, up, so, by

YELLOW = Words-go, it, look, the, of, will

GREEN = Words-and, is, play, said, you, at

BLUE Word= s-big, come, in, we, have, do

INDIGO= Words-here, make, to, run, not, was

VIOLET = Words-some, made, she, then, now, into

Cloud Words-like, as, am, from, went, out

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