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Week of November 9th-November 13th

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Our kindergarten classroom will be a busy place as we get ready for our = Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast on Friday, November 20^th. All the kindergarten classes will be gathering together to celebrate the first Thanksgiving feast! Our class= will be dressing up as Native Americans! I have purchased each child a T-shirt (it was cheaper to buy them in= a pack of 5) and have already tie dyed them for the children. Each child is asked to donate $2 t= o help with the cost of the T-shirts and dye.

During th= e next 2 weeks, our class will be busy decorating our Native American t-shirts, cr= eating pattern headbands, and making pattern noodle necklaces for our costumes! Each child is working hard to earn= 4 feathers for his/her Native American headdress:

Good Friend Feather

Good Listener Feather

Good Helper Feather

Follows Directions Feather

All the children have been working hard towards earning his/her feathers!! Great Job to all!! A letter will be coming home on Monday letting you know how you can help with our Thanksgiving Feast!

Turkey Family Homework Projects

Disguised= turkeys are due to school by Monday, November 9^th for S= HOW & TELL!! <= /span>

This is a= lways a fun-filled family project that the students really enjoy at home and at school!

THINGS TO REMEMBER THIS WEEK:

*Guided <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Reading Books/Bagg= ies-The chil= dren are getting so excited about their reading!! Please be sure to have your child = read his/her Guided Reading book the same day it comes home and return it to sch= ool the following day.

*Media Ce= nter-will be = on MONDAY. Please help your child remember to = bring his/her library book to school.

*November Reading Logs-Please record the books your child = is reading to you, the books you are reading to your child, or books you are b= oth reading together in your November Reading Logs!

*Tritt Yearbooks-Tritt Yearbook order forms were sent home last Thursday. If you would like to purchase a soft/hard cover yearbook, please return your payment/envelope to school by = Friday, November 13^th<= span style=3D'font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>. The chi= ldren absolutely love to receive a Tritt yearbook at = the end of the year!

*Square One Art Orders-are due back to school by Tuesday, November 10^th!! These make terrific gifts for families members for the holidays!

*Guidance Lesson-with Mrs. Carter will be on Tuesday!

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LETTER OF = THE WEEK/PHONICS/LANGUAGE ARTS/SCIENCE:

Words of the Week: the, then, to

Letter of= the Week: Tt<= o:p>

Our letter focus is the letter Tt. Literature for = the letter Tt will include Thanksgiving at the Tappletons, = A Turkey for Thanksgiving= , = ‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving and more= . Our class will practice listening = for words that begin and end with the consonant Tt<= /span> sound. As our class learns about the lett= er Tt, we will be learning informational facts about real “turkeys= 221;, creating turkey sticker stories in our November Journals and learning/wri= ting important facts about the first Thanksgiving Feast! We will compare the lives of Pilgr= ims to our lives today focusing on chores, clothing, and homes!<= /p>

THE SOUND MUNCHER is hungry for objects beginning with the conso= nant Tt sound. Have your = child bring one object to school that begins with Tt by TUESDAY! We will play our SOUND MUNC= HER guessing= game on Tuesday!

In Handwriting this wee= k, we will practice writing upper and lowercase Tt<= /span> with The Alphabet Teacher DVD program!

Social St= udies

We will read My Fav= orite Time of the Year and discuss characteristics of each of the four seasons of the year. We will = sort seasonal picture cards to match each season of the year. The students will write descriptive sentences describing his/her favorite season and tell why!!

Our class will learn the importance of Veteran’s Day on Wednesday, November 11^th!

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Math=

This week our class will conclude our unit on GEOMETRY <= /span>by creati= ng a SHAPE TOWN! The children will be working cooperatively in small groups to transform plane shapes into figures for SHAPE TOWN! At the end of the week, the child= ren will be assessed on recognizing plane shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle) and solid figures (sphere, cube, cone, cyli= nder, rectangular prism). Have your= child tell you which solid figures are able to slide, stack or roll!

Additional= math activities this week:

*Turkey<= /st1:place> Feather Measurement

*Sorting and Graphing Turkey Feathers

*Rote Counting 1-20 and one-to-one correspondence (counting obj= ects without skipping).

*Numeral Writing 1-12

*Turkey Addition (adding two sets together)
*Graph our favorite “Season” and interpret data on = our class graph

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The following is a list of Dolch Sight Words your c= hild will be learning this year. W= e call these words our (Dolch Words) in class…we have separated the wor= ds into colors of the rainbow. T= he children will record their progress on individual rainbows in their reading/writing folders in class.

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

Happy Reading!

Mrs. Bower

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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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