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Week of October 12th-October 16th

Dear Kindergarten Parents,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! This week our class will be busy wrapping up the firs= t nine weeks of kindergarten standards and I will be finishing up assessments for = the report cards. Due to report cards going home on Friday, I will not be sendi= ng home the “yellow= Weekly Update” sheets.

A big thank you to all the families who returned their Boosterthon envelopes with pledges/money….did y= ou know that our classroom will receive 10% of the money our class collected by 10/9 to use to purchase learning materials for our classroom?

Way to go Bower Bats!!

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THINGS TO REMEMBER THIS WEEK:

*Tritt Book Fair-Our class would like to thank Maggie Hughes, Carson Davis, Ashton Ellis and Paul E= ast for dona= ting wonderful new picture books to our classroom library! We appreciate your generosity and = look forward to having these books for years to come!

*Media Center-We had to change our regular media center day to THURSDAY next we= ek. Please help your child remember to = bring his/her library book to school.

*October Homework Notebooks-are due every Friday to be checked for the wee= k!! Thanks!

*October Reading Logs-Please remember to record the books= your child reads to you or the books you read to your child in the October Reading Log.

Poetry Notebooks-please return on Monday!

L.I.F.T.-Learnin= g Is Fun Together will be on Fun Friday! The kindergarten classes will be singing and dancing our way through= the first nine weeks of = Georgia standards!! (days of the week, color words, mont= hs of the year, etc.)

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Science

In Science, our class will continue to learn about day and night. Our standard (focus) i= s for the children to recognize the differences between day and night and recogni= ze objects in the day and night sky (such as the moon, starts, sun).

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LETTER OF = THE WEEK/PHONICS/LANGUAGE ARTS:

Words of the Week: we, went

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

Our letter focus is the letter Ww<= /span>. Literat= ure for the letter Ww will include Weekend wi= th Wendell, Worm’s Wagon, The Wump World, Hooway for Wodney Wat, The Sound Box = Ww Book and more. Our cla= ss will practice listening for words that begin and end with the consonant Ww sound. The childr= en will be transforming the letter W <= /b>in their October Journals and writing sentences using we and went. The children are working hard on sounding out letters/words phonetically. <= o:p>

It will be a creepy, crawling week in our kindergarten classroo= m as we learn interesting facts about spiders and their webs!! Our class will read the book, Miss Spider’s Tea Party<= /b>, and conduct a taste test to find which tea we like best: strawberry= , = fruit = punch or lemona= de tea! We will create spiders to match the color of our tea (red, pink, yellow) and sort, graph, and interpret data on= our Miss Spider’s Tea Party graph!!

THE SOUND MUNCHER is hungry for objects beginning with the beginning Ww sound. Have your = child bring one object to school that begins with Ww by TUESDAY!

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In Handwriting this week, we will practice writing upper and lowercase Ww with The Alphabet Teacher DVD program!

In Language Arts, we will be having fun learning and recognizing pairs of “rhyming words” this week!

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Math=

In Math, our class will review our calendar math skills, sortin= g, patterning, numeral writing 1-10 and begin to read/write number words one-six!

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Social St= udies

This week our class will continue t= o practice learning our street add= ress, = county, city, = state, country, = continent, and planet! We will be singing “We All Live Together&= #8221; to learn these important standards along with Dr. Jean’s song, Our World Family!

Parents-A= t home, have fun getting your maps out to reinforce the above skills with your child (these are very abstract concepts for them to learn so repetition and visua= ls are very important for mastery!

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Show &= ; Tell Day!

BROWN<= /span> is Friday= ! Please have your child bring one brown item to share for Show & Tell on Friday brown<= /span> items by common attributes!

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. 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” rainbow words and progress down through each color of the rainbow when your child can read each word by sight!

Happy Reading!

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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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