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Week of October 19th-October 23rd

Dear Kindergarten Parents,

Fall is definitely in the air!! It is hard to believe Halloween is= only 2 weeks away!! Our class will= be having a “FALL CELEBRATION” Center Party on Friday, October 30^th<= /span>….o= ur room moms will be sending out an email asking for any help they might need = for the celebration. <= /span>

Last Friday, your child brought home his/her first nine week re= port card….we are so proud of all the children and their hard work at school. It is amazing to see = each child’s progress!! If y= ou have any questions or concerns, please let me know!

THINGS TO REMEMBER THIS WEEK:

*EARLY RE= LEASE DAY-will be on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21^st. STUDENTS WILL BE DISMISSED AT 12:30 on this day! Please let us know if yo= ur child has any transportation changes. Center time will be at the same time on Wed....our lunch is from 11:46-12:10.

*Picture Re-Takes-will be on Wednesday, October 21^st<=
/sup> your chi= ld must return his/her previous pictures (the whole packet) in order to have a pict= ure re-taken.

*Report C= ard Envelope & Signature Card-Please si= gn the parent signature card and return the brown report card envelope to school on Monday! Thanks!

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

*October Reading Logs-Please record the books your child = reads to you or the books you read to your child in the October Reading Log. Guided Reading books are a perfect book to record!

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

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Science

In Science, our class will learn about day and night. Our standard is for the children to recognize the differences between day and night and recognize objects in the day and night sky (such as the moon, starts, sun).

As we learn about day/night, our class will be compare/contrast animals that come out in the day and in the night.

Our class will read Stellaluna= and comp= are and contrast characteristics of bats and birds<= /span>! It is g= oing to be a batty week in Mrs. Bower’s classroom!!

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LETTER OF = THE WEEK/PHONICS/LANGUAGE ARTS:

Words of the Week: see, so

Letter of= the Week: Ss

Our letter focus is the letter Ss. Literature for the letter = Ss = will incl= ude Scarecrow<= /span>, The L= ittle Scarecrow Boy, The Shy Little Scarecrow, The Little Old Lady = Who Was Not Afraid of Anything and more. Our class will practice listening for words that begin and end with = the consonant sound. The childr= en will be creating a pumpkin scarecrow, a sun filled with beginning Ss = words, tr= ansforming the letter S in their October Journals and writing descriptive sentences usi= ng see.&= nbsp; The children are doing a wonderful job of sounding out letters/words phonetically. Our writing goa= l for the second nine weeks is for the children to add spaces between words…= ;.2 fingers spaces!

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

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

In Language Arts, we will continue to recognize pairs of “= ;rhyming wo= rds” t= his week!

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Math=

In Math, our class will begin our new unit on GEOMETRY! We will learn to recognize and name plane shapes and solid figures (sphere, cube, circle, square, triangle, and= a rectangle). We will be experimenting with shapes to find out which shapes can roll, slide, or stac= k!!

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Social St= udies

This week our class will continue to 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!

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Show &= ; Tell Day!

PINK is Friday= ! Please have your child bring one pink item to share for Show & Tell on Friday pink 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. 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!

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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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