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Week of October 26th-October 30th

Dear Kindergarten Parents,

Our class will be having a “FALL CELEBRATION” Center Party on Friday, October 30^th<= /span>….f= rom 11:00-12:00!! The children will be decorating a pumpkin cookie, creating a = “haunted house” using black frosting and fall candy, playing Halloween Phonics Bingo, creating a “Haunted House” picture and completing the sentence, “My Haunted House is as spooky as……”!!

THINGS TO REMEMBER THIS WEEK:

*Guided <= st1:City w:st=3D"on">Reading Books/Bag= gies-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. We use the= se books with other reading groups.

*Media Ce= nter-will be = on MONDAY. Please help your child remember to = bring his/her library book to school. The children get very disappointed if they = do not have a book to return and check out.

*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. October Reading Logs are due to school on = Friday, October 30^th, to be checked and for a trip to Mrs. BowerR= 17;s Treasure Box!!

*Ident-A-Kid-If you would like to have your chi= ld’s picture taken for the “Ident-A-Kid Pro= gram, please return your child’s payment and completed envelope by next Wednesday, October 28^th.

*Relay fo= r Life Costume Kickball Game-Please come and support Relay for Life by comi= ng out to watch the Tritt Staff dress up for our a= nnual Costume Kickball Game on Thursday, October 29^th= from 2:45-3:45pm !! What will Mrs. Bower be dressed as???…..come and enjoy the fun! Please bring $1 to donate for RFL!!

*L.I.F.T.= & Fall Center Celebration<= span style=3D'font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>-will be = on Friday!

RED RIBBON WEEK!!

Monday-Learn the story of Red Ribbon Week during The Tritt Ti= ger Talk News!

Tuesday-Pos= ter Contest entries due to the box in the front lobby! I encourage each child to particip= ate!!

Wednesday-“Team Up Against Drugs Day”. Wear your favorite sports jersey to school!

Thursday-“Keep Your Head in the Game” Day! <= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Wear a hat to school!

Friday-“Red Rally Day”! Wear red to school. The winners of the poster contest will be announced!

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Science

In Science, our class has been learning 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). This week our class will learn about “the sun” and how the sun supplies heat and light to Earth!

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LETTER OF = THE WEEK/PHONICS/LANGUAGE ARTS:

Words of the Week: play, up

Letter of= the Week: Pp

Our letter focus is the letter Pp<= span style=3D'font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>. Literat= ure for the letter Pp will include The Pigs’ Picnic, Practically Pig, Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins, The Perky Little Pumpkin and more.= Our class will practice listening = for words that begin and end with the consonant Pp sound. The children will be learning abou= t the stages of growth of a pumpkin seed and sequence the stages of a pumpkin. We will be learning lots of “= ;pumpkin poems” including “5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate”, c= reating a pumpkin sticker story and writing about our picture and much more!

Using a Venn Di= agram chart, our class will be brainstorming descriptive words to describe the in= side and outside of our class pumpkin!

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

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

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Math=

In Math, our class will continue our 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!! Have your child hunt for shapes ar= ound your house….can you find spheres and cube shapes around your house?

Additional= math activities this week:

*Estimate the circumference of our class pumpkin using yarn!

*Choose what kind of face we would like our class pumpkin to ha= ve and create a class graph! (Happy, Sad, Scary, Silly)

*Count correct number of pumpkin seeds and match to correct numbers.

*Build 2 and 3 dimensional shapes using marshmallows and toothpicks!!!

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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! This is an abstract concept for the children; therefore= , we will be working on this concept all year!

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The following is a list of Dolch Si= ght Words your child will be learning this year.&nbs= p; We call these words our RAINBOW WORDS (Dolch Words) in class…we have separated the words into colors of the rainbow. The children will re= cord 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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