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Week of October 5^th-October 9th

Dear Kindergarten Parents,

Much thanks to all the kindergarten families who supported the = Tritt Boosterthon…&= #8230;Tritt raised over $50, 000!!! That is amazing! Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who came out to cheer on the Bower Bats at the F= un Run last Wednesday!! It was such a fun event!!= Please remember to collect your pledges and send them to school in t= he Boosterthon envelope (sent home last week) by = Thursday, October 8^th!

THINGS TO REMEMBER THIS WEEK:

*Fall Leaf Collection (Autumn Bags)-Please remember to have your child bring his/her “Autumn Collection Paper Bags” to schoo= l on Monday! We will be using the artifacts for= Math and an Art project!

*Tritt Book Fair-The Tritt Book Fair begins Monday, October <= span style=3D'font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#FF6600'>5^=
th-October 7^th. Please refer to= the Tritt website for times the media center will be sell= ing books. Great books!!

*PTA Reflections-I encourage each child to particip= ate in the PTA Reflections Program. Entry forms and detailed information about this program are on the <= span class=3DSpellE>Tritt website under “Reflections”! Entries are due by Friday,October<= /span> 9^th.

*Media Ce= nter-will be = on MONDAY this week. Don’t forget to have your child return his/her library book.

*Homework Notebooks-are due every Friday to be checked for the week!! Thanks!

*October Reading Logs-Please don’t forget to begin recording the books your child reads to you or the books you read to your c= hild in the October Reading Log. At the end of the month, t= he children will get to choose a prize out of Mrs. Bower’s Treasure Box<= /span> for retu= rning their Reading Logs!!

*Guidance Lesson-with Mrs. Carter will be on Tuesday, October 6^th!

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Science

In Science, the children will be visiting the Discovery Porthole with Mrs. Keck (our Science Lab teacher) to recognize the differences betwe= en day and night and recognize objects in the day and night sky (such as the m= oon, starts, sun).

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LETTER OF = THE WEEK/PHONICS:

Words of the Week: will, look

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

Our letter focus is the letter Ll. Literature for the letter = Ll will include Fall Leaves Fall, When the Leaf Blew In, Why Do Leaves Change Colors?, How Do You Know It is Fall? and more. Our class = will practice listening for words that begin and end with the consonant <= span class=3DSpellE>Ll sound. The childr= en will be transforming the letter L <= /b>in their October Journals, creating a class book as they finish the sentence, “W= hen the leaf blew in I __________”, and learning why leaves change col= ors in the fall!

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

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

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Math=

In Math, our class will use our “Fall Collection BagsR= 21; to choose one favorite leaf to describe, measure= and weigh. We will sort and graph leaves by color and create ABABABABA, AABBAAB= B, ABCABCABC patterns using leaf stickers.&nb= sp; Our class will be continuing to practice rote counting and numeral writing 1-10 and practice recognizing/reading number words one-six.

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Social St= udies

This week our class will re-visit the book Me on the Map and crea= te individual books entitled, = My Place i= n the World. The children will learn his/her street address, city, state, country, continent, and planet! We will be learning the song “W= e All Live Together” to le= arn these important standards!!

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Show &= ; Tell Day!

BLACK is Friday= ! Please have your child bring one black item to share for Show & Tell on Friday black 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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