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Week of September 14th-September 18th

Dear Kindergarten Parents,

The annual Teddy Bear Olympics and Teddy Bear Picnic= was a huge success!! Much tha= nks to all the parents who sent in teddy grahams, juice boxes, and volunteered the= ir time to help our kindergarten class! We appreciate all your support!

THINGS TO REMEMBER THIS WEEK:

*Media Center-is on MONDAY this week. Don’t forget to have your chi= ld return his/her library book.

*Homework Notebooks-Please remember to have your child return his/her “Homew= ork Notebooks” every Friday to be ch= ecked by Mrs. Bower!

*Septembe= r Reading Logs-Don̵= 7;t forget to keep a record of books read in your child’s Reading Log for September. Logs are due Sept.= 30th.

*L.I.F.T. (Learning Is Fun Together)-is this Friday! This is a 30 minute s= egment of singing and dancing with all the kindergarten classes together in the cafeteria. Each song that we = sing and dance to has a strong academic emphasis on our kindergarten standards s= uch as the months of the year, opposites, days of the week, following oral directions and more!! Ask your child about L.I.F.T.!!=

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Unit Study

In Science, our class will continue our unit study on APPLES! A= PPLES! APPLES! and the FIVE SENSES!

This week we will:

*Read The Apple Pie Tree and sequence the stages of how an a= pple tree grows (from seed to apple tree)!

*Use apples to investigate our five senses: How does an apple….Look?<= span style=3D'font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#99CC00'> Feel? <= span class=3DGramE>Smell? Taste? Soun= d?

*Graph apples and interpret information on our individual apple graphs (discuss math vocabulary: m= ost, least, same)

*Create apple patterns using the colors: red= , = green, and yellow<= /span> (ABABABA= B, AABBAABB, ABCABCABC).

*Read Lucy’s Picture and discuss our sense of touch as = we create our own “Cater-feel-ers”!!

*Read Rain Makes Applesauce and create a “silly” b= ook about how “rain makes applesauce”!!

PRE-CUT AP= PLES NEEDED:

On Fun Friday= , our cla= ss will mix up a batch of homemade applesauce to eat as a special treat!&= nbsp; Each child is asked to bring to school one pre-cut apple (without the peel) in a ziplock ba= ggie to add to our pot of applesauce!

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LETTER OF = THE WEEK/PHONICS:

Words of the Week: can, come

Letter of= the Week: Cc

Our letter focus is the letter Cc. Literature for the letter = Cc = will incl= ude The Cookie= Store Cat, The Land of Colors, Who Stole the Cookie from the Co= okie Store?Cc sound. The children will create a “= Colorful Shape Clown” d= uring centers this week!

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

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In Handwriting this week, we will practice writing upper and lowercase Cc<= span style=3D'font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'> along wi= th writing our first names (beginning with an uppercase letter, followed by lowercase letters). Don’= ;t forget to encourage your child to hold the pencil correctly!

In Writing Workshop, the children have been practicing sounding out letters in words. In kinderga= rten, we encourage phonetic spelling which is writing the letters you hear in a word. Please encourage your child to sou= nd out letters sounds at home when he/she is practicing writing skills.=

Our first writing journals will be coming home soon!=

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Math=

In Math, our class will continue to practice creating PATTERNS<= /span> using a variety of manipulatives. We will be making ABABABAB, = AABBAABB, = ABCABCABC<= /span> patterns= using apples, teddy bear counters, buttons, unifix cu= bes, and more! <= /p>

In addition to patterns, our class will practice how to correct= ly write numerals 1 through 5 this week. Please assist your child in correcting any number reversals in his/her homework or writing at home.

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Social St= udies

This week our class will learn about COMMUNITY HELPERS and their importance to our communities. Police officers, the dentist, doctors, nurses, soldiers, construction workers, firefighters are just a few of = the important community helpers we will be discussing this week.

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Show &= ; Tell Day!

YELLOW = DAY! Please have your child bring one yellow item to share for Show & Tell on Friday! In Math, we will share, sort and g= raph our yellow 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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