Grant El. Kindergarten Weekly News

From Mrs. Conran and Mrs. Caya

Week Beginning: November 3

Important Dates

Nov 3              October Reading Logs Are Due

Nov 6              OPT Meeting 6:30pm

Nov 6              Try to know all your letter by today for a Nov prize

Nov 10            Culver’s Night School Fundraiser

Nov 11            Family Movie Night.  More information coming.

Nov 15            Saturday Morning Book Club 9am

Nov 18            Family Night.  More information coming.

Nov 19            2^nd Coffee

Nov 24            Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast- No Lunch Needed

Nov 26            Early Dismissal 12pm.  No Lunch Served.

Nov 27-28      No School – Happy Thanksgiving!

Reading

Comprehension:   For the next several weeks, we will be working on retelling familiar stories.  

Phonics:   We have a wide range of expertise with letters, sounds and words at this time.  Students have many opportunities to work at their own levels in this area.  To help you understand the order of learning, students usually become word masters in this order:

·      identifying letters by naming them when they are show in random order (52 letter plus typeset g and a)

·      producing correct letter sounds when shown a letter

·      using beginning sounds of words to make decisions or label

·      using letter sounds to read and write new words

You can support your child through these levels with extra practice at home that fits your child’s needs.

Letters & Sounds to be mastered: I can identify G, g, g and make the hard /g/ sound.  I can identify R, r and make the /r/ sound.  All letters should be mastered within the next two weeks.  All letter sounds (consonants and short vowels should be mastered by Dec. 4.

Sight words to be mastered:  with, my, you, what, are, now

Writing

We are continuing to work on writing narrative stories.  Our goal for November is to write 3-sentence stories with a beginning, middle and end.  Here is an example using sound spelling:

I went to see my granma.  We mad cookes.  We had fun.

Learning Target:  I can write a narrative using sound spelling.

Investigations

Balance and Motion is the new unit we are studying in science. We will be studying the motion of objects, including vibrations and sound. We will be observing and comparing how objects balance, spin, and roll, and communicating orally and in writing the things we discover. The processes of observing, communicating, and comparing are important thinking processes that your child will be using during our investigation of motion. We will start by learning metric linear measurement. We’ll explore the need for standard units, and work with the metric units and tools used by scientists worldwide.

Our goal is that the metric concepts will have their own frame of reference in your child’s mind, and that in time he or she will think metric. For example, the meter is about the distance from the floor to a typical doorknob. A pinkie finger on a small person is about 1 cm wide. Your child may be interested in trying some things at home. You might want to tie a string between two chairs and see how many paper cups, craft sticks, and other objects you can balance (use clothespins for counterweights). You could make a big mobile by suspending a broomstick and hanging things from it, or make spinning tops out of shafts and disks. Check your local toy store for tops and other spinners. The possibilities are endless, and your child can be your guide. We’re looking forward to our new unit on balance and motion to provide lots of learning and lots of fun!

Other News, Notes and Reminders

Thanksgiving Feast:  We will be enjoying a Thanksgiving Feast on Monday, November 24^th.  Each child will need to bring following items during the week of November 17-21.  Mrs. Conran and Mrs. Caya are supplying the turkeys.  If you have questions or concerns about your items, please ask your classroom teacher.  We will need lots of helpers on this day to serve the meal and clean up afterwards.   The times will be 10am – 12:30pm.  Please let us know if you can help.

Student	Bring This Food / Item		Student	Bring This Food / Item
Annabelle	10 lb. bag of potatoes		Cadence	5 lbs sugar
NaJee	10 lb. bag of potatoes		Desyrea	3 packages of napkins
Chris	2 bags frozen corn		Christopher	3 Cool-Whip
Kailyn	2 bags frozen corn		Alana	50 cups
Aaron	2 bags frozen corn		Dru	50 cups
Madelynne	2 bags frozen corn		Joel	50 large plates
Amberlyn	2 dozen eggs		David	50 large plates
Bryce	2 lbs butter		Daniel	50 small plates
Payton	2 lbs butter		Nykira	50 small plates
Kaveon	50 forks		Larrain	50 forks
Logan	50 forks		Jaelianna	½ gallon of milk
Ariana	3 Cool-Whip		Parker	2 cans of pumpkin
Corbin	3 boxes Stove Top Stuffing		Madalynn	Gallon of Apple Cider
Derek	Gallon of Apple Cider		Tre’Anna	Gallon of Apple Cider
Arik	Gallon of Apple Cider		Sethian	Gallon of Apple Cider
Gavin	Gallon of Apple Cider		Riley	2 dozen dinner rolls
Jaycie	10 lb. bag of potatoes		Olivia	2 dozen dinner rolls
Aminata – THANK YOU	6 boxes Jiffy cornbread mix		Harmony	3 boxes Jiffy cornbread mix
Hugo	3 cans cranberries (jellied)		Adriel	3 cans cranberries (jellied)
Sariah	3 boxes Stove Top Stuffing		Sophie	3 boxes Stove Top Stuffing
Mia	6 cans green beans		EmmaLee	6 cans green beans
James	3 cans cream of mushroom soup		Chloe	3 cans cream of cream of chicken soup
Elijah	5 cans French’s Fried Onions		LeDerrick	2 cans evaporated milk