Grant El.
Kindergarten Weekly News
From Mrs. Conran and
Mrs. Caya
Week Beginning: April 27, 2015
Important Dates
April 28 Do
Math! Night: 5:30 – 7:00 Dinner & Games
May 2 Mother/Son
Sports Day - More Information to
Follow
May 5 Family Night- Minute To Win It - More
Information to Follow
May 7 OPT Meeting
May 25 Memorial
Day - No school
Reading & Writing
Comprehension
Learning Target: I can answer
questions about what happens in stories.
Students have been keeping track of the questions that arise
before, during and after reading. Keep
reading at home and talking about your thoughts and questions.
Reading Accuracy: Below
are a few prompts for helping your child solve new words WITHOUT always telling
him/her to sound it out.
- What would make
sense? - Get your mouth ready for the
first letter and look at the picture?
- What would sound
right?
Phonics Learning Target: I can build word families.
This week we are working on –en and –et and –ed word
families. Your child should be able to
read and write the words in these word families. Place the stress on learning how the family
part stays the same and only the beginning changes. We do not want students thinking of these as
unrelated sight words. The goal is to
see the patterns in words.
en
|
ed
|
et
|
hen
men
pen
ten
|
led
sled
shed
|
bet
let
met
net
|
Writing Learning Target: I can write to give information.
We are continuing to write to give information. Within the next few weeks, each child will
write a how-to book. You can practice at
home by writing the steps to do tasks together.
For example: how to make a
sandwich, how to make your bed, how to set the table. or how to make chocolate
milk.
Things
to do over the weekend!
Play
a board game, make a journal of what you did each day, read, count, tell
stories, take a walk and look at how the trees are changing, look for patterns
in nature, and/or divide snacks in half.
Positive Behavior Interventions and Support (PBIS) & Social Skills
RESPECT - Too many
children are being disrespectful.
Please talk with your
student about showing respect to ALL adults. The students are misbehaving with their classroom teachers, but
are being horrible to other staff
in the building including lunch, art, music, gym, and library.
RESPONSIBILITY - Accepting the choices you make.
Good people make mistakes with their behavior. Showing responsibility means you accept the
consequence for your behavior. Many students are very busy and over talkative.
When this happens every now and then, it does not disrupt our day. Too many
students are too busy and over talkative throughout most of the school day.
Next week we will be working on behavior, this may mean that clips will be
getting moved. Please talk to your child that it is not okay to misbehave at
school.
Math
Directions provide assistance in pointing out the proper route.
Position defines placement or arrangement in an order (e.g. first, second,
third). The position of an object is also referred to as ordinal
numbers.
Knowledge about directional or positional words as well as
ordinal numbers enhances a child’s ability to give and follow directions as
well as to speak precisely. One of the skills a child should master in
kindergarten is the ability to describe the location of an object using
positional or directional words. Our kindergarten teachers recommended working
on the following words:
above after before behind
between bottom front middle
under top below next to
on
Using objects such as a stuff animal or doll, help your child
grasp these words by putting them in various positions. For example, put the
doll after the stuffed animal. Another great activity is to point out
items throughout your home, e.g. the cat is under the chair.
Mark
Your Calendars!
We will be taking a
field trip to the Milwaukee Zoo on Tuesday, June 9th. Each class
will need six parents to chaperone the trip. The trip will be from 8:30-3:00.
Please see your classroom teacher if interested, as you will need to have a
completed background check on file in order to go.