Kindergarten NEWS

 January 29-February 2

Upcoming Events

Monday, January 29:  Scholastic Book orders due

February 5-9 --SEP Week—Here is the schedule every day for the week, even on Early Out Wednesday!

8:50-10:50 for AM classes

12:30-2:30 for the PM classes

Monday, February 19:  President’s Day—No school

Early Literacy Idea

Help your child develop comprehension skills by having them retell the important parts of the story.

Remember our reading goal is 15 minutes a night/five night a week.  Please read to your child and have him/her read to you!  This is so important!  Thanks for all you do!

News

         Please return the signed January reading calendar with your child for their free pizza certificates.  It sure is exciting to hear them reading and figuring out unfamiliar words.  Keep up the great work at home by regularly having your child read to you and you read to them.

         We have been writing in our journals using inventive spellings.  The students are instructed to (1) say the sentence they want to write (2) segment each word and listen for the sounds they know (3) write each sound (4) try their best. 

         The kids are becoming great at figuring out number pairs (or number bonds) and then completing addition problems.  We talk about why more than one number pair is possible (6= 1 + 5, 6= 4 + 2, 6= 3 + 3).  

          Thank you again for all you do!  Enjoy your week and feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

        

ginger.ekker@ironmail.org     

586-2850

Kindergarten NEWS

 January 22-26

Upcoming Events

February 5-9 --SEP Week—Here is the schedule every day for the week, even on Early Out Wednesday!

8:50-10:50 for AM classes

12:30-2:30 for the PM classes

Early Literacy Idea

Play “I Spy”—select an object in the room and provide phonics clues to help your child guess what it is.  “I spy something that begins with /t/”.

Remember our reading goal is 15 minutes a night/five night a week.  Please read to your child and have him/her read to you!  This is so important!  Thanks for all you do!

News

      We celebrated our 100^th day of school on Friday!  The year is going by very quickly.  Thank you for making it so enjoyable and for helping your child have a successful year!  Reading with your child or having him/her read to you each night is especially important and makes a big difference in early literacy skills mastery.

         Just another reminder about SEP Week:  It is a wonderful opportunity to meet with each of you and talk about your child’s school experience.  I will be sending home SEP papers at the end of the month with your individual times that we can meet together.  Please bring your student with you as we will be discussing their progress.

         We are continuing to work on addition, as well as number pairs (or bonds) in math.  For example, 3+1=4, 2+2=4, 0+4=4.

         We will start journal writing this week.  The kids are becoming great at segmenting and blending sounds together to form words.  It will be fun to see their inventive spellings and their creativity as they write.

         Have a wonderful week!

ginger.ekker@ironmail.org     

586-2850

Kindergarten NEWS

 January 15-19

Upcoming Events

Monday, January 15—Martin Luther King Day—No school

February 5-9 --SEP Week—Here is the schedule every day for the week, even on Early Out Wednesday!

8:50-10:50 for AM classes

12:30-2:30 for the PM classes

Early Literacy Idea

Encourage your child to write the names of the people in your family.  Drawing pictures to go along with the names is fun too!

Remember our reading goal is 15 minutes a night/five night a week.  Please read to your child and have him/her read to you!  This is so important!  Thanks for all you do!

News

     Each child in Kindergarten should now be getting a leveled book from the Literacy Room that goes back and forth from home to school every day.  Hooray!  Please have your child point to each word as they read the book.  This is an important early reading skill.

         SEP Week is a wonderful opportunity to meet with each of you and talk about your child’s school experience.  I will be sending home SEP papers at the end of the month with your individual times that we can meet together.  Please bring your student with you as we will be discussing their progress.

         Please have your child practice reading and writing “nonsense” words. You can have them first listen to a nonsense word that you tell them using the consonant, vowel, consonant pattern (kig, taf, het, zub, jom), etc.  Afterwards, have them write that same word.  See if they are able to write it independently. 

         We finished up with our Chapter 4 test in Go Math.  Please look in your child’s backpack to see the exciting results.  Each one is improving in mastering the concepts and understanding how the test taking process works.  We are learning all about addition now.

         Thank you again for your support at home.  Have a fantastic week!

ginger.ekker@ironmail.org     

586-2850

Kindergarten NEWS

 January 8-12

Upcoming Events

Monday, January 15—Martin Luther King Day—No school

Early Literacy Idea

Help your child notice print in the environment  (signs, displays, food packages, cans, jars, and other every day items.)

Remember our reading goal is 15 minutes a night/five night a week.  Please read to your child and have him/her read to you!  This is so important!  Thanks for all you do!

News

         We had a great week back in school and the children are adjusting well after the long break.  We are finishing up Chapter 4 in Go Math.  Please look for your child’s assessment in his/her backpack in the next few days.  We will begin our addition chapter and continue using objects and drawings to solve story problems. 

         For Language Arts, we will continue reading and writing decodable words, phrases, and sentences.  We are getting great at “chaining”—reading one-syllable short vowel words in which one sound is added, substituted, or omitted (am, jam, ham, hum, hug, jug, jog, jot, job, rob). Being able to distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ (peg, pig, pin, and pen) is another skill we are mastering. 

         Enjoy your week and thank you for sharing your children with me!  Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

ginger.ekker@ironmail.org     

586-2850

Kindergarten NEWS

 January 2-5

 

Early Literacy Idea

Have your child write consonant-vowel-consonant words that you provide to them.  (dad, mom, jet, van, hat, wig, nut) etc.

Remember our reading goal is 15 minutes a night/five night a week.  Please read to your child and have him/her read to you!  This is so important!  Thanks for all you do!

News

         THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE KIND AND GENEROUS GIFTS, CARDS, AND REMEMBRANCES!  I APPRECIATE EACH OF YOU AND YOUR THOUGHTFULNESS! 

         Happy New Year!  I hope you had an enjoyable, relaxing Christmas!  January will be a great learning time for us in kindergarten.  Your children are progressing nicely. Remember to send back the December reading calendar. 

         Thank you again for all you do to help ensure your child is having a successful school experience.  You truly make such a difference!

ginger.ekker@ironmail.org     

586-2850