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