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