Friday, September 23, 2011

Monday, September 19, 2011

Newsletter for 9-19 to 9-23

102’s Kindergarten News For You! 

Reading/Writing:  Our new letter will be Pp and the sound of /p/.   We will really begin building words now that we have these letters to choose from: a, p, m, s. Remember, am & at help us build many words.  We will soon change the vowel as well!  Sight words: your child must know how to spell the words as well as read them.

Math/Numbers:  Patterning.  What makes a pattern?  Noticing different kinds of  patterns:  ABABAB, or AAB, AAB or ABC, ABC, etc. We are comparing things we see in our daily lives such as trees, buildings and people in order to build our vocabulary.
Special Topics: APPLES!

Important Stuff:  Parent-Teacher Conferences will be coming up soon! Watch for information about this! 
Until next time,
Mrs. SteinmanJ

Thursday, September 8, 2011

102's Kindergarten News for You!

Reading/Writing:  Continue alphabet recognition and sound recognition.  New sight words: can, like, and am, at.  Our new letter will be Ss and the sound of /s/.  We noticed how the letter /a/ made it easy for us to rhyme and build short words such as at, hat, fat, cat or an, pan, man, fan.  We noticed how the ENDING of words is what makes them rhyme!  Cool!

Math/Numbers:  Positional terms were fairly simple.  We will incorporate these terms into our reading and math along with our sorts.  Next week we begin noticing patterns.  Writing numerals from 0-20 as well as matching.

Special Topics:  All About Me!  CONGRATULATION PARENTS!   Nearly every child turned in their poster about themselves immediately after Labor Day!  I am impressed!  THANK YOU!  The kids are so excited to share their interests and lives with each other!

Important Stuff:  Keep up the good work on helping your child learn to tie!  Two children learned over the long weekend and you want to talk about FREEDOM for them, you and me!  :)

LATE START for students on Monday, September 12, 2011, due to teacher in-service.

Homecoming is next week and the elementary will participate in dress-up days.  Watch for notes!

Website: SOCS has some problems...(lucky me?) so until it is fixed, my piece of the website will not be updated, so once again, thank you paper!

Until next time, 
Mrs. Steinman :)