Class Holiday Party

Ms. Glidewells You will receive an email from our room parents about
helping or sending supplies for our party. It will be on
Monday, December 18th at 1:40-2:40. We only need four or
five parent helpers and they will coordinate this.

Kindergarten Pajama Day

Tuesday, December 19th
Class Change in Winter Break Dates: Dec. 20-Jan. 3 2018
December 11th-
December 15th 2017 Ways you can support your childs learning at home:
Have your child read to someone each night for 10-
Dear Parents, 15 min.
Have your child practice writing simple sentences
This week in Readers Workshop, we will read, Yoko paying attention to using spacing between words,
To increase reading comprehension, we will work on capitalization and punctuation
segmenting letter sounds in words, rhymes substituting Play a word wall word game (ideas on the back of
letter sounds, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes, and the list sent at BTS night)
language awareness with sentences. We will Summarize (A Help your child sound out words and write about a
good way to understand a story is to think about the topic of interest using details in a story and
important key events and the order in which they happen. drawing pictures to go with the words.
We can retell the story from beginning to end.) Make Count backwards from 20
Inferences (Sometimes we must figure out things in the Generate a number that is one more than or one
story ourselves. Paying attention to the important events less than another number up to 20 ( also a new
gives us clues about the story.) Informational Text: requirement from the state)
Expository (text that explains or gives information; often Practice counting by 5s to 100 orally
contains photographs) Have your child practice writing first and last
This week in Writers Workshop we will finish our Hoe name
to books and make cards. We will be focusing on using List of word wall words for the year:
spacing between words, pointing to the words to reread our I, the, we, like, a, see, go, to, have, is, play, are,
writing to see if it makes sense. We will work on correcting for, this, do, and, what, you ,little, said, here, was,
our writing so it will make sense to others. In Math we will she, he, has ,look, with, my, me, where, when, who,
play many games to reinforce numbers and counting at, how, up, can , it, fun, as, did, will, am, in, boy,
backwards, comparing numbers, composing and decomposing girl, yes, no ,if, mom, dad, love, or, but, went, get,
numbers, and counting on from a certain number, writing had, want, not, on, us, that, him, her, they, could,
the number before and after a given number. some, one, two, three ,four, five, six, seven, eight,
For Social Studies we will be talking about nine, ten, red, yellow, blue ,green, orange, purple,
Holidays and Traditions. In Science, we will continue our black, white, brown.
scientist of the day lessons.
Wish List
A copy of the book How to Dress a Dragon by
Scientist of the Day Thelma Godin
Your child was assigned a day and a project. Your child will do the Used greeting cards (Please cut off the back
experiment at home and then bring in the materials and explain it and do it where someone has written on it and we will glue
with the class. Projects will begin Nov. 27th and end Jan. 8 th. Your child will the front on construction paper and make new
be graded on the experiment and his/her lesson taught to the class. You will
need to keep your childs experiment in a safe place. The date will be on the
cards) I would like to collect these from you all
instruction page. He/she will have a worksheet to record that will need to be year!
returned and explained to the class on the day of the experiment. Please Playdough
keep up with the paper, it takes a lot of time for me to assign, put in my
lesson plans, and copy and then go find the lesson and pull that particular
information again if it is lost. If your child is sick on his/her day, I will give Sincerely, Sherry Glidewell
them a makeup day in January. You are welcome to come and watch your Email: [email protected]
child teach the lesson. Please practice at home and pretend to be the (512) 841-0326
audience. We will have a Q and A session at the end of each experiment. Our
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