Last week of Quarter 1

This week we will keep on learning  - although we really don’t ever stop learning in kindergarten! In Math I am super excited because we are going to start exploring with patterns. We will find patterns, make patterns, and extend patterns. We will use paper, manipulatives and ourselves to make different kinds of patterns –just wait I am sure your kindergartener will be finding patterns everywhere – although please help me teach them that patterns repeat over and over again and a pattern is not just two things in a row! We will also be focusing on the number 6 and will continue to tell math stories using addition and subtraction! Also did your child tell you about the five finder? It was crazy in my classroom that afternoon! The five finder burst out of the back room and was finding the number five and groups of five everywhere - she had on a cape, glasses, and carried a special wand - all of which had the number 5 on them! We are sure hoping the five finder comes back to our room soon!

In Writing we will continue to sound out the words we are wanting to write using our alphabet chart and start using finger spaces! Leaving spaces is a tricky thing but I know with some practice we will get them into our writing! I will be sending home our quarter 1 writing/drawings –and I want you to really look at it because at the end of the year you will be amazed at what your kindergartener can write!

In Literacy we will be talking about how shapes are all around us! We will continue to use the “ask and answer questions” strategy while reading our stories this week. My friends are getting really good at asking questions before, during, and after we read our stories. We will be reading “Shapes All Around”, “Kites in Flight”, “Find the Shapes”, “We Like Tam!” and “I like Sam” this week. Our vocabulary words are materials, nature, decoration, games, and world. We will also be learning the word “like” and focusing on the letter “t”. We will continue to practice blending sounds together to make words and sorting words that start and end with the “t” sound!

We will also be finishing up our five senses unit this week and will end with an activity that will make us use all five of our senses! I am certain your kindergartener will tell you all about it! We will also be listening to some sounds and feeling different objects and will try to guess what they are.

This week we will continue to do some assessments to find out all of the wonderful things your kindergartener has learned already this year! It is sure to be a great week!

A reminder that conferences are this week on Tuesday and Thursday night! Please turn in your forms and letters if you haven’t already and bring your kindergartener to your conference. Also during conferences you will have the opportunity to visit the Book Fair in the library – the book fair is a great place you can go to buy some books for your library at home – we will be going to check out the book fair on Tuesday as a class. Also speaking of books we will go to library on Thursday this week due to no school on Friday – so please make sure all of your books are returned so you can check out new some books! I am very much looking forward to conferences this week and can’t wait to see all of you!

Remember Friday, the 10th, we don't have school and next Monday and Tuesday, October 13th and 14th is our Fall Break! So that means your child will not be in kindergarten for 5 days - please look for a packet of homework I will be sending home on Thursday!