Practice Makes Perfect!

This week we will be taking our Unit 2 math test – so any extra practice you do at home would be awesome! We will be reviewing this week in preparation for our test! I know all of my friends will do great!

We will also be starting our science unit – Sink or Float! Please be prepared to test things at home – I just know that my friends will love experimenting and making predictions about what objects will sink to the bottom and which objects will float! I can’t wait to see all of the fun we have during this unit!

In Literacy we will start Week 3 of Unit 3. We will be reading “Please Take Me For A Walk” and “Field Trips” and will be talking about the different places we go during the week and also focusing on the character, setting, and events that happen in the stories. In our crabby books we will be reading “We Go To See Nan” and “Can We Go?” We will be focusing on the letter c and learning how to read and write the word go! Our vocabulary words will be neighborhood, routine, intelligent, local, and volunteer. During guided reading your child will either be reading “We Can Go” or “Going by Cab”. During writer’s workshop we are continuing to write stories from our lives and are working hard on sounding out words that we don’t know how to spell using turtle talk.

Please have your child wear red, white, and blue on Wednesday – because we will be observing Veterans Day and will be making a few things for our Veterans and of course taking some pictures for this special day. Last week I had so many friends bring in candy for the Veterans and this week we will be bagging it up and making a special gift for the Veterans! Please let me know if you have a veteran or veterans you would like to have a bag of candy and card for and I will send it home with your child. This week we also started our Food Drive here at Meadow Lane and it is our goal to bring in 100 items of food for the Food Drive - and so far we have 25 items so I am hoping that we can continue to bring in some more food for this very worthy cause! Friday was “Hats for Hunger Day” and we had quite a few fun hats in our room!

Also this week a turkey will be coming home with your child – don’t worry it is just a paper turkey - this is a fun family project that you can do together and send back to school. All of the directions and turkey will come home in your child’s kindergarten folder! I can’t wait to see what the turkeys look like when they come back!

Speaking of kindergarten folders – your wonders online access sheet was added in on Friday as well as a practice sheet for spelling words and kindergarten words. Please know that any extra practice you can do at home will only benefit your child! Remember you will now be seeing two literacy homework sheets that will need to be done with a homework helper! Please let me know if you have any questions! 

Also a BIG thank you to all of you that were able to come to reading night last week. I hope you all had fun and learned a little about our kindergarten literacy curriculum! It really is crazy what kindergarteners do now and how much it has changed! Please mark down Thursday, December 3^rd from 5:30-6:30 on your calendar because that is Math Night and I hope to have some more fun activities planned for that evening as well and hope you all can come. Please check out the video we made for reading night with a few more pictures added in! I hope you all had a fabulous weekend!