Newsletter Week 24

School to Home Connection
(Week 24)
Focus letter: Ee
This week’s password: her

This week, we are continuing our discussion on presidents, with an emphasis on Washington and Lincoln. In math, we will be finishing up Unit 10: Numbers to 100. Please review numbers to 100 with your child, as well as counting by 2’s and 5’s. In writing, we are focusing on prepositional phrases, such as on, in, before, at, after, etc. You can reinforce these skills by dictating sentences to your child and have them fill in the missing word. Ex: He was at the ______.


The penny war ends Friday, Feb. 26th. Don't forget to bring in your pennies and turn them into the front office.

Topic 9 Test Math Masters

The following made a 100 or better on the Topic 9 (numbers to 20) math test - way to go!

Garrett
Chris
Ana
Alexa
Mia
Christina
Jaden
Trey

They all get to have lunch with me on Friday :)

Valentine's Party

The party has been rescheduled for Thursday, Feb. 18th (1:45-2:45). I hope that all of you who planned on attending last week can still make it :)

VCE (vowel, consonant, -e)

I have to post about my proud teacher moment I had this morning. We were practicing spelling words by sounding them out. We were writing sentences for our "How to Make a Valentine" book. Our first sentence was "First he got his supplies" and they did great sounding out all of the words. When we were spelling supplies, we wrote "suplis" because that is what it sounds like. Then Evan said, "Mrs. Hendrix you need to add an e at the end because the i is saying it's name." I was so proud that he remembered that!! This class amazes me every day!

Newsletter Week 22 & 23

Week of 2/8-2/12

We are continuing our unit
on seasons. We will be
focusing on the season of Spring.

In math, we are continuing to
read, write, and make numbers
to 20.

Letter of the week: Kk
Passwords: have, had

Nursery Rhyme:

The Queen of Hearts
The Queen of Hearts,
She made some tarts,
All on a summer’s day.

The Knave of Hearts,
He stold those tarts,
And took them clean away.



Week of 2/15-2/19

Our social studies theme for
this week is presidents.
Feb. 15th is President’s Day.

In math, we will finish topic
9 – numbers to 20. We will
begin counting to 100.

Letter of the week: Gg
Password: his

Nursery Rhyme:

Yankee Doodle
Yankle Doodle went to town,
Riding on a pony.
Stuck a feather in his hat,
And called it macaroni

Important Dates:

Feb. 12th: Valentine Party 1:45-2:45
Feb. 15th: NO SCHOOL
Feb. 26th: 2010 School Disco Dance

It is almost time to celebrate Valentine's Day with our class. Kindergarten class parties will be held on Friday, February 12th from 1:45-2:45 pm.If it is possible for your family to make a monetary donation to the Valentine's party, please send $5 in an envelope marked "party donation." Please know this donation is strictly optional. Any donations received will be used to defray the costs of paper goods, drinks/food, party favors, crafts, etc.

Please remember, no siblings are allowed at the party.

100th Day of School

Trey reading the story he wrote about how excited he was about the 100th Day of School.

He read this story to Mrs. Wilkie on Friday.

Ana is a goof!

Putting our 100 objects into groups of 5.

Counting each other's 100 items.

Making 100 (pretzel, donut, and object of their choice)

100 Dots

Citlali made this all on her own but

I expect nothing less because she is so creative.

The Hot Seat

Bailey's birthday :)

Like, I've said before, this class has REALLY impressed me how quickly they picked up addition. As a former 2nd grade teacher, I can really appreciate the fact that they know their facts - :) And I know they are all going to knock the socks off their future teachers!

We have been playing a game called "The Hot Seat." Stacie Farr, aka Mrs. Farr - a former kindergarten and 2nd grade teacher at CAE now turned Kain's "nanny" (the best you could ask for!) - orginally came up with the game and then I just made a few slight adjustments. Anyway, basically two kids sit in a chair facing me. They each have a dry erase board, marker, and eraser. And they boy have a line behind them that is their team. I call out a math problem and then they have to write the answer on the board. I make them write it because I won't give them the point if their number is backwards... besides I think it is good to write it. Whoever, gets it right first gets the point for their team. They can use any strategy - their fingers, drawing a picture, setting up the addition sentence, etc. I also love to have the dry erase boards because it helps me their thinking process... it is a great informal assessment tool.

The first time we played the girls won. The second time we played, we played against Ms. Montez's class. We won again! I was so impressed!!

So, parents good job -- because it shows me that you are to blame for their wonderful math skills because you work with them at home. So, thank you for your hard work :)

Now, if we could just get those number reversals under control... :)