A Note from Mrs. Hughes
Thank you to our room mom for coordinating supplies and activities for our class!
Also, thank you for our ArtSmart volunteers for making us
Art Smart!
The students really enjoy the fun lessons / November Resource Calendar
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
1C / 2 / 3D / 4E
7F / 8G / 9 / 10H / 11
No School Veteran’s Day
14A / 15B
Kindergarten
Thanksgiving
Performance
5:30-6:30 / 16 / 17C / 18D
Library Books Due!
21E / 22F / 23
No School / 24
No School
Happy Thanksgiving! / 25
No School
28G / 29H / 30
A-MusicB-Art C-PE D-Media Center E- Technology F-Computer LabG-PEH-Media Center
Homework:
- Practice Fry word list
- Read a book and color a turkey on your reading log.
- Books read on Raz-Kids also count so please color a turkey for those as well! Your child should be reading books to you on Raz-Kids. The goal this quarter is to finish bookroom A. Don’t forget to listen to, read and answer the comprehension questions for each book.
- IXL.Com-Work in sections D and M and E if your child is ready for bigger numbers.
- If your child cannot identify the introduced letters, sounds and/or fry words, please practice them nightly for homework until they master them
Language Arts-Phonics/Phonemic awareness/Handwriting focus: Identify and form Gg, Ff, Ll. Introduce letter sound for /g/, /f/ and /l/.Identifying beginning sounds in words. Practice identifying how many syllables are in a word, as well as, blending and segmenting syllables. Read words from introduced word families. (ex. -at, -an) Continue practicing fry words.
Math: Counting and Cardinality (identifying Numbers 0-20, counting groups of objects 0-20 and writing the numeral.)
Writing:Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing (letter sound spelling and fry words) to create opinion pieces. Use a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence. Write introduced letters legibly.
Science & Social Studies: Veterans Day, Timelines,Thanksgiving
Pillar ofCharacter
Citizenship
Good citizens follow the rules, take responsibility, and are careful. / On Tuesday, November 15th at 5:30pm the Kindergarten classes will have a Thanksgiving performance for all parents! Hope to see you there
Please save and send in your Box Tops
Dear Parents,
The following are the academic skills that will be assessed during the second nine weeks grading period:
Your child should be able to:
Concepts of Print:Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
- Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. (The written words are what I am reading)
Phonemic Awareness:Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes) (For practice go to professorgarfield.org-Orson’s farm)
- Identify how many syllables are in a word. (ex. paper=2 syllables)
- Blend syllables together. (ex. I say pa-per and student says paper)
- Segment syllables. (ex. I say paper and student says pa-per)
- Identify the beginning sound in a word. ( ex. horse begins with /h/)
Phonics:Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.(starfall.com is a great website to practice phonics also professorgarfied.org fishing for phonics game)
- Recognize both the capital and lowercase letter and say its sound without hesitation. (ex. identifies M and m and its sound would be counted as one)
M=19 or more letters and their sound
P=13-18
I=0-12
- Write a letter for the sound given. (ex. I say /p/ and student writes the letter p)
- Read words from introduced word families. (ex. -at, -an, -ap)
- Identify what sounds differ in two words (such as bat and cat correct response is /b/ and /c/ the beginning sounds differ)
Fry Words: Read fry words without sounding out or hesitation. (In a snap by memory) –**Practice fry word lists**
M=25 or more(ex. knows all words on red, orange and half of yellow list)
P=13-24
I=0-12
Comprehension: Demonstrates the ability to understand text & construct meaning.
(Read to/with your child nightly and ask questions about story/text.)(Practice on Raz-kids.com)
- Ask and answer questions about words in stories/texts they may not know.
- Ask and answer questions about key details in a story/text.
- Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
M= Level A books independently with comprehension/B books with help
- Identify the author and tell you the author wrote the book.
- Identify the illustrator and tell you the illustrator drew the pictures.
- Form regular plural nouns orally (when speaking) by adding /s/ or /es/ (ex. dog, dogs, wish, wishes)
- Demonstrates understanding of antonyms (opposites). (ex. stop/go, big/little)
Writing:
- Willingly participate in writing
- Stay on topic
- Use a combination of drawings, dictations, and writings to compose an opinion piece where they write their opinion and tell why. Ex. (My favorite apple is a red apple because it tastes sweet.)
- Form introduced letters correctly/write legibly
- Capitalize the first word in a sentence.
- Use sound spelling in writing. (initial consonants ex: student writes b e h for bears eat honey)- First sound of each word is represented.
Math:
- Count by tens to 50.
- Count by ones to 50.
- Recognize and write numbers 0-20
- Count groups of objects to 20 with one to one correspondence.
- Understands that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.
- Represent a number of objects0-20 with a written numeral.
- Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger. (what is one more than….)
- Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.
- Use positional terms such as above, below, next to, beside, over, under, in front of, behind to describe the location of an object.