Kindergarten Update 10/18 - 10/22

 Dear Kindergarten Families ,

 

Here is the news for next week. I hope everyone enjoys their day off from school tomorrow! 

 

 

In language arts we will begin a new theme entitled Plants and Animals Have Needs. In this unit, students read and compare selections about animals and plants to learn what living things need to survive. 

We continue to practice naming our letters and sounds that each letter makes. We will celebrate as we improve each week with more practice.  It is so much fun to see their growth.  We will review punctuation at the end of our sentences and talk about different types of punctuation: question marks, exclamation marks and periods.  

 

Sight words to review at home are : I,  can, like, to, the, my, we, go, see,am is, you, me. New words this week are: she, he

 

In math we will continue to work on number formation, finding patterns, word problems, tallies, knowing number names and the count sequence, and counting to tell the number of objects.

 

We will learn about bats and spiders this week and incorporate some fun art projects to go with our study.

 

 

Have a nice long 3 day weekend!

Ms. Werner

Kindergarten Update 10/11 - 10/15

 Hello Wonderful Kindergarten Families ,

 

We are just rolling through the month of October!

 

Here is peek at the upcoming week:

 

In language arts we will continue to practice naming our letters and sounds each letter makes and sight words on our word wall.  We will practice our sentence writing using word wall words and continue to talk about using spaces between our words, use capital letters and the beginning, and use a period at the end. In our Benchmark Language Arts series, we continue to learn that every story has characters and compare and contrast fantasy characters. We listen to the traditional story “The Little Red Hen” and use our imaginations to come up with a different ending to the tale. 

 

Sight words to review at home are : I,  can, like, to, the, my, we, go, see, is. New words this week are: am, you, me. The goal is to learn these words with automaticity. Flash cards really help!

 

In math we will practice writing our numbers to 30, continue learning ways to add story problems, do some graphing activities, and play a math game with a partner called Beat you to Ten.

 

We will continue to learn about the pumpkin life cycle for science and learn about the many different types of bats.

 

*For our Star of the Day don't forget to have your child pick a small item to share and place in a bag.  On the outside, please have them think of three clues as to what the item is. They will then present the clues in front of the class and share their item. 

 

Special thanks to Sydney, Felicity, Brady, Mila, Brekin, Brixten, Blayne, and Lucas for all the classroom supplies!

 

Have a lovely weekend!

Ms. Werner

Kindergarten Update 9/24 -10/1

 Dear Kindergarten Families ,

 

Happy Fall! What a beautiful time of year.

 

Here is a look at the upcoming week:

 

In language arts we will continue to practice our letters and sounds and sight words on our word wall.  We will incorporate some of those words into our sentence writing. In our Benchmark Language Arts series, we begin a new theme focusing on story characters.  Students will be reading and comparing selections to analyze different types of characters. 

 

Sight words to review at home are : I,  can, like, to, the, my, we, go. Our new sight words this week will be: am, is and see. 

 

In math we will continue learning ways to add, story problems, and learn different ways to make ten.

 

We will be finishing up with our Apple theme this week with a few more activities including completing a favorite taste graph of the apples.

 

For science we will learn about a bug scientist in our Science Spin magazine.

Many thanks to Greyson and his family for the very generous Amazon gift card! Special thanks to Nolan and his family for the wonderful art supplies and baby wipes!

I have added a couple more items to my wish list. We have so many artists that enjoy creating!

 

 

Wish List:

Finger paints

Finger Paint paper

Have a spectacular weekend,

Ms. Werner

Kindergarten Update 9/20 - 9/24

 Greetings Kindergarten Families ,

 

 

We have had another fun week here in Room 17.  Here is a little peek at next week and some reminders for you.

 

In language arts we will continue to read books about following the rules at school, home, and in our world by taking a look at fiction, realistic fiction and nonfiction books and class write a comparison and contrast text. We learn about verbs and will look at how we use verbs in our writing. We will also complete our alphabet sounds/and letter writing. Please continue to practice identifying the names of the letters, both uppercase and lowercase and making the sounds with your child. 

 

Sight words to start practicing at home are : I,  can, like, to, the, my. Our new sight words this week will be: we, go, see. 

 

In math we will continue learning to write numbers, learn two dimensional shapes, as well as sorting and graphing.

 

We will continue with our Apple theme for the month and do a fun art project showing the different stages of the apple tree.

 

In our Mystery Science curriculum we learned about the biggest apple in the world and next week we will learn about the biggest tree in the world.

 

 

Reminders:

 

Labeling Items:  Please be sure to label all items that belong to your child so we can make sure they get back to the right person.

 

Special thanks to Shawnti and Lucas for wipes, paper towels, and plastic tablecloths! Our class really appreciates it!

 

You all have been so kind and generous. Some of you have been asking what we need for the classroom.

 

Here is my wish list for the classroom:

 

*Big Paint Brushes and Easel Paper

*Tempera Paint Pens

*Dot Paints

*Lincoln Logs

*Blocks 

*Knex

*Games

*Oil Pastels

*Baby Wipes

*Large,Medium, Small Ziplock Bags

*Twistable Pencils

*Gift Cards to Amazon,Target, or Costco - to purchase supplies

*Silly Putty

*Swiffer Wet Mop

 

 

 

I hope you all have a great weekend,

Cathy Wener

Kindergarten Update 9/13 - 9/17

 Dear Wonderful Kindergarten Families,

 

We have had a nice short week and have already made it to our 20th day of school! The kids are starting to get into our routine and seem to be having lots of fun!

 

Back to a five day week this coming week. We will be doing a lot of fun activities.

 

Here is a peek at our week:  

 

Picture day is this Friday so don't forget to send in the form with your child. I was able to score an early time before recess so they will be nice and fresh!

 

 

In language arts we will continue to read books about following the rules at school, home, and in our world by taking a look at fiction, realistic fiction and nonfiction books.  We will also learn about nouns and verbs and try to identify them in the stories we read.

 

Sight words to start practicing at home are : I,  can, like, to. Our new sight words this week will be: the, my. 

 

We will continue with our Apple theme for the month. On Friday, we will compare apples and bananas and take a look at the seeds that grow inside of both types of fruit in our Letś Find Out series.

 

In math we will continue learning to write numbers, learn two dimensional shapes, as well as sorting and graphing.

 

Thank you so much for the generous donations! I appreciate all the wipes, paper towels, and cool prizes for our prize box!  Many thanks!

 

Reminders:

 

Picture day is this Friday so don't forget to send in the form with your child.

 

 

Labeling Items:  Please be sure to label all items that belong to your child so we can make sure they get back to the right person.

 

 

I hope you all enjoy the weekend,

Ms. Werner

Kindergarten Upate 9/7 - 9/10

 Hello Kindergarten Families,

Time is really flying by. We are already entering our fourth week of school!

We have a new student in our class. Welcome Ethan Mansfield! You are a wonderful addition to our class!

This week we will begin our new theme which is all about apples! We will learn about different kinds of apples, do some graphing with the apples, do some apple tasting,  learn about the apple life cycle, learn where apples are grown, and learn about the biggest apple in the world through our Mystery Science program.

In math we will continue to work on number bonds and learning to add. Please continue to work on number identification to 10 if your child is still confused on which number is which. (Flash cards are helpful). We will also work on number formation to 10.

In our language arts theme, we will learn about why we have rules at school and at home. Students will be reading and comparing selections about rules at school and home to learn about responsibility.

We visit the library every Wednesday. Mrs. Lowe is allowing kindergartners this year to check out books. I will be sending the books home today with your child. They may keep this book until next Wednesday. Please be sure to return books every Wednesday or before so that they can check out another book. I think the kids were very excited about being able to check out books! 

 I have an update on the cafeteria. Students can  receive breakfast before school and at 9 o'clock at our recess time. If students need food they may pick it up at 11:25 and take it with them. The cafeteria will need Students names if they request food after school ( the meals will be free).  On Wednesdays  children can receive breakfast at 9 o'clock and  lunch at 10:30 during their second recess.

Thank you for all the supplies! A shout out to Liz Ricks ( Brekin’s mom) for donating two 24 packs of large and small water bottles. These are for students who forget their water bottles and are thirsty. I don't allow my students to use the drinking fountain because of Covid. I am asking for disinfectant wipes for our classroom. Every day I disinfect with the district approved disinfectant safe for children and I go over that also with disinfectant wipes. I'd like to stock up on them in case they are hard to get later.

It will be nice to have a three day weekend. I hope you all enjoy it and hopefully the weather will be nice!

Fondly,

Cathy Werner

Kindergarten Update 8/30 - 9/3

 Hello families,

It was so wonderful to see you all at Virtual Back to School Night. I hope I got all of your questions answered. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any concerns or questions. I am always here for you!

 

This week we will continue to work on letter formation- practicing the letters: M, N, Y, Z, and H.

 

Sight words we will practice and add to our word wall will be: I, like

 

We will read our first social studies magazine all about how we help to clean up in the classroom as well as help others.

 

We will continue to review rhyming and do an art project with Humpty Dumpty. We will also weave in a science experiment with an “egg Humpty Dumpty” to see if he will float better in regular water or salt water. It should be lots of fun!

 

The children continue to do great with being dropped off at the bottom of the stairs or from the park. I am so proud of how brave they are!

 

Thank you again for all of the generous donations! I have received Mr. Sketch markers, desk wipes, books, and paper towels. It is so much appreciated!

 

I hope you all enjoy this wonderful weather we are having and have a great week,

 

Cathy Werner