Thank you for a wonderful conference week!
We loved bragging about your children and sharing with you all of their exciting growth!
Important Dates:
*Sunday November 6 -- Daylight Savings Time Ends
*Tuesday November 8 -- Election Day - Student Holiday
*Friday, November 11 – Veteran’s Day – We will study this holiday in class.
*Monday November 14 – Friday November 18 Pickle Patch Book Fair
*Tuesday, November 15 – Kindergarten Thanksgiving lunch with parents and grandparents. You will be notified of the time your child’s class will go to lunch. COME EARLY! Each class has only 30 minutes for lunch, and the parking can be a problem!
*Monday November 21 – Friday November 25 - Thanksgiving Holidays – No School
CHARACTER KEY KID AWARDS
Congratulations to our Key Kids for the month of October. Great job demonstrating Honesty!
Our character word for November is “Thankfulness – Appreciate what you have.”
CURRICULUM - The Big Picture for the Second Nine Weeks:
MATH:
Recognition, values, and fair trades with pennies, nickels, and dimes, (10 pennies for a dime.) Practice with your child counting coin values using nickels and pennies together, (counting by fives for the nickels, then switching to counting by ones for the pennies.)
Recognition of circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles, cubes, spheres.
Identify missing elements in a pattern.
LANGUAGE ARTS:
Read all 20 caterpillar words.
Identify all 26 capital and lower case letter names.
Identify and produce 23 consonant letter sounds. These include the two sounds of Cc, (“k” and “s”,) and the two sounds of Gg (“g” and “j.”)
Segment syllables in spoken words. Have your child clap each syllable in words, (example: Oc-to-ber)
Write all capital and lower case letters introduced so far correctly using top, mid, and base lines.
Please continue to read to your child every night. Be sure to ask questions afterward. Here are examples: “What happened at the beginning, in the middle, at the end?” “Who was/were the main character(s)?” “Where was the setting of the story?” “Was this make believe, (fiction) or true, (non-fiction)?” This will begin to prepare them for the critical thinking they will need in future grades.
Begin teaching your child reasoning skills by thinking out loud when you solve a problem. “If we take the back roads we can avoid the traffic on the interstate.” “If we add another can of corn we can be sure there is enough for everyone.” “If we buy a larger package it may be cheaper, but will we be able to use it before it goes bad?” These skills don’t come automatically, and can really help your child make good choices and good decisions.
THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO!
