Progress Reports

Kindergarten does not recieve progress reports as students do in grades 1-5.  We sent home to each family a sheet that lists the skills that every child needs to work on. Please sign and return the bottom portion of that form. 
I also sent home an sheet that indicated more specific skills that your child needs extra practice on.  This is a guide for you when helping your child.  Many families ask, "What can we do at home?"  This sheet will help you.

Fun times with Mrs. Law

Mrs. Law, our Gifted Resource Specialist visits our classroom once per week.
This week Mrs. Law was teaching our kindergarten friends what things sciencetists do.
Such as observe, ask questions, infer, create experiements, etc...

Word Study

Word Study homework is underway.  Please make sure that you initial and return the word study homework sheet on the due date.  
Your child's name is entered into our weekly homework raffle, so the more that they complete their homework the better their chances of winning!  

Book Orders Are In

Many families ordered books from the September Scholastic Book Clubs.  If you did not receive your book order please let me know. 
We will be sending home another order form in the next few weeks.  
Many of these books are at discounted prices.  Far less expensive then big name book stores.
Books many great gifts and the holidays are right around the corner!

Counting On...

Please make sure that your child is practicing counting as often as possible. It is important that he/she is not skipping or leaving out numbers. Please ask your child to count from various starting points.

Also, it is important that your child is pronouncing the numbers correctly. For example, we say three, four, five and not "tree" or "free" four, five or twelve, thirteen, fourteen, not tweleve, "furteen," fourteen.

Learning About Colors

In Rainbow Valley we love colors!
We read a story entitled Cat's Colors.  Our kindergarten friends learned about color words.
After reading the story the students wrote in their Reader's Workshop note books about their favorite colors and why that color is their favorite one. 

Thinking Like Sciencetist

Mrs. Law our Gifted Resource teacher visits our classes one time per week. 
The children enjoyed making obervations of a leaf using their five senses.  Can you guess which one of the five senses we did not use?