Kindergram January

Kindergram

January 26, 2012

Mrs. Eggers * Mr. Daugherty *Mrs. Oetker

READING: We began our new reading theme about weather which is titled, “Sunshine and Raindrops.” We are exploring snowy weather and reading many books about snow. We are working on segmenting words after we listened to our theme poem “First Snow.” We can practice this at home, too. Say any word that has 3-4 sounds in the word and have your child say the sounds they hear at the beginning, middle, and end. This helps every child become a terrific reader!!

HOMEWORK: LETTER OF THE WEEK: “Ss” will be the letter of the week starting on Monday, January 30^th. Please sit down with your child and discuss what sound this letter makes. Have your child cut out one small picture from a magazine or newspaper that begins with the letter “S” and bring it to school.

MATH: We love measuring!!! We can measure how long or tall any object is and record our measurements! Give your child many objects to measure and they will show you how! We are also really good at comparing measurements and putting them in order from shortest to longest! We also did a good job on the cumulative test over topics 1-8! That was a long assessment!

HANDWRITING: We are continuing to work on writing our “magic c” lowercase letters. We are learning to write them between two lines. The hardest part is to make sure our letters are sitting on the bottom line. It will become easier as we keep praciticing.

SCIENCE: We are quite the scientists! We have learned some big words this week with some of our experiments! See if your child can tell you what these words are: question, hypothesis, test, record, observation, and conclusion.

Please check out the kindergarten blog at:

http://fisher-kindergarten.blogspot.com

IT’S THE 100^th Day on Monday, January 30^th! Your child will be involved in many fun activities on Monday! We are going to all of the kindergarten, 1^st grade, and 2^nd grade classrooms to explore 100! We are also going to make a 100 day snack. Please have your child count out 100 pieces of a snack to bring to school in a baggy with their name on it! Some snack items might include pretzels, small marshmallows, small chocolate chips, Cheerios, Lucky Charms, Cocoa Puffs, Fruit Loops, Cheez-its, cheese balls, m & m’s, Cheetos, raisins, or miniture cookies. Any thing small will work to make a big gorp mix! Remember: NO PEANUT ITEMS!!

Dates to Remember:

February 3: No School

February 14: Valentine Parties in the afternoon

February 20: No School or Snow Make Up Day

***DONATIONS***

We could really use the following items. These items help us with many classroom activities. Thank you for donating! We really appreciate it! These donations will help us with our winter projects we have planned! J

1. felt: variety of colors

2. craft foam: variety of colors

January 12, 2012 Kindergram

Kindergram

January 12, 2012

Mrs. Eggers * Mr. Daugherty *Mrs. Oetker

READING: We continued reciting more nursery rhymes this week! We are beginning to be able to generate our own words that rhyme. See if your child can think of a rhyming word when you say “pig, cat, man, hot, bit, or bun.” It is easy to pick from a list, but sometimes more difficult to come up with a word on our own. J The more we practice the better we will become!

Your child participated in the Marshalltown DIBELS reading assessment this week. They were assessed in letter naming (reading off uppercase and lowercase letters in one minute), first sounds fluency (telling the first sound they hear in a word in one minute), segmenting fluency (saying the sounds they hear in a word in one minute), and reading non-sense words (saying all the sounds they see in a make believe word in one minute). All kindergarten children have been working hard to prepare for this assessment. It will happen again in May! Be proud of how much your child has grown this kindergarten year!

HOMEWORK: LETTER OF THE WEEK: “Qq” will be the letter of the week starting on Tuesday, January 17^th. Please sit down with your child and discuss what sound this letter makes. Have your child cut out one small picture from a magazine or newspaper that begins with the letter “Q” and bring it to school.

MATH: Counting by ordinal numbers (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th and 10^th) is a little harder then we thought. We learned how to number objects to help us count this way. J We are now professionals when it comes to cutting a food in HALF! Every child knows 4 ways to cut different shapes in half! Let them show you! Our topic 8 test will be coming up next week. Please help your child number items and count by ordianl numbers to the 10^th.

HANDWRITING: We have started working on writing our lowercase letters. We are learning to write them between two lines. The hardest part is to make sure our letters are sitting on the bottom line. It will become easier as we keep praciticing.

SCIENCE: We continue to explore the season of winter. We are reading books about winter and snowmen! Since we don’t have snow outside, we have started to create some snow and snowmen inside! Let’s hope we see snow soon!

Please check out the kindergarten blog at:

http://fisher-kindergarten.blogspot.com

Dates to Remember:

· January 13: 11:20 a.m. dismissal/Quarter ends

· January 16: No School

· January 18: Kindergarten field trip to the public library

· January 19: Assembly/Buddy Day (wear Fisher clothing)

§ Progress reports will be coming home in Thursday folders

January 26: January Birthday Club in lunch room

***DONATIONS***

We could really use the following items. These items help us with many classroom activities. Thank you for donating! We really appreciate it! These donations will help us with our winter projects we have planned!

1. string licorice for edible snowmen

2. mini chocolate chips for edible snowmen

3. big marshmallows for edible snowmen

4. gel frosting in tubes of different colors

5. hot chocolate

6. small marshmallows

7. felt: variety of colors

8. craft foam: variety of colors