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