October 27th - October 31st

What We Are Learning

Reading:  This week we learned a new strategy to help us understand what we read.  We learned that good readers visualize.  Ask your child to tell you what visualizing is. We will focus on this comprehension strategy next week as well.

Alphabet: We focused on how to properly form the letters Pp, Yy, Cc, Aa, & Ss.  Ask your child which way they enjoyed practicing writing these letters the most (around the table, trace the big letter,  relay race, or creating a letter hat).

Writing:  We continued adding more details to our narrative stories to help our readers understand what happened. We also focused on capitalizing the beginning of our sentences. Ask your child what they chose to write about!

Math: During math this week, we started a new unit!  We are now learning how to add numbers to five. We will learn several strategies to solve addition problems (drawing pictures, using a number line, and punching the biggest number). By the end of kindergarten, your child will know these basic facts automatically, without using any strategy.

Theme: We continued our pumpkin unit. We carved our class pumpkin that we picked during our field trip and explored what was on the inside.  We also made a pumpkin craft using the seeds.  

Student Led Conferences

Thank you all so much for taking time to discuss your child’s progress.  I hope you found the Student Led format beneficial and it gave you insight into your child’s strengths and weaknesses.   I truly enjoyed meeting with all of you!

Book-It

Next week, I will send home a note describing a wonderful program called Book-It. If your child reads 10 books then they get a FREE personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut.  To help your child read good fit books, I will also send home several paper books on your child’s reading level. Please read these books with your child and have them fill out the Reading Record.  Also, your child can visit Raz-Kids.com to access books on their level as well.

Website: www.raz-kids.com

User Name: Orchard1b

Happy Reading!

Popcorn Words

Please practice reading, writing, and spelling our Popcorn words.

This week’s words:

he & do

Previous words:

look, in, like, and, a, up, at, I, see, am, we, to, the, is, my, can, me, & go

Dates to Remember

November 3^rd &4^th: No School

November 11^th: PTO Meeting

November 21^st: PTO Movie Night

November 26^th- 28^th: Thanksgiving Break