Keeping up with Kindergarten!
October 1, 2015
We have had a wonderful start to this school year in Kindergarten! The
students are settling in, learning the routines, and working hard each day.
Homework begins this month, so please look at the monthly calendar. It includes a
short activity for you to complete with your child to help get them in the habit of
being responsible and doing homework.
This month, we will be focusing on informational books and answering
questions about key details, as well as understanding how the pictures connect to
the words. Please read non-fiction books with your children at home. We will
continue to focus on using different strategies to keep track of our counting,
modeling numbers in different ways (pictures, tally marks, numerals), and
identifying dot arrangements through 6, both familiar (like those on dice) and
unfamiliar. Please take your children on nature walks and discuss the weather
each day.
We have been practicing the thinking and academic success skills of
collaboration and analysis. Ask your child how we have been collaborating and
analyzing things in school and help them think of ways to do this at home!
Classroom Wish List
Important Dates
2nd
October
-Early Release day (1:20)
th
October 7 – Walk to School Day
October 12th – Open House, 9:25 am-11am
October 16th – NO SCHOOL
October 22nd– Picture Day
October 30th – Harvest Day Festival
We appreciate healthy snacks for the
class. Remember, please avoid food with
nuts. We need plastic spoons for those
yogurt snacks you send in, the cafeteria
does not provide them.
Monthly Parent Tip!
Along with the nightly homework activity, read with your child every day. As you
read, stop and ask questions about the story. For example, “who is the story
about?” or “where does the story take place?” or “how does the character
feel?” As a challenge, have your child think of a question about what is
happening in the book and ask you.