May/June Themes:
Camping
Ocean
Beach & Pirates & Mermaids
America (Picnics ,Baseball etc.)
Be sure to mark your calendars (see dates below), we have a busy end of year!
#finishstrong
Classroom Needs: plastic table clothes (blue/yellow/white), color sharpies (all sizes),
Chaperones Needed - for Pullen Park on May 10th (Friday). Please email if you are able to join us.
Roberts Park End of Year Picnic - June 7th - Families Welcome!! More information will be sent home soon in Monday folders.
Activity Organizers Needed for Roberts Park- We are in need of parents to help set up stations at Roberts Park (ex. bubbles, chalk, hula hoops etc…)
Pizza Volunteer Needed - We are in need of a volunteer to order, pick up and transport pizza to Roberts Park for our picnic. Please email if you can help.
Assessments/Benchmark Testing - End of year Assessments will begin in May and continue throughout the month. To help your child do their best, please be sure they have a good night's rest and a healthy breakfast. Your child will be assessed on everything we have learned this year :0)
May
1st - NO SCHOOL Teacher Workday
3rd - Hunter Heritage Carnival, 5:30-8:00pm
10th - Field Trip to Pullen Park
23rd - Electives End
27th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
June
3rd - Hunter Hollywood Star Day (Dress your best and be ready to walk the red carpet.)
4th - LUAU Beach Day (Wear your sunglasses and tropical sun clothes. Bring beach towel to lay out and read!)
5th - Superhero Day (Donations of plastic table cloths needed, so we can craft our Kindergarten capes.)
6th - Camping Day (Bring a flat sheet to build a tent to read in. Sheets will be returned.)
7th - Picnic in the Park Day (Roberts Park Field Trip), TBD-12:30pm - Families Welcome, pack a lunch and join us!
K Awards Assembly, Time TBD
10th - Game Day (Wear your favorite team shirts and bring a game to share with friends.)
11th - Field Day & LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!! (Dress in clothes and shoes to run and play.)
Math:
Foundations of Place Value: Exploring Number 11-20
Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones by: using objects or drawings, recording each composition or decomposition by a drawing OR expression.
Understanding that teen numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.
Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or expression.
For any number from 0 to 10, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or expression.
Demonstrate fluency with addition and subtraction within 5.
Literacy:
UNIT: Readers Put Themselves in the Place of Characters and Perform Book
In this unit, with support from adults, students will deepen understanding of fiction texts by identifying setting, characters and events, comparing texts, comparing experiences of characters, and describe how illustrations enhance understandings. Students will continue to learn long and short vowels, increase their knowledge of sight words and find similarities between words that are spelled similarly. Students will also begin learning about verbs and how they tell action.
Students will understand that…Authors and illustrators provide evidence of how characters feel and develop using text and illustrations. Characters develop over the course of a story or over the course of a series of stories. Rereading and acting stories out lead to deeper comprehension and knowledge of characters and stories. Using what we know about letters, sounds and words can help us to figure out new words.
UNIT: Readers Share Their Reading Across Genres
In this unit, students will culminate their learning throughout the year by being able to identify different types of texts and use a variety of phonemic strategies to read grade level texts independently. Students have developed a confidence over the course of the school year and will present texts to peers and others. Students will understand that….There are different types of texts with different purposes. They can use what they have learned about letters, sounds and sight words to read grade level texts independently. They can retell stories and events in complete sentences and with detail.
Foundational Skills: Apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words - vowel teams, magic e, vowel stealers for long and short vowel sounds. Read (and write) common high frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sound of the letters that differ. (e.g., analogies or changes in onset and rime: cat/man).
Speaking and Listening & Language: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Writing:
Authors as Mentors (Narrative) - This unit is designed to help students transition back into writing personal narratives and small moments.
Persuasive - This is as a review of writing opinion pieces. It delves more deeply into clearly stating an opinion while offering specific reasons for the opinion. It emphasizes the power of writing to help the world.
Word Wall Words: Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Please practice reading and writing these words at home.
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April Themes:
Farm
Chickens & Eggs
Zoo
Save the Earth & Rainforest
April Calendar Events:
1st-5th Book Fair Week
8th - Report Cards sent home
11th - Science Night - Fun for ALL!
12th - Move-a-thon & Wellness Day
15th-22nd SPRING BREAK
26th - Field Trip (Animal EDventures)
27th - SATURDAY LetterLand Day at Pullen Park, 10am-4pm
May 3rd - Hunter Heritage, 5:30-8:00pm - Super Fun for All!
Book Fair Week: “Reading with the Stars” Book Fair Week
Monday, April 1: A Bad Case of the Stripes - Dress in stripes
Tuesday, April 2: Highlighting Good Readers - Dress in neon or bright colors
Wednesday, April 3: Cozy Up with a Good Book - Dress in Pajamas
Thursday, April 4: Book Buddy Day - Dress like a twin with your friend and share your favorite book.
Friday, April 5: Seeing Stars - Community Readers visit classrooms to read a story - Dress in Hunter Star Wear
Chaperones Needed: For April 26th field trip to Animals EDventures. You must be cleared to volunteer for WCOSS. Also, you will need to provide your own transportation and admission fee. PLease email if you can support a group.
Math:
UNIT 6 Parts & Wholes/ Joining and Separating: Addition & Subtraction within 10:
The focus of this unit is on exploring parts and wholes with joining and separating. Students develop an understanding of combining sets (result unknown) and represent addition and subtraction with objects while creating a deeper understanding of the relationship between number and quantities (cardinality). Composing 10 and understanding addition and subtraction within 10 are intertwined to help students to make connections between making 10 and solving story problems. The concept of equality is a critical understanding and helps students realize that numbers can be broken apart in a variety of ways and still represent the same amount.
Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 10.
Literacy:
Unit 6: In Our Community, We Learn About Ourselves and Our World by Reading for Information. In this unit students will discover more about the world around them through information books. Key Ideas and Details - identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depict), identify the reasons an author gives to support points in the text, and identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Unit 7: Readers Use All of Their “Tricks and Tools” in their Backpacks When It Comes to Tricky Parts. Readers will learn more strategies to use while they are reading including word solving, cross-checking, self-correcting and making meaning. In this unit students will ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures.), demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes), count, produce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words, know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words, associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels A,E,I,O,U, recognize and apply vowel patterns (two vowels out walking - feet, boat, magic e - cake, bike.
and ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Writing:
Unit 8: Informational Writing - All About Books
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened. Participate in shared research and writing projects.
Unit 9: Authors and Mentors - Narrative Writing
This unit is designed to help students transition back into writing personal narratives and small moments.
Word Wall Words: Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Word Wall (High Frequency) (See “reading resources” tab on Mrs. Martinez’ website for a list of the words to practice at home). We will continue to review the words we have learned, especially spelling, through the end of the year.
Science: Animals Two by Two. Compare and contrast animals, compare characteristics of living and nonliving things in terms of structure, growth, changes, movement, basic needs, and understand the position and motions of objects and organisms observed the environment.
Farm
Chickens & Eggs
Zoo
Save the Earth & Rainforest
April Calendar Events:
1st-5th Book Fair Week
8th - Report Cards sent home
11th - Science Night - Fun for ALL!
12th - Move-a-thon & Wellness Day
15th-22nd SPRING BREAK
26th - Field Trip (Animal EDventures)
27th - SATURDAY LetterLand Day at Pullen Park, 10am-4pm
May 3rd - Hunter Heritage, 5:30-8:00pm - Super Fun for All!
Book Fair Week: “Reading with the Stars” Book Fair Week
Monday, April 1: A Bad Case of the Stripes - Dress in stripes
Tuesday, April 2: Highlighting Good Readers - Dress in neon or bright colors
Wednesday, April 3: Cozy Up with a Good Book - Dress in Pajamas
Thursday, April 4: Book Buddy Day - Dress like a twin with your friend and share your favorite book.
Friday, April 5: Seeing Stars - Community Readers visit classrooms to read a story - Dress in Hunter Star Wear
Chaperones Needed: For April 26th field trip to Animals EDventures. You must be cleared to volunteer for WCOSS. Also, you will need to provide your own transportation and admission fee. PLease email if you can support a group.
Math:
UNIT 6 Parts & Wholes/ Joining and Separating: Addition & Subtraction within 10:
The focus of this unit is on exploring parts and wholes with joining and separating. Students develop an understanding of combining sets (result unknown) and represent addition and subtraction with objects while creating a deeper understanding of the relationship between number and quantities (cardinality). Composing 10 and understanding addition and subtraction within 10 are intertwined to help students to make connections between making 10 and solving story problems. The concept of equality is a critical understanding and helps students realize that numbers can be broken apart in a variety of ways and still represent the same amount.
Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 10.
Literacy:
Unit 6: In Our Community, We Learn About Ourselves and Our World by Reading for Information. In this unit students will discover more about the world around them through information books. Key Ideas and Details - identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depict), identify the reasons an author gives to support points in the text, and identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Unit 7: Readers Use All of Their “Tricks and Tools” in their Backpacks When It Comes to Tricky Parts. Readers will learn more strategies to use while they are reading including word solving, cross-checking, self-correcting and making meaning. In this unit students will ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures.), demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes), count, produce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words, know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words, associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels A,E,I,O,U, recognize and apply vowel patterns (two vowels out walking - feet, boat, magic e - cake, bike.
and ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Writing:
Unit 8: Informational Writing - All About Books
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened. Participate in shared research and writing projects.
Unit 9: Authors and Mentors - Narrative Writing
This unit is designed to help students transition back into writing personal narratives and small moments.
Word Wall Words: Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Word Wall (High Frequency) (See “reading resources” tab on Mrs. Martinez’ website for a list of the words to practice at home). We will continue to review the words we have learned, especially spelling, through the end of the year.
Science: Animals Two by Two. Compare and contrast animals, compare characteristics of living and nonliving things in terms of structure, growth, changes, movement, basic needs, and understand the position and motions of objects and organisms observed the environment.
March Themes:
Weather/Rain/Rainbows
St. Patrick's Day
Insects (2 weeks)
Math: Unit 6-Exploring Parts and Wholes with Joining and Separating
Students will use a variety of representations to show groups can be combined or seperated to create a new amount (NC.K.OA.1, NC.K.OA.2. We will decompose a total number to find multiple pairs (NC.K.OA.3). We will use objects/drawing to find the needed number to make ten when given one number.(NC.K.OA.4). We will find the number needed to make 10 when given another number. (NC.K.OA.4). We will combine groups to find the total. (Conceptual subitizing) (NC.K.OA.6)
Literacy: Unit 6: In Our Community, We Learn About Ourselves and Our World by Reading for Information. In this unit students will discover more about the world around them through information books. Key Ideas and Details - identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depict), identify the reasons an author gives to support points in the text, and identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Foundational Skills Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Associate the long and short vowel sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
Speaking and Listening Participation in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small or larger groups. Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood. Describe familiar people, places, things and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Writing: Unit 7: Informational Writing - All About Books
Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. See the “reading resources” tab on Mrs. Martinez’ class website for a list of the words to practice at home.
Upcoming March Dates:
March 6 - Tornado Drill
March 8 - Early Release (Dismissal 1:15pm)
March 15 - Picture Day (Individual)
March 21 - Q3 Electives End
March 25 - Ugly Duckling Field Trip (NCSU)
March 26 - Q3 Ends
March 29 - NO SCHOOL (Teacher Workday)
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Weather/Rain/Rainbows
St. Patrick's Day
Insects (2 weeks)
Math: Unit 6-Exploring Parts and Wholes with Joining and Separating
Students will use a variety of representations to show groups can be combined or seperated to create a new amount (NC.K.OA.1, NC.K.OA.2. We will decompose a total number to find multiple pairs (NC.K.OA.3). We will use objects/drawing to find the needed number to make ten when given one number.(NC.K.OA.4). We will find the number needed to make 10 when given another number. (NC.K.OA.4). We will combine groups to find the total. (Conceptual subitizing) (NC.K.OA.6)
Literacy: Unit 6: In Our Community, We Learn About Ourselves and Our World by Reading for Information. In this unit students will discover more about the world around them through information books. Key Ideas and Details - identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depict), identify the reasons an author gives to support points in the text, and identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Foundational Skills Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Associate the long and short vowel sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
Speaking and Listening Participation in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small or larger groups. Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood. Describe familiar people, places, things and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Writing: Unit 7: Informational Writing - All About Books
Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. See the “reading resources” tab on Mrs. Martinez’ class website for a list of the words to practice at home.
Upcoming March Dates:
March 6 - Tornado Drill
March 8 - Early Release (Dismissal 1:15pm)
March 15 - Picture Day (Individual)
March 21 - Q3 Electives End
March 25 - Ugly Duckling Field Trip (NCSU)
March 26 - Q3 Ends
March 29 - NO SCHOOL (Teacher Workday)
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February Themes:
Dragons (Chinese New Year) & Teeth
Valentine Sweetness & 100th Day of School!!
Careers/Community Helpers
Dr. Seuss
Puppy Love - As a K team, we are collecting donations for Saving Grace Animal Shelter. Participation is optional. Suggested donations include: dry and canned food, dog treats, dog toys, and jars of peanut butter. Please send in any donations by February 15th.
Kindergarten Kindness - The Kindergarten team would like to “Share the Love” this month with 100+ acts of kindness. We are challenging EACH Kindergarten student to complete an act of kindness, something near and dear to their heart. Choose any act of kindness. It might be as LITTLE as helping your neighbor take their trash cans in/out this month, or BIG, such as collecting donations for Saving Grace. The choice is yours. A heart shape has been sent home who you child. Please use this heart to show with your class how you shared Kindergarten Kindness. You may write about what you did, or include a photograph. In addition to completing your heart, you are also welcome to send a photo or video to you teacher via Seesaw.
Love the Bus - In an effort to “Love the Bus” (bus drivers that is), our class has adopted Route 1 & 2 to shower with love. Please send in a candy or a note to share with these drivers by Tuesday, February 12th. As we have so many things happening this month, be sure to mark the items “For the BUS DRIVERS”. Thanks!
Valentines/Friendship - In an effort to to promote healthy Hunter stars, we are requesting that if you send in a treat that you consider healthy choices (pencils, stickers, fruit snacks etc.) Also, if your child would like to send in cards to friends, please be sure include a card for EVERYONE in our class. We have 20 students. You can find a list of friends in our class on our website. We are planning some educational activities (graphing, sorting, voting) with candy. If you would prefer for your child not to eat the candy, please let us know and we will provide them with another snack after the activity.
MATH - Unit 5
Count to answer “how many” when counting objects from 0-20 in a line, scatted, circle or array. Tell one more after counting a number of objects 0-20. Draw teen numbers as 10 and some more/left over (10 +3 = 13), and tell “how do you know?” Comparing a number of objects from 0-10, more/less, greater than/less than or equal. Comparing numerals from 0-10, more/less, greater than/less than or equal, and tell “how do you know?”. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10, partners of 10 (0+10, 1+9, 2+8, 3+7, 4+6, 5+5), show with objects, drawings and equations. Addition within 10 (ex. 0000 + 000, 4+3=7).
Find the number that makes 10 (2 + __ = 10), “how many more are needed to make 10?” (missing addend). Subitizing for totals up to 5..
Literacy:
READING - Partners Help Teach Each Other to Read Unit Overview
In this unit, students use prior learned strategies as well as new ones to read with more confidence on their own as well as help their reading partners do the same. Partnerships will be set up with students on the same reading level. They will learn how to help each other, how to be effective teachers for their partners, how to ask questions to help their partners with their reading and ways partnerships can read texts together. Read Aloud sessions will become more interactive with the modeling of how to ask and answer good questions. Readers will learn why rereading is so important and different ways they can reread.
Informational Texts : Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Read common high frequency words by sight – Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. (Word Wall - High Frequency Words) Reading Strategies we have learned: listen for interesting words, use the pictures, read good fit books, play with rhyming words, know letters and sounds, stretch or blend sounds in words, check for understanding, name the characters, setting, problem and solution, identify fiction, and nonfiction, retell the beginning, middle and end, identify beginning and ending sounds, connect to the story, chunk letters and sounds, name the author's purpose, making predictions, flip the sound (long/short vowels), practice sight words, and using punctuation.
WRITING: How-To Writing
Use combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Respond to questions and suggestions from adults and/or peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Spell simple words phonetically drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
February:
12th - 100 Days Smarter Celebration Day!
15th - Early Release, Dismissal at 1:15pm
Dance In
18th - NO SCHOOL (Teacher Workday)
19th - Snow Makeup Day
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Dragons (Chinese New Year) & Teeth
Valentine Sweetness & 100th Day of School!!
Careers/Community Helpers
Dr. Seuss
Puppy Love - As a K team, we are collecting donations for Saving Grace Animal Shelter. Participation is optional. Suggested donations include: dry and canned food, dog treats, dog toys, and jars of peanut butter. Please send in any donations by February 15th.
Kindergarten Kindness - The Kindergarten team would like to “Share the Love” this month with 100+ acts of kindness. We are challenging EACH Kindergarten student to complete an act of kindness, something near and dear to their heart. Choose any act of kindness. It might be as LITTLE as helping your neighbor take their trash cans in/out this month, or BIG, such as collecting donations for Saving Grace. The choice is yours. A heart shape has been sent home who you child. Please use this heart to show with your class how you shared Kindergarten Kindness. You may write about what you did, or include a photograph. In addition to completing your heart, you are also welcome to send a photo or video to you teacher via Seesaw.
Love the Bus - In an effort to “Love the Bus” (bus drivers that is), our class has adopted Route 1 & 2 to shower with love. Please send in a candy or a note to share with these drivers by Tuesday, February 12th. As we have so many things happening this month, be sure to mark the items “For the BUS DRIVERS”. Thanks!
Valentines/Friendship - In an effort to to promote healthy Hunter stars, we are requesting that if you send in a treat that you consider healthy choices (pencils, stickers, fruit snacks etc.) Also, if your child would like to send in cards to friends, please be sure include a card for EVERYONE in our class. We have 20 students. You can find a list of friends in our class on our website. We are planning some educational activities (graphing, sorting, voting) with candy. If you would prefer for your child not to eat the candy, please let us know and we will provide them with another snack after the activity.
MATH - Unit 5
Count to answer “how many” when counting objects from 0-20 in a line, scatted, circle or array. Tell one more after counting a number of objects 0-20. Draw teen numbers as 10 and some more/left over (10 +3 = 13), and tell “how do you know?” Comparing a number of objects from 0-10, more/less, greater than/less than or equal. Comparing numerals from 0-10, more/less, greater than/less than or equal, and tell “how do you know?”. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10, partners of 10 (0+10, 1+9, 2+8, 3+7, 4+6, 5+5), show with objects, drawings and equations. Addition within 10 (ex. 0000 + 000, 4+3=7).
Find the number that makes 10 (2 + __ = 10), “how many more are needed to make 10?” (missing addend). Subitizing for totals up to 5..
Literacy:
READING - Partners Help Teach Each Other to Read Unit Overview
In this unit, students use prior learned strategies as well as new ones to read with more confidence on their own as well as help their reading partners do the same. Partnerships will be set up with students on the same reading level. They will learn how to help each other, how to be effective teachers for their partners, how to ask questions to help their partners with their reading and ways partnerships can read texts together. Read Aloud sessions will become more interactive with the modeling of how to ask and answer good questions. Readers will learn why rereading is so important and different ways they can reread.
Informational Texts : Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Read common high frequency words by sight – Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. (Word Wall - High Frequency Words) Reading Strategies we have learned: listen for interesting words, use the pictures, read good fit books, play with rhyming words, know letters and sounds, stretch or blend sounds in words, check for understanding, name the characters, setting, problem and solution, identify fiction, and nonfiction, retell the beginning, middle and end, identify beginning and ending sounds, connect to the story, chunk letters and sounds, name the author's purpose, making predictions, flip the sound (long/short vowels), practice sight words, and using punctuation.
WRITING: How-To Writing
Use combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Respond to questions and suggestions from adults and/or peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Spell simple words phonetically drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
February:
12th - 100 Days Smarter Celebration Day!
15th - Early Release, Dismissal at 1:15pm
Dance In
18th - NO SCHOOL (Teacher Workday)
19th - Snow Makeup Day
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January Themes:
Resolutions
Snow
Mittens & Cocoa
Arctic Animals (2 weeks)
Career Volunteers Needed:
Do you have an interesting, fun, unique career that you’d like to share with our Kindergarten students? We are in need of volunteers to share during Career Week (coming in February). If you can help, please email and let us know what you’d like to share.
Assessments:
County wide benchmark assessments and mid-year assessments will be given in January. Your child will be assessed in both literacy and math. In literacy, your child will be assessed on: Letter Identification, (upper and lowercase), Letter Sounds, (upper and lowercase), First Sound Fluency (FSF), when told a word, they are asked to segment the beginning sound (cat “c” sound), Letter Name Fluency (LNF) when shown a list of letters, they are asked to tell the letter name, Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) when told a word, they are asked to break apart the sounds in the word, Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) when shown a nonsense word (such as vec, tun), they will be asked to read the word, Reading Level (TRC) and comprehension (characters, setting, making connections, providing supporting evidence in the text etc.), High Frequency (Word Wall) Words
In math, your child will be assessed on: number identification (0-100), counting to 100 by 1s, and10s, subitizing, counting objects in an array, circle, line and scattered, counting on from 10, identify the missing number (5, ___, 7), quantity discrimination: more/less/equal (7, 9), count forward from any given number, writing numbers 1-20, positional words (such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to), identifying shapes regardless of orientation or size (square, rectangle, oval, circle, triangle, hexagon, cone, sphere, cylinder, cube), describing and comparing attributes of shapes (vertices, sides, faces, corners, angles) of 2-D(flat) and 3-D shapes (solids), building and drawing shapes.
Math:
count to 100 by 1s and 10s, count forward from any given number, describe objects in the environment, using the names of shapes and describe relative position in terms (such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, next to), name shapes regardless of orientation or size, identify 2-D (flat) and 3-D (solid) shapes, compare 2-D and 3-D shapes to describe similarities, differences, part, attributes, (vertices, corners, sides, length etc.), build and draw shapes, compose simple shapes to form larger shapes (such as combining two triangles to form a rectangle)
Literacy:
Reading Unit 5: Partners Help Teach Each Other to Read
We will read texts with confidence and use the strategies to tackle unfamiliar words and understand the text. We will review and practice how to talk with a partner making several back and forth exchanges speaking in complete sentences and using phrasing and wordage that is taught. We will begin to see how authors carefully choose interesting words to describe (verbs) what characters are doing and how knowing this will help with understanding. We will ask questions so we can understand what are reading and help partners. We will use decoding strategies to figure out unknown words. We will look for familiar sight words in books. We will use evidence from the story to support our responses. We will share the main idea of the books and give events/ key details from the story to support our answers. We will learn how authors carefully choose interesting words to describe characters.
Writing: Procedural Writing - How Tos
Writing explanatory/informative texts that name what they are writing about and supply information, steps involved in How To. For example, How To Build a Snowman (First, Next, Then , Last).
Word Wall: Students are expected to be able to read and spell all the words we have learned and added to our “Word Wall”. We practice these words daily. Be sure to practice at home too. This month we will add the words: not, but, has, had, will, with, bog, little, down
January
21st - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
28th - Q3 Electives Begin
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Resolutions
Snow
Mittens & Cocoa
Arctic Animals (2 weeks)
Career Volunteers Needed:
Do you have an interesting, fun, unique career that you’d like to share with our Kindergarten students? We are in need of volunteers to share during Career Week (coming in February). If you can help, please email and let us know what you’d like to share.
Assessments:
County wide benchmark assessments and mid-year assessments will be given in January. Your child will be assessed in both literacy and math. In literacy, your child will be assessed on: Letter Identification, (upper and lowercase), Letter Sounds, (upper and lowercase), First Sound Fluency (FSF), when told a word, they are asked to segment the beginning sound (cat “c” sound), Letter Name Fluency (LNF) when shown a list of letters, they are asked to tell the letter name, Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) when told a word, they are asked to break apart the sounds in the word, Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) when shown a nonsense word (such as vec, tun), they will be asked to read the word, Reading Level (TRC) and comprehension (characters, setting, making connections, providing supporting evidence in the text etc.), High Frequency (Word Wall) Words
In math, your child will be assessed on: number identification (0-100), counting to 100 by 1s, and10s, subitizing, counting objects in an array, circle, line and scattered, counting on from 10, identify the missing number (5, ___, 7), quantity discrimination: more/less/equal (7, 9), count forward from any given number, writing numbers 1-20, positional words (such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to), identifying shapes regardless of orientation or size (square, rectangle, oval, circle, triangle, hexagon, cone, sphere, cylinder, cube), describing and comparing attributes of shapes (vertices, sides, faces, corners, angles) of 2-D(flat) and 3-D shapes (solids), building and drawing shapes.
Math:
count to 100 by 1s and 10s, count forward from any given number, describe objects in the environment, using the names of shapes and describe relative position in terms (such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, next to), name shapes regardless of orientation or size, identify 2-D (flat) and 3-D (solid) shapes, compare 2-D and 3-D shapes to describe similarities, differences, part, attributes, (vertices, corners, sides, length etc.), build and draw shapes, compose simple shapes to form larger shapes (such as combining two triangles to form a rectangle)
Literacy:
Reading Unit 5: Partners Help Teach Each Other to Read
We will read texts with confidence and use the strategies to tackle unfamiliar words and understand the text. We will review and practice how to talk with a partner making several back and forth exchanges speaking in complete sentences and using phrasing and wordage that is taught. We will begin to see how authors carefully choose interesting words to describe (verbs) what characters are doing and how knowing this will help with understanding. We will ask questions so we can understand what are reading and help partners. We will use decoding strategies to figure out unknown words. We will look for familiar sight words in books. We will use evidence from the story to support our responses. We will share the main idea of the books and give events/ key details from the story to support our answers. We will learn how authors carefully choose interesting words to describe characters.
Writing: Procedural Writing - How Tos
Writing explanatory/informative texts that name what they are writing about and supply information, steps involved in How To. For example, How To Build a Snowman (First, Next, Then , Last).
Word Wall: Students are expected to be able to read and spell all the words we have learned and added to our “Word Wall”. We practice these words daily. Be sure to practice at home too. This month we will add the words: not, but, has, had, will, with, bog, little, down
January
21st - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
28th - Q3 Electives Begin
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December Themes:
Holidays
Elf, Reindeer & Moose
Gingerbread
Polar Express
Supply Needs: 22 packets of hot cocoa, 3 bags of mini marshmallows, oats/oatmeal, glitter, cranberries, chocolate chips (to make reindeer food).
Volunteer needed to make gingerbread playdough. Please email if you can help.
Polar Express Day - December 20th, aka Pajama Day - YAY!
We will watch the Polar Express movie and enjoy some hot chocolate fun!
December Math:
Unit 3-Comparing Quantities with Counting and Spatial Relationships
Counting to 100 by 1s and 10s, writing numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20, counting objects from 1-20 with one-to-one correspondence (line, rectangular array, circle, scattered), subitizing - state the number of objects in a group, of up to 5 objects, without counting the objects (perceptual).
Describe measurable attributes of objects, “more of/less of” and describe the difference.
Directly compare two objects, within 10, in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, by using matching and counting strategies.
December Reading:
Readers Study Patterns in Books
Identify patterns when reading: Do pictures repeat? Do words repeat? Do actions repeat? Does it rhyme? What other words rhyme?
Asking and answering questions about unknown words in a text. Retelling and identifying characters, setting, beginning, middle, ending, problem and solution.
Using letters and sounds to read and build words, CVC words, word families. Using beginning, middle and ending sounds, CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words.
How to figure out unknown words, tricky parts.
Literacy Vocabulary:
Making Predictions: using what you know to figure out what will come next
Reread: to read text over and over until you can read it smoothly, accurately, and with expression
Cross checking: making sure the words make sense and match the letters on the page Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?
Onset: the first sound(s) in a word
Rime: the middle and ending sound of a word
Setting: where or when a story happens
Major events: the big things that happen at the beginning, middle (problem) and end (solution) of a story
Informational text: tells about something or teaches something
Retell: tell a text in your own words matching what the text says to what you say about it
Infer: to think and figure out what a story is about even when the author doesn’t say it literally in the words
Schema: what we already know and think about something that helps us understand when we are reading something new
Summarize: telling the most important parts about something (i.e. a story) in your own words
December Writing: Opinion Writing, forming and composing an opinion and stating reasons for the preference. Continue to rehearse, plan and write complete sentences. Reread own writing and practice 1-1 correspondence. Editing your writing.
Word Wall: Students are expected to be able to read and spell all the words we have learned and added to our “Word Wall”. We practice these words daily during meeting time. Be sure to practice at home too. December Words: he, she, we, me, my, up, down
December Dates
7th - Walking Trip to Ligon (Holiday Concert).
20th - K Awards Assembly, 9:20am
- Polar Express Day (Wear your Jammies)
21st - Early Release, Dismissal 1:15pm
22nd-Jan. 2nd - NO SCHOOL (Vacation/Break)
Jan 3rd Back to School :0)
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Holidays
Elf, Reindeer & Moose
Gingerbread
Polar Express
Supply Needs: 22 packets of hot cocoa, 3 bags of mini marshmallows, oats/oatmeal, glitter, cranberries, chocolate chips (to make reindeer food).
Volunteer needed to make gingerbread playdough. Please email if you can help.
Polar Express Day - December 20th, aka Pajama Day - YAY!
We will watch the Polar Express movie and enjoy some hot chocolate fun!
December Math:
Unit 3-Comparing Quantities with Counting and Spatial Relationships
Counting to 100 by 1s and 10s, writing numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20, counting objects from 1-20 with one-to-one correspondence (line, rectangular array, circle, scattered), subitizing - state the number of objects in a group, of up to 5 objects, without counting the objects (perceptual).
Describe measurable attributes of objects, “more of/less of” and describe the difference.
Directly compare two objects, within 10, in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, by using matching and counting strategies.
December Reading:
Readers Study Patterns in Books
Identify patterns when reading: Do pictures repeat? Do words repeat? Do actions repeat? Does it rhyme? What other words rhyme?
Asking and answering questions about unknown words in a text. Retelling and identifying characters, setting, beginning, middle, ending, problem and solution.
Using letters and sounds to read and build words, CVC words, word families. Using beginning, middle and ending sounds, CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words.
How to figure out unknown words, tricky parts.
Literacy Vocabulary:
Making Predictions: using what you know to figure out what will come next
Reread: to read text over and over until you can read it smoothly, accurately, and with expression
Cross checking: making sure the words make sense and match the letters on the page Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?
Onset: the first sound(s) in a word
Rime: the middle and ending sound of a word
Setting: where or when a story happens
Major events: the big things that happen at the beginning, middle (problem) and end (solution) of a story
Informational text: tells about something or teaches something
Retell: tell a text in your own words matching what the text says to what you say about it
Infer: to think and figure out what a story is about even when the author doesn’t say it literally in the words
Schema: what we already know and think about something that helps us understand when we are reading something new
Summarize: telling the most important parts about something (i.e. a story) in your own words
December Writing: Opinion Writing, forming and composing an opinion and stating reasons for the preference. Continue to rehearse, plan and write complete sentences. Reread own writing and practice 1-1 correspondence. Editing your writing.
Word Wall: Students are expected to be able to read and spell all the words we have learned and added to our “Word Wall”. We practice these words daily during meeting time. Be sure to practice at home too. December Words: he, she, we, me, my, up, down
December Dates
7th - Walking Trip to Ligon (Holiday Concert).
20th - K Awards Assembly, 9:20am
- Polar Express Day (Wear your Jammies)
21st - Early Release, Dismissal 1:15pm
22nd-Jan. 2nd - NO SCHOOL (Vacation/Break)
Jan 3rd Back to School :0)
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November Themes:
Scarecrows, Crows & Corn
Turkeys
Thanksgiving
Curriculum Night & Book Fair: November 13-16th. We will preview the books and your child will bring home a list of books that sparked their interest. If you would like to purchase books for your child, please send money in a sealed envelope marked with their name. Our class will purchase books the morning of November 15th.
Electives begin November 5th! We are super excited about our new adventures in learning. Be sure to ask your child all about their elective.
Report Cards - will be sent home on Tuesday, November 13th Monday in Monday Folders. Information for understanding your student's report card can be found at: https://www.wcpss.net/Page/1886
Student Led Conferences - will be held on November 28th. Your student will need to have at least ONE parent present to help them set their 2nd Quarter goals. Be sure to sign up for a time slot via the link in our Monday Memo. We look forward to see you!
November Math: Understanding the relationship between numbers and quantities: counting to 100 by ones and tens, understand patterns in counting, counting forward from a given number in any sequence, writing numbers 1-20, represent a number of objects with a written number, counting 20 objects in any arrangement “cardinality” (line, rectangular array, scattered, or circle), using counting strategies (touch, move, cross and count), identifying greater than, less than and equal, comparing written numbers 1-10, attributes (length width, size, color, shape), subitize a set of objects (without counting), Identify squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders and spheres as two-dimensional or three-dimensional, and reading/writing number words one-twenty.
November Reading: Unit: Readers Use Everything They Have Learned in Community to Really Read: Recognize and produce rhyming words. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. Using Reading Strategies (Tricks & Tools for Reading): Crosscheck-Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense? Use tools/strategies to make meaning when reading. Using letters and sounds to read and build words. Using letters and their sounds to decode unknown words Reading and spelling high frequency words to read. Asking and answering key questions in a text. Asking and answering questions about unknown words in a text.
November Writing: We will practice adding details to our stories. Writing like scientists by observing the world around. Including observations of size, color, shapes, texture, and number in writing. Writing a story in sequence, beginning (including a character and setting), middle (including a problem) and ending(including a solution).
High Frequency Words for November: is, it, in, look, at, on, no, me, my
November Reminders:
5th - Electives begin
6th - 2 Hour Delay Opening, School begins at 11:15am
9th - Fall Picture Make-up
12th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday - Veterans Day)
13th-16th - Book Fair
15th - Curriculum Night, 5:30-8:00pm
20th - UNC/NCSU Football Game is Saturday November 24th. Thanks for wearing CAROLINA blue (or the other team color if you must) for our football fun on Tuesday, Nov. 20th!!
20th - Early Release. Dismissal at 1:15pm.
21st-25th - Thanksgiving Break
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Scarecrows, Crows & Corn
Turkeys
Thanksgiving
Curriculum Night & Book Fair: November 13-16th. We will preview the books and your child will bring home a list of books that sparked their interest. If you would like to purchase books for your child, please send money in a sealed envelope marked with their name. Our class will purchase books the morning of November 15th.
Electives begin November 5th! We are super excited about our new adventures in learning. Be sure to ask your child all about their elective.
Report Cards - will be sent home on Tuesday, November 13th Monday in Monday Folders. Information for understanding your student's report card can be found at: https://www.wcpss.net/Page/1886
Student Led Conferences - will be held on November 28th. Your student will need to have at least ONE parent present to help them set their 2nd Quarter goals. Be sure to sign up for a time slot via the link in our Monday Memo. We look forward to see you!
November Math: Understanding the relationship between numbers and quantities: counting to 100 by ones and tens, understand patterns in counting, counting forward from a given number in any sequence, writing numbers 1-20, represent a number of objects with a written number, counting 20 objects in any arrangement “cardinality” (line, rectangular array, scattered, or circle), using counting strategies (touch, move, cross and count), identifying greater than, less than and equal, comparing written numbers 1-10, attributes (length width, size, color, shape), subitize a set of objects (without counting), Identify squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders and spheres as two-dimensional or three-dimensional, and reading/writing number words one-twenty.
November Reading: Unit: Readers Use Everything They Have Learned in Community to Really Read: Recognize and produce rhyming words. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. Using Reading Strategies (Tricks & Tools for Reading): Crosscheck-Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense? Use tools/strategies to make meaning when reading. Using letters and sounds to read and build words. Using letters and their sounds to decode unknown words Reading and spelling high frequency words to read. Asking and answering key questions in a text. Asking and answering questions about unknown words in a text.
November Writing: We will practice adding details to our stories. Writing like scientists by observing the world around. Including observations of size, color, shapes, texture, and number in writing. Writing a story in sequence, beginning (including a character and setting), middle (including a problem) and ending(including a solution).
High Frequency Words for November: is, it, in, look, at, on, no, me, my
November Reminders:
5th - Electives begin
6th - 2 Hour Delay Opening, School begins at 11:15am
9th - Fall Picture Make-up
12th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday - Veterans Day)
13th-16th - Book Fair
15th - Curriculum Night, 5:30-8:00pm
20th - UNC/NCSU Football Game is Saturday November 24th. Thanks for wearing CAROLINA blue (or the other team color if you must) for our football fun on Tuesday, Nov. 20th!!
20th - Early Release. Dismissal at 1:15pm.
21st-25th - Thanksgiving Break
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October Weekly Themes:
Woodland Creatures
Nocturnal Animals (Owls, Spiders & Bats)
Monsters (No worries…Fuzzy Fun Monsters!)
Pumpkins
Scarecrows & Crows
Library Books: We will soon be checking out books from the school library. Please return your library book weekly so your child can check out another book on when we visit.
Clothing: Please label all jackets/clothing with your child’s name. Also, please keep a change of clothes in a Ziploc bag in your child’s backpack for accidents - that could be as simple as spilt milk :0) If you child borrows clothing from Hunter’s clothing closet, we ask that you wash and return these items for others in need.
Word Wall Words: Each week we will learn 1-2 high frequency words. Your child will be expected to READ these words and SPELL them correctly when writing. Words we have learned are displayed on our classroom “Word Wall”. Please practice reading and writing these words at home too. Thus far we have learned: a, I, like, This month we will add the words: the, see, go, to, and, can
Toys – Please remember to keep toys and personal items at home.
MATH:
‘Understanding the Relationship Between Numbers and Quantities 1-10: counting (rote), counting forward from any given number (counting on), counting objects with one-to-one correspondence (scattered, array, circle), counting to tell “ow many/”, subitizing, writing (number formation), writing numbers to represent quantity, number words, describing measurable attributes (length, width, size), classify and sort by attributes (color, shape, size), identifying shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle, square, hexagon), identifying 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes (cube, cone cylinder, sphere) , , ten frames, equal/not equal numbers, same, more/fewer, alike/different, order, number line, before/after, groups of numbers, counting to 100 by ones and tens, 5-groups.
LITERACY:
Print Concepts, Reading Behaviors, (See “parent resources” tab on class website to practice at home). When reading at home with your child, be sure to let them try to sound out some of the words. In the classroom, we practice ‘tapping out’ the word on our arm (cat, c-elbow bend, a-forearm, t- wrist) then swiping our arm down these spots to blend the sounds together and hear the whole word.
Reading Strategies – Upper/Lower Case Letter recognition and letter sounds, identifying title, author, illustrator, check for understanding using picture clues, making predictions, finding patterns, play with rhyming words, discussing our favorite part, set a purpose for reading (fiction/non-fiction), retell beginning, middle ending, exploring characters (adventures, feelings, voice),
Word Wall - High Frequency Words we have learned and are expected to READ and SPELL correctly. See “parent resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
Writing: We are learning all about the tools that we need for writing: pencil, paper, crayons, space stick and eraser, counting how many words are in the sentence, to make sure that we have spaces between those words. Good writers make sure they write down all the sounds they hear when they say a word. We are practicing using ‘meatball’ spaces (between words) and ‘spaghetti’ spaces (between letters). We have learned letter formation for letters a-z practicing within the lines: chicken letters (a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z), giraffe letters (b, d, f, h, k, l, t, ) and monkey letters (g, j, p, q, y)
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Woodland Creatures
Nocturnal Animals (Owls, Spiders & Bats)
Monsters (No worries…Fuzzy Fun Monsters!)
Pumpkins
Scarecrows & Crows
Library Books: We will soon be checking out books from the school library. Please return your library book weekly so your child can check out another book on when we visit.
Clothing: Please label all jackets/clothing with your child’s name. Also, please keep a change of clothes in a Ziploc bag in your child’s backpack for accidents - that could be as simple as spilt milk :0) If you child borrows clothing from Hunter’s clothing closet, we ask that you wash and return these items for others in need.
Word Wall Words: Each week we will learn 1-2 high frequency words. Your child will be expected to READ these words and SPELL them correctly when writing. Words we have learned are displayed on our classroom “Word Wall”. Please practice reading and writing these words at home too. Thus far we have learned: a, I, like, This month we will add the words: the, see, go, to, and, can
Toys – Please remember to keep toys and personal items at home.
MATH:
‘Understanding the Relationship Between Numbers and Quantities 1-10: counting (rote), counting forward from any given number (counting on), counting objects with one-to-one correspondence (scattered, array, circle), counting to tell “ow many/”, subitizing, writing (number formation), writing numbers to represent quantity, number words, describing measurable attributes (length, width, size), classify and sort by attributes (color, shape, size), identifying shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle, square, hexagon), identifying 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes (cube, cone cylinder, sphere) , , ten frames, equal/not equal numbers, same, more/fewer, alike/different, order, number line, before/after, groups of numbers, counting to 100 by ones and tens, 5-groups.
LITERACY:
Print Concepts, Reading Behaviors, (See “parent resources” tab on class website to practice at home). When reading at home with your child, be sure to let them try to sound out some of the words. In the classroom, we practice ‘tapping out’ the word on our arm (cat, c-elbow bend, a-forearm, t- wrist) then swiping our arm down these spots to blend the sounds together and hear the whole word.
Reading Strategies – Upper/Lower Case Letter recognition and letter sounds, identifying title, author, illustrator, check for understanding using picture clues, making predictions, finding patterns, play with rhyming words, discussing our favorite part, set a purpose for reading (fiction/non-fiction), retell beginning, middle ending, exploring characters (adventures, feelings, voice),
Word Wall - High Frequency Words we have learned and are expected to READ and SPELL correctly. See “parent resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
Writing: We are learning all about the tools that we need for writing: pencil, paper, crayons, space stick and eraser, counting how many words are in the sentence, to make sure that we have spaces between those words. Good writers make sure they write down all the sounds they hear when they say a word. We are practicing using ‘meatball’ spaces (between words) and ‘spaghetti’ spaces (between letters). We have learned letter formation for letters a-z practicing within the lines: chicken letters (a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z), giraffe letters (b, d, f, h, k, l, t, ) and monkey letters (g, j, p, q, y)
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Welcome Class of 2031!
We are so excited to have met our newest class members.
It's going to be a wonderful school year!
We are so excited to have met our newest class members.
It's going to be a wonderful school year!
September Themes:
All About Me
Pete the Cat & Colors
Apples/Fall
Woodland Creatures
Kindergarten Open House - will be held Wednesday, September 12th from 6:00-6:45pm in our homeroom. Parents are invited to learn more about your child's Kindergarten class. As a courtesy to others, we prefer this to be an ADULTS only event.
GOING GREEN: To cut down on paper waste, Kindergarten will correspond primarily via Monday Memos (email), Seesaw Digital Portfolios, and Monthly News posted on our class website. Paper copies can be provided upon request.
ROOM PARENT: A class room parent is needed to help support us by working with the PTA a few times throughout the year. If you are interested in being our room parent please send us an email. We will certainly invite additional volunteers to help in other ways.
MemberHub: is our online PTA directory and source for information from your room parents, PTA, and administration. Please be sure to read for information and reminders on school events.
T-SHIRTS: We will be wearing our class t-shirts for all our Kindergarten field trips. (The shirt will be yours to keep at the end of the school year.) The cost of the t-shirt is $8.50. Please send in payment by September 28th. If paying by cash please send in exact change. Please make checks out to: Aardvark Inc. Donations for other students are always welcome!
VOLUNTEER SIGN-UP: We'd love to have you volunteer! All volunteers must complete an online clearance application via a WCPSS computer. Be sure to sign-up soon. Clearance takes about 3 weeks and is needed for helping in the classroom or joining us on field trips. Even if you have submitted your information previously, YOU MUST RE-REGISTER EACH SCHOOL YEAR.
MATH HOMEWORK: WCPSS provides homework for you to practice the skills we have learned in class. Hard copies will come home in your Monday folders from time to time. You and your child may complete these at your convenience. Math homework does NOT need to return to school.
ENRICHMENT HW: Enrichment Homework is OPTIONAL. Enrichment homework is provided on our class website. Simply click on the ”Enrichment HW” tab on the left. Enrichment HW provides an opportunity to work with your child at home.
CONTACT US: The best way to reach us is email. Also, you are welcome to call Hunter at 919.856.7676 and leave a message with the front office staff.
HUNTER WiFi: You are welcome to join WAKE-BYOD to connect to our school WiFi.
CONFERENCES: We will have 3 conferences this year. Two conferences will be STUDENT LED when you will be conferencing with your child to set academic/behavior goals. One conference will be a PARENT/TEACHER conference, where teachers will meet with you to discuss your child’s progress (middle of year assessments, behaviors etc.). Dates/times will be sent out soon so you can mark your calendars accordingly.
PREFERENCES & RESTRICTIONS: If your child has any restrictions or if you prefer they opt out of particular foods or celebrations, please send us an email/note so we can work with you and your child in advance.
September Goals:
Literacy: There are three goals for students in this unit: children love reading, children learn how to read, and children learn to build relationships around books. Identify letters and sounds. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print: follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book. Take a 'picture walk' to tell ourselves about the book adventure by using picture clues. Purpose for reading, what readers do (before, during. after) and more. Recognize and produce rhyming words. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussion (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Writing: Launching Writing Workshop
This unit is designed to introduce kindergarten students to the structure and routines of writing workshop and how to put their thoughts and ideas down on paper using pictures and words. It will begin with helping students come up with a topic, draw it, and then do their best approximation of writing.
Math: Kindergarten Unit 1: Building a Mathematical Community through Exploring Attributes
Describing and comparing measurable attributes of objects and shapes (length, size, …), comparing/classifiying identifiable attributes (color, size, shape), and comparing attributes (more, less, equal) and describing location of an object using positional words.
September Dates to Remember:
4th- FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN
12th - K Open House, 6:00-6:45pm
19th - NO SCHOOL (Teacher Workday)
28th - EARLY RELEASE (Dismissal 1:15pm)
Kindergarten Recommended Supply List 2018 - 2019
Please note: Below are general supplies recommended to support the classroom. Classroom teachers will have individualized lists to share with you at the beginning of the school year.
Student Recommended Supplies:
- 1 towel for resting during 1st Quarter only (NO blankets/pillows/sleeping bags/folding mats)
- 1 backpack large enough for a 9x11 folder and large library books (NO wheels)
- 2 boxes of 24 Crayola crayons
- 1 box of Crayola thick markers
- 10 glue stick per student
- 1 tub baby wipes
- 1 container Clorox wipes
- 1 package of white cardstock
- 1 box of tissues
- 1 hard plastic Sterilite pencil box
- 1 marble composition notebook
- 1 primary composition notebook (with space for a picture on top and writing below)
- 1 box of zip sandwich bags
- 1 package of color EXPO dry erase markers
- 2 big pink erasers
- 1 pack of color copy paper
Radical Reader Form
Each summer, Hunter encourages our students and "students to be" to read and keep track of their summer reading. This includes books that students read themselves, books that are read aloud to students, and books that students experience as a part of library session or summer school.
Please track your summer reading on this "Radical Reader Form." Students will turn in their logs when they return to school in August, and all participating students will be celebrated at "Radical Reader Assemblies," sponsored by our PTA, in September! Have fun reading!
May/June Themes:
Dinosaurs
Camping
Ocean
Beach & Pirates & Mermaids
America (Picnics ,Baseball etc.)
May
4th - Hunter Heritage Carnival, 5:30-8:00pm
23rd - Student Led Conferences, 10:00-10:30am
24th - Electives End
25th - Field Trip to Pullen Park
28th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
June
4th - Baseball Day (Dress ready to play….wear your team apparel.)
5th - Red Carpet Day (Dress Your Best!)
6th - K Awards Assembly, 9:20am-9:50am
Roberts Park Field Trip, 10:00am-12:30pm - Families Welcome!
7th - Game Day & Beach Day, Wear your sunglasses and sun clothes. Bring your a game to share and beach towel to lay out and play!
8th - Field Day, 11:00-1:00pm & LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!
Chaperones Needed - for Pullen Park on May 25th (Friday). Please email if you are able to join us.
Roberts Park End of Year Picnic - June 6th - Families Welcome!! More information will be sent home soon in Monday folders.
Activity Organizers Needed for Roberts Park- We are in need of parents to help set up stations at Roberts Park Ex. bubbles, chalk, hula hoops etc…)
Pizza Volunteer Needed - We are in need of a volunteer to order, pick up and deliver pizza to Roberts Park for our picnic. Please email if you can help.
Assessments/Benchmark Testing - End of year Assessments will begin in May and continue throughout the month. To help your child do their best, please be sure they have a good night's rest and a healthy breakfast. Your child will be assessed on everything we have learned this year :0)
Math:
More Addition & Subtraction within 10
Measurement & Data: Describing Attributes:
Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object. Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has "more or"/"less of" the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter. Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. (Limit category counts to be less than or equal to 10)
Literacy:
Key Ideas and Details: Identify characters, setting and major events in a story, describe the connections between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Integrations of Knowledge and Ideas: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depicts). Compare and contrast the adventure and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Foundational Skills: Apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words - vowel teams, magic e, vowel stealers for long and short vowel sounds. Read (and write) common high frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sound of the letters that differ. (e.g., analogies or changes in onset and rime: cat/man).
Speaking and Listening & Language: Explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out meanings). Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Writing: Small, Moments (Narrative) & Persuasive
Word Wall Words: Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Please practice reading and writing these words at home. This month we will add the words: there, they and practice ALL that we have learned! (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home). We will continue to review the words we have learned, especially spelling, through the end of the year.
Dinosaurs
Camping
Ocean
Beach & Pirates & Mermaids
America (Picnics ,Baseball etc.)
May
4th - Hunter Heritage Carnival, 5:30-8:00pm
23rd - Student Led Conferences, 10:00-10:30am
24th - Electives End
25th - Field Trip to Pullen Park
28th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
June
4th - Baseball Day (Dress ready to play….wear your team apparel.)
5th - Red Carpet Day (Dress Your Best!)
6th - K Awards Assembly, 9:20am-9:50am
Roberts Park Field Trip, 10:00am-12:30pm - Families Welcome!
7th - Game Day & Beach Day, Wear your sunglasses and sun clothes. Bring your a game to share and beach towel to lay out and play!
8th - Field Day, 11:00-1:00pm & LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!
Chaperones Needed - for Pullen Park on May 25th (Friday). Please email if you are able to join us.
Roberts Park End of Year Picnic - June 6th - Families Welcome!! More information will be sent home soon in Monday folders.
Activity Organizers Needed for Roberts Park- We are in need of parents to help set up stations at Roberts Park Ex. bubbles, chalk, hula hoops etc…)
Pizza Volunteer Needed - We are in need of a volunteer to order, pick up and deliver pizza to Roberts Park for our picnic. Please email if you can help.
Assessments/Benchmark Testing - End of year Assessments will begin in May and continue throughout the month. To help your child do their best, please be sure they have a good night's rest and a healthy breakfast. Your child will be assessed on everything we have learned this year :0)
Math:
More Addition & Subtraction within 10
Measurement & Data: Describing Attributes:
Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object. Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has "more or"/"less of" the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter. Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. (Limit category counts to be less than or equal to 10)
Literacy:
Key Ideas and Details: Identify characters, setting and major events in a story, describe the connections between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Integrations of Knowledge and Ideas: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depicts). Compare and contrast the adventure and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Foundational Skills: Apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words - vowel teams, magic e, vowel stealers for long and short vowel sounds. Read (and write) common high frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sound of the letters that differ. (e.g., analogies or changes in onset and rime: cat/man).
Speaking and Listening & Language: Explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out meanings). Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Writing: Small, Moments (Narrative) & Persuasive
Word Wall Words: Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Please practice reading and writing these words at home. This month we will add the words: there, they and practice ALL that we have learned! (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home). We will continue to review the words we have learned, especially spelling, through the end of the year.
April Themes:
--Spring Break--
Insects
Save the Earth & Rainforest
TBD
9th Author visit - Family Night, 6:00-7:30pm
16th - Report Cards sent home
27th - Field Trip (Animal EDventures)
28th - SATURDAY Fun for your family - LetterLand Day at Pullen Park, 10am-4pm
May 4th - Hunter Heritage, 5:30-8:00pm - Super Fun for All!
Mark Your Calendars: Our final Student Led Conferences will be held on Friday, May 18th from 3:00-3:30pm. As at past student led conferences, this will be a time for you to meet with your child to set goals based on their digital portfolios. Please send at least one adult to work with your child.
Math:
Addition & Subtraction within 10: Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 10.
Literacy:
Unit 6: In Our Community, We Learn About Ourselves and Our World by Reading for Information. In this unit students will discover more about the world around them through information books. Key Ideas and Details - identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depict), identify the reasons an author gives to support points in the text, and identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Unit 7: Readers Use All of Their “Tricks and Tools” in their Backpacks When It Comes to Tricky Parts. Readers will learn more strategies to use while they are reading including word solving, cross-checking, self-correcting and making meaning. In this unit students will ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures.), demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes), count, produce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words, know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words, associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels A,E,I,O,U, recognize and apply vowel patterns (two vowels out walking - feet, boat, magic e - cake, bike. and ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Writing:
Unit 7: Informational Writing - All About Books
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened. Participate in shared research and writing projects.
Word Wall Words: Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Word Wall (High Frequency) This month we will add the words: that, this, were, what, them, than, then, there, they (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home). We will continue to review the words we have learned, especially spelling, through the end of the year.
Science: Animals Two by Two. Compare and contrast animals, compare characteristics of living and nonliving things in terms of structure, growth, changes, movement, basic needs, and understand the position and motions of objects and organisms observed the environment.
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--Spring Break--
Insects
Save the Earth & Rainforest
TBD
9th Author visit - Family Night, 6:00-7:30pm
16th - Report Cards sent home
27th - Field Trip (Animal EDventures)
28th - SATURDAY Fun for your family - LetterLand Day at Pullen Park, 10am-4pm
May 4th - Hunter Heritage, 5:30-8:00pm - Super Fun for All!
Mark Your Calendars: Our final Student Led Conferences will be held on Friday, May 18th from 3:00-3:30pm. As at past student led conferences, this will be a time for you to meet with your child to set goals based on their digital portfolios. Please send at least one adult to work with your child.
Math:
Addition & Subtraction within 10: Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 10.
Literacy:
Unit 6: In Our Community, We Learn About Ourselves and Our World by Reading for Information. In this unit students will discover more about the world around them through information books. Key Ideas and Details - identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depict), identify the reasons an author gives to support points in the text, and identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Unit 7: Readers Use All of Their “Tricks and Tools” in their Backpacks When It Comes to Tricky Parts. Readers will learn more strategies to use while they are reading including word solving, cross-checking, self-correcting and making meaning. In this unit students will ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures.), demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes), count, produce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words, know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words, associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels A,E,I,O,U, recognize and apply vowel patterns (two vowels out walking - feet, boat, magic e - cake, bike. and ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Writing:
Unit 7: Informational Writing - All About Books
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened. Participate in shared research and writing projects.
Word Wall Words: Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Word Wall (High Frequency) This month we will add the words: that, this, were, what, them, than, then, there, they (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home). We will continue to review the words we have learned, especially spelling, through the end of the year.
Science: Animals Two by Two. Compare and contrast animals, compare characteristics of living and nonliving things in terms of structure, growth, changes, movement, basic needs, and understand the position and motions of objects and organisms observed the environment.
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March Themes:
Dr. Seuss
Weather/Rain
Rainbows/St. Patrick's Day
Farm/Chickens/Eggs
Classroom Needs:
We'd love to add some outdoor playground Items during recess: sidewalk chalk, bubbles, hula hoops, balls, goals/nets, outdoor easel, play kitchen, sand toys, etc. If you have outgrown any gently used items, we are happy to give them a new home.
Devices Donations Being Accepted in Kindergarten! Do you have an old phone/device that is WiFi compatible that you are no longer using? We’d love to adopt it! If you have a device you’d like to permanently donate to our class, please contact me.
Math: Addition and Subtraction within 5 - Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 5.
Literacy: Unit 6: In Our Community, We Learn About Ourselves and Our World by Reading for Information. In this unit students will discover more about the world around them through information books. Key Ideas and Details - identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depict), identify the reasons an author gives to support points in the text, and identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Foundational Skills Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Associate the long and short vowel sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
Speaking and Listening Participation in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small or larger groups. Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood. Describe familiar people, places, things and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.Writing: Unit 7: Informational Writing - All About Books
Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Word Wall (High Frequency) Words we have learned: a, an, as, at, and, be, by, but, can, come, do, for, go, has, had, him, her, he, him, I, in is, it, if look, like, me, my, no, not, on, see, said, so, she, the, to, up, was, with, will, we, you, will, were, what. This month we will add the words: big, little, down, here, have, some, all, out, are (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home). (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
Upcoming March Dates:
2nd - EARLY RELEASE (Dismissal 1:15pm)
9th - PICTURE DAY (Class Photos, Dress Your Best!)
15th - 3rd Q Electives End
23rd - FIELD TRIP - Humpty DUmpty
26th - 4th Q Electives Begin
27th - Science Night, 6:00-7:45pm
29th - Move-a-Thon
30th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
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Dr. Seuss
Weather/Rain
Rainbows/St. Patrick's Day
Farm/Chickens/Eggs
Classroom Needs:
We'd love to add some outdoor playground Items during recess: sidewalk chalk, bubbles, hula hoops, balls, goals/nets, outdoor easel, play kitchen, sand toys, etc. If you have outgrown any gently used items, we are happy to give them a new home.
Devices Donations Being Accepted in Kindergarten! Do you have an old phone/device that is WiFi compatible that you are no longer using? We’d love to adopt it! If you have a device you’d like to permanently donate to our class, please contact me.
Math: Addition and Subtraction within 5 - Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 5.
Literacy: Unit 6: In Our Community, We Learn About Ourselves and Our World by Reading for Information. In this unit students will discover more about the world around them through information books. Key Ideas and Details - identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depict), identify the reasons an author gives to support points in the text, and identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Foundational Skills Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Associate the long and short vowel sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
Speaking and Listening Participation in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small or larger groups. Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood. Describe familiar people, places, things and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.Writing: Unit 7: Informational Writing - All About Books
Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Word Wall (High Frequency) Words we have learned: a, an, as, at, and, be, by, but, can, come, do, for, go, has, had, him, her, he, him, I, in is, it, if look, like, me, my, no, not, on, see, said, so, she, the, to, up, was, with, will, we, you, will, were, what. This month we will add the words: big, little, down, here, have, some, all, out, are (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home). (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
Upcoming March Dates:
2nd - EARLY RELEASE (Dismissal 1:15pm)
9th - PICTURE DAY (Class Photos, Dress Your Best!)
15th - 3rd Q Electives End
23rd - FIELD TRIP - Humpty DUmpty
26th - 4th Q Electives Begin
27th - Science Night, 6:00-7:45pm
29th - Move-a-Thon
30th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
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February Themes:
Careers & 100th Day of School
Valentines & Sweetness
Dragons (Chinese New Year) & Teeth
Dr. Seuss
Report cards: were sent home in today’s Monday folder. Please sign and return the envelope, the paper inside is for you to keep.
Kindergarten Kindness - The Kindergarten team would like to “Share the Love” this month with 100+ acts of kindness. We are challenging EACH Kindergarten student to complete an act of kindness, something near and dear to their heart. Choose any act of kindness. It might be as LITTLE as helping your neighbor take their trash cans in/out this month, or BIG, such as :making/collecting treats for a local pet shelter. The choice is yours. A heart shape has been sent home who you child. Please use this heart to show with your class how you shared Kindergarten Kindness. You may write about what you did, or include a photograph. In addition to completing your heart, you are also welcome to send a video to you teacher. All Kindness hearts are due BY FEBRUARY 14th.
Valentines/Friendship In an effort to to promote healthy Hunter stars, we are requesting that if you send in a treat that you consider healthy choices (strawberries, fruit snacks etc.) Also, if your child would like to send in cards to friends, please be sure include a card for EVERYONE in our class. We have 20 students. You can find a list of friends in our class on our website. We are planning some educational activities (graphing, sorting, voting) with candy. If you would prefer for your child not to eat the candy, please let us know and we will provide them with another snack after the activity.
Math
Positional Words & Shapes– Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to. Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size. Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes. Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, "Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?"
Addition and Subtraction Within 5 - Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 5.
Literacy
Literacy Unit: Review and practice community partnership rules. Establish new partnerships. Careful readers get their minds ready to read before reading. Readers teach each other in partnerships. Readers reread, rather than abandon books.Readers share and celebrate the funny parts. Participation in collaborative conversations with diverse partners . With prompting and support,identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. Read common high frequency words by sight – Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Word Wall (High Frequency) This month we will add the words: she, he, we, here, have, her, him, his, this, that (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
Reading Strategies we have learned: listen for interesting words, use the pictures, read good fit books, play with rhyming words, know letters and sounds, stretch or blend sounds in words, check for understanding, name the characters, setting, problem and solution, identify fiction, and nonfiction, retell the beginning, middle and end, identify beginning and ending sounds, connect to the story, chunk letters and sounds, name the author's purpose, making predictions, flip the sound (long/short vowels), practice sight words, and using punctuation.
Writing
How-To Writing
Use combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Spell simple words phonetically drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Upcoming Events:
9th - 100 Days Smarter Celebration Day!
Early Release, Dismissal at 1:15pm
19th - Snow Makeup Day
23rd - Dance In
Careers & 100th Day of School
Valentines & Sweetness
Dragons (Chinese New Year) & Teeth
Dr. Seuss
Report cards: were sent home in today’s Monday folder. Please sign and return the envelope, the paper inside is for you to keep.
Kindergarten Kindness - The Kindergarten team would like to “Share the Love” this month with 100+ acts of kindness. We are challenging EACH Kindergarten student to complete an act of kindness, something near and dear to their heart. Choose any act of kindness. It might be as LITTLE as helping your neighbor take their trash cans in/out this month, or BIG, such as :making/collecting treats for a local pet shelter. The choice is yours. A heart shape has been sent home who you child. Please use this heart to show with your class how you shared Kindergarten Kindness. You may write about what you did, or include a photograph. In addition to completing your heart, you are also welcome to send a video to you teacher. All Kindness hearts are due BY FEBRUARY 14th.
Valentines/Friendship In an effort to to promote healthy Hunter stars, we are requesting that if you send in a treat that you consider healthy choices (strawberries, fruit snacks etc.) Also, if your child would like to send in cards to friends, please be sure include a card for EVERYONE in our class. We have 20 students. You can find a list of friends in our class on our website. We are planning some educational activities (graphing, sorting, voting) with candy. If you would prefer for your child not to eat the candy, please let us know and we will provide them with another snack after the activity.
Math
Positional Words & Shapes– Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to. Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size. Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes. Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, "Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?"
Addition and Subtraction Within 5 - Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 5.
Literacy
Literacy Unit: Review and practice community partnership rules. Establish new partnerships. Careful readers get their minds ready to read before reading. Readers teach each other in partnerships. Readers reread, rather than abandon books.Readers share and celebrate the funny parts. Participation in collaborative conversations with diverse partners . With prompting and support,identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. Read common high frequency words by sight – Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Word Wall (High Frequency) This month we will add the words: she, he, we, here, have, her, him, his, this, that (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
Reading Strategies we have learned: listen for interesting words, use the pictures, read good fit books, play with rhyming words, know letters and sounds, stretch or blend sounds in words, check for understanding, name the characters, setting, problem and solution, identify fiction, and nonfiction, retell the beginning, middle and end, identify beginning and ending sounds, connect to the story, chunk letters and sounds, name the author's purpose, making predictions, flip the sound (long/short vowels), practice sight words, and using punctuation.
Writing
How-To Writing
Use combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Spell simple words phonetically drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Upcoming Events:
9th - 100 Days Smarter Celebration Day!
Early Release, Dismissal at 1:15pm
19th - Snow Makeup Day
23rd - Dance In
January Themes:
Resolutions & Snow
Mittens & Cocoa
Arctic Animals
Chaperones Needed: If you have been approved as a chaperone by WCPSS you are welcome to meet us at Marble Museum for our field trip on Friday, January 26th. We are in need of several chaperones to guide a small group about the museum. We will be arriving 10:15am and departing at 12noon (times are approximate). Please email if you can help! Chaperones will need to provide their own transportation and pay entrances fees upon arrival.
Hunter Magnet Tours will be held on Wednesdays in January. Be sure to spread the news to any prospective parents. We’d love to welcome new families to our Hunter Community.
Assessments: County wide benchmark assessments and mid-year assessments will be given in January. Your child will be assessed in both literacy and math. In literacy, your child will be assessed on: Letter Identification, (upper and lowercase), Letter Sounds, (upper and lowercase), First Sound Fluency (FSF), when told a word, they are asked to segment the beginning sound (cat “c” sound), Letter Name Fluency (LNF) when shown a list of letters, they are asked to tell the letter name, Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) when told a word, they are asked to break apart the sounds in the word, Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) when shown a nonsense word (such as vec, tun), they will be asked to read the word, Reading Level (TRC) and comprehension (characters, setting, making connections, providing supporting evidence in the text etc.), High Frequency (Word Wall) Words.
In math, your child will be assessed on: number identification (0-100), counting to 100 by 1s, and10s, subitizing, counting objects in an array, circle, line and scattered, teen numbers, counting on from 10, identify the missing number (5, ___, 7), quantity discrimination: more/less/equal (7, 9), count forward from any given number, writing numbers 1-20, positional words (such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to), identifying shapes regardless of orientation or size (square, rectangle, oval, circle, triangle, hexagon, cone, sphere, cylinder, cube), describing and comparing attributes of shapes (vertices, sides, faces, corners, angles) of 2-D(flat) and 3-D shapes (solids), building and drawing shapes.
To help your child at home, be sure to visit the resources tabs on our class website.
Career Volunteers Needed: Do you have an interesting, fun, unique career that you’d like to share with our Kindergarten students? We are in need of volunteers to share during Career Week (last week this month). If you can help, please email and let us know what you’d like to share.
Math: count to 100 by 1s and 10s, count forward from any given number, describe objects in the environment, using the names of shapes and describe relative position in terms (such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, next to), name shapes regardless of orientation or size, identify 2-D (flat) and 3-D (solid) shapes, compare 2-D and 3-D shapes to describe similarities, differences, part, attributes, (vertices, corners, sides, length etc.), build and draw shapes, compose simple shapes to form larger shapes (such as combining two triangles to form a rectangle)
Literacy: Reading Unit 5: Partners Help Teach Each Other to Read
We will read texts with confidence and use the strategies to tackle unfamiliar words and understand the text. We will review and practice how to talk with a partner making several back and forth exchanges speaking in complete sentences and using phrasing and wordage that is taught. We will begin to see how authors carefully choose interesting words to describe (verbs) what characters are doing and how knowing this will help with understanding. We will ask questions so we can understand what are reading and help partners. We will use decoding strategies to figure out unknown words. We will look for familiar sight words in books. We will use evidence from the story to support our responses. We will share the main idea of the books and give events/ key details from the story to support our answers. We will learn how authors carefully choose interesting words to describe characters.
Writing: Procedural Writing - How Tos
Writing explanatory/informative texts that name what they are writing about and supply information, steps involved in How To. For example, How To Build a Snowman (First, Next, Then , Last).
Word Wall: Students are expected to be able to read and spell all the words we have learned and added to our “Word Wall”. We practice these words daily. Be sure to practice at home too. This month we will add the words: not, but, has, had, will, with, bog, little, down
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December Themes:
Holidays
Elf, Reindeer & Moose
Gingerbread
Polar Express
Supply Needs: thick white & color cardstock, 22 packets of hot cocoa, 3 bags of mini marshmallows, oats/oatmeal, glitter, cranberries, mini marshmallows, chocolate chips (to make reindeer food), a large jar of applesacue, a large container of cinnamon...
Volunteer needed to make gingerbread playdough. Please email if you can help.
BYOD in Kindergarten: The K team is excited to launch BYOD!
In December, your child is welcome to bring their device, Monday thorugh Thursday. You and your child need to submit the BYOD contract prior to sending a device.
We need your child's device ready to go. This includes being connected to our WAKE-BYOD Wifi, and downloading some apps we will be utilizing. Please download the app for Seesaw CLASS, Epic Books for Kids and a QR Reader. These apps are free!
We will likely ask for additional downloading as we progress. Bare with us--December will be our chance to “practice” with our devices and work out the kinks, so we are ready to integrate technology for our units after the new year.
Please note: Your child will be responsible for their device!!!! Students will be required to bring devices home at the end of the school day. Here is a link to more information from the Hunter website: http://www.wcpss.net/domain/6403
Devices Donations Being Accepted in Kindergarten! Do you have an old phone/device that is WiFi compatible that you are no longer using? We’d love to adopt it! If you have a device you’d like to permanently donate to our class, please email me.
Polar Express Day, December 2oth - Pajama Day …. we will watch the Polar Express movie and enjoy some hot chocolate!
December Math:
Reading and writing number words one to twenty.
Composing and decomposing numbers 11-19: teen numbers, ten frames/groups, composing and decomposing with objects, drawings and equations, partners of 10 (10=6+4), shapes (triangle, rectangle, square, circle, hexagon, cube, cylinder, sphere, cone), attributes of shapes (sides, vertices/corners), positional words, 2 and 3 dimensions of shapes.
December Reading:
Using Reading Strategies (Tricks & Tools for Reading): Crosscheck: Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense? Use tools/strategies to make meaning when reading. Identify patterns when reading: Do pictures repeat? Do words repeat? Do actions repeat? Does it rhyme? Using letters and sounds to read and build words, CVC words. Using syllables, phonemes, beginning sounds, rhymes, phonics, decoding, word analysis skills, high frequency words to read. Asking and answering key questions in a text. Asking and answering questions about unknown words in a text. Retelling and identifying characters, setting, beginning, middle, ending, problem and solution. Making predictions and connections. Recognizing patterns in books. Three types of endings: opposite endings, endings where the whole comes to light (whole something) and funny endings. Rhyming patterns and word families. Fluency: voice changes when reading. Dramatizing: our bodies come to life.
December Writing: Opinion Writing, forming an opinion and stating reasons for it. Continue to rehearse, plan and write complete sentences. Reread own writing and practice 1-1 correspondence. Editing your writing. Forming an opinion and state a reason for it.
Word Wall: Students are expected to be able to read and spell all the words we have learned and added to our “Word Wall”. We practice these words daily during meeting time. Be sure to practice at home too. December words: no, so, do, by, be, for, of
December Dates:
8th - Walking Trip to Ligon (Holiday Concert)
20th - Polar Express Day (Wear your Jammies)
21st - Early Release, Dismissal 1:15pm
22nd-Jan. 1st - NO SCHOOL (Vacation/Break)
Jan 2nd Back to School :0)
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November Themes:
Scarecrows, Crows & Corn
Turkeys
Thanksgiving
Football
Classroom Needs: color card stock, white pom pom balls, play feathersBook Fair: November 13-17th. We will preview the books on Monday, November 13th and your child will bring home a list of books that sparked their interest. If you would like to purchase books for your child, please send money in an sealed envelope marked with their name by Wednesday morning. Our class will visit the book fair to purchase books on Wednesday.
Electives begin today! We are super excited about our new adventures in learning. Be sure to ask your child all about their elective.
Report Cards - are in today's Monday Folder (Nov. 6). Student Led Conferences will be held Thursday, November 9th from 2:30-3:30pm. We will begin in the media center. Your student will need to have one person present to help them set their 2nd Quarter goals. If a parent is not able to come, you may send a grandparent, older sibling, or someone so that your student can share their accomplishments and goals.
Football Week - Each year Mrs. Newkirk and I have a friendly rivalry for the Carolina vs. State game. Our class chant and cheer for Carolina. Be sure to wear Carolina blue. (Of course, if you are unable to route for Carolina and have to wear the other color, you'll still be part of our Awesome Owl family!)
November Math: Understanding the relationship between numbers and quantities: counting to 100 by ones and tens, counting forward from a given number in any sequence, writing numbers 1-20, counting 20 objects in a line, rectangular array, scattered, or circle, identifying greater than, less than and equal, comparing written numbers 1-10, addition and subtraction stories, attributes: shape, size and color. Reading and writing number words one-twenty. Composing and decomposing numbers 11-19: teen, ten groups, partners of numbers, composing and decomposing with objects, drawings and equations.
November Reading: Using Reading Strategies (Tricks & Tools for Reading): Crosscheck-Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense? Use tools/strategies to make meaning when reading. Using letters and sounds to read and build words. Using syllables, phonemes, beginning sounds, rhymes, phonics, decoding, word analysis skills, high frequency words to read. Asking and answering key questions in a text. Asking and answering questions about unknown words in a text.
November Writing: We will practice adding details to our stories. Writing like scientists by observing the world around. Including observations of size, color, shapes, texture, and number in writing. Writing a story in sequence, beginning (including a character and setting), middle (including a problem) and ending(including a solution). High Frequency Words for November: me, you, and, come, was, said
November Reminders:
6th- Electives Begin
9th - Student Led Conferences
10th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday - Veterans Day)
13th-17th - Book Fair
16th - Curriculum Night, 5:30-8:00pm
17th - Fall Picture Make-up
20th - UNC/NCSU Football Game is Saturday November 25th. Thanks for wearing CAROLINA blue for our football fun on Monday, Nov. 20th!!
21st - Early Release. Dismissal at 1:15pm.
22nd-24th - Thanksgiving Break
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Scarecrows, Crows & Corn
Turkeys
Thanksgiving
Football
Classroom Needs: color card stock, white pom pom balls, play feathersBook Fair: November 13-17th. We will preview the books on Monday, November 13th and your child will bring home a list of books that sparked their interest. If you would like to purchase books for your child, please send money in an sealed envelope marked with their name by Wednesday morning. Our class will visit the book fair to purchase books on Wednesday.
Electives begin today! We are super excited about our new adventures in learning. Be sure to ask your child all about their elective.
Report Cards - are in today's Monday Folder (Nov. 6). Student Led Conferences will be held Thursday, November 9th from 2:30-3:30pm. We will begin in the media center. Your student will need to have one person present to help them set their 2nd Quarter goals. If a parent is not able to come, you may send a grandparent, older sibling, or someone so that your student can share their accomplishments and goals.
Football Week - Each year Mrs. Newkirk and I have a friendly rivalry for the Carolina vs. State game. Our class chant and cheer for Carolina. Be sure to wear Carolina blue. (Of course, if you are unable to route for Carolina and have to wear the other color, you'll still be part of our Awesome Owl family!)
November Math: Understanding the relationship between numbers and quantities: counting to 100 by ones and tens, counting forward from a given number in any sequence, writing numbers 1-20, counting 20 objects in a line, rectangular array, scattered, or circle, identifying greater than, less than and equal, comparing written numbers 1-10, addition and subtraction stories, attributes: shape, size and color. Reading and writing number words one-twenty. Composing and decomposing numbers 11-19: teen, ten groups, partners of numbers, composing and decomposing with objects, drawings and equations.
November Reading: Using Reading Strategies (Tricks & Tools for Reading): Crosscheck-Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense? Use tools/strategies to make meaning when reading. Using letters and sounds to read and build words. Using syllables, phonemes, beginning sounds, rhymes, phonics, decoding, word analysis skills, high frequency words to read. Asking and answering key questions in a text. Asking and answering questions about unknown words in a text.
November Writing: We will practice adding details to our stories. Writing like scientists by observing the world around. Including observations of size, color, shapes, texture, and number in writing. Writing a story in sequence, beginning (including a character and setting), middle (including a problem) and ending(including a solution). High Frequency Words for November: me, you, and, come, was, said
November Reminders:
6th- Electives Begin
9th - Student Led Conferences
10th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday - Veterans Day)
13th-17th - Book Fair
16th - Curriculum Night, 5:30-8:00pm
17th - Fall Picture Make-up
20th - UNC/NCSU Football Game is Saturday November 25th. Thanks for wearing CAROLINA blue for our football fun on Monday, Nov. 20th!!
21st - Early Release. Dismissal at 1:15pm.
22nd-24th - Thanksgiving Break
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October Weekly Themes:
Nocturnal Animals (Owls, Spiders & Bats)
Pumpkins
Monsters (No worries…Fuzzy Fun Monsters!)
Classrooms Needs: 45 mini pumpkin gourds (for activity with book buddies)
Big Universe: Thanks to WCPSS, your child has an online library account with Big Universe. Big Universe is a great resource to practice reading and great for non-fiction books. This site does not give you a "listen and read along" option but does allow you to create your own library so you can go back to re-read your favorites. BIg Universe link: https://www.biguniverse.com/signin
Student username: wcp+student ID #
Password: student ID #
Group username: wcpss
(This link is also accessible from our classroom website, click on “Educational Websites" on the menu to the left.)
Library Books: Please return your library book weekly so your child can check out another book on when we visit.
Clothing: Please label all jackets/clothing with your child’s name. Also, please keep a change of clothes in a Ziploc bag in your child’s backpack for accidents - that could be as simple as spilt milk :0)
If you child borrows clothing from Hunter’s clothing closet, we ask that you wash and return these items for others in need.
Word Wall Words: Each week we will learn 1-2 high frequency words. Your child will be expected to read these words and spell them correctly when writing. Words we have learned are displayed on our classroom “Word Wall”. Please practice reading and writing these words at home too. Thus far we have learned: a, I, like, the This month we will add the words: see, go, at, to, is, in, and, can
Toys – Please remember to keep toys and personal items at home.
MATH: ‘Digging Deep’ with Numbers 1-10: counting, writing (number formation), number words, number sentences, tally marks, ten frames, equal/not equal numbers, dot-to-dots, same, more/fewer, alike/different, order, number line, before/after, groups of numbers, counting to 100 by ones and tens, 5-groups, counting on, number patterns, +1 pattern, partners of numbers (9=5+4), ones, tens, teens and zeros, equal sign, and plus sign.
LITERACY: Print Concepts, Reading Behaviors, (See “parent resources” tab on class website to practice at home). When reading at home with your child, be sure to let them try to sound out some of the words. In the classroom, we practice ‘tapping out’ the word on our arm (cat, c-elbow bend, a-forearm, t- wrist) then swiping our arm down these spots to blend the sounds together and hear the whole word.
Reading Strategies – Upper/Lower Case Letter recognition and letter sounds, identifying title, author, illustrator, check for understanding using picture clues, making predictions, finding patterns, play with rhyming words, discussing our favorite part, set a purpose for reading (fiction/non-fiction), retell beginning, middle ending, exploring characters (adventures, feelings, voice),
Word Wall (High Frequency Words we have learned and are expected to read and spell correctly): a, I, like, the. This month we will add the words: see, go, at, to, is, in, and, can. (See “parent resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
Writing: We are learning all about the tools that we need for writing: pencil, paper, crayons, space stick and eraser, counting how many words are in the sentence, to make sure that we have spaces between those words. Good writers make sure they write down all the sounds they hear when they say a word. We are practicing using ‘meatball’ spaces (between words) and ‘spaghetti’ spaces (between letters). We have learned letter formation for letters a-z practicing within the lines: chicken letters (a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z), giraffe letters (b, d, f, h, k, l, t) and monkey letters (g, j, p, q, y)
Nocturnal Animals (Owls, Spiders & Bats)
Pumpkins
Monsters (No worries…Fuzzy Fun Monsters!)
Classrooms Needs: 45 mini pumpkin gourds (for activity with book buddies)
Big Universe: Thanks to WCPSS, your child has an online library account with Big Universe. Big Universe is a great resource to practice reading and great for non-fiction books. This site does not give you a "listen and read along" option but does allow you to create your own library so you can go back to re-read your favorites. BIg Universe link: https://www.biguniverse.com/signin
Student username: wcp+student ID #
Password: student ID #
Group username: wcpss
(This link is also accessible from our classroom website, click on “Educational Websites" on the menu to the left.)
Library Books: Please return your library book weekly so your child can check out another book on when we visit.
Clothing: Please label all jackets/clothing with your child’s name. Also, please keep a change of clothes in a Ziploc bag in your child’s backpack for accidents - that could be as simple as spilt milk :0)
If you child borrows clothing from Hunter’s clothing closet, we ask that you wash and return these items for others in need.
Word Wall Words: Each week we will learn 1-2 high frequency words. Your child will be expected to read these words and spell them correctly when writing. Words we have learned are displayed on our classroom “Word Wall”. Please practice reading and writing these words at home too. Thus far we have learned: a, I, like, the This month we will add the words: see, go, at, to, is, in, and, can
Toys – Please remember to keep toys and personal items at home.
MATH: ‘Digging Deep’ with Numbers 1-10: counting, writing (number formation), number words, number sentences, tally marks, ten frames, equal/not equal numbers, dot-to-dots, same, more/fewer, alike/different, order, number line, before/after, groups of numbers, counting to 100 by ones and tens, 5-groups, counting on, number patterns, +1 pattern, partners of numbers (9=5+4), ones, tens, teens and zeros, equal sign, and plus sign.
LITERACY: Print Concepts, Reading Behaviors, (See “parent resources” tab on class website to practice at home). When reading at home with your child, be sure to let them try to sound out some of the words. In the classroom, we practice ‘tapping out’ the word on our arm (cat, c-elbow bend, a-forearm, t- wrist) then swiping our arm down these spots to blend the sounds together and hear the whole word.
Reading Strategies – Upper/Lower Case Letter recognition and letter sounds, identifying title, author, illustrator, check for understanding using picture clues, making predictions, finding patterns, play with rhyming words, discussing our favorite part, set a purpose for reading (fiction/non-fiction), retell beginning, middle ending, exploring characters (adventures, feelings, voice),
Word Wall (High Frequency Words we have learned and are expected to read and spell correctly): a, I, like, the. This month we will add the words: see, go, at, to, is, in, and, can. (See “parent resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
Writing: We are learning all about the tools that we need for writing: pencil, paper, crayons, space stick and eraser, counting how many words are in the sentence, to make sure that we have spaces between those words. Good writers make sure they write down all the sounds they hear when they say a word. We are practicing using ‘meatball’ spaces (between words) and ‘spaghetti’ spaces (between letters). We have learned letter formation for letters a-z practicing within the lines: chicken letters (a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z), giraffe letters (b, d, f, h, k, l, t) and monkey letters (g, j, p, q, y)
Class of 2030!
We are excited to meet our newest class members soon.
It's going to be a wonderful school year!
September Themes:
All About Me
Pete the Cat & Colors
Apples
Woodland Creatures
GOING GREEN: To cut down on paper waste, our class will correspond primarily via email ("Monday Memos"), Seesaw Digital Portfolios and our class website. Paper copies can be provided upon request.
ROOM PARENT: If you are interested in being a room parent please send me an email. We will certainly invite additional volunteers to help in other ways.
MemberHub: is our online PTA directory and source for information from your room parents, PTA, and administration. Please be sure to join for information and reminders on school events.
T-SHIRTS: We will be wearing our class t-shirts for all our Kindergarten field trips. (The shirt will be yours too keep at the end of the school year. The cost of the t-shirt is $8.50. Please send in payment by September 29th. If paying by cash please send in exact change. Please make checks out to: Aardvark Inc. Donations for other students are always welcome!
VOLUNTEER SIGN-UP: We'd love to have you volunteer! All volunteers must complete an online clearance application via a WCPSS computer. Be sure to sign-up soon. Clearance takes about 3 weeks and is needed for helping in the classroom or joining us on field trips. Even if you have submitted your information previously, YOU MUST REREGISTER EACH SCHOOL YEAR.
MATH HOMEWORK: WCPSS provides homework for you to practice the skills we have learned in class. Hard copies will come home in your Monday folders from time to time. You and your child may complete these at your convenience. Math homework does NOT need to return to school.
ENRICHMENT HW: Enrichment Homework is OPTIONAL. Enrichment homework is provided on our class website. Simply click on the ”Enrichment HW” tab on the left. Enrichment HW provides an opportunity to work with your child at home.
CONTACT US: The best way to reach us is email. Also, you are welcome to call Hunter at 919.856.7676 and leave a message with the front office staff.
HUNTER WiFi: Join WAKE-BYOD to connect to our school WiFi.
EMAIL TEST: I have sent out an email to all email addresses that were listed on your child's information form. If you haven’t already, please respond so I know you have received it. If you have not received an email, would prefer to be taken off the list, or wish to add an email, please send me an email.
SNACK CALENDAR: A snack calendar will be posted each month to our classroom website. We participate in community snack and ask that on or before your scheduled day you provide snack for our class (22).
Kindergarten Sneak Peek - Friday, September 29th, 12:30-1:00pm. Parents are invited to our classroom to learn All About Kindergarten! As a courtesy to others (so we are able to attend to your needs and answer your questions) we prefer this to be an ADULTS only event.
September Goals:
Literacy: There are three goals for students in this unit: children love reading, children learn how to read, and children learn to build relationships around books. Identify letters and sounds. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print: follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book. Take a 'picture walk' to tell ourselves about the book adventure by using picture clues. Purpose for reading, what readers do (before, during. after) and more. Recognize and produce rhyming words. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussion (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Math: Count to 100 by ones and tens. Write numbers 0-10. Count to answer, “How many?” Count objects in a line, scattered arrangement or array. Name successive numbers without recounting. Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger. Compare numbers (more, less, equal).
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May/June Themes:
Camping
Ocean
Beach & Pirates
Baseball & Father’s
May
8th -Interims sent home.
12th - Teacher Workday, NO SCHOOL for students.
25th - Electives End
26th - Field Trip to Pullen Park
29th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
June
2nd - Student Led Conferences, 3:00-3:45pm
5th - Red Carpet Day (Dress Your Best!)
Volunteer Breakfast
6th - Field Trip (Roberts Park) 9:45-12:30am - Families Welcome!
7th - Baseball Day (Wear your favorite team hat/shirt.)
9th - Field Day & LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!
Chaperones Needed - for Pullen Park on May 26th (Friday). Please email if you are able to join us.
Pizza Volunteer Needed - We are in need of a volunteer to order, pick up and deliver pizza to Roberts Park for our picnic. Please email if you can help.
Roberts Park End of Year Picnic - June 6th - Families Welcome!!
For more information, please see the letter enclosed in the Monday folder.
Assessments/Benchmark Testing - End of year Assessments will begin this week and continue throughout the month of May. To help your child do their best, please be sure they have a good night's rest and a healthy breakfast. Your child will be assessed on everything we have learned this year :0)
Math:
More Addition & Subtraction within 10
Measurement & Data: Describing Attributes:
Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object. Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has "more or"/"less of" the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter. Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. (Limit category counts to be less than or equal to 10)
Literacy:
Key Ideas and Details: Identify characters, setting and major events in a story, describe the connections between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Integrations of Knowledge and Ideas: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depicts). Compare and contrast the adventure and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Foundational Skills: Apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words - vowel teams, magic e, vowel stealers for long and short vowel sounds. Read (and write) common high frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sound of the letters that differ. (e.g., analogies or changes in onset and rime: cat/man).
Speaking and Listening & Language: Explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out meanings). Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Writing: Persuasive
Word Wall Words: Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Please practice reading and writing these words at home. Words we have learned: , an, as, all, at, and, can, go, I, in is, it, look, like, me, my, no, not, on, see, the, to, you, he, him, his, she, her, big, little, up, down, was, with, said, come, some, here, be, by, so, do, if, of, have, had, has, will, were, what, are, for, there, they, that, this, then, than, but, out (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home). We will continue to review the words we have learned (especially spelling them!) through the end of the year.
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Camping
Ocean
Beach & Pirates
Baseball & Father’s
May
8th -Interims sent home.
12th - Teacher Workday, NO SCHOOL for students.
25th - Electives End
26th - Field Trip to Pullen Park
29th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
June
2nd - Student Led Conferences, 3:00-3:45pm
5th - Red Carpet Day (Dress Your Best!)
Volunteer Breakfast
6th - Field Trip (Roberts Park) 9:45-12:30am - Families Welcome!
7th - Baseball Day (Wear your favorite team hat/shirt.)
9th - Field Day & LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!
Chaperones Needed - for Pullen Park on May 26th (Friday). Please email if you are able to join us.
Pizza Volunteer Needed - We are in need of a volunteer to order, pick up and deliver pizza to Roberts Park for our picnic. Please email if you can help.
Roberts Park End of Year Picnic - June 6th - Families Welcome!!
For more information, please see the letter enclosed in the Monday folder.
Assessments/Benchmark Testing - End of year Assessments will begin this week and continue throughout the month of May. To help your child do their best, please be sure they have a good night's rest and a healthy breakfast. Your child will be assessed on everything we have learned this year :0)
Math:
More Addition & Subtraction within 10
Measurement & Data: Describing Attributes:
Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object. Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has "more or"/"less of" the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter. Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. (Limit category counts to be less than or equal to 10)
Literacy:
Key Ideas and Details: Identify characters, setting and major events in a story, describe the connections between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Integrations of Knowledge and Ideas: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depicts). Compare and contrast the adventure and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Foundational Skills: Apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words - vowel teams, magic e, vowel stealers for long and short vowel sounds. Read (and write) common high frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sound of the letters that differ. (e.g., analogies or changes in onset and rime: cat/man).
Speaking and Listening & Language: Explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out meanings). Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Writing: Persuasive
Word Wall Words: Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Please practice reading and writing these words at home. Words we have learned: , an, as, all, at, and, can, go, I, in is, it, look, like, me, my, no, not, on, see, the, to, you, he, him, his, she, her, big, little, up, down, was, with, said, come, some, here, be, by, so, do, if, of, have, had, has, will, were, what, are, for, there, they, that, this, then, than, but, out (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home). We will continue to review the words we have learned (especially spelling them!) through the end of the year.
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April Themes:
Chickens & Eggs
--Spring Break--
Farm
Save the Earth & Rainforest
April
6th- Science Night, 6-8pm
7th - Move-a-Thon/Wellness Day
10th-14th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday/Vacation)
17th - Report Cards sent home
21st - Field Trip (WinterPast Farm)
May 5th - Hunter Heritage, 5:30-8:00pm - Super Fun for All!
Our Classroom Needs: white card stock, page protectors
LetterLand Day: at Pullen Park Saturday, May 6th, 2017 10am-4pm. Free admission into park. Rides $1 Information can be found on http://wakeupandread.org/events/letterland/Online Resources: Big Universe and Epic Books are great resources for reading child at home! If you are using either of these resources, we’d love to hear your feedback to help us make choices for continuing with them next year. Please send an email with your thoughts.
Chaperones Needed: We are in need of chaperones for our WinterPast Field Trip on April, 21st. Both trips will be from about 10:00am to about 12:00pm. Please email me if you can help.
Mark Your Calendars: Our final Student Led Conferences will be held on Friday, June 2nd from 2:45-3:30pm. As at past student led conferences, this will be a time for you to meet with your child to set goals based on their digital portfolios. Please send at least one adult to work with your child.
Donor’s Choose: Our class project was funded! A great big thank you to all who shared and donated to our project. The best way for you to help us to get projects funded is to spread the word! We appreciate your help.
Title I Early Start Program - FREE! This program is for incoming K students. If you have a sibling or know someone who has an incoming K that will be at Hunter in August, consider applying. The program will run from July 12th-27th, 2017. Transportation, breakfast and lunch will be provided. If you are interested, please email Ms. Hill, [email protected], for an application. You may also pick up an application in the office.
Math:
Addition & Subtraction within 10: Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 10.
Literacy:
Unit 6: In Our Community, We Learn About Ourselves and Our World by Reading for Information. In this unit students will discover more about the world around them through information books. Key Ideas and Details - identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depict), identify the reasons an author gives to support points in the text, and identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Unit 7: Readers Use All of Their “Tricks and Tools” in their Backpacks When It Comes to Tricky Parts. Readers will learn more strategies to use while they are reading including word solving, cross-checking, self-correcting and making meaning. In this unit students will ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures.), demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes), count, produce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words, know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words, associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels A,E,I,O,U, recognize and apply vowel patterns (two vowels out walking - feet, boat, magic e - cake, bike.
and ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Writing:
Unit 7: Informational Writing - All About Books
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened. Participate in shared research and writing projects.
Word Wall Words: Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Word Wall (High Frequency) Words we have learned: a, an, as, all, at, and, can, go, I, in is, it, look, like, me, my, no, not, on, see, the, to, you, he, him, his, she, her, big, little, up, down, was, with, said, come, some, here, be, by, so, do, if, of, have, had, has, will, were, what, are, for, there, they, that, this, then, than. This month we will add the words: but, out (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home). we will continue to review the words we have learned, especially spelling, through the end of the year.
Science: Animals Two by Two. Compare and contrast animals, compare characteristics of living and nonliving things in terms of structure, growth, changes, movement, basic needs, and understand the position and motions of objects and organisms observed in the environment.
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Chickens & Eggs
--Spring Break--
Farm
Save the Earth & Rainforest
April
6th- Science Night, 6-8pm
7th - Move-a-Thon/Wellness Day
10th-14th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday/Vacation)
17th - Report Cards sent home
21st - Field Trip (WinterPast Farm)
May 5th - Hunter Heritage, 5:30-8:00pm - Super Fun for All!
Our Classroom Needs: white card stock, page protectors
LetterLand Day: at Pullen Park Saturday, May 6th, 2017 10am-4pm. Free admission into park. Rides $1 Information can be found on http://wakeupandread.org/events/letterland/Online Resources: Big Universe and Epic Books are great resources for reading child at home! If you are using either of these resources, we’d love to hear your feedback to help us make choices for continuing with them next year. Please send an email with your thoughts.
Chaperones Needed: We are in need of chaperones for our WinterPast Field Trip on April, 21st. Both trips will be from about 10:00am to about 12:00pm. Please email me if you can help.
Mark Your Calendars: Our final Student Led Conferences will be held on Friday, June 2nd from 2:45-3:30pm. As at past student led conferences, this will be a time for you to meet with your child to set goals based on their digital portfolios. Please send at least one adult to work with your child.
Donor’s Choose: Our class project was funded! A great big thank you to all who shared and donated to our project. The best way for you to help us to get projects funded is to spread the word! We appreciate your help.
Title I Early Start Program - FREE! This program is for incoming K students. If you have a sibling or know someone who has an incoming K that will be at Hunter in August, consider applying. The program will run from July 12th-27th, 2017. Transportation, breakfast and lunch will be provided. If you are interested, please email Ms. Hill, [email protected], for an application. You may also pick up an application in the office.
Math:
Addition & Subtraction within 10: Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 10.
Literacy:
Unit 6: In Our Community, We Learn About Ourselves and Our World by Reading for Information. In this unit students will discover more about the world around them through information books. Key Ideas and Details - identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depict), identify the reasons an author gives to support points in the text, and identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Unit 7: Readers Use All of Their “Tricks and Tools” in their Backpacks When It Comes to Tricky Parts. Readers will learn more strategies to use while they are reading including word solving, cross-checking, self-correcting and making meaning. In this unit students will ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures.), demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes), count, produce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words, know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words, associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels A,E,I,O,U, recognize and apply vowel patterns (two vowels out walking - feet, boat, magic e - cake, bike.
and ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Writing:
Unit 7: Informational Writing - All About Books
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened. Participate in shared research and writing projects.
Word Wall Words: Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Word Wall (High Frequency) Words we have learned: a, an, as, all, at, and, can, go, I, in is, it, look, like, me, my, no, not, on, see, the, to, you, he, him, his, she, her, big, little, up, down, was, with, said, come, some, here, be, by, so, do, if, of, have, had, has, will, were, what, are, for, there, they, that, this, then, than. This month we will add the words: but, out (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home). we will continue to review the words we have learned, especially spelling, through the end of the year.
Science: Animals Two by Two. Compare and contrast animals, compare characteristics of living and nonliving things in terms of structure, growth, changes, movement, basic needs, and understand the position and motions of objects and organisms observed in the environment.
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March Themes:
Dr. Seuss
Weather/Rain
Rainbows/St. Patrick's Day
Insects
Devices Donations Being Accepted in Kindergarten! Do you have an old phone/device that is WiFi compatible that you are no longer using? We’d love to adopt it! If you have a device you’d like to permanently donate to our class, please contact me.
BYOD - We welcome devices on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this month so we can integrate technology during during literacy and math.
Math: Addition and Subtraction within 5 - Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 5.
Literacy: Unit 6: In Our Community, We Learn About Ourselves and Our World by Reading for Information. In this unit students will discover more about the world around them through information books. Key Ideas and Details - identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depict), identify the reasons an author gives to support points in the text, and identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Foundational Skills Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Associate the long and short vowel sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
Speaking and Listening Participation in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small or larger groups. Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood. Describe familiar people, places, things and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Writing: Unit 7: Informational Writing - All About Books
Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Word Wall (High Frequency) Words we have learned: a, an, as, all, at, and, can, go, I, in is, it, look, like, me, my, no, not, on, see, the, to, you, he, him, his, she, her, big, little, up, down, was, with, said, come, some, here, be, by, so, do, if, of, have, had, has, will, were, what. This month we will add the words: are, for, there, they, that, this, then, than (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
Dr. Seuss
Weather/Rain
Rainbows/St. Patrick's Day
Insects
Devices Donations Being Accepted in Kindergarten! Do you have an old phone/device that is WiFi compatible that you are no longer using? We’d love to adopt it! If you have a device you’d like to permanently donate to our class, please contact me.
BYOD - We welcome devices on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this month so we can integrate technology during during literacy and math.
Math: Addition and Subtraction within 5 - Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 5.
Literacy: Unit 6: In Our Community, We Learn About Ourselves and Our World by Reading for Information. In this unit students will discover more about the world around them through information books. Key Ideas and Details - identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depict), identify the reasons an author gives to support points in the text, and identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Foundational Skills Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Associate the long and short vowel sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
Speaking and Listening Participation in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small or larger groups. Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood. Describe familiar people, places, things and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Writing: Unit 7: Informational Writing - All About Books
Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Word Wall (High Frequency) Words we have learned: a, an, as, all, at, and, can, go, I, in is, it, look, like, me, my, no, not, on, see, the, to, you, he, him, his, she, her, big, little, up, down, was, with, said, come, some, here, be, by, so, do, if, of, have, had, has, will, were, what. This month we will add the words: are, for, there, they, that, this, then, than (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
February Themes:
100th Day of School
Valentines & Sweetness
Dragons (Chinese New Year) & Teeth
Classroom Needs: white cardstock, 2 bags of each: Hersey’s Hugs and Kisses, candy/gummy hearts for math
Report cards: were sent home in today’s Monday folder. Please sign and return the envelope, the paper inside is for you to keep.
Valentines/Friendship In an effort to to promote healthy Hunter stars, we are requesting that if you send in a treat that you consider healthy choices (strawberries, fruit snacks etc.) Also, if your child would like to send in cards to friends, please be sure include a card for EVERYONE in our class. We have 21 students. You can find a list of friends in our class on our website. We are planning some educational activities (graphing, sorting, voting) with candy. If you would prefer for your child not to eat the candy, please let us know and we will provide them with another snack after the activity.
BYOD - We will continue to work out the kinks for BYOD. Your student is welcome to bring their device on Friday during the month of February.
Math
Positional Words & Shapes– Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to. Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size. Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes. Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, "Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?"
Addition and Subtraction Within 5 - Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 5.
Literacy
Literacy Unit: Review and practice community partnership rules. Establish new partnerships. Careful readers get their minds ready to read before reading. Readers teach each other in partnerships. Readers reread, rather than abandon books.Readers share and celebrate the funny parts. Participation in collaborative conversations with diverse partners . With prompting and support,identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. Read common high frequency words by sight – Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Word Wall (High Frequency) Words we have learned: a, an, as, all, at, and, can, go, I, in is, it, look, like, me, my, no, not, on, see, the, to, you, he, him, his, she, her, big, little, up, down, was, with, said, come, some, here, be, by, so, do. This month we will add the words: if, of, are, for, have, has, had, will, were, what (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
Reading Strategies we have learned: listen for interesting words, use the pictures, read good fit books, play with rhyming words, know letters and sounds, stretch or blend sounds in words, check for understanding, name the characters, setting, problem and solution, identify fiction, and nonfiction, retell the beginning, middle and end, identify beginning and ending sounds, connect to the story, chunk letters and sounds, name the author's purpose, making predictions, flip the sound (long/short vowels), practice sight words, and using punctuation.
Writing How-To Writing
Use combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. Spell simple words phonetically drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Upcoming Events:
3rd - 100th Day Projects Due
9th - 100 Days Smarter Celebration Day!
10th - Early Release (Dismissal at 1:15pm)
16th - PTA Skate Night at United Skates, 6-8pm
17th - National Digital Learning Day
20th - Snow Makeup Day
24th - Dance In
100th Day of School
Valentines & Sweetness
Dragons (Chinese New Year) & Teeth
Classroom Needs: white cardstock, 2 bags of each: Hersey’s Hugs and Kisses, candy/gummy hearts for math
Report cards: were sent home in today’s Monday folder. Please sign and return the envelope, the paper inside is for you to keep.
Valentines/Friendship In an effort to to promote healthy Hunter stars, we are requesting that if you send in a treat that you consider healthy choices (strawberries, fruit snacks etc.) Also, if your child would like to send in cards to friends, please be sure include a card for EVERYONE in our class. We have 21 students. You can find a list of friends in our class on our website. We are planning some educational activities (graphing, sorting, voting) with candy. If you would prefer for your child not to eat the candy, please let us know and we will provide them with another snack after the activity.
BYOD - We will continue to work out the kinks for BYOD. Your student is welcome to bring their device on Friday during the month of February.
Math
Positional Words & Shapes– Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to. Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size. Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes. Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, "Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?"
Addition and Subtraction Within 5 - Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 5.
Literacy
Literacy Unit: Review and practice community partnership rules. Establish new partnerships. Careful readers get their minds ready to read before reading. Readers teach each other in partnerships. Readers reread, rather than abandon books.Readers share and celebrate the funny parts. Participation in collaborative conversations with diverse partners . With prompting and support,identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. Read common high frequency words by sight – Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Word Wall (High Frequency) Words we have learned: a, an, as, all, at, and, can, go, I, in is, it, look, like, me, my, no, not, on, see, the, to, you, he, him, his, she, her, big, little, up, down, was, with, said, come, some, here, be, by, so, do. This month we will add the words: if, of, are, for, have, has, had, will, were, what (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
Reading Strategies we have learned: listen for interesting words, use the pictures, read good fit books, play with rhyming words, know letters and sounds, stretch or blend sounds in words, check for understanding, name the characters, setting, problem and solution, identify fiction, and nonfiction, retell the beginning, middle and end, identify beginning and ending sounds, connect to the story, chunk letters and sounds, name the author's purpose, making predictions, flip the sound (long/short vowels), practice sight words, and using punctuation.
Writing How-To Writing
Use combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. Spell simple words phonetically drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Upcoming Events:
3rd - 100th Day Projects Due
9th - 100 Days Smarter Celebration Day!
10th - Early Release (Dismissal at 1:15pm)
16th - PTA Skate Night at United Skates, 6-8pm
17th - National Digital Learning Day
20th - Snow Makeup Day
24th - Dance In
January Themes:
Resolutions & Snow
Mittens & Cocoa
Arctic Animals
Classroom Needs: small cotton balls, qtips, INK!! HP 61 (black and color), transparent chips (https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Resources-Transparent-Color-Counting/dp/B00004WKPM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483407192&sr=8-1&keywords=transparent+chips)
Elective Registration: Elective registration sheets will be sent home in Monday folders. Please complete and return forms by Friday, January 6th. You are submitting your selections for the remainder of the year. Your child will register for TWO electives for 3rd Quarter and TWO electives for 4th Quarter. Please be sure to complete all choices as classes fill up quickly. (We often need to go down the list to meet the interests of your child). Elective changes should be sent directly to Mrs. Johnson at [email protected] by January 20th. Electives for 3rd Quarter begin on Monday, January 23rd. Since we will have two electives, we will have specials less often, about twice a week.
Book Orders: Scholastic Book Orders are due Monday, January 16th.
Chaperones Needed: If you have been approved as a chaperone by WCPSS you are welcome to meet us at Marble Museum for our field trip on Friday, January 13th. We are in need of several chaperones to guide a small group about the museum. We will be arriving 10am and departing at 12noon (times are approximate). Please email me if you can help! Chaperones will need to provide their own transportation and pay entrances fees upon arrival.
Hunter Magnet Tours will be held on Wednesdays in January. Be sure to spread the news to any prospective parents. We’d love to welcome new families to our Hunter Community.Assessments:
County wide benchmark assessments and mid-year assessments will be given in January. Your child will be assessed for both literacy and math. In literacy, your child will be assessed on: Letter Identification, (upper and lowercase), Letter Sounds, (upper and lowercase), First Sound Fluency (FSF), when told a word, they are asked to segment the beginning sound (cat “c” sound), Letter Name Fluency (LNF) when shown a list of letters, they are asked to tell the letter name, Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) when told a word, they are asked to break apart the sounds in the word, Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) when shown a nonsense word (such as vec, tun), they will be asked to read the word, Reading Level (TRC) and comprehension (characters, setting, making connections, providing supporting evidence in the text etc.), High Frequency (Word Wall) Words
In math, your child will be assessed on: number identification (0-100), counting to 100 by 1s, and10s, subitizing, counting objects in an array, line and scattered, teen number, counting on from 10, identify the missing number (5, ___, 7), quantity discrimination: more/less (7, 9), count forward from any given number, writing numbers 1-20, positional words (such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to), identifying shapes regardless of orientation or size (square, rectangle, oval, circle, triangle, hexagon, cone, sphere, cylinder, cube), describing and comparing attributes of shapes (vertices, sides, faces, corners, angles) of 2-D(flat) and 3-D shapes (solids), building and drawing shapes.
To help your child at home, be sure to visit the resources tabs on our class website.
Career Volunteers Needed: Do you have an interesting, fun, unique career that you’d like to share with our Kindergarten students? We are in need of volunteers to share during Career Week (last week this month). If you can help, please email me and let me know what you’d like to share.
Math: count to 100 by 1s and 10s, count forward from any given number, describe objects in the environment, using the names of shapes and describe relative position in terms (such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, next to), name shapes regardless of orientation or size, identify 2-D (flat) and 3-D (solid) shapes, compare 2-D and 3-D shapes to describe similarities, differences, part, attributes, (vertices, corners, sides, length etc.), build and draw shapes, compose simple shapes to form larger shapes (such as combining two triangles to form a rectangle)
Literacy:
Reading Unit 5: Partners Help Teach Each Other to Read
We will read texts with confidence and use the strategies to tackle unfamiliar words and understand the text. We will review and practice how to talk with a partner making several back and forth exchanges speaking in complete sentences and using phrasing and wordage that is taught. We will begin to see how authors carefully choose interesting words to describe (verbs) what characters are doing and how knowing this will help with understanding. We will ask questions so we can understand what are reading and help partners. We will use decoding strategies to figure out unknown words. We will look for familiar sight words in books. We will use evidence from the story to support our responses. We will share the main idea of the books and give events/ key details from the story to support our answers. We will learn how authors carefully choose interesting words to describe characters.
Writing:
Procedural Writing - How Tos
Writing explanatory/informative texts that name what they are writing about and supply information, steps involved in How To. For example, How To Build a Snowman (First, Next, Then , Last).
Word Wall: Students are expected to be able to read and spell all the words we have learned and added to our “Word Wall”. We practice these words daily during meeting time. Be sure to practice at home too. We will have a ‘quiz’ on spelling these words each month. Word Wall (High Frequency) Words we have learned: a, an, as, all, at, and, can, go, I, in is, it, look, like, me, my, no, not, on, see, the, to, you, he, him, his, she, her, big, little, up, down. This month we will add the words: was, with, said, come, some, here, be, by, so, do (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
January
2nd - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
3rd - Mrs. Martinez' Birthday (39 again!)
6th - Elective Forms Due
12th - Q2 Electives End
13th - Marbles Field Trip
16th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
20th - Early Release (Dismissal at 1:15pm)
23rd - Q3 Electives Begin
24th - End of Q2
27th - NO SCHOOL (Teacher Workday)
Resolutions & Snow
Mittens & Cocoa
Arctic Animals
Classroom Needs: small cotton balls, qtips, INK!! HP 61 (black and color), transparent chips (https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Resources-Transparent-Color-Counting/dp/B00004WKPM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483407192&sr=8-1&keywords=transparent+chips)
Elective Registration: Elective registration sheets will be sent home in Monday folders. Please complete and return forms by Friday, January 6th. You are submitting your selections for the remainder of the year. Your child will register for TWO electives for 3rd Quarter and TWO electives for 4th Quarter. Please be sure to complete all choices as classes fill up quickly. (We often need to go down the list to meet the interests of your child). Elective changes should be sent directly to Mrs. Johnson at [email protected] by January 20th. Electives for 3rd Quarter begin on Monday, January 23rd. Since we will have two electives, we will have specials less often, about twice a week.
Book Orders: Scholastic Book Orders are due Monday, January 16th.
Chaperones Needed: If you have been approved as a chaperone by WCPSS you are welcome to meet us at Marble Museum for our field trip on Friday, January 13th. We are in need of several chaperones to guide a small group about the museum. We will be arriving 10am and departing at 12noon (times are approximate). Please email me if you can help! Chaperones will need to provide their own transportation and pay entrances fees upon arrival.
Hunter Magnet Tours will be held on Wednesdays in January. Be sure to spread the news to any prospective parents. We’d love to welcome new families to our Hunter Community.Assessments:
County wide benchmark assessments and mid-year assessments will be given in January. Your child will be assessed for both literacy and math. In literacy, your child will be assessed on: Letter Identification, (upper and lowercase), Letter Sounds, (upper and lowercase), First Sound Fluency (FSF), when told a word, they are asked to segment the beginning sound (cat “c” sound), Letter Name Fluency (LNF) when shown a list of letters, they are asked to tell the letter name, Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) when told a word, they are asked to break apart the sounds in the word, Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) when shown a nonsense word (such as vec, tun), they will be asked to read the word, Reading Level (TRC) and comprehension (characters, setting, making connections, providing supporting evidence in the text etc.), High Frequency (Word Wall) Words
In math, your child will be assessed on: number identification (0-100), counting to 100 by 1s, and10s, subitizing, counting objects in an array, line and scattered, teen number, counting on from 10, identify the missing number (5, ___, 7), quantity discrimination: more/less (7, 9), count forward from any given number, writing numbers 1-20, positional words (such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to), identifying shapes regardless of orientation or size (square, rectangle, oval, circle, triangle, hexagon, cone, sphere, cylinder, cube), describing and comparing attributes of shapes (vertices, sides, faces, corners, angles) of 2-D(flat) and 3-D shapes (solids), building and drawing shapes.
To help your child at home, be sure to visit the resources tabs on our class website.
Career Volunteers Needed: Do you have an interesting, fun, unique career that you’d like to share with our Kindergarten students? We are in need of volunteers to share during Career Week (last week this month). If you can help, please email me and let me know what you’d like to share.
Math: count to 100 by 1s and 10s, count forward from any given number, describe objects in the environment, using the names of shapes and describe relative position in terms (such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, next to), name shapes regardless of orientation or size, identify 2-D (flat) and 3-D (solid) shapes, compare 2-D and 3-D shapes to describe similarities, differences, part, attributes, (vertices, corners, sides, length etc.), build and draw shapes, compose simple shapes to form larger shapes (such as combining two triangles to form a rectangle)
Literacy:
Reading Unit 5: Partners Help Teach Each Other to Read
We will read texts with confidence and use the strategies to tackle unfamiliar words and understand the text. We will review and practice how to talk with a partner making several back and forth exchanges speaking in complete sentences and using phrasing and wordage that is taught. We will begin to see how authors carefully choose interesting words to describe (verbs) what characters are doing and how knowing this will help with understanding. We will ask questions so we can understand what are reading and help partners. We will use decoding strategies to figure out unknown words. We will look for familiar sight words in books. We will use evidence from the story to support our responses. We will share the main idea of the books and give events/ key details from the story to support our answers. We will learn how authors carefully choose interesting words to describe characters.
Writing:
Procedural Writing - How Tos
Writing explanatory/informative texts that name what they are writing about and supply information, steps involved in How To. For example, How To Build a Snowman (First, Next, Then , Last).
Word Wall: Students are expected to be able to read and spell all the words we have learned and added to our “Word Wall”. We practice these words daily during meeting time. Be sure to practice at home too. We will have a ‘quiz’ on spelling these words each month. Word Wall (High Frequency) Words we have learned: a, an, as, all, at, and, can, go, I, in is, it, look, like, me, my, no, not, on, see, the, to, you, he, him, his, she, her, big, little, up, down. This month we will add the words: was, with, said, come, some, here, be, by, so, do (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
January
2nd - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
3rd - Mrs. Martinez' Birthday (39 again!)
6th - Elective Forms Due
12th - Q2 Electives End
13th - Marbles Field Trip
16th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
20th - Early Release (Dismissal at 1:15pm)
23rd - Q3 Electives Begin
24th - End of Q2
27th - NO SCHOOL (Teacher Workday)
December Themes:
Holidays
Giungerbread
Polar Express
Supply Needs: thick white cardstock, Avery Labels (30 per page), 23 packets of hot cocoa, 3 bags of mini marshmellows. Volunteer needed to make gingerbread playdough. Please email me if you can help.
BYOD in Kindergarten: The K team is excited to launch BYOD!
On Fridays in December, your child is welcome to bring their device. You and your child need to submit the BYOD contract prior to sending a device.
We need your child's device ready to go. This includes being connected to our WAKE-BYOD Wifi, and downloading some apps we will be utilizing. Please download the app for Seesaw CLASS, Epic Books for Kids and a QR Reader. Both apps are free! We will likely ask for additional downloading as we progress. Bare with us--December will be our chance to “practice” with our devices and work out the kinks, so we are ready to integrate technology for our units after the new year. Please note: Your child will be responsible for their device. They will keep it in their backpacks and our classrooms will be locked when a teacher/TA is not present in the room. Students will be required to bring devices home at the end of the school day. Here is a link to more inofrmation from the Hunter website: http://www.wcpss.net/domain/6403
Devices Donations Being Accepted in Kindergarten! Do you have an old phone/device that is WiFi compatible that you are no longer using? We’d love to adopt it! If you have a device you’d like to permanently donate to our class, please contact me.
Big Universe - Thanks to WCPSS, your child has an online library account with Big Universe. You may visit Big Universe at with the login information below to access books online. A great resource to practice reading and great for non-fiction books. This site only gives some "listen and read along" options but does allow you to create your own library so you can go back to re-read your favorites. Here is a link to Big Universe: https://www.biguniverse.com/signin
Student username: wcpss student ID #, Password: student ID #, Group username: wcpss (This link is also accessible from our classroom website, just click on “Educational Websites" on the menu to the left.)
Polar Express Day, December 21st - Pajama Day …. we will watch the Polar Express movie and enjoy some hot chocolate!
December Math:
Reading and writing number words one to twenty.
Composing and decomposing numbers 11-19: teen numbers, ten frames/groups, composing and decomposing with objects, drawings and equations, partners of 10 (10=6+4), shapes (triangle, rectangle, square, circle, hexagon, cube, cylinder, sphere, cone), attributes of shapes (sides, vertices/corners), positional words, 2 and 3 dimensions of shapes.
December Reading:
Using Reading Strategies (Tricks & Tools for Reading): Crosscheck: Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense? Use tools/strategies to make meaning when reading. Identify patterns when reading: Do pictures repeat? Do words repeat? Do actions repeat? Does it rhyme? Using letters and sounds to read and build words, CVC words. Using syllables, phonemes, beginning sounds, rhymes, phonics, decoding, word analysis skills, high frequency words to read. Asking and answering key questions in a text. Asking and answering questions about unknown words in a text. Retelling and identifying characters, setting, beginning, middle, ending, problem and solution. Making predictions and connections. Recognizing patterns in books. Three types of endings: opposite endings, endings where the whole comes to light (whole something) and funny endings. Rhyming patterns and word families. Fluency: voice changes when reading. Dramatizing: our bodies come to life.
December Writing: Opinion Writing, forming an opinion and stating reasons for it. Continue to rehearse, plan and write complete sentences. Reread own writing and practice 1-1 correspondence. Editing your writing. Forming an opinion and state a reason for it.
Word Wall: Students are expected to be able to read and spell all the words we have learned and added to our “Word Wall”. We practice these words daily during meeting time. Be sure to practice at home too. We will have a ‘quiz’ on spelling these words each month. Word Wall (High Frequency) Words we have learned: a, an, as, all, at, and, can, go, I, in is, it, look, like, me, my, no, not, on, see, the, to, you. This month we will add the words: he, him, his, she, her, big, little, up, down (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
December Dates
12th - Walking Trip to Ligon (Holiday Concert).
21st - Polar Express Day (Wear your Jammies)
22nd-Jan. 2nd - NO SCHOOL (Vacation/Break)
Jan 3rd Back to School :0)
Holidays
Giungerbread
Polar Express
Supply Needs: thick white cardstock, Avery Labels (30 per page), 23 packets of hot cocoa, 3 bags of mini marshmellows. Volunteer needed to make gingerbread playdough. Please email me if you can help.
BYOD in Kindergarten: The K team is excited to launch BYOD!
On Fridays in December, your child is welcome to bring their device. You and your child need to submit the BYOD contract prior to sending a device.
We need your child's device ready to go. This includes being connected to our WAKE-BYOD Wifi, and downloading some apps we will be utilizing. Please download the app for Seesaw CLASS, Epic Books for Kids and a QR Reader. Both apps are free! We will likely ask for additional downloading as we progress. Bare with us--December will be our chance to “practice” with our devices and work out the kinks, so we are ready to integrate technology for our units after the new year. Please note: Your child will be responsible for their device. They will keep it in their backpacks and our classrooms will be locked when a teacher/TA is not present in the room. Students will be required to bring devices home at the end of the school day. Here is a link to more inofrmation from the Hunter website: http://www.wcpss.net/domain/6403
Devices Donations Being Accepted in Kindergarten! Do you have an old phone/device that is WiFi compatible that you are no longer using? We’d love to adopt it! If you have a device you’d like to permanently donate to our class, please contact me.
Big Universe - Thanks to WCPSS, your child has an online library account with Big Universe. You may visit Big Universe at with the login information below to access books online. A great resource to practice reading and great for non-fiction books. This site only gives some "listen and read along" options but does allow you to create your own library so you can go back to re-read your favorites. Here is a link to Big Universe: https://www.biguniverse.com/signin
Student username: wcpss student ID #, Password: student ID #, Group username: wcpss (This link is also accessible from our classroom website, just click on “Educational Websites" on the menu to the left.)
Polar Express Day, December 21st - Pajama Day …. we will watch the Polar Express movie and enjoy some hot chocolate!
December Math:
Reading and writing number words one to twenty.
Composing and decomposing numbers 11-19: teen numbers, ten frames/groups, composing and decomposing with objects, drawings and equations, partners of 10 (10=6+4), shapes (triangle, rectangle, square, circle, hexagon, cube, cylinder, sphere, cone), attributes of shapes (sides, vertices/corners), positional words, 2 and 3 dimensions of shapes.
December Reading:
Using Reading Strategies (Tricks & Tools for Reading): Crosscheck: Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense? Use tools/strategies to make meaning when reading. Identify patterns when reading: Do pictures repeat? Do words repeat? Do actions repeat? Does it rhyme? Using letters and sounds to read and build words, CVC words. Using syllables, phonemes, beginning sounds, rhymes, phonics, decoding, word analysis skills, high frequency words to read. Asking and answering key questions in a text. Asking and answering questions about unknown words in a text. Retelling and identifying characters, setting, beginning, middle, ending, problem and solution. Making predictions and connections. Recognizing patterns in books. Three types of endings: opposite endings, endings where the whole comes to light (whole something) and funny endings. Rhyming patterns and word families. Fluency: voice changes when reading. Dramatizing: our bodies come to life.
December Writing: Opinion Writing, forming an opinion and stating reasons for it. Continue to rehearse, plan and write complete sentences. Reread own writing and practice 1-1 correspondence. Editing your writing. Forming an opinion and state a reason for it.
Word Wall: Students are expected to be able to read and spell all the words we have learned and added to our “Word Wall”. We practice these words daily during meeting time. Be sure to practice at home too. We will have a ‘quiz’ on spelling these words each month. Word Wall (High Frequency) Words we have learned: a, an, as, all, at, and, can, go, I, in is, it, look, like, me, my, no, not, on, see, the, to, you. This month we will add the words: he, him, his, she, her, big, little, up, down (See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
December Dates
12th - Walking Trip to Ligon (Holiday Concert).
21st - Polar Express Day (Wear your Jammies)
22nd-Jan. 2nd - NO SCHOOL (Vacation/Break)
Jan 3rd Back to School :0)
November Themes:
Scarecrows & Crows
Turkeys
Pilgrims & Native Americans
Football
Book Fair: We will preview the books on and your child will bring home a list of books that sparked their interest. If you would like to purchase books for your child, please send money in an sealed envelope marked with their name. Our class will visit the book fair to purchase books on TBD.
Electives: begin on November 7th. We are super excited about our new adventures in learning. Be sure to ask your child all about their elective.
Report Cards - will be sent home in next week's Monday folder (Nov. 7th).
Student Led Conferences will be held Thursday, November 10th from 2:30-3:30pm. Your student will need to have one person present to discuss their digital learning portfolio (Seesaw). If a parent is not able to come, you may send a grandparent, older sibling, or someone so that your student can share their accomplishments and set learning goals.
Football Fun - Each year Mrs. Newkirk and I have a friendly rivalry for the Carolina vs. State game. We will chant and cheer for Carolina. Be sure to wear Carolina blue on Tuesday November 22nd. (Of course, if you are unable to route for Carolina and have to wear the other color, you'll still be part of our Awesome Owl family!) For your viewing purposes, the UNC vs NCSU game will be held on Friday, November 25th.
Picture Make Up Day is Friday, November 4th.
November Math: Understanding the relationship between numbers and quantities: counting to 100 by ones and tens, counting forward from a given number in any sequence, writing numbers 1-20, counting 20 objects in a line, rectangular array, scattered, or circle, identifying greater than, less than and equal, comparing written numbers 1-10, addition and subtraction stories, attributes: shape, size and color. Reading and writing number words one-twenty. Composing and decomposing numbers 11-19: teen, ten groups, partners of numbers, composing and decomposing with objects, drawings and equations.
November Reading: Using Reading Strategies (Tricks & Tools for Reading): Crosscheck-Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense? Use tools/strategies to make meaning when reading. Using letters and sounds to read and build words. Using syllables, phonemes, beginning sounds, rhymes, phonics, decoding, word analysis skills, high frequency words to read. Asking and answering key questions in a text. Asking and answering questions about unknown words in a text.
November Writing: Writing like scientists by observing the world around. Including observations of size, color, shapes, texture, and number in writing. Writing a story in sequence, beginning, middle and ending. High Frequency Words for November: on, no, not, was, with, me, my, you, said
November Reminders:
4th - K Awards Assembly, 9:45-10;45am
7th- Electives Begin
7th - Report Cards
8th - 2 Hour Delay, School begins at 11:15am
10th- Student Led Conferences, 2:30-3:30pm
11th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday - Veterans Day)
14th-18th - Book Fair
17th - Literacy Night, 5:30-8:00pm
18th - Lowes Foods Field Trip
22nd - Football Fun (Thanks for wearing CAROLINA blue!)
25th - UNC/NCSU Football Game
23rd-25th - Thanksgiving Break
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Scarecrows & Crows
Turkeys
Pilgrims & Native Americans
Football
Book Fair: We will preview the books on and your child will bring home a list of books that sparked their interest. If you would like to purchase books for your child, please send money in an sealed envelope marked with their name. Our class will visit the book fair to purchase books on TBD.
Electives: begin on November 7th. We are super excited about our new adventures in learning. Be sure to ask your child all about their elective.
Report Cards - will be sent home in next week's Monday folder (Nov. 7th).
Student Led Conferences will be held Thursday, November 10th from 2:30-3:30pm. Your student will need to have one person present to discuss their digital learning portfolio (Seesaw). If a parent is not able to come, you may send a grandparent, older sibling, or someone so that your student can share their accomplishments and set learning goals.
Football Fun - Each year Mrs. Newkirk and I have a friendly rivalry for the Carolina vs. State game. We will chant and cheer for Carolina. Be sure to wear Carolina blue on Tuesday November 22nd. (Of course, if you are unable to route for Carolina and have to wear the other color, you'll still be part of our Awesome Owl family!) For your viewing purposes, the UNC vs NCSU game will be held on Friday, November 25th.
Picture Make Up Day is Friday, November 4th.
November Math: Understanding the relationship between numbers and quantities: counting to 100 by ones and tens, counting forward from a given number in any sequence, writing numbers 1-20, counting 20 objects in a line, rectangular array, scattered, or circle, identifying greater than, less than and equal, comparing written numbers 1-10, addition and subtraction stories, attributes: shape, size and color. Reading and writing number words one-twenty. Composing and decomposing numbers 11-19: teen, ten groups, partners of numbers, composing and decomposing with objects, drawings and equations.
November Reading: Using Reading Strategies (Tricks & Tools for Reading): Crosscheck-Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense? Use tools/strategies to make meaning when reading. Using letters and sounds to read and build words. Using syllables, phonemes, beginning sounds, rhymes, phonics, decoding, word analysis skills, high frequency words to read. Asking and answering key questions in a text. Asking and answering questions about unknown words in a text.
November Writing: Writing like scientists by observing the world around. Including observations of size, color, shapes, texture, and number in writing. Writing a story in sequence, beginning, middle and ending. High Frequency Words for November: on, no, not, was, with, me, my, you, said
November Reminders:
4th - K Awards Assembly, 9:45-10;45am
7th- Electives Begin
7th - Report Cards
8th - 2 Hour Delay, School begins at 11:15am
10th- Student Led Conferences, 2:30-3:30pm
11th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday - Veterans Day)
14th-18th - Book Fair
17th - Literacy Night, 5:30-8:00pm
18th - Lowes Foods Field Trip
22nd - Football Fun (Thanks for wearing CAROLINA blue!)
25th - UNC/NCSU Football Game
23rd-25th - Thanksgiving Break
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October Themes:
Owls, Bats & Spiders
Pumpkins
Monsters (No worries...Fun Fuzzy Monsters!)
Classrooms Needs: 45 mini pumpkin gourds (for activity with book buddies), HP ink cartridges (61 and/or 564), 2 headphone splitters: http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Rockstar-Headphone-Discontinued-Manufacturer/dp/B00475K64E
Big Universe - Thanks to WCPSS, your child has an online library account with Big Universe. Big Universe is a great resource to practice reading and great for non-fiction books. This site does not give you a "listen and read along" option but does allow you to create your own library so you can go back to re-read your favorites. BIg Universe link: https://www.biguniverse.com/signin
Student username: wcp+student ID #
Password: student ID #
Group username: wcpss
(This link is also accessible from our classroom website, just click on “Educational Websites" on the menu to the left.)
Library Books: Please return your library book by Tuesday so your child can check out another book on when we visit on Wednesday.
Clothing: Please label all jackets/clothing with your child’s name. Also, please keep a change of clothes in a Ziploc bag in your child’s backpack for accidents - that could be as simple as spilt milk :0) If you child borrows clothing from Hunter’s clothing closet, we ask that you wash and return these items for others in need.
Word Wall Words: Each week we will learn 1-2 high frequency words. Your child will be expected to read these words and spell them correctly when writing. Words we have learned are displayed on our classroom “Word Wall”. Please practice reading and writing these words at home too. Thus far we have learned: a, I, like, the This month we will add the words: see, go, at, to, is, in, and, can
Toys: Please remember to keep toys and personal items at home.
Fun Things are Happening!
We have begun several special activities that you may be hearing about at home.
BOOK BUDDIES: Our class has teamed up with Mr. Harvey’s 2nd grade for book buddies. Each child now has a buddy from Mr. Harvey’s class. They will have the opportunity to read and work together to strengthen their literacy partnerships.
PETS Program: Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Parham our Enrichment Teachers will be working with Kindergarten to teach a whole group lessons on critical thinking skills. This gives every child in kindergarten the opportunity to be exposed to higher level thinking and different ways of thinking. The program she will follow is called PETS (Primary Education Thinking Skills).
MATH:
‘Digging Deep’ with Numbers 1-10: counting, writing (number formation), number words, number sentences, tally marks, ten frames, equal/not equal numbers, dot-to-dots, same, more/fewer, alike/different, order, number line, before/after, groups of numbers, counting to 100 by ones and tens, 5-groups, counting on, number patterns, +1 pattern, partners of numbers (9=5+4), ones, tens, teens and zeros, equal sign, and plus sign.
LITERACY:
Print Concepts, Reading Behaviors, (See “parent resources” tab on class website to practice at home). When reading at home with your child, be sure to let them try to sound out some of the words. In the classroom, we practice ‘tapping out’ the word on our arm (cat, c-elbow bend, a-forearm, t- wrist) then swiping our arm down these spots to blend the sounds together and hear the whole word.
Reading Strategies – Upper/Lower Case Letter recognition and letter sounds, identifying title, author, illustrator, check for understanding using picture clues, making predictions, finding patterns, play with rhyming words, discussing our favorite part, set a purpose for reading (fiction/non-fiction), retell beginning, middle ending, exploring characters (adventures, feelings, voice),
Word Wall (High Frequency Words we have learned and are expected to read and spell correctly): a, I, like, the. This month we will add the words: see, go, at, to, is, in, and, can. (See “parent resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
Writing: We are learning all about the tools that we need for writing: pencil, paper, crayons, space stick and eraser, counting how many words are in the sentence, to make sure that we have spaces between those words. Good writers make sure they write down all the sounds they hear when they say a word. We are practicing using ‘meatball’ spaces (between words) and ‘spaghetti’ spaces (between letters). We have learned letter formation for letters a-z practicing within the lines: chicken letters (a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z), giraffe letters (b, d, f, h, k, l, t, ) and monkey letters (g, j, p, q, y)
=====================================================================September
All About Me
Pete the Cat & Colors
Apples
Woodland Creatures
OPEN HOUSE will be held Wednesday, September 7th from 6:00-6:45pm in our classroom. Parents are invited to learn more about your child's class. We prefer this to be an ADULTS only event. Please make arrangements for your children. A PTA Meeting will follow from 6:45-7:15pm in the gym.
GOING GREEN: To cut down on paper waste, we will send most correspondence via email or our class website. If you do not have access to email and/or the Internet, please send me a note and I will be sure to get you a hard copy.
ROOM PARENT: If you are interested in being a room parent please send me an email. We will certainly invite additional volunteers to help in other ways.
EMAIL TEST: I have sent out an email to all email addresses that were listed on your child's information form. If you haven’t already, please respond so I know you have received it. If you have not received an email, or would prefer to be taken off the list, please send me an email at [email protected]
MemberHub: The PTA sends information via MemberHub. If you need a form to join please let me know and I will send one home with your child.
T-SHIRTS: We are receiving a group deal with all of Kindergarten for our field trip t-shirts. The cost of the t-shirt is $8.50. Please send in payment by October 1st. If paying by cash please send exact change. Please make checks out to: Aardvark Inc. Donations for another student are always welcome!
REMIND: Be sure to join our classroom text service by signing up for Remind. With Remind, I am able to text your reminders about upcoming events or classroom needs (ex. Field Trip tomorrow - wear tennis shoes). You can join via SMS! Text @9hgea to the number 81010
LUNCH MONEY: If your child plans to purchase lunch throughout the school year the cost is $2.25 per lunch. If you are able, we ask that you send a few weeks worth of lunch money ahead of time so we can deposit it in their lunch account. As you can imagine, juggling money daily for a class of 5-year-olds can be cumbersome.
VOLUNTEER SIGN-UP: We'd love to have you volunteer! All volunteers must complete an online clearance application via a WCPSS computer. Be sure to sign-up during Open House. Clearance takes about 3 weeks and is needed for helping in the classroom or joining us on field trips. Even if you have submitted your information previously, YOU MUST REREGISTER EACH SCHOOL YEAR.
MATH HOMEWORK: WCPSS provides homework for you to practice the skills we have learned in class. Hard copies will come home in your Monday folders from time to time. You and your child may complete these at your convenience. Math homework does NOT need to return to school.
ENRICHMENT HW: Enrichment Homework is OPTIONAL. Enrichment homework is provided on our class website. Simply click on the ”Enrichment HW” tab on the left. Enrichment HW provides an opportunity to work with your child at home.
CONTACT ME: The best way to reach me is email. My email is [email protected]. You may also use the contact form on our class website to send me an email http://mrsmartinezkindergarten.weebly.com/contact-mrs-martinez.html or the link from the Hunter website (http://www.wcpss.net/Page/10809). Also, you are welcome to call Hunter at 919.856.7676 and leave a message with the front office staff.
SNACK CALENDAR: A snack calendar will be uploaded each month and posted to our classroom website. We participate in community snack and ask that on your scheduled day you provide snack for our class (24 students).
September Goals:
Literacy: Identify letters and sounds, Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print: follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book. Take a 'picture walk' to tell ourselves about the book adventure by using picture clues. Purpose for reading, what readers do (before, during. after) and more.
Math: Count to 20 by ones and tens. Write numbers 0-10. Count to answer, “How many?” Count objects in a scattered arrangement. Name successive numbers without recounting. Compare numbers (more, less, equal)
Owls, Bats & Spiders
Pumpkins
Monsters (No worries...Fun Fuzzy Monsters!)
Classrooms Needs: 45 mini pumpkin gourds (for activity with book buddies), HP ink cartridges (61 and/or 564), 2 headphone splitters: http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Rockstar-Headphone-Discontinued-Manufacturer/dp/B00475K64E
Big Universe - Thanks to WCPSS, your child has an online library account with Big Universe. Big Universe is a great resource to practice reading and great for non-fiction books. This site does not give you a "listen and read along" option but does allow you to create your own library so you can go back to re-read your favorites. BIg Universe link: https://www.biguniverse.com/signin
Student username: wcp+student ID #
Password: student ID #
Group username: wcpss
(This link is also accessible from our classroom website, just click on “Educational Websites" on the menu to the left.)
Library Books: Please return your library book by Tuesday so your child can check out another book on when we visit on Wednesday.
Clothing: Please label all jackets/clothing with your child’s name. Also, please keep a change of clothes in a Ziploc bag in your child’s backpack for accidents - that could be as simple as spilt milk :0) If you child borrows clothing from Hunter’s clothing closet, we ask that you wash and return these items for others in need.
Word Wall Words: Each week we will learn 1-2 high frequency words. Your child will be expected to read these words and spell them correctly when writing. Words we have learned are displayed on our classroom “Word Wall”. Please practice reading and writing these words at home too. Thus far we have learned: a, I, like, the This month we will add the words: see, go, at, to, is, in, and, can
Toys: Please remember to keep toys and personal items at home.
Fun Things are Happening!
We have begun several special activities that you may be hearing about at home.
BOOK BUDDIES: Our class has teamed up with Mr. Harvey’s 2nd grade for book buddies. Each child now has a buddy from Mr. Harvey’s class. They will have the opportunity to read and work together to strengthen their literacy partnerships.
PETS Program: Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Parham our Enrichment Teachers will be working with Kindergarten to teach a whole group lessons on critical thinking skills. This gives every child in kindergarten the opportunity to be exposed to higher level thinking and different ways of thinking. The program she will follow is called PETS (Primary Education Thinking Skills).
MATH:
‘Digging Deep’ with Numbers 1-10: counting, writing (number formation), number words, number sentences, tally marks, ten frames, equal/not equal numbers, dot-to-dots, same, more/fewer, alike/different, order, number line, before/after, groups of numbers, counting to 100 by ones and tens, 5-groups, counting on, number patterns, +1 pattern, partners of numbers (9=5+4), ones, tens, teens and zeros, equal sign, and plus sign.
LITERACY:
Print Concepts, Reading Behaviors, (See “parent resources” tab on class website to practice at home). When reading at home with your child, be sure to let them try to sound out some of the words. In the classroom, we practice ‘tapping out’ the word on our arm (cat, c-elbow bend, a-forearm, t- wrist) then swiping our arm down these spots to blend the sounds together and hear the whole word.
Reading Strategies – Upper/Lower Case Letter recognition and letter sounds, identifying title, author, illustrator, check for understanding using picture clues, making predictions, finding patterns, play with rhyming words, discussing our favorite part, set a purpose for reading (fiction/non-fiction), retell beginning, middle ending, exploring characters (adventures, feelings, voice),
Word Wall (High Frequency Words we have learned and are expected to read and spell correctly): a, I, like, the. This month we will add the words: see, go, at, to, is, in, and, can. (See “parent resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home).
Writing: We are learning all about the tools that we need for writing: pencil, paper, crayons, space stick and eraser, counting how many words are in the sentence, to make sure that we have spaces between those words. Good writers make sure they write down all the sounds they hear when they say a word. We are practicing using ‘meatball’ spaces (between words) and ‘spaghetti’ spaces (between letters). We have learned letter formation for letters a-z practicing within the lines: chicken letters (a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z), giraffe letters (b, d, f, h, k, l, t, ) and monkey letters (g, j, p, q, y)
=====================================================================September
All About Me
Pete the Cat & Colors
Apples
Woodland Creatures
OPEN HOUSE will be held Wednesday, September 7th from 6:00-6:45pm in our classroom. Parents are invited to learn more about your child's class. We prefer this to be an ADULTS only event. Please make arrangements for your children. A PTA Meeting will follow from 6:45-7:15pm in the gym.
GOING GREEN: To cut down on paper waste, we will send most correspondence via email or our class website. If you do not have access to email and/or the Internet, please send me a note and I will be sure to get you a hard copy.
ROOM PARENT: If you are interested in being a room parent please send me an email. We will certainly invite additional volunteers to help in other ways.
EMAIL TEST: I have sent out an email to all email addresses that were listed on your child's information form. If you haven’t already, please respond so I know you have received it. If you have not received an email, or would prefer to be taken off the list, please send me an email at [email protected]
MemberHub: The PTA sends information via MemberHub. If you need a form to join please let me know and I will send one home with your child.
T-SHIRTS: We are receiving a group deal with all of Kindergarten for our field trip t-shirts. The cost of the t-shirt is $8.50. Please send in payment by October 1st. If paying by cash please send exact change. Please make checks out to: Aardvark Inc. Donations for another student are always welcome!
REMIND: Be sure to join our classroom text service by signing up for Remind. With Remind, I am able to text your reminders about upcoming events or classroom needs (ex. Field Trip tomorrow - wear tennis shoes). You can join via SMS! Text @9hgea to the number 81010
LUNCH MONEY: If your child plans to purchase lunch throughout the school year the cost is $2.25 per lunch. If you are able, we ask that you send a few weeks worth of lunch money ahead of time so we can deposit it in their lunch account. As you can imagine, juggling money daily for a class of 5-year-olds can be cumbersome.
VOLUNTEER SIGN-UP: We'd love to have you volunteer! All volunteers must complete an online clearance application via a WCPSS computer. Be sure to sign-up during Open House. Clearance takes about 3 weeks and is needed for helping in the classroom or joining us on field trips. Even if you have submitted your information previously, YOU MUST REREGISTER EACH SCHOOL YEAR.
MATH HOMEWORK: WCPSS provides homework for you to practice the skills we have learned in class. Hard copies will come home in your Monday folders from time to time. You and your child may complete these at your convenience. Math homework does NOT need to return to school.
ENRICHMENT HW: Enrichment Homework is OPTIONAL. Enrichment homework is provided on our class website. Simply click on the ”Enrichment HW” tab on the left. Enrichment HW provides an opportunity to work with your child at home.
CONTACT ME: The best way to reach me is email. My email is [email protected]. You may also use the contact form on our class website to send me an email http://mrsmartinezkindergarten.weebly.com/contact-mrs-martinez.html or the link from the Hunter website (http://www.wcpss.net/Page/10809). Also, you are welcome to call Hunter at 919.856.7676 and leave a message with the front office staff.
SNACK CALENDAR: A snack calendar will be uploaded each month and posted to our classroom website. We participate in community snack and ask that on your scheduled day you provide snack for our class (24 students).
September Goals:
Literacy: Identify letters and sounds, Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print: follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book. Take a 'picture walk' to tell ourselves about the book adventure by using picture clues. Purpose for reading, what readers do (before, during. after) and more.
Math: Count to 20 by ones and tens. Write numbers 0-10. Count to answer, “How many?” Count objects in a scattered arrangement. Name successive numbers without recounting. Compare numbers (more, less, equal)
We are looking forward to meeting our new group of Kindergarteners!
Our classroom is ready to welcome you!
Our classroom is ready to welcome you!
May/June Themes:
Bugs
Flowers
Ocean
Beach & Pirates
Camping
May
2nd - End of Year Assessments Begin!
2nd-6th - Teacher Appreciation Week
Each class has been assigned a specialist during this week. Please show some love to Lisa Wetzel too! (Hunter’s Special Education Teacher).
6th - Field Trip to Pullen Park
9th - Interims sent home for students below proficiency.
13th - Hunter Heritage, 5:30-8:00pm
14th - LetterLand Day at Pullen Park, 10am-4pm
25th - Student Led Conferences (NEW DATE!), 2:45-3:15pm
26th - Electives End
30th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
June
3rd - Camping Day
6th - Baseball Day (Wear your favorite team shirt.)
7th - Red Carpet Day (You are a STAR! Dress your best.)
8th- Field Trip (Roberts Park) 9:45-12:30am - Families Welcome!
9th- Field Day
LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
Our Classroom Needs: posits (super sticky), 24 large brown grocery bags (to carry all the end of year items home)
Proctors Needed - Hunter is in need of volunteers to proctor upcoming assessments (EOGs etc.) May DATES?? (mornings). The more the merrier. Please let email me if you would be interested and I will pass your name along to those who will be training and scheduling proctors. Any help is appreciated!!
Chaperones Needed - for Pullen Park on May 6th (Friday). Please email if you are able to join us.
Pizza Volunteer Needed - We are in need of a volunteer to order, pick up and deliver pizza to Roberts Park for our picnic. Please email if you can help.
Roberts Park End of Year Picnic - June 8th - Families Welcome!!
Watch for more information to come in your child's Monday folder.
Assessments/Benchmark Testing - End of year Assessments will begin this week and continue throughout the month of May. To help your child do their best, please be sure they have a good nights rest and a healthy breakfast. Your child will be assessed on everything we have learned this year :0)
Behavior Card Punches - we have discussed 'getting ready for 1st grade" with our class. We talked about not allowing 3 chances to follow the rules anymore. It is now expected at this point in the year, students should be able to follow the rules all day with one reminder. We are also practicing self-reflection. I am allowing each child to self-evaluate their day. The students are deciding if they have given their best effort (as a fancy feathery owls) all day, if so then they are receiving a punch on their card at the end of the day. The students are tougher on themselves than us! Many are losing their punch for talking to friends when they should be listening or quiet. (Spring fever has sprung.) Please be sure to ask your child how their day was.
Math:
More Addition & Subtraction within 10
Measurement & Data: Describing Attributes:
Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object. Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has "more or"/"less of" the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter. Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. (Limit category counts to be less than or equal to 10)
Literacy:
Key Ideas and Details: Identify characters, setting and major events in a story, describe the connections between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Integrations of Knowledge and Ideas: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depicts). Compare and contrast the adventure and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Foundational Skills: Apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words - vowel teams, magic e, vowel stealers for long and short vowel sounds. Read (and write) common high frequency words by sight. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sound of the letters that differ. (e.g., analogies or changes in onset and rime: cat/man).
Speaking and Listening & Language: Explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out meanings). Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Writing: Persuasive
Word Wall Words: Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Please practice reading and writing these words at home. Words we have learned: a, at, can, go, has, I, in is, it, look, like, me, on, see, the, to, you, come, and, here, said, with, have, big, little, up, down, she, he, we, be, by, my, no, so, of, if, as, an, not, out, but, had, her, for, his, him, all, some, what, was, were, will, do, are. In May we will add: ???
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Bugs
Flowers
Ocean
Beach & Pirates
Camping
May
2nd - End of Year Assessments Begin!
2nd-6th - Teacher Appreciation Week
Each class has been assigned a specialist during this week. Please show some love to Lisa Wetzel too! (Hunter’s Special Education Teacher).
6th - Field Trip to Pullen Park
9th - Interims sent home for students below proficiency.
13th - Hunter Heritage, 5:30-8:00pm
14th - LetterLand Day at Pullen Park, 10am-4pm
25th - Student Led Conferences (NEW DATE!), 2:45-3:15pm
26th - Electives End
30th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
June
3rd - Camping Day
6th - Baseball Day (Wear your favorite team shirt.)
7th - Red Carpet Day (You are a STAR! Dress your best.)
8th- Field Trip (Roberts Park) 9:45-12:30am - Families Welcome!
9th- Field Day
LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
Our Classroom Needs: posits (super sticky), 24 large brown grocery bags (to carry all the end of year items home)
Proctors Needed - Hunter is in need of volunteers to proctor upcoming assessments (EOGs etc.) May DATES?? (mornings). The more the merrier. Please let email me if you would be interested and I will pass your name along to those who will be training and scheduling proctors. Any help is appreciated!!
Chaperones Needed - for Pullen Park on May 6th (Friday). Please email if you are able to join us.
Pizza Volunteer Needed - We are in need of a volunteer to order, pick up and deliver pizza to Roberts Park for our picnic. Please email if you can help.
Roberts Park End of Year Picnic - June 8th - Families Welcome!!
Watch for more information to come in your child's Monday folder.
Assessments/Benchmark Testing - End of year Assessments will begin this week and continue throughout the month of May. To help your child do their best, please be sure they have a good nights rest and a healthy breakfast. Your child will be assessed on everything we have learned this year :0)
Behavior Card Punches - we have discussed 'getting ready for 1st grade" with our class. We talked about not allowing 3 chances to follow the rules anymore. It is now expected at this point in the year, students should be able to follow the rules all day with one reminder. We are also practicing self-reflection. I am allowing each child to self-evaluate their day. The students are deciding if they have given their best effort (as a fancy feathery owls) all day, if so then they are receiving a punch on their card at the end of the day. The students are tougher on themselves than us! Many are losing their punch for talking to friends when they should be listening or quiet. (Spring fever has sprung.) Please be sure to ask your child how their day was.
Math:
More Addition & Subtraction within 10
Measurement & Data: Describing Attributes:
Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object. Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has "more or"/"less of" the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter. Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. (Limit category counts to be less than or equal to 10)
Literacy:
Key Ideas and Details: Identify characters, setting and major events in a story, describe the connections between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Integrations of Knowledge and Ideas: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depicts). Compare and contrast the adventure and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Foundational Skills: Apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words - vowel teams, magic e, vowel stealers for long and short vowel sounds. Read (and write) common high frequency words by sight. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sound of the letters that differ. (e.g., analogies or changes in onset and rime: cat/man).
Speaking and Listening & Language: Explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out meanings). Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Writing: Persuasive
Word Wall Words: Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Please practice reading and writing these words at home. Words we have learned: a, at, can, go, has, I, in is, it, look, like, me, on, see, the, to, you, come, and, here, said, with, have, big, little, up, down, she, he, we, be, by, my, no, so, of, if, as, an, not, out, but, had, her, for, his, him, all, some, what, was, were, will, do, are. In May we will add: ???
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April Themes:
Chickens
Farm (2 weeks)
Save our Earth
Bugs
April Calendar:
1st-3rd - NO SCHOOL (Vacation)4th - Q4 Electives Begin
5th - Literacy Night, 5:30-7:30pm
11th - Report Cards sent home
14th - Science Night, 6:00-8:00pm
15th - Field Trip (NCSU Farm Days)
22nd - Spring Picture Day
25th - Snow Make Up - Full Day of School
29th - Field Trip (NC Science Museum - Makeup)
May 13th - Hunter Heritage, 5:30-8:00pm - Super Fun for All!
Our Classroom Needs: washable stamp pads, 6 Google Cardbord Glasses: http://www.amazon.com/Glasses-Amotus-Cardboard-Headband-3-5-5inch/dp/B01A8ZF9C0/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?ie=UTF8&keywords=google%20cardboard%20button&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&psc=1&qid=1459643536&ref_=mp_s_a_1_15&refinements=p_85%3A2470955011&sr=8-15&th=1
Homework Due Monday, April 11th : Farm Animal homework is due Monday April, 11th. Each student was to choose a farm animal and send in ONE photo and THREE interesting or unusual facts about the animal. The more unusual the better. We will be using this information to create a technology project with Mr. Hurlebrink, our Instructional Resource Teacher.
LetterLand Day: at Pullen Park Saturday, May 14, 2016 10am-4pm. Free admission into park. Rides $1 Information can be found on http://wakeupandread.org/
Scholastic Book Orders: April book orders are due by Wednesday April 13th. You canacess Scholastic through our class website link: http://mrsmartinezkindergarten.weebly.com/scholastic-book-orders.html
Online Resources: Big Universe and Raz Kids are great resources for practice for your child at home! If you are using either of these resources, we’d love to hear your feedback to help us make choices for continuing with them next year. Please send an email with your thoughts.
Chaperones Needed: We are in need of chaperones for our Farm Days Field Trip on April, 15th and our NC Science Museum Trip on April 29th. Both trips will be from about 9:45am to about 12:15pm. Please email me if you can help.
Mark Your Calendars: Our final Student Led Conferences will be held on Wednesday, May 25th, 2:45-3:15pm We plan to introduce you to a new online portfolio called SeeSaw so you can share your feedback with us :0)
Donor’s Choose: Our class project was funded! A great big thank you to my family and friends who donated to the project. Mrs. Newkirk is also trying to fund her class. Please consider donating to her project: (check back soon!)
Math:
Addition & Subtraction within 10: Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 10.
Literacy:
Unit 6: In Our Community, We Learn About Ourselves and Our World by Reading for Information. In this unit students will discover more about the world around them through information books. Key Ideas and Details - identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depict), identify the reasons an author gives to support points in the text, and identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Unit 7: Readers Use All of Their “Tricks and Tools” in their Backpacks When It Comes to Tricky Parts. Readers will learn more strategies to use while they are reading including word solving, cross-checking, self-correcting and making meaning. In this unit students will ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures.), demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes), count, produce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words, know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words, associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels A,E,I,O,U, recognize and apply vowel patterns (two vowels out walking - feet, boat, magic e - cake, bike.
and ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Writing:
Unit 7: Informational Writing - All About Books
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened. Participate in shared research and writing projects.
Word Wall Words: Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Please practice reading and writing these words at home. Thus far we have learned: a, at, can, go, has, I, in is, it, look, like, me, on, see, the, to, you, come, and, here, said, with, have, big, little, up, down, she, he, we, be, by, my, no, so, of, if, as, an, not, out, but, had, her, for, his, him. In April we will add: all, some, what, was, were, will, do, are
Science: Animals Two by Two. Compare and contrast animals, compare characteristics of living and nonliving things in terms of structure, growth, changes, movement, basic needs, and understand the position and motions of objects and organisms observed in the environment.
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Chickens
Farm (2 weeks)
Save our Earth
Bugs
April Calendar:
1st-3rd - NO SCHOOL (Vacation)4th - Q4 Electives Begin
5th - Literacy Night, 5:30-7:30pm
11th - Report Cards sent home
14th - Science Night, 6:00-8:00pm
15th - Field Trip (NCSU Farm Days)
22nd - Spring Picture Day
25th - Snow Make Up - Full Day of School
29th - Field Trip (NC Science Museum - Makeup)
May 13th - Hunter Heritage, 5:30-8:00pm - Super Fun for All!
Our Classroom Needs: washable stamp pads, 6 Google Cardbord Glasses: http://www.amazon.com/Glasses-Amotus-Cardboard-Headband-3-5-5inch/dp/B01A8ZF9C0/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?ie=UTF8&keywords=google%20cardboard%20button&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&psc=1&qid=1459643536&ref_=mp_s_a_1_15&refinements=p_85%3A2470955011&sr=8-15&th=1
Homework Due Monday, April 11th : Farm Animal homework is due Monday April, 11th. Each student was to choose a farm animal and send in ONE photo and THREE interesting or unusual facts about the animal. The more unusual the better. We will be using this information to create a technology project with Mr. Hurlebrink, our Instructional Resource Teacher.
LetterLand Day: at Pullen Park Saturday, May 14, 2016 10am-4pm. Free admission into park. Rides $1 Information can be found on http://wakeupandread.org/
Scholastic Book Orders: April book orders are due by Wednesday April 13th. You canacess Scholastic through our class website link: http://mrsmartinezkindergarten.weebly.com/scholastic-book-orders.html
Online Resources: Big Universe and Raz Kids are great resources for practice for your child at home! If you are using either of these resources, we’d love to hear your feedback to help us make choices for continuing with them next year. Please send an email with your thoughts.
Chaperones Needed: We are in need of chaperones for our Farm Days Field Trip on April, 15th and our NC Science Museum Trip on April 29th. Both trips will be from about 9:45am to about 12:15pm. Please email me if you can help.
Mark Your Calendars: Our final Student Led Conferences will be held on Wednesday, May 25th, 2:45-3:15pm We plan to introduce you to a new online portfolio called SeeSaw so you can share your feedback with us :0)
Donor’s Choose: Our class project was funded! A great big thank you to my family and friends who donated to the project. Mrs. Newkirk is also trying to fund her class. Please consider donating to her project: (check back soon!)
Math:
Addition & Subtraction within 10: Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 10.
Literacy:
Unit 6: In Our Community, We Learn About Ourselves and Our World by Reading for Information. In this unit students will discover more about the world around them through information books. Key Ideas and Details - identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depict), identify the reasons an author gives to support points in the text, and identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Unit 7: Readers Use All of Their “Tricks and Tools” in their Backpacks When It Comes to Tricky Parts. Readers will learn more strategies to use while they are reading including word solving, cross-checking, self-correcting and making meaning. In this unit students will ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures.), demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes), count, produce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words, know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words, associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels A,E,I,O,U, recognize and apply vowel patterns (two vowels out walking - feet, boat, magic e - cake, bike.
and ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Writing:
Unit 7: Informational Writing - All About Books
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened. Participate in shared research and writing projects.
Word Wall Words: Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Please practice reading and writing these words at home. Thus far we have learned: a, at, can, go, has, I, in is, it, look, like, me, on, see, the, to, you, come, and, here, said, with, have, big, little, up, down, she, he, we, be, by, my, no, so, of, if, as, an, not, out, but, had, her, for, his, him. In April we will add: all, some, what, was, were, will, do, are
Science: Animals Two by Two. Compare and contrast animals, compare characteristics of living and nonliving things in terms of structure, growth, changes, movement, basic needs, and understand the position and motions of objects and organisms observed in the environment.
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March Themes:
Dr. Seuss
Rainbows/Rain/Weather
St. Patrick's Day
Hunter Healthy
March
4th - EARLY RELEASE (Dismissal at 1:15pm)
11th - Field Trip (Science Museum)
16th - Math Night
18th - Field Trip (Marbles)
25th-31st - NO SCHOOL (Holiday/Vacation)
Classroom Needs: washable ink pads, lucky charms cereal, goldfish, color fruit loops cereal, gold chocolate coins
Chaperones still needed for our trip to the Science Museum on Friday, March 11th. Please email me if you can help.
Devices Donations Being Accepted in Kindergarten! Do you have an old phone/device that is WiFi compatible that you are no longer using? We’d love to adopt it! If you have a device you’d like to permanently donate to our class, please contact me.
BYOD - We will continue allow your student to bring their device on Fridays during the month of March to integrate during literacy and math.
Devices - What should I purchase/send? Personally, I am very comfortable navigating Apple products (iPods/iPads) and they work well with the systems and apps we use for learning. A parent recommended a less expensive option (Although I do not have any experience with it.): For families interested in BYOD or who might be interested in a tablets, the original Kindle Fire (reading tablet that also has web access and runs apps, including all of the ones on the kindergarten list) is only $35 on Amazon, which is a great deal.
Social Media Hashtag: We love to see you online! Share your photos and shout outs of school learning and events on Instagram and Twitter, with the hashtag #HunterES - and click that hashtag to see what's happening at Hunter!
Math: Addition and Subtraction within 5 - Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 5.
Literacy: Unit 6: In Our Community, We Learn About Ourselves and Our World by Reading for Information. In this unit students will discover more about the world around them through information books. Key Ideas and Details - identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depict), identify the reasons an author gives to support points in the text, and identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Foundational Skills: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Associate the long and short vowel sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
Speaking and Listening: Participation in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small or larger groups. Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood. Describe familiar people, places, things and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Writing: Unit 7: Informational Writing - All About Books
High Frequency Words – Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Thus far we have learned: a, at, can, go, has, I, in is, it, look, like, me, on, see, the, to, you, come, and, here, said, with, have, big, little, up, down, she, he, we, be, by, my, no, so, of, if, as, an. In March we will add: not, out, but, had, her, for, his, him
Dr. Seuss
Rainbows/Rain/Weather
St. Patrick's Day
Hunter Healthy
March
4th - EARLY RELEASE (Dismissal at 1:15pm)
11th - Field Trip (Science Museum)
16th - Math Night
18th - Field Trip (Marbles)
25th-31st - NO SCHOOL (Holiday/Vacation)
Classroom Needs: washable ink pads, lucky charms cereal, goldfish, color fruit loops cereal, gold chocolate coins
Chaperones still needed for our trip to the Science Museum on Friday, March 11th. Please email me if you can help.
Devices Donations Being Accepted in Kindergarten! Do you have an old phone/device that is WiFi compatible that you are no longer using? We’d love to adopt it! If you have a device you’d like to permanently donate to our class, please contact me.
BYOD - We will continue allow your student to bring their device on Fridays during the month of March to integrate during literacy and math.
Devices - What should I purchase/send? Personally, I am very comfortable navigating Apple products (iPods/iPads) and they work well with the systems and apps we use for learning. A parent recommended a less expensive option (Although I do not have any experience with it.): For families interested in BYOD or who might be interested in a tablets, the original Kindle Fire (reading tablet that also has web access and runs apps, including all of the ones on the kindergarten list) is only $35 on Amazon, which is a great deal.
Social Media Hashtag: We love to see you online! Share your photos and shout outs of school learning and events on Instagram and Twitter, with the hashtag #HunterES - and click that hashtag to see what's happening at Hunter!
Math: Addition and Subtraction within 5 - Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 5.
Literacy: Unit 6: In Our Community, We Learn About Ourselves and Our World by Reading for Information. In this unit students will discover more about the world around them through information books. Key Ideas and Details - identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing or idea in the text and illustration depict), identify the reasons an author gives to support points in the text, and identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Foundational Skills: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Associate the long and short vowel sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
Speaking and Listening: Participation in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small or larger groups. Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood. Describe familiar people, places, things and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
Writing: Unit 7: Informational Writing - All About Books
High Frequency Words – Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Thus far we have learned: a, at, can, go, has, I, in is, it, look, like, me, on, see, the, to, you, come, and, here, said, with, have, big, little, up, down, she, he, we, be, by, my, no, so, of, if, as, an. In March we will add: not, out, but, had, her, for, his, him
February Themes:
100th Day of School
Valentines & Sweetness
Dragons (Chinese New Year) & Teeth
Presidents & Careers
Upcoming Events:
4th - Skate Night, 5:30pm
5th - 100th Day Projects Due
8th - 100th Day of School!!
Bus Driver Appreciation Week
12th - Early Release (Dismissal begins at 1:00pm)
15th - Snow Makeup Day
22nd-26th - Career Week
Classroom Needs: HP ink #61 (color and black), white cardstock, 1 bag of each: Hersey’s Hug, Kisses,and caramels, fruit snacks, candy hearts, bubble wrap with large bubbles,
Report cards were sent home last week (Monday, January 25th). Please sign and return the envelope, the paper inside is for you to keep.
Career Week Speakers Welcome! We will learn about careers and community helpers during the last week of February. We a in need of volunteers to come speak to Kindergarten about their careers. We are scheduling time on Wednesday, February 24th between 9:30-11:30am. If you would like to share, please contact our organizer, Miss Pitler, at [email protected]
Valentines/Friendship In an effort to to promote healthy Hunter stars, we are requesting that if you send in a treat that you consider healthy choices (strawberries, fruit snacks etc.) Also, if your child would like to send in cards to friends, please be sure include a card for EVERYONE in our class. We have 22 students. You can find a list of friends in our class on our website. We are planning some educational activities (graphing, sorting, voting) with candy. If you would prefer for your child not to eat the candy, please let us know and we will provide them with another snack after the activity.
RAZKids – An account has been created for your child on RAZKids. If you have computer or tablet, you are able to access RAZKids at home. These resources are a great way to practice! (Thank you to those who have been using it already.) Login in at Raz-Kids.com, our class is kmartinez37
BYOD - We will continue to work out the kinks for BYOD. Your student is welcome to bring their device on Friday during the month of February.
Math
Positional Words & Shapes– Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to. Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size. Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes. Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, "Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?"
Addition and Subtraction Within 5 - Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 5.
Literacy
Literacy Unit: Review and practice community partnership rules. Establish new partnerships. Careful readers get their minds ready to read before reading. Readers teach each other in partnerships. Readers reread, rather than abandon books.Readers share and celebrate the funny parts. Participation in collaborative conversations with diverse partners . With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. Read common high frequency words by sight.High Frequency Words – Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Thus far we have learned: a, at, can, go, has, I, in is, it, look, like, me, on, see, the, to, you, come, and, here, said, with, have, big, little, up, down, she, he, we, be, by, my. In February we will add: no, so, of, if, his, him, as, an.
Reading Strategies we have learned: listen for interesting words, use the pictures, read good fit books, play with rhyming words, know letters and sounds, stretch or blend sounds in words, check for understanding, name the characters, identify fiction, and nonfiction, predict what happens next, retell the beginning, middle and end, identify beginning and ending sounds, identify problem and solution, connect to the story, chunk letters and sounds, name the author's purpose, making predictions, flip the sound (long/short vowels), practice sight words, and using punctuation.
Writing
How- To Writing
Use combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Spell simple words phonetically drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Science – Quarter 3
We have begun our Unit on Investigating Properties. Understand how objects are described based on their physical properties and how they are used. Classify objects by observable physical properties including size, color, shape, texture, weight and flexibility. Compare the observable physical properties of different kinds of materials (clay, wood, cloth, paper, etc.) from which objects are made and how they are used.
Social Studies – Quarter 3
We are Alike! We are Different! Understand how individuals are similar and different. Change over time. Understand the interaction between humans and the environment.
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100th Day of School
Valentines & Sweetness
Dragons (Chinese New Year) & Teeth
Presidents & Careers
Upcoming Events:
4th - Skate Night, 5:30pm
5th - 100th Day Projects Due
8th - 100th Day of School!!
Bus Driver Appreciation Week
12th - Early Release (Dismissal begins at 1:00pm)
15th - Snow Makeup Day
22nd-26th - Career Week
Classroom Needs: HP ink #61 (color and black), white cardstock, 1 bag of each: Hersey’s Hug, Kisses,and caramels, fruit snacks, candy hearts, bubble wrap with large bubbles,
Report cards were sent home last week (Monday, January 25th). Please sign and return the envelope, the paper inside is for you to keep.
Career Week Speakers Welcome! We will learn about careers and community helpers during the last week of February. We a in need of volunteers to come speak to Kindergarten about their careers. We are scheduling time on Wednesday, February 24th between 9:30-11:30am. If you would like to share, please contact our organizer, Miss Pitler, at [email protected]
Valentines/Friendship In an effort to to promote healthy Hunter stars, we are requesting that if you send in a treat that you consider healthy choices (strawberries, fruit snacks etc.) Also, if your child would like to send in cards to friends, please be sure include a card for EVERYONE in our class. We have 22 students. You can find a list of friends in our class on our website. We are planning some educational activities (graphing, sorting, voting) with candy. If you would prefer for your child not to eat the candy, please let us know and we will provide them with another snack after the activity.
RAZKids – An account has been created for your child on RAZKids. If you have computer or tablet, you are able to access RAZKids at home. These resources are a great way to practice! (Thank you to those who have been using it already.) Login in at Raz-Kids.com, our class is kmartinez37
BYOD - We will continue to work out the kinks for BYOD. Your student is welcome to bring their device on Friday during the month of February.
Math
Positional Words & Shapes– Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to. Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size. Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes. Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, "Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?"
Addition and Subtraction Within 5 - Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. Fluently add and subtract within 5.
Literacy
Literacy Unit: Review and practice community partnership rules. Establish new partnerships. Careful readers get their minds ready to read before reading. Readers teach each other in partnerships. Readers reread, rather than abandon books.Readers share and celebrate the funny parts. Participation in collaborative conversations with diverse partners . With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. Read common high frequency words by sight.High Frequency Words – Please continue to work with your child on our High Frequency Word List. The words we have learned thus far are expected to be read and spelled correctly. Thus far we have learned: a, at, can, go, has, I, in is, it, look, like, me, on, see, the, to, you, come, and, here, said, with, have, big, little, up, down, she, he, we, be, by, my. In February we will add: no, so, of, if, his, him, as, an.
Reading Strategies we have learned: listen for interesting words, use the pictures, read good fit books, play with rhyming words, know letters and sounds, stretch or blend sounds in words, check for understanding, name the characters, identify fiction, and nonfiction, predict what happens next, retell the beginning, middle and end, identify beginning and ending sounds, identify problem and solution, connect to the story, chunk letters and sounds, name the author's purpose, making predictions, flip the sound (long/short vowels), practice sight words, and using punctuation.
Writing
How- To Writing
Use combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Spell simple words phonetically drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Science – Quarter 3
We have begun our Unit on Investigating Properties. Understand how objects are described based on their physical properties and how they are used. Classify objects by observable physical properties including size, color, shape, texture, weight and flexibility. Compare the observable physical properties of different kinds of materials (clay, wood, cloth, paper, etc.) from which objects are made and how they are used.
Social Studies – Quarter 3
We are Alike! We are Different! Understand how individuals are similar and different. Change over time. Understand the interaction between humans and the environment.
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January Themes:
Snowmen/Snow/Resolutions
Hot Cocoa & Mittens
Arctic Animals (2 weeks)
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful and restful break.
Supplies Needed: small cotton balls, dry erase markers, glue sticks, honeycomb shaped pasta or cereal, goldfish crackers, baby wipes, foam snowflake shapes (sometimes at Target in the $1 section), silver glitter
Photo Gallery: Photos of our field trip to Lowes Foods have been added to our website photo gallery. Enjoy!
Assessments: Early this month, we will assess the students in both literacy and math to see how much progress they have made! Be sure to visit our class website for parents resources to work with your child.
In literacy, your child will be assessed on First Sound Fluency (telling us the beginning sound of a word), Letter Name Fluency (telling letter names for both upper/lowercase letters), Nonsense Word Fluency (Reading sounds/words of nonsense words--zeb, huk, etc.), Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (breaking apart the sounds in a word - ship = sh-i-p), reading high frequency words, and reading level. In math, students will be assessed on all we have learned from the beginning of the year: number identification (0-100), counting to 100 by 1s, and10s, subitizing, counting objects in an array, line and scattered, teen number, counting on from 10, identify the missing number (5, ___, 7), quantity discrimination - more/less (7, 9), count forward from any given number, writing numbers 1-20, positional words (such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to), identifying shapes regardless of orientation or size (square, rectangle, oval, circle, triangle, hexagon, cone, sphere, cylinder, cube), describing and comparing attributes of shapes (vertices, sides, faces, corners, angles) of 2-D(flat) and 3-D shapes (solids), building and drawing shapes
Book Orders: Scholastic Book Orders will be sent home in next Mondays folder and are due by Friday, January 15th.
Chaperones Needed: If you have been approved as a chaperone by WCPSS you are welcome to meet us at Marble Museum for our field trip on January 22nd. We are in need of several chaperones to guide a small group about the museum. We will be arriving 10am and departing at 12noon (times are approximate). Please email me if you can help!
Career Volunteers Needed: Do you have an interesting, fun, unique career that you’d like to share with our Kindergarten students? We are in need of volunteers to share during Career Week in February. If you can help, please email me and let me know what you’d like to share.
Winter Weather Arrives: Baby its cold outside!... and we were dressed for the weather. We had a quick lesson today about keeping up with our hats, gloves etc. by placing them in our pockets. We will try our best, but please label any clothing with your child's name. Also, while it may be cold outside, our classroom is generally very warm in the winter, so you may want to dress your child in layers they can remove if too hot, or Fall like clothing.
Items from Home: Please keep all toys, trading cards etc. safe at home. We have plenty here to keep us busy!
BOYD in Kindergarten: The K team is excited to launch BYOD! On Fridays in January, your child is welcome to bring their device. You and your child need to submit the BYOD contract prior to sending a device. In addition we need your device ready to go. This includes being connected to our WAKE-BYOD Wifi, and downloading some apps we will be utilizing. Please download the app for RazKids and a QR Reader,Both apps are free! We will likely ask for additional downloading as we progress. Bare with us--December will be our chance to “practice” with our devices and work out the kinks, so we are ready to integrate technology for our units after the new year. As noted in our , your child will be responsible for their device. They will keep it in their backpacks and our classrooms will be locked when a teacher/TA is not present in the room. Students will be required to bring devices home at the end of the school day.
Devices Donations Being Accepted in Kindergarten! Do you have an old phone/device that is WiFi compatible that you are no longer using? We’d love to adopt it! If you have a device you’d like to permanently donate to our class, please contact me.
January Math: count to 100 by 1s and 10s, count forward from any given number, describe objects in the environment, using the names of shapes and describe relative position in terms (such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, next to), name shapes regardless of orientation or size, identify 2-D (flat) and 3-D (solid) shapes, compare 2-D and 3-D shapes to describe similarities, differences, part, attributes, (vertices, corners, sides, length etc.), build and draw shapes, compose simple shapes to form larger shapes (such as combining two triangles to form a rectangle)
January Literacy:
Reading Unit 5: Partners Help Teach Each Other to Read
We will read texts with confidence and use the strategies to tackle unfamiliar words and understand the text. We will review and practice how to talk with a partner making several back and forth exchanges speaking in complete sentences and using phrasing and wordage that is taught. We will begin to see how authors carefully choose interesting words to describe (verbs) what characters are doing and how knowing this will help with understanding. We will ask questions so we can understand what are reading and help partners. We will use decoding strategies to figure out unknown words. We will look for familiar sight words in books. We will use evidence from the story to support our responses. We will share the main idea of the books and give events/ key details from the story to support our answers. We will learn how authors carefully choose interesting words to describe characters.
January Writing: Procedural Writing - How Tos: Writing explanatory/informative texts that name what they are writing about and supply information, steps involved in How To. For example, How To Build a Snowman (First, Next, Then , Last).
Word Wall: Students are expected to be able to read and spell all the words we have learned and added to our “Word Wall”. We practice these words daily during meeting time. Be sure to practice at home too. We will have a ‘quiz’ on spelling these words each month. Word Wall (High Frequency) Words we have learned: a, at, can, go, has, I, in is, it, look, like, me, on, see, the, to, you, come, and, here, said, with, have, big, little
This month we will add the words: up, down, she, he, we, be, by, my
Notes for the PTA:
Hunter Magnet Open House: will be Wednesday, January 6th. Be sure to spread the news to any prospective parents. We’d love to welcome new families to our Hunter Community.
Yearbook Committee—Volunteers & Photographers Needed: The PTA is very excited to help in coordination of the yearbook this year! We are actively looking for volunteers who are interested in taking photos, creating of the year book, and/or coordinating the sales and distribution. Most work can be done from home. If interested, please contact Serena Flood at [email protected]. Also, if you have any photos from school events from the beginning of the year including the arts performances please email them to [email protected]. Thank you for your help!
Book Exchange: The Hunter PTA is offering the annual Book Exchange after the winter break. This year the exchange will take place on January 29th, 2016. Students will visit the exchange with their homerooms and everyone will have the opportunity to select a book to take home. Please start collecting your gently used age appropriate books to donate for our book exchange. No board books please. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact, Paromita Basu at [email protected]
January:
6th - Magnet Open House, 10am
14th - Electives End (Q2)
15th - EARLY RELEASE (Dismissal 1:15pm)
2nd Quarter Ends
18th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
19th - NO SCHOOL (Teacher Workday)
22nd - Field Trip (Marbles Museum)
25th - Electives Begin (Q3)
25th - Parent Conferences, Time TBD
29th - Book Exchange
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Snowmen/Snow/Resolutions
Hot Cocoa & Mittens
Arctic Animals (2 weeks)
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful and restful break.
Supplies Needed: small cotton balls, dry erase markers, glue sticks, honeycomb shaped pasta or cereal, goldfish crackers, baby wipes, foam snowflake shapes (sometimes at Target in the $1 section), silver glitter
Photo Gallery: Photos of our field trip to Lowes Foods have been added to our website photo gallery. Enjoy!
Assessments: Early this month, we will assess the students in both literacy and math to see how much progress they have made! Be sure to visit our class website for parents resources to work with your child.
In literacy, your child will be assessed on First Sound Fluency (telling us the beginning sound of a word), Letter Name Fluency (telling letter names for both upper/lowercase letters), Nonsense Word Fluency (Reading sounds/words of nonsense words--zeb, huk, etc.), Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (breaking apart the sounds in a word - ship = sh-i-p), reading high frequency words, and reading level. In math, students will be assessed on all we have learned from the beginning of the year: number identification (0-100), counting to 100 by 1s, and10s, subitizing, counting objects in an array, line and scattered, teen number, counting on from 10, identify the missing number (5, ___, 7), quantity discrimination - more/less (7, 9), count forward from any given number, writing numbers 1-20, positional words (such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to), identifying shapes regardless of orientation or size (square, rectangle, oval, circle, triangle, hexagon, cone, sphere, cylinder, cube), describing and comparing attributes of shapes (vertices, sides, faces, corners, angles) of 2-D(flat) and 3-D shapes (solids), building and drawing shapes
Book Orders: Scholastic Book Orders will be sent home in next Mondays folder and are due by Friday, January 15th.
Chaperones Needed: If you have been approved as a chaperone by WCPSS you are welcome to meet us at Marble Museum for our field trip on January 22nd. We are in need of several chaperones to guide a small group about the museum. We will be arriving 10am and departing at 12noon (times are approximate). Please email me if you can help!
Career Volunteers Needed: Do you have an interesting, fun, unique career that you’d like to share with our Kindergarten students? We are in need of volunteers to share during Career Week in February. If you can help, please email me and let me know what you’d like to share.
Winter Weather Arrives: Baby its cold outside!... and we were dressed for the weather. We had a quick lesson today about keeping up with our hats, gloves etc. by placing them in our pockets. We will try our best, but please label any clothing with your child's name. Also, while it may be cold outside, our classroom is generally very warm in the winter, so you may want to dress your child in layers they can remove if too hot, or Fall like clothing.
Items from Home: Please keep all toys, trading cards etc. safe at home. We have plenty here to keep us busy!
BOYD in Kindergarten: The K team is excited to launch BYOD! On Fridays in January, your child is welcome to bring their device. You and your child need to submit the BYOD contract prior to sending a device. In addition we need your device ready to go. This includes being connected to our WAKE-BYOD Wifi, and downloading some apps we will be utilizing. Please download the app for RazKids and a QR Reader,Both apps are free! We will likely ask for additional downloading as we progress. Bare with us--December will be our chance to “practice” with our devices and work out the kinks, so we are ready to integrate technology for our units after the new year. As noted in our , your child will be responsible for their device. They will keep it in their backpacks and our classrooms will be locked when a teacher/TA is not present in the room. Students will be required to bring devices home at the end of the school day.
Devices Donations Being Accepted in Kindergarten! Do you have an old phone/device that is WiFi compatible that you are no longer using? We’d love to adopt it! If you have a device you’d like to permanently donate to our class, please contact me.
January Math: count to 100 by 1s and 10s, count forward from any given number, describe objects in the environment, using the names of shapes and describe relative position in terms (such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, next to), name shapes regardless of orientation or size, identify 2-D (flat) and 3-D (solid) shapes, compare 2-D and 3-D shapes to describe similarities, differences, part, attributes, (vertices, corners, sides, length etc.), build and draw shapes, compose simple shapes to form larger shapes (such as combining two triangles to form a rectangle)
January Literacy:
Reading Unit 5: Partners Help Teach Each Other to Read
We will read texts with confidence and use the strategies to tackle unfamiliar words and understand the text. We will review and practice how to talk with a partner making several back and forth exchanges speaking in complete sentences and using phrasing and wordage that is taught. We will begin to see how authors carefully choose interesting words to describe (verbs) what characters are doing and how knowing this will help with understanding. We will ask questions so we can understand what are reading and help partners. We will use decoding strategies to figure out unknown words. We will look for familiar sight words in books. We will use evidence from the story to support our responses. We will share the main idea of the books and give events/ key details from the story to support our answers. We will learn how authors carefully choose interesting words to describe characters.
January Writing: Procedural Writing - How Tos: Writing explanatory/informative texts that name what they are writing about and supply information, steps involved in How To. For example, How To Build a Snowman (First, Next, Then , Last).
Word Wall: Students are expected to be able to read and spell all the words we have learned and added to our “Word Wall”. We practice these words daily during meeting time. Be sure to practice at home too. We will have a ‘quiz’ on spelling these words each month. Word Wall (High Frequency) Words we have learned: a, at, can, go, has, I, in is, it, look, like, me, on, see, the, to, you, come, and, here, said, with, have, big, little
This month we will add the words: up, down, she, he, we, be, by, my
Notes for the PTA:
Hunter Magnet Open House: will be Wednesday, January 6th. Be sure to spread the news to any prospective parents. We’d love to welcome new families to our Hunter Community.
Yearbook Committee—Volunteers & Photographers Needed: The PTA is very excited to help in coordination of the yearbook this year! We are actively looking for volunteers who are interested in taking photos, creating of the year book, and/or coordinating the sales and distribution. Most work can be done from home. If interested, please contact Serena Flood at [email protected]. Also, if you have any photos from school events from the beginning of the year including the arts performances please email them to [email protected]. Thank you for your help!
Book Exchange: The Hunter PTA is offering the annual Book Exchange after the winter break. This year the exchange will take place on January 29th, 2016. Students will visit the exchange with their homerooms and everyone will have the opportunity to select a book to take home. Please start collecting your gently used age appropriate books to donate for our book exchange. No board books please. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact, Paromita Basu at [email protected]
January:
6th - Magnet Open House, 10am
14th - Electives End (Q2)
15th - EARLY RELEASE (Dismissal 1:15pm)
2nd Quarter Ends
18th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday)
19th - NO SCHOOL (Teacher Workday)
22nd - Field Trip (Marbles Museum)
25th - Electives Begin (Q3)
25th - Parent Conferences, Time TBD
29th - Book Exchange
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December Themes:
Holidays
Gingerbread (2 weeks)
Supplies Needs: 23 gingerbread cookies/frosting/candy (Kits of 8 cookies are sold at Michaels, AC Moore, etc.), thick white cardstock, color pom pom balls, buttons, clear sheet protectors, hot cocoa packets, mini marshmellows
Holidays Around the World Homework: Be sure to check the Monday folder for the Holidays Around the World homework pack. Homework is due on Friday, December 4th, as we will share what we learned to concluded our Holidays week.
BOYD in Kindergarten: The K team is excited to launch BYOD! On Fridays in December, your child is welcome to bring their device. You and your child need to submit the BYOD contract prior to sending a device. In addition we need your device ready to go. This includes being connected to our WAKE-BYOD Wifi, and downloading some apps we will be utilizing. Please download the app for RazKids and a QR Reader,Both apps are free! We will likely ask for additional downloading as we progress. Bare with us--December will be our chance to “practice” with our devices and work out the kinks, so we are ready to integrate technology for our units after the new year. As noted in our , your child will be responsible for their device. They will keep it in their backpacks and our classrooms will be locked when a teacher/TA is not present in the room. Students will be required to bring devices home at the end of the school day.
Devices Donations Being Accepted in Kindergarten! Do you have an old phone/device that is WiFi compatible that you are no longer using? We’d love to adopt it! If you have a device you’d like to permanently donate to our class, please contact me.
Kindergarten Service Project In learning about needs and wants, we have decided to help animals in need.
Through December 18th, the Kindergarten team will collect items needed for Saving Grace.
Saving Grace is a non-profit, 501-C3 organization dedicated to helping homeless animals in our community find permanent, loving homes where they will be treated as family members for the rest of their lives.
You can learn more about them from their website at: http://savinggracenc.org/
We are collecting the following items as requested by Saving Grace:
Gas cards - van drives many miles each week to rescue dogs and take dogs to vet appointments
High quality dog and puppy food - our dogs consume 1,500 lbs of dog food a month. High quality dog food is a medical necessity for many of the dogs we get.
Used towels and blankets.
You may wish to have your child reach out to a few of your friends and neighbors to collect donations.
As a class, we will be making no-bake dog treats to donate.
If you are able to send in old fashion oats or a jar of peanut butter we'd appreciate it :0)
If you'd also like to make some at home and send them to us, we'd love to have some extra. Here is a link to the recipe:http://damndelicious.net/2015/03/11/no-bake-peanut-butter-dog-treats/
In addition, we are trying to arrange a visit from a service dog, who can "thank" the students for giving.
If you prefer that your child does not participate in meeting our visitor, please email me and let me know.
P.S. Saving Grace is near and dear to my heart, as we have fostered many puppies for them and adopted our Great LabraDane, Diesel (who loves to snuggle as I work on lesson plans).
Holidays Around the World: This month, we will learn about holidays around the world. Please let me know if you would like to share one of your holiday traditions...we’d LOVE to have you come in and read a book to the class, share a craft or send in a special snack. December is going to be so much fun!!
Scholastic Book Orders are due Friday, December 4th.
Polar Express Day, December 18th - Early Release
Pajama Day :0) …. we will watch the Polar Express movie.
December Math: Reading and writing number words one to twenty. Composing and decomposing numbers 11-19: teen numbers, ten frames/groups, composing and decomposing with objects, drawings and equations, partners of 10 (10=6+4), shapes (triangle, rectangle, square, circle, hexagon, cube, cylinder, sphere, cone), attributes of shapes (sides, vertices/corners), positional words, 2 and 3 dimensions of shapes.
December Reading: Using Reading Strategies (Tricks & Tools for Reading): Crosscheck: Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense? Use tools/strategies to make meaning when reading. Identify patterns when reading: Do pictures repeat? Do words repeat? Do actions repeat? Does it rhyme? Using letters and sounds to read and build words, CVC words. Using syllables, phonemes, beginning sounds, rhymes, phonics, decoding, word analysis skills, high frequency words to read. Asking and answering key questions in a text. Asking and answering questions about unknown words in a text. Retelling beginning, middle, ending. Making predictions. Recognizing patterns in books. Three types of endings: opposite endings, endings where the whole comes to light (whole something) and funny endings. Rhyming patterns and word families. Fluency: voice changes when reading. Dramatizing: our bodies come to life.
December Writing: Writing pattern books with opinions. Use common patterns to write informational pattern books about their topic. Continue to rehearse, plan and write complete sentences. Reread own writing and practice 1-1 correspondence. Editing your writing. Forming an opinion and state a reason for it.
Word Wall: Students are expected to be able to read and spell all the words we have learned and added to our “Word Wall”. We practice these words daily during meeting time. Be sure to practice at home too. We will have a ‘quiz’ on spelling these words each month. Word Wall (High Frequency) Words we have learned: a, at, can, go, has, I, in is, it, look, like, me, on, see, the, to, you, come, and
This month we will add the words: here, said, with, have, big, little
(See “reading resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home)
A word list was sent home in today's Monday folders. This is a great list to practice at home, as these are words commonly found in texts. Your child should know how to read without sounding out. Making flash cards is a great way to practice.
December
4th - Walking Trip to Ligon (Holiday Concert). Wear comfy shoes for walking!
7th - Interims sent home
10th - Field Trip to Lowes Foods (Martinez' Class)
15th - Picture Makeup Day
17th - Wear your Holiday Apparel (Silly, fun, or fancy welcome.)
18th - Polar Express Day (Wear your Jammies)
21st-Jan. 1st - NO SCHOOL (Vacation/Break)
Jan 4th Back to School :0)
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November Themes:
Scarecrows & Crows
Turkeys
Pilgrims & Native Americans
Football
Needs: candy corn (for math), thick white cardstock
Book Fair: We will preview the books on Monday, November 16th and your child will bring home a list of books that sparked their interest. If you would like to purchase books for your child, please send money in an sealed envelope marked with their name by Wednesday morning. Our class will visit the book fair to purchase books on Thursday at 10am.
Electives begin today! We are super excited about our new adventures in learning. Be sure to ask your child all about their elective.
Report Cards - are in today's Monday Folder (Nov. 2). Please keep the report card but sign and return the envelope. Student Led Conferences will be held Friday, November 6th from 2:30-3:30pm. Your student will need to have one person present to discuss their data notebook. If a parent is not able to come, you may send a grandparent, older sibling, or someone so that your student can share their accomplishments and goals.
Football Week - Each year Mrs. Newkirk and I have a friendly rivalry for the Carolina vs. State game. We will chant and cheer for Carolina. Be sure to wear Carolina blue. (Of course, if you are unable to route for Carolina and have to wear the other color, you'll still be part of our Awesome Owl family!)
November Math: Understanding the relationship between numbers and quantities: counting to 100 by ones and tens, counting forward from a given number in any sequence, writing numbers 1-20, counting 20 objects in a line, rectangular array, scattered, or circle, identifying greater than, less than and equal, comparing written numbers 1-10, addition and subtraction stories, attributes: shape, size and color. Reading and writing number words one-twenty. Composing and decomposing numbers 11-19: teen, ten groups, partners of numbers, composing and decomposing with objects, drawings and equations.
November Reading: Using Reading Strategies (Tricks & Tools for Reading): Crosscheck-Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense? Use tools/strategies to make meaning when reading. Using letters and sounds to read and build words. Using syllables, phonemes, beginning sounds, rhymes, phonics, decoding, word analysis skills, high frequency words to read. Asking and answering key questions in a text. Asking and answering questions about unknown words in a text.
November Writing: Writing like scientists by observing the world around. Including observations of size, color, shapes, texture, and number in writing. Writing a story in sequence, beginning, middle and ending. High Frequency Words (Word Wall) for November: it, at, me, you, and, come.
November Reminders:
2nd- Electives Begin
2nd - Report Cards
6th - Student Led Conferences
11th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday - Veterans Day)
13th - Picture Day (Dress your best.)
16th-20th - Book Fair
19th - Book Fair Purchase (10-10:30am)
19th - Book Fair Family Night, 4:30-6:30pm, Media Center
23rd - Football Week - UNC/NCSU Football Game is Saturday (Thanks for wearing CAROLINA blue!)
25th-27th - Thanksgiving Break
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Scarecrows & Crows
Turkeys
Pilgrims & Native Americans
Football
Needs: candy corn (for math), thick white cardstock
Book Fair: We will preview the books on Monday, November 16th and your child will bring home a list of books that sparked their interest. If you would like to purchase books for your child, please send money in an sealed envelope marked with their name by Wednesday morning. Our class will visit the book fair to purchase books on Thursday at 10am.
Electives begin today! We are super excited about our new adventures in learning. Be sure to ask your child all about their elective.
Report Cards - are in today's Monday Folder (Nov. 2). Please keep the report card but sign and return the envelope. Student Led Conferences will be held Friday, November 6th from 2:30-3:30pm. Your student will need to have one person present to discuss their data notebook. If a parent is not able to come, you may send a grandparent, older sibling, or someone so that your student can share their accomplishments and goals.
Football Week - Each year Mrs. Newkirk and I have a friendly rivalry for the Carolina vs. State game. We will chant and cheer for Carolina. Be sure to wear Carolina blue. (Of course, if you are unable to route for Carolina and have to wear the other color, you'll still be part of our Awesome Owl family!)
November Math: Understanding the relationship between numbers and quantities: counting to 100 by ones and tens, counting forward from a given number in any sequence, writing numbers 1-20, counting 20 objects in a line, rectangular array, scattered, or circle, identifying greater than, less than and equal, comparing written numbers 1-10, addition and subtraction stories, attributes: shape, size and color. Reading and writing number words one-twenty. Composing and decomposing numbers 11-19: teen, ten groups, partners of numbers, composing and decomposing with objects, drawings and equations.
November Reading: Using Reading Strategies (Tricks & Tools for Reading): Crosscheck-Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense? Use tools/strategies to make meaning when reading. Using letters and sounds to read and build words. Using syllables, phonemes, beginning sounds, rhymes, phonics, decoding, word analysis skills, high frequency words to read. Asking and answering key questions in a text. Asking and answering questions about unknown words in a text.
November Writing: Writing like scientists by observing the world around. Including observations of size, color, shapes, texture, and number in writing. Writing a story in sequence, beginning, middle and ending. High Frequency Words (Word Wall) for November: it, at, me, you, and, come.
November Reminders:
2nd- Electives Begin
2nd - Report Cards
6th - Student Led Conferences
11th - NO SCHOOL (Holiday - Veterans Day)
13th - Picture Day (Dress your best.)
16th-20th - Book Fair
19th - Book Fair Purchase (10-10:30am)
19th - Book Fair Family Night, 4:30-6:30pm, Media Center
23rd - Football Week - UNC/NCSU Football Game is Saturday (Thanks for wearing CAROLINA blue!)
25th-27th - Thanksgiving Break
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October Weekly Themes:
October 5th - 9th Owls, Spiders & Bats
October 12th -23rd Monsters (No worries…Fuzzy Fun Monsters!)
October 26th-30th Pumpkins
Classrooms Needs:
45 mini pumpkin gourds (for activity with book buddies)
white cardstock (thick)
3 Gumdrop Cases with Handles in Green for iPads. Links below:
2 for the iPad Air: http://www.amazon.com/Gumdrop-Cases-FoamTech-Series-Tablet/dp/B00K5BME6W
1 for the iPad: http://www.gumdropcases.com/products/foamtech-case-for-ipad-2-3-4?variant=4738997636
2 headphone splitters: http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Rockstar-Headphone-Discontinued-Manufacturer/dp/B00475K64E
Volunteers: Now that our routines are well established, we are excited to have volunteers in our classroom. I have sent a request to check on volunteer clearance for families of our class. You should receive a sign up through Volunteer Spot (hopefully this week). We will need help during math and literacy from 10:00-11:30 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. If you can only volunteer during part of this time, we are happy to have you!
Big Universe - Thanks to WCPSS, your child has an online library account with Big Universe. You may visit Big Universe at with the login information below to access books online. A great resource to practice reading and great for non-fiction books. This site does not give you a "listen and read along" option but does allow you to create your own library so you can go back to re-read your favorites. Here is a link to Big Universe: https://www.biguniverse.com/signin Student username: wcp+student ID #, Password: student ID #, Group username: wcpss (This link is also accessible from our classroom website, just click on “Educational Websites" on the menu to the left.)
RazKids – RazKids - An account has been set up for your child to reading/listen to stories and more. You can access this online resource by visiting: https://www.raz-kids.com/ , our class login is kmartinez37, then click on your child's name to begin. There is also an app available for you to access RazKids on a mobile device. The ear will read them the book and the ? will ask comprehension questions. This is great practice and fairly user friendly. Please let me know if you have difficulty logging in. (This link is also accessible from our classroom website, just click on “Educational Websites" on the menu to the left.)
Discovery Education - WCPSS provides all staff with access to Discovery Education! Video clips, articles, graphics, lesson plans, etc. To access this online resource use the following: Student Login: Username - WCP+student id (WCP123456), Password - student id (123456)
Library Books: A library bucket is available in our classroom for any books students would like to return. If they return a book by Tuesday then they are welcome to check out another book on Wednesday when we visit.
Clothing: Please label all jackets/clothing with your child’s name. Also, please keep a change of clothes in a Ziploc bag in your child’s backpack for accidents - that could be as simple as spilt milk :0) If you child borrows clothing from Hunter’s clothing closet, we ask that you wash and return these items for others in need.
Word Wall Words (High Frequency Words): Each week we will learn at 2 high frequency words. Your child will be expected to read these words and spell them correctly when writing. Words we have learned are displayed on our classroom “Word Wall”. Please practice reading and writing these words at home too. Thus far we have learned: see, a, I, like, the. This month we will add the words: go, to, look, has, is, in, can, on.
Spelling Bee: October 21st at 10am in the Media Center. Registration for the 2015-2016 grade-level spelling bees is open! The deadline is October 14th. You may register online at: http://goo.gl/forms/8VgSAopGcW The study list for the spelling bees is can be found in the Hunter Elementary Hub, under “files” and the link is below. This list will be used for both the grade-level bees and the final school wide bee. Your grade-level bee will begin with the words corresponding to your current grade (K: bat – balm). You will not be asked to spell words that appear on lists for earlier grades. However, it is likely that you will be asked to spell words on lists for higher grades as the bee progresses. Additionally, if the words on the list are exhausted before the first, second, and third place winners are determined, words that did not appear on your study lists will be used. If you would like to volunteer for the the spelling bee please contact Tivey Clark, [email protected] Good luck and happy spelling!
ONE Hunter: Come, eat, and get to know Hunter families at ONE Hunter! The Hunter community has beautiful and supportive student families. ONE Hunter is a free community dinner to get to know Hunter families better. Please bring your family to ONE Hunter for dinner and conversation on Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 6-8 PM, in the cafeteria. After dinner there will be an activity for students and siblings, while parents and caregivers are in small group conversations.
Specials: Our specials rotation occurs on different days but the order of specials is consistent (other than special event days). Our rotation for the first semester is: Spanish (Mrs. Apostolides), P.E. (Coach Josh), Music (Mr. Vincent), Chorus (Ms. Yohman), Drama (Miss Crumpler)
Field Trips: We have many exciting and educational trips planned this year. Please be sure to return your signed permission form and payment by October 5th. Our first field trip will be on Friday October 30th. We will visit Page Farms in N. Raleigh. We are in need of 2-3 parent chaperones. Please email me if you would like to join us, so that I may check your volunteer clearance.
Toys: Please remember to keep toys and personal items at home.
Fun Things are Happening!
We have begun several special activities that you may be hearing about at home.
BOOK BUDDIES: Our class has teamed up with Mr. Harvey’s 2nd grade for book buddies. Each child now has a buddy from Mr. Harvey’s class. They will have the opportunity to read and work together to strengthen their literacy partnerships.
PETS Program: Mrs. Evans our Kindergarten Enrichment Teacher will be coming into our classrooms each Friday to teach a whole group lesson on critical thinking skills. This gives every child in kindergarten the opportunity to be exposed to higher level thinking and different ways of thinking. The program she will follow is called PETS (Primary Education Thinking Skills).
LiPS Program: Mrs. Gaul, our speech teacher, has begun the LiPS program with our class. LiPS (Lindamood Phonics Sequencing) is a reading, speech, spelling and speech program that moves through a series of steps to learn how their mouths produce the sounds of language.
MATH:
‘Digging Deep’ with Numbers 1-10: counting, writing (number formation), number words, number sentences, tally marks, ten frames, equal/not equal numbers, dot-to-dots, same, more/fewer, alike/different, order, number line, before/after, groups of numbers, counting to 100 by ones and tens, 5-groups, counting on, number patterns, +1 pattern, partners of numbers (9=5+4), ones, tens, teens and zeros, equal sign, and plus sign.
LITERACY:
Print Concepts, Reading Behaviors, (See “parent resources” tab on class website to practice at home). When reading at home with your child, be sure to let them try to sound out some of the words. In the classroom, we practice ‘tapping out’ the word on our arm (cat, c-elbow bend, a-forearm, t- wrist) then swiping our arm down these spots to blend the sounds together and hear the whole word.
Reading Strategies: Upper/Lower Case Letter recognition and letter sounds, identifying title, author, illustrator, check for understanding using picture clues, making predictions, finding patterns, play with rhyming words, discussing our favorite part, set a purpose for reading (fiction/non-fiction), retell beginning, middle ending, exploring characters (adventures, feelings, voice),
Word Wall (High Frequency Words we have learned and are expected to read and spell correctly): I, a, like, see, my, the (See “parent resources” tab on class website for a list of the words to practice at home). This month we will add the words: to, can, in, and
Writing: We are learning all about the tools that we need for writing: pencil, paper, crayons, space stick and eraser, counting how many words are in the sentence, to make sure that we have spaces between those words. Good writers make sure they write down all the sounds they hear when they say a word. We are practicing using ‘meatball’ spaces (between words) and ‘spaghetti’ spaces (between letters). We have learned letter formation for letters a-z practicing within the lines: chicken letter (a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z), giraffe letters (b, d, f, h, k, l, t, ) and monkey letters (g, j, p, q, y)
October Reminders:
Field Trip Money DUE OCTOBER 5th
16th - EARLY RELEASE (Dismissal 1:15pm)
WEAR PINK! for Breast Cancer Awareness
21st - ONE Hunter, 6-8pm
23rd - 1st Quarter Ends
26th - NO SCHOOL (Teacher Workday)
30th - Field Trip (Page Farms - Pumpkins)
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September 2015
Owl’s Nest New
We are off to a SOARING START!
We had a terrific first week of school and are looking forward to a great year.
Below are a few items and information for the beginning of the year.
Our monthly new will be posted on our class website:
www.mrsmartinezkindergarten.weebly.com
GOING GREEN:
To cut down on paper waste, we will send most correspondence via email or our class website. If you do not have access to email and/or the Internet, please send me a note and I will be sure to get you a hard copy.
PARENT HANDBOOK:
A WCPSS, Hunter and Classroom Parent Handbook can be found on our classroom website. Just click on the “Parent Handbook” tab on the left. Please review the information with your child.
ROOM PARENT:
Thank you for all the great responses to support our classroom community! I have asked Kourtney Strayhorn and Danielle Stewart o be our room parents. We will certainly invite additional volunteers to help in other ways.
SUPPLY NEEDS:
Thank you for the supplies and materials you have sent in. We are doing great, but could use a few more pencil boxes, 1 inch metal binder rings and ink cartridges (HP 564, both color and black) to print classroom materials. If you are able to send in some, it would be much appreciated!
EMAIL TEST:
I have sent out an email to all email addresses that were listed on your child's information form. If you haven’t already, please respond so I know you have received it. If you have not received an email, or would prefer to be taken off the list, please send me an email at [email protected]
MemberHub:
The PTA sends information via MemberHub. If you need a form to join please let me know and I will send one home with your child.
OPEN HOUSE will be held Wednesday, September 9th from 6:00-6:45pm in our classroom.
PARENTS are invited to learn more about your child's class. This is an ADULTS only event. Please make arrangements for your children. A PTA Meeting will follow from 6:45-7:15pm in the gym.
T-SHIRTS:
We are receiving a group deal with all of Kindergarten for our field trip t-shirts. The cost of the t-shirt is $8.50. Please send in payment by October 1st. If paying by cash please send exact change. Please make checks out to: Aardvark Inc.
REMIND:
We'd love for you to join our classroom text service by signing up for Remind. With Remind, I am able to text your reminders about upcoming events or classroom needs (ex. Field Trip tomorrow - wear tennis shoes). You do not have the ability to respond, it’s simply a reminder text.
Join via SMS!
Enter this number
(424) 789-8746
with this message
@94878
LUNCH MONEY:
If your child plans to purchase lunch throughout the school year the cost is $2.00 per lunch. If you are able, we ask that you send a few weeks worth of lunch money ahead of time so we can deposit it in their lunch account. As you can imagine, juggling money daily for a class of 5-year-olds can be cumbersome.
VOLUNTEER SIGN-UP:
We'd love to have you volunteer! All interested volunteers must complete a volunteer clearance application online via a WCPSS computer. Be sure to sign-up during Open House. Clearance takes about 3 weeks and is needed for helping in the classroom or joining us on field trips. Even if you have submitted your information previously, YOU MUST REREGISTER EACH SCHOOL YEAR.
Math Homework
WCPSS provides homework for you to practice the skills we have learned in class. Hard copies will come home in your Monday folders from time to time. You and your child may complete these at your convenience. Math homework does NOT need to return to school.
Enrichment Calendars
Enrichment Calendars are provided on our class website for each month. Simply click on the ”Enrichment HW” tab on the left.
Enrichment Calendar work is OPTIONAL.
Enrichment Calendars allow you the opportunity to work with your child at home.
If you complete a task, please sign the box of completed work. The signed calendar may be returned to your teacher during the first week of each new month. As a reward for putting forth extra effort at home, your child will be able to choose from the sticker box.
Contact Me:
A business card was sent home in the Monday folder this week. You may call Hunter at 919.856.7676 and leave a message, or email me at [email protected]. You may also use the contact form on our class website to send me an email (http://mrsmartinezkindergarten.weebly.com/contact-mrs-martinez.html) or the link from the Hunter website (http://www.wcpss.net/Page/10809)
Internet Connection Updates
WCPSS will be updating our internet services in September. As a result, our school will lose all access to technology, email etc. Updates are scheduled for September 10th through September 16th. I plan to check email each evening when I am home, but if you need immediate assistance please call the school office at 919.856.7676
Snack Calendar
A snack calendar will be uploaded each month to our classroom website. We participate in community snack and ask that on your scheduled day you provide snack for our class (24 students). Please be mindful of a red food dye allergy when sending in snack.
SEPTEMBER THEMES:
Pete the Cat
Brown Bear/Colors & Color Words
Apples/Fall
Owls/Nocturnal Animals
September Goals:
Literacy
Identify letters and sounds
Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print: follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Take a 'picture walk' to tell ourselves about the book adventure by using picture clues.
Purpose for reading, what readers do (before, during. after) and more.
Math
Count to 20 by ones and tens
Write numbers 0-10
Count to answer, “How many?”
Count objects in a scattered arrangement
Name successive numbers without recounting.
Compare numbers (more, less, equal)
Radical Reader
Did you child spend time READING this summer!
Our RADICAL READER program celebrates students’ reading accomplishments over the summer.
Click on the button below to access Hunter's Radical Reader Reading Log for you to complete.
Owl’s Nest New
We are off to a SOARING START!
We had a terrific first week of school and are looking forward to a great year.
Below are a few items and information for the beginning of the year.
Our monthly new will be posted on our class website:
www.mrsmartinezkindergarten.weebly.com
GOING GREEN:
To cut down on paper waste, we will send most correspondence via email or our class website. If you do not have access to email and/or the Internet, please send me a note and I will be sure to get you a hard copy.
PARENT HANDBOOK:
A WCPSS, Hunter and Classroom Parent Handbook can be found on our classroom website. Just click on the “Parent Handbook” tab on the left. Please review the information with your child.
ROOM PARENT:
Thank you for all the great responses to support our classroom community! I have asked Kourtney Strayhorn and Danielle Stewart o be our room parents. We will certainly invite additional volunteers to help in other ways.
SUPPLY NEEDS:
Thank you for the supplies and materials you have sent in. We are doing great, but could use a few more pencil boxes, 1 inch metal binder rings and ink cartridges (HP 564, both color and black) to print classroom materials. If you are able to send in some, it would be much appreciated!
EMAIL TEST:
I have sent out an email to all email addresses that were listed on your child's information form. If you haven’t already, please respond so I know you have received it. If you have not received an email, or would prefer to be taken off the list, please send me an email at [email protected]
MemberHub:
The PTA sends information via MemberHub. If you need a form to join please let me know and I will send one home with your child.
OPEN HOUSE will be held Wednesday, September 9th from 6:00-6:45pm in our classroom.
PARENTS are invited to learn more about your child's class. This is an ADULTS only event. Please make arrangements for your children. A PTA Meeting will follow from 6:45-7:15pm in the gym.
T-SHIRTS:
We are receiving a group deal with all of Kindergarten for our field trip t-shirts. The cost of the t-shirt is $8.50. Please send in payment by October 1st. If paying by cash please send exact change. Please make checks out to: Aardvark Inc.
REMIND:
We'd love for you to join our classroom text service by signing up for Remind. With Remind, I am able to text your reminders about upcoming events or classroom needs (ex. Field Trip tomorrow - wear tennis shoes). You do not have the ability to respond, it’s simply a reminder text.
Join via SMS!
Enter this number
(424) 789-8746
with this message
@94878
LUNCH MONEY:
If your child plans to purchase lunch throughout the school year the cost is $2.00 per lunch. If you are able, we ask that you send a few weeks worth of lunch money ahead of time so we can deposit it in their lunch account. As you can imagine, juggling money daily for a class of 5-year-olds can be cumbersome.
VOLUNTEER SIGN-UP:
We'd love to have you volunteer! All interested volunteers must complete a volunteer clearance application online via a WCPSS computer. Be sure to sign-up during Open House. Clearance takes about 3 weeks and is needed for helping in the classroom or joining us on field trips. Even if you have submitted your information previously, YOU MUST REREGISTER EACH SCHOOL YEAR.
Math Homework
WCPSS provides homework for you to practice the skills we have learned in class. Hard copies will come home in your Monday folders from time to time. You and your child may complete these at your convenience. Math homework does NOT need to return to school.
Enrichment Calendars
Enrichment Calendars are provided on our class website for each month. Simply click on the ”Enrichment HW” tab on the left.
Enrichment Calendar work is OPTIONAL.
Enrichment Calendars allow you the opportunity to work with your child at home.
If you complete a task, please sign the box of completed work. The signed calendar may be returned to your teacher during the first week of each new month. As a reward for putting forth extra effort at home, your child will be able to choose from the sticker box.
Contact Me:
A business card was sent home in the Monday folder this week. You may call Hunter at 919.856.7676 and leave a message, or email me at [email protected]. You may also use the contact form on our class website to send me an email (http://mrsmartinezkindergarten.weebly.com/contact-mrs-martinez.html) or the link from the Hunter website (http://www.wcpss.net/Page/10809)
Internet Connection Updates
WCPSS will be updating our internet services in September. As a result, our school will lose all access to technology, email etc. Updates are scheduled for September 10th through September 16th. I plan to check email each evening when I am home, but if you need immediate assistance please call the school office at 919.856.7676
Snack Calendar
A snack calendar will be uploaded each month to our classroom website. We participate in community snack and ask that on your scheduled day you provide snack for our class (24 students). Please be mindful of a red food dye allergy when sending in snack.
SEPTEMBER THEMES:
Pete the Cat
Brown Bear/Colors & Color Words
Apples/Fall
Owls/Nocturnal Animals
September Goals:
Literacy
Identify letters and sounds
Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print: follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
Take a 'picture walk' to tell ourselves about the book adventure by using picture clues.
Purpose for reading, what readers do (before, during. after) and more.
Math
Count to 20 by ones and tens
Write numbers 0-10
Count to answer, “How many?”
Count objects in a scattered arrangement
Name successive numbers without recounting.
Compare numbers (more, less, equal)
Radical Reader
Did you child spend time READING this summer!
Our RADICAL READER program celebrates students’ reading accomplishments over the summer.
Click on the button below to access Hunter's Radical Reader Reading Log for you to complete.
Messages from the Hunter PTA
Make sure you like the “Hunter Elementary PTA” on Facebook.
Various updates and info will be posted.
It’s a great way to stay connected! https://www.facebook.com/HunterElementaryPTA
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Make sure you like the “Hunter Elementary PTA” on Facebook.
Various updates and info will be posted.
It’s a great way to stay connected! https://www.facebook.com/HunterElementaryPTA
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