Here is a list of what we are learning in school:

UPCOMING EVENTS

Week of Respect

October 2nd - October 6th

Monday, October 2nd - Wear Blue to "BLUE Out Bullying"

Tuesday, October 3rd - Wear your favorite sweatshirt - "Stay warm and be kind"

Wednesday, October 4th - Wear your favorite hat - Hats Off to Respect - "We Belong Together"

Thursday, October 5th - Wear your pajamas - "Don't SLEEP on Respect"

Friday, October 6th - Wear Chester Spirit OR Red 

Welcome to 2024!!!

At this time of the year, we should be able to identify our letters and their sounds. We have been practicing our sight words by identifying them by sight and writing them.

We are learning to write new words by stretching out the sounds and writing the letters to match those sounds.

We have been working on the neatness of our handwriting and the correct sizing of our letters.

We are starting to practice our addition and subtraction math facts. You may review

 addition facts and start to review subtraction facts at home.

Guided Reading

We have also officially started Guided Reading the

1st week of January.

Books will be sent home in a plastic bag with your child's name on it every Friday. The book or books are to be read over the weekend as many times as possible 

(at least 5 times for each book) and are to be returned the following Monday.

Please do not eat or drink while reading these books.

Thank you!

 Please return all Library Books every Friday.

The children are disappointed when they can not check out a new book.

¡¡¡Bienvenido al 2024!!!

En esta época del año deberíamos ser capaces de identificar nuestras letras y sus sonidos. Hemos estado practicando nuestras palabras de uso frecuente identificándolas a primera vista y escribiéndolas.

Estamos aprendiendo a escribir nuevas palabras estirando los sonidos y escribiendo las letras para que coincidan con esos sonidos.

Hemos estado trabajando en la pulcritud de nuestra letra y el tamaño correcto de nuestras letras.

Estamos empezando a practicar nuestras operaciones matemáticas de suma y resta. Puedes revisar

operaciones de suma y empezar a repasar las operaciones de resta en casa.

Lectura guiada

También hemos iniciado oficialmente la Lectura Guiada del

1ª semana de enero.

Los libros se enviarán a casa en una bolsa de plástico con el nombre de su hijo todos los viernes. El libro o libros deben leerse durante el fin de semana tantas veces como sea posible.

(al menos 5 veces por cada libro) y deben ser devueltos el lunes siguiente.

Por favor, no coma ni beba mientras lee estos libros.

¡Gracias!

Los niños se decepcionan cuando no pueden sacar un libro nuevo.

¡Gracias!

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Guided Reading Books

Guided Reading Books will begin on      day, January th. Your child will bring a plastic bag home with a book or books along with a recording sheet.

Please read the letter attached to it for the directions.

Guided Reading books should be returned to school on Monday

along with the Recording Sheet in the plastic bag.

Water Bottles or Thermoses

Please remind and practice with your child how to close his or her water bottle or thermos every day.

We have had several accidents with water bottles or thermoses not being closed. 

Thank you!!!!

Library Books

Please remember to return all Library books every Friday.

Your child may not take out a book until he or she returns one.

Thank you!

 Please check out my Supply List for essential Kindergarten materials.

  Weeks 4 and 5

9/25  - 9/29   and 10/2 - 10/6

SEL - Social Emotional Learning

We are practicing these 4 steps to great learning:

Eyes Watching

Ears LIstening

Voice Quiet (Lips Quiet)

Bodies Still

Practice these 4 steps with your child at home. It will help them be better learners and listeners at home, as well as at school.

Language Arts

Identify capital and lowercase letters

Identify the letters in his or her first and last name

Writing his or her name using capital and lowercase letters correctly

Learning some French, Spanish, and Sign language.

We are practicing:

How to hold our pencils correctly 

How to slant our papers to help make our letters correctly

To follow print from top to bottom and from left to right when reading

To identify periods, exclamation marks, and commas when reading

All sight words on List A should be secure by the end of Kindergarten.

Sight Words practiced already: 

Upcoming sight words: can, of, on, and, do

Other sight words practiced are: I, a, the, my, am, see, an, look, go, in, at, can, do, like, is, to, it, and, on, me, we, he, she, be, so, up, said, for, not, play, ran, saw, all, too, you, was, that, here, are, there, where, come, good, came, put, some, this, got, jump, big, little, say, away, then, went, will, get, they, with, when, ride, want, but, your, eat, has, had, have, who, take, make, made, give, her, gave, him, his, us, as, soon, out,.our, about, very, were, from, of, new, just, must, well, did, what, now, find, ate, 

red, blue, orange, green, yellow, purple, brown, black, gray, white, pink

Phonics

Identify Capital and Lowercase letters: Cc, Oo, Aa, Dd,

Identify the following letters and their sounds: Cc, Oo, Aa, Dd, 

Identifying the letters and their sounds: Cc, Oo, Aa, Dd, 

Identifying the word families such: Upcoming

Identifying the digraphs such as: Upcoming

Identifying long vowel sounds such as: Upcoming

Identifying long vowel word families.Upcoming

Identifying digraphs and blends.Upcoming

Reading Workshop

This reading unit contains mini-lessons that demonstrate how a reader thinks while they are reading.            

There is so much more to reading than reading the words/pictures and retelling a story.

A reader thinks, thinks and thinks as they read.

This unit names and demonstrates the different kinds of thinking a reader does to understand the book better.

A good reader predicts, infers, creates mental images, questions, wonders, synthesizes and talks.  

Good readers think about the story and make predictions.

Good readers point to words when they read.

Good readers are good listeners.

Good readers read a variety of genres.

Good readers read the illustrations

Good readers read the punctuations

Using inferencing as a reading strategy

Writing Workshop

Launching the Writing Workshop

Generating ideas to write about

Write about special memories

Add or change things in his or her story

Math

Topic 2

Equal groups

Greater than

Less than

Compare groups to 5 by counting

Compare numbers to 5

Problem solving: model with math

Science