Week of August 27

This week's Fun Friday Dress-Up is School Color Day and Giovanni is bringing in Fun Friday Snacks for the whole class. Our school's colors are yellow and blue. :) Also, we are selling School T-Shirts= they are black with a blue cheetah paw and they are $10.00. Currently the Youth sizes available are S, M, L. The school t-shirt is great to wear for School Color Day and School Spirit Days. 

Wednesday is our first EARLY RELEASE DAY. We will start dismissal at 1:30. If your child is a Bus Rider, make sure to find out what time your child's bus will be dropping them off. If a parent is not at the bus stop when the bus arrives~ the bus returns the Kindergartner to school. The phone number for the Transportation Department is 858-6200.

Our Resources this week are: Mon~ P.E. (wear sneakers), Tues~ ART, Wed~ ART, Thurs~MUSIC and Fri~MEDIA. (The students in Kindergarten do not bring the Media books home. If your child accidentally brings it home, please let us know by writing a note and return it to school.)

MATH

This week we are continuing to practice our counting and write numbers 1-5. In our Duval Math we are also learning about our "math fingers". This may look different than what you have seen before or learned. It took us awhile to get used to as well. With our "math fingers" we start counting 1 with our pinky finger and end with 5 on our thumb. Please practice at home it will help later lessons. We are also continuing to learn about sorting/classifying objects based on their attributes (same color, same size, etc.). 

WRITING

As I mentioned in last week's post. Our current focus is detailed people. We will be drawing a detailed boy and girl together as a class. Then the students will have practice later on in the week doing their own drawings.

SAXON/READING SKILLS

Last week we completed our first Saxon paper. The students did great!! This week we will continue to focus on letter l and we will be reviewing the sight words from last week. 

READING

This week we are using Duval Reads and focusing on Nursery Rhymes and Fables. We will be discussing some vocabulary words in each rhyme, along with predictions and connections for each. The Nursery Rhymes we will be reading are Ring Around the Rosie, Rain = Rain Go Away = It's Raining. It's Pouring = Jack Be Nimble = Little Jack Horner.

(I searched long and hard for Youtube Videos to post... but I honestly didn't like any of them and the illustrations looked very different from the ones that Duval Reads has the children focus on. So I will not be attaching videos.)