You should have found your child's report card in their Friday Folder. Please take a look at it and if you have any questions PLEASE CONTACT ME!!!
If you are need of information or would like more opportunities to know what it going on in our classroom, please see the following resources:
PACT
NO PACT this Friday January 31. Friday Feb. 7 we will be making marshmallow shapes.
SIGHT WORDS
Since we are half way through the year, it is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that your child PRACTICES SIGHT WORDS EVERY NIGHT for 10-15 minutes. In this last Friday folder, I sent home a list of games you can play to practice. To be ready for 1st grade and to remain confident and successful in their reading, they must learn a minimum of the first 6 lists (120 words). If you need a new list, please let me know or you can find them on the website. The list of sight words that comes home with your child STAYS AT HOME! I have flashcards in the classroom that are used when assessing them. This way they can't just memorize the order 😋 and they really have to know the words. When practicing sight words, remind them that some do not make any sense to sound out and that is why they have to learn them from sight. I do not assign additional homework as this should be a priority!!!
MATH
We just finished up our teen numbers unit. Ask your child to explain to you about place value, focusing on a group of ten and some more (10 and 4 make 14). For additional practice, offer writing practice, making sure they write their numbers the correct way. Next, we do a short unit on shapes. This will include 2-D/flat shapes (square, triangle, circle, etc.) and 3-D/solid shapes (cube, sphere, cylinder, etc.). Many of your children can already recognize and name these shapes but we will focus on how many corners/vertices, sides and functions each have. We will also practice building and drawing them.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
This month we focus a lot of time of different digraph sounds (th, ch, sh, wh, ph, ng) and vowel team sounds (ee, ea, ou). Our focus on single letter names and sounds gets reduced quite a bit. Please review these often with your child, as well as ask them to write the letter that matches the sound. We continue to read our leveled readers and are becoming more fluent. Please take time to read with your child every night. If you are in need of any beginning reader books, please reach out. I will also begin sending home short passages (as needed) for your child to practice.
WRITING
We just completed our narrative writing unit and you can see their stories hanging outside the classroom (some are still working on theirs but should be complete by the end of the week). Students are focusing on different goals in their writing. Most goals include handwriting, adding more detail, becoming more independent, remembering spaces and proper capitalization/punctuation or just getting an idea on paper. We will move into February focusing on letter writing.
GRAMMAR
You have probably seen many half page papers sent home over the last few weeks. These are part of our grammar units. Students have learned what a noun and verb is and are beginning adjectives this week. They are also beginning to learn parts of a sentence (subject). Can you believe that this is happening in kindergarten? It is so exciting to see them work on these difficult concepts!
SPECIALS
If you have questions about science, computer, music, P.E., Library or Wellness, please reach out to their specials teachers. You can find them on the Rolling Hills website, their report card or email me.
