A Note from Mrs. Hughes
The beginning of school has started off wonderfully! The children have been busy learning all of the rituals and routines of kindergarten.
I am very appreciative of all supplies that you have sent in to make our year easier.
I know how overwhelming it is to receive back to school paperwork and I appreciate your diligence in returning all of the documents that needed to be completed and signed. / September Calendar
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
1E / 2F
5
No School Labor Day / 6G / 7
PTO Meeting 9AM / 8H / 9A
12B / 13C
Health / 14
Screenings / 15D
DE Testing -Reading
Open House 6PM / 16E
19F
DE Testing- Math / 20G / 21 / 22H / 23A
26B / 27C / 28 / 29D / 30E
A-Music B-Art C-PE D-Media Center E-Technology
F-Computer Lab G-PE H-Media Center
Our curriculum is driven by the common core standards. Please see the below website and click on Kindergarten to see what will be taught this year
Please see the following pages to see what will be assessed this quarter / This Month in Kindergarten
Language Arts-Phonics/Phonemic awareness/Handwriting focus: Identify and form Rr, Tt, Bb, Nn.
Introduce beginning letter sound for: /r/, /t/, /b/,/n/. Identify rhyming words.
Sight words: See the next page.
If your child doesn’t recognize these letters, sounds and/or words, please help him/her learn them at home.
Math: 2-D Shapes (circle, square, rectangle, triangle, hexagon)/ positional terms & Counting and Cardinality.
Writing:Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to create narrative stories.
Science & Social Studies: Five Senses, Fall, Apples, Fire Safety &Community Helpers.
Room Mom
Our class’ room mom is
Jessica Ruzic, Eddie’s mom. She will be contacting you via e-email to coordinate volunteers for special events as well as special supplies needed for class activities. / The Pillar of Character this month is:
Fairness
Share, take turns and consider others.
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cleared to enter the school if you
haven’t already done so
Please save and send in your Box Tops
Fry’s First 100 Words- (Read by sight in a snap/no sounding out)
I will be sending home fry word challenge homework lists containing 10 words at a time. Your child will receive a new list when the previous list is mastered
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Dear Parents,
The following is a description of the academic skills assessed on the first nine weeks report card.
(M=Mastered/P=Progressing/I=Needs improvement)
Reading-
Print Concepts: (Demonstrates understanding of the organization and basic features of print.)
- Identifies parts of a book: front cover, back cover, title page
- Holds book right side up, turns pages in sequence, moves from front to back of book.
- Points to words from left to right and moves from top to bottom.
Phonological Awareness:(Demonstrates understanding of spoken words, syllables and sounds)
- Recognizes rhyming words (do boat and coat rhyme?)
Demonstrates knowledge of letter names and sounds:
Your child should be able to identify capital and lowercase letters and produce their sounds. If your child knows: 13+ letters and sounds=M, 6-12 letters and sounds=P, 5 and below letters and sounds=I
(Demonstrates the ability to read and comprehend independently on grade level:) Fountas and Pinnell Level A
Comprehension skills:
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Sort common objects into categories.
Recognize common types of texts (fiction, nonfiction, poetry)
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between the illustrations and the story or text in which they appear.
High Frequency (FRY) Words: Students should be able to immediately (no sounding out/knows in a snap) read fry words by sight and in context. If your child knows 10 or more words=M, 5-9=P, below 5 =I
Writing-
- Willingly participates in writing.
- Uses a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to write a narrative story.
- Stays on topic
- Writes legibly-Forms introduced letters correctly
Math:
- Knows number names and the counting sequence:
-Recognizes and writes numbers 0-10
-Counts by ones to 20.
- Counts by tens to 20.
- Counts to tell the number of objects:
-Counts groups of objects to 10.
-Represents a number of objects with a written numeral (0-10).
- Reasons with shapes and their attributes:
-correctly names shapes: square, circle, triangle, rectangle, hexagon
- makes and draws above shapes
-usespositional terms: above/below, beside/next to, in front of/behind to describe positions of objects.