Week of 11/5

I am looking forward to meeting with each of you beginning Monday for your child's conference. Remember that the kindergarten schedule does not change at all during conference weeks. All conferences will be held in the office conference room, except for the after school conferences, which will be held in the classroom. The conference room is located in the main office, 2nd door to the right after you walk through the swinging half-door. To confirm your conference time, please click here: https://goo.gl/nFbxE7. Please note that you can no longer edit this form. If you need to change your conference time, please email me.

Language Arts
Our letters this week are Ww and Xx. Our new sight word is and. We are now reading sentences with the words: I, see, my, like, can, go, see, a, the, to, we, me, at, in and now and. We have been sending home a list of sentences each week in your child's Wednesday envelope that they are reading in class. Please be sure to have your child read these sentences to you so that you can see how they are doing with sight word recognition and reading fluency.

We will be focusing on the season of Fall this week as well as making some items for our Pilgrim costumes. We will also be reading the book, Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano. We have a few projects around this book, including a special homework assignment (more on this below).

Math
In math this week, we will begin Module 2, which covers both 2D and 3D shapes. Shapes we cover in kindergarten are: square, circle, triangle, rectangle, and hexagon as well as sphere, cylinder, cube, and cone. Parent tips for this module can be found here.

Special Homework
This week, we will have some special homework based on the book Turkey Trouble, which is a funny story about a turkey who wants to avoid becoming Thanksgiving dinner, so he disguises himself as different animals on the farm. Our homework this week includes a fun project where your child will have the opportunity to disguise a turkey, just as the turkey in Turkey Trouble disguises himself. Feel free to get creative with these disguises! Add some dimension to the pictures with construction paper, stickers, etc. Finished turkeys will need to be cut out and glued down on a 9X12 piece of construction paper, which will be provided. Here is a picture of a sample project I found on Pinterest:

Upcoming Events
As you know, our next big event is the Friendship Feast at 1:30 on November 16th. Children will dress as Pilgrims and Native Americans and come together with their friends in K1 to sing a few songs and share some food. A sign-up form for the food and helping at that event can be found here. Ideally, we would like each family to contribute something from this list. We need many helpers and plenty of food to make this a success. We are looking forward to a fun event!

This Week's Helpers & Activities:

Monday: Return Blue Bags (Hiromi), Daily 5, Centers (Elena & Nisha)

Tuesday: Daily 5, Centers (Sarah & Kassie)

Wednesday: Recess 101, Trip to Makerspace, Blue Bags w/Special Project go home

Thursday: Daily 5, Centers (Ellen & ???)

Friday: Storytime with Grandma Gail, Daily 5, STEAM Centers (Brad & Barry)

Upcoming Events:
11/5-11/15: Parent-Teacher Conferences
Monday 11/12: No School: Veteran's Day
Friday 11/16: Friendship Feast @ 1:30
11/19-11/23: Thanksgiving Break
12/3-12/7: Hour of Code/Computer Science Week
Thursday 12/20: Nutcracker Performance
12/21-01/04: Winter Break