I hope you are enjoying a wonderful long weekend. We will get right
back into the swing of things on Tuesday, with another fun week ahead,
including Movie Night on Friday the 9th!
Thank you for signing your child up on my assessment schedule. This will help
me to best meet the differing needs of the students in my class during
small group instruction. I was able to complete about half of the assessments of all extended care students last week, and I look forward to meeting with the rest of the students in the upcoming weeks. If you need to check the schedule, you can view it here. Please note that you can no longer edit this document. If you need to reschedule your child's time, please email me.
Language Arts
In language arts, we continue introducing letters and letter sounds, along with the handwriting of those letters, using the Fundations program. We have introduced
Tt, Bb, and
Ff, which are all "sky-line letters" and this week, we will introduce
Mm and
Nn, which are "plane-line letters." If you'd like more information about the formation of these letters to support your student at home, as well as posters that are similar to the ones we use in the classroom, please read this week's
home support letter.
We will also introduce our first sight word,
I this
week. We will introduce 1 to 2 sight words per week now, and children are expected to master the reading of 40+ sight words by the end of kindergarten. The complete list (there are more than 40 words listed here, but they will be exposed to all of them) can be found on the "
High Frequency Words" tab of my website.
STEAM Projects
This week, we will be reading several different fairy tales & nursery rhymes, and then doing follow-up STEAM challenges. We will be testing which materials will protect Humpty Dumpty from breaking, building houses that will stand up to the Big Bad Wolf, building bridges for the Three Billy Goats, and making webs to keep the spiders away from Little Miss Muffett. We look forward to learning how to collaborate as a group to solve these challenges.
Math
In
math, we will continue with the topic Numbers to 10. This week, we will continue looking at each number and different ways to represent them (numeral, 10 frames, etc.) More information on this topic can be found here.
Wednesday Envelopes
Thank you so much for returning all the envelopes on Thursday, and for signing the permission slips for Miss Howe's student teaching video recordings. She likely will only do 2-3 recordings during the school year, so we appreciate your cooperation with this. If you were not able to return your envelope on Thursday, please return it on Tuesday, when it will already be time to pack them again.
P.E.
Beginning the week of October 3rd, we will get to have P.E. lessons with the Rhythm & Moves P.E. program. This program is funded by your donations to the AVHSC C.A.G.E. drive. Children will participate twice a month in P.E., and this program was a huge hit in the past! Thank you for your continued donations to the C.A.G.E. drive for programs like this. If you haven't had a chance to donate yet, please consider donating by going to this link: https://altavistahsc.membershiptoolkit.com/home
Thank you for answering the call for supporting our enrichment programs! I think the only opening we have now is for Cornerstone & I believe we need some people who are willing to read stories in the library each week.
I hope you continue to enjoy your weekend!
Upcoming Events
Monday, 9/5: Labor Day, no school
Friday, 9/9: Movie Night
Friday, 9/16: Picture Day
