Well, our 1st quarter is officially completed and the children are making wonderful progress each day. Our letter this week is "Tt" and we will begin working with the words "am" and "can" in anticipation of adding them to our word wall of high-frequency words. We will focus on characters in stories this week as we discuss their actions and feelings. We will study plural nouns, read a Phonics Reader book and add it to our book boxes, and we will add two poems to the poetry binders.
In math, the children will continue to work with the numbers through 10 and ordering the numbers 0-10. During our calendar and lunch count/attendance each day, we spend time on place value concepts, early addition and subtraction concepts, number sense, and problem solving.
Parent-Teacher Conferences are this week on Wednesday and Thursday. You conference confirmation slip was sent home last week and I am looking forward to visiting with you about your child's progress thus far in kindergarten. Wednesday through Friday are early-out days and the kids will be dismissed at 12:00 noon. No lunch is provided on early-out days.
Remember to send your child with a coat and hats/mittens if appropriate. The fall chill is in the air and recess time is sometimes a bit cool without a coat.
I encourage you to read to or with your child for 20 minutes each day. This is the only homework that I "assign" in kindergarten and this one activity opens a world of literacy for your child! You are your child's first . . . and best teacher!
Have a great week ~ and I will see you on Wednesday or Thursday
October 25th ~ 29th
I hope you enjoyed the long weekend. The first quarter is winding down and I cannot believe how quickly the year is going. Parent-Teacher conference confirmations will go home in the Wednesday Watch and I am looking forward to sharing your child's progress when we meet next week.
Our letter this week is "Bb" and we will review naming words (nouns) and story elements. The words "but" and "I" will be added to our word wall. We will work with the color words "blue", "brown", and "black" and will sing some fun songs associated with these colors. We will begin labeling the room during our interactive writing time. Ask your child about the tools in our room. As the children become readers, I encourage them to utilize any print in the environment that they recognize, and room labels are just one tool we can use when we read and write. Two more poems will be added to our poetry binders this week and we will add another phonics reader to our book boxes.
Mrs. Kvilhaug will teach our personal safety lesson this week and we will begin a Social Studies unit about getting along with others, taking turns, and making friends.
In math, we will continue to read, write, and order the numbers through 10. We will meet with our buddy room on Friday and sort & graph the ingredients of a trail mix snack.
Red Ribbon Week ~ We will briefly discuss drug awareness in class and I will keep it at a kindergarten level. The children may wear attire this week to support Red Ribbon Week. The schedule is as follows:
MONDAY ~ Life without Drugs ... No Sweat (wear sweats)
TUESDAY~ Be all you can be, Be drug free ... wear camouflage
WEDNESDAY ~ Sock it to drugs and say, "Peace out to drugs" ~ wear crazy socks and tie dye
THURSDAY~ Put a cap on drugs ... wear fun hats
FRIDAY ~ Team up against drugs ... wear your favorite sports team
We will create a torn tissue pumpkin this week that will hang in the main display case by the office for the month of November. Check out our pumpkin patch when you get a chance!
Just a reminder . . . Please do not allow your child to bring or wear his or her Halloween costume to school on Friday. Hair dyes and face paints are also not allowed during the school day.
Family Fun Night is this Saturday, the 30th from 5:00-8:00 p.m. The children are encouraged to wear Halloween costumes for this awesome event. There will be prizes for costumes, games and activities set up in various classrooms, and a great Fuddruckers meal available for $6.00. Come and join the FUN!!! I hope to see you there!!
Our letter this week is "Bb" and we will review naming words (nouns) and story elements. The words "but" and "I" will be added to our word wall. We will work with the color words "blue", "brown", and "black" and will sing some fun songs associated with these colors. We will begin labeling the room during our interactive writing time. Ask your child about the tools in our room. As the children become readers, I encourage them to utilize any print in the environment that they recognize, and room labels are just one tool we can use when we read and write. Two more poems will be added to our poetry binders this week and we will add another phonics reader to our book boxes.
Mrs. Kvilhaug will teach our personal safety lesson this week and we will begin a Social Studies unit about getting along with others, taking turns, and making friends.
In math, we will continue to read, write, and order the numbers through 10. We will meet with our buddy room on Friday and sort & graph the ingredients of a trail mix snack.
Red Ribbon Week ~ We will briefly discuss drug awareness in class and I will keep it at a kindergarten level. The children may wear attire this week to support Red Ribbon Week. The schedule is as follows:
MONDAY ~ Life without Drugs ... No Sweat (wear sweats)
TUESDAY~ Be all you can be, Be drug free ... wear camouflage
WEDNESDAY ~ Sock it to drugs and say, "Peace out to drugs" ~ wear crazy socks and tie dye
THURSDAY~ Put a cap on drugs ... wear fun hats
FRIDAY ~ Team up against drugs ... wear your favorite sports team
We will create a torn tissue pumpkin this week that will hang in the main display case by the office for the month of November. Check out our pumpkin patch when you get a chance!
Just a reminder . . . Please do not allow your child to bring or wear his or her Halloween costume to school on Friday. Hair dyes and face paints are also not allowed during the school day.
Family Fun Night is this Saturday, the 30th from 5:00-8:00 p.m. The children are encouraged to wear Halloween costumes for this awesome event. There will be prizes for costumes, games and activities set up in various classrooms, and a great Fuddruckers meal available for $6.00. Come and join the FUN!!! I hope to see you there!!
October 18th - 20th
Our letter this week is “Ss” and we will focus on story elements such as characters, setting, and story events. We will discuss the difference between fiction and non-fiction & real and make-believe. We will add two poems to our poetry binders and another phonics reader to our book boxes. These offer practice with known and predictable text as we improve our reading skills each day.
Text Talk ~ We will discuss six new vocabulary words this week that correspond with the story, "Edward the Emu". These words are:
amusing, gumption, mimic, detest, snarled, & content.
Word Wall ~ We are beginning to work daily with high-frequency words that appear often in print. By the end of kindergarten, we will have added 36 words to our word wall. I encourage you to practice these words with your child at home and to search for these words as you read together. Our word wall words so far are:
blue ~ is ~ like ~ red ~ yellow
Math ~ We will continue to work on reading, writing, and ordering numbers from 0-5. Additional study of ordinal numbers will complete our study of this chapter.
We will begin the Shining Star of the week next Monday. I will provide a blank template for you and your child to decorate when it is his or her shining star week. You may add photos, drawings, or anything else to the poster that your child would like.
Wednesday is an early out day and there is no school Thursday or Friday. Enjoy the long weekend and don’t forget to read with or to your child for 20 minutes each day.
Have a wonderful break and we’ll see you again next Monday!
Text Talk ~ We will discuss six new vocabulary words this week that correspond with the story, "Edward the Emu". These words are:
amusing, gumption, mimic, detest, snarled, & content.
Word Wall ~ We are beginning to work daily with high-frequency words that appear often in print. By the end of kindergarten, we will have added 36 words to our word wall. I encourage you to practice these words with your child at home and to search for these words as you read together. Our word wall words so far are:
blue ~ is ~ like ~ red ~ yellow
Math ~ We will continue to work on reading, writing, and ordering numbers from 0-5. Additional study of ordinal numbers will complete our study of this chapter.
We will begin the Shining Star of the week next Monday. I will provide a blank template for you and your child to decorate when it is his or her shining star week. You may add photos, drawings, or anything else to the poster that your child would like.
Wednesday is an early out day and there is no school Thursday or Friday. Enjoy the long weekend and don’t forget to read with or to your child for 20 minutes each day.
Have a wonderful break and we’ll see you again next Monday!
October 11th ~ 15th
Our letter this week is "Rr" and we will practice letter formation and the phoneme associated with this letter. We will study and discuss naming words (nouns), and the children will write in their journals, add another phonics reader to their book boxes, and add two poems to their poetry binders. We will continue interactive writing about our favorite colors.
Math ~ We will focus on reading, writing, and ordering the numbers from 0-5. We will also learn about ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.). The children will work in their math journals again as we practice and reinforce concepts learned in class.
Bus Safety ~ We will learn about bus safety on Tuesday and the lesson culminates in a bus ride "field trip" around town. During the bus ride, we practice bus safety and evacuation procedures. The kids love to ride the bus and enjoy the opportunity to check out the emergency exit at the back. We will create a bus craft this week to remind us about bus safety.
Buddies ~ We will meet with our buddies again this Friday and the big kids will read to the kindergartners. The kids will have brand new library books for the buddies to read and they really enjoy building friendships with these older kids.
Mark you calendars for November 3rd and 4th. This is when we will be conducting our first parent/teacher conferences. More information is in the Wednesday Watch this week.
Scholastic Book Orders ~ Please have these back to school by Tuesday and I will place the order Tuesday evening. Reading is the cornerstone of successful learning and building your home library is a great way to instill in your child a love for reading!
Have a great week ~
Math ~ We will focus on reading, writing, and ordering the numbers from 0-5. We will also learn about ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.). The children will work in their math journals again as we practice and reinforce concepts learned in class.
Bus Safety ~ We will learn about bus safety on Tuesday and the lesson culminates in a bus ride "field trip" around town. During the bus ride, we practice bus safety and evacuation procedures. The kids love to ride the bus and enjoy the opportunity to check out the emergency exit at the back. We will create a bus craft this week to remind us about bus safety.
Buddies ~ We will meet with our buddies again this Friday and the big kids will read to the kindergartners. The kids will have brand new library books for the buddies to read and they really enjoy building friendships with these older kids.
Mark you calendars for November 3rd and 4th. This is when we will be conducting our first parent/teacher conferences. More information is in the Wednesday Watch this week.
Scholastic Book Orders ~ Please have these back to school by Tuesday and I will place the order Tuesday evening. Reading is the cornerstone of successful learning and building your home library is a great way to instill in your child a love for reading!
Have a great week ~
October 4th ~ 8th
It was certainly a beautiful weekend and I hope you enjoyed some sunshine and fun!
We will begin focusing on one letter per week, working with things like letter sounds and proper letter formation. Each week will also include various literacy concepts to reinforce early reading skills. Our letter this week is "Mm" and this letter will be the focus during show-and-tell on Thursday. We will work with rhyming words ~ hearing and producing them, as well as interactive writing where the kids and I share the pen as we put our thoughts in written form. We will read the story, "Cat's Colors" and we will continue to work with color words. We will write in our journals as we explore letters, words, and literacy concepts. Phonics readers are small reproducible books that contain the concepts we are working on each week. We will begin reading these books together this week and the children will keep these book in their book boxes for browsing during our classroom library literacy center.
We are beginning to work with high frequency words, or sight words. These words appear often in print and they are words we want early readers to immediately recognize to enhance fluency and comprehension. Our first word wall words are "like" and "is".
Math ~ We are beginning the study of individual numbers and will work with the numbers 1-5. We will practice counting, early addition and subtraction, as well as proper number formation. We will begin math journals this week and will use these journals to reinforce math concepts we are learning. I will share these with you during our first parent/teacher conference time in early November.
Poetry Binders ~ Each week we will add 1-2 poems to our poetry binders and we will search for letters and words. These poems contain familiar text and will provide a great collection of poems and nursery rhymes for summer reading.
Art ~ The children will create a fall tree with leaves created by finger painting.
Scholastic Book Order ~ I am enclosing our first Scholastic Book Order of the year in the Wednesday Watch this week. This provides a wonderful opportunity to purchase inexpensive books to bolster your home library. The children love to receive new books and I encourage you to read with your child for 20-minutes each evening. This models fluent reading and encourages a love for books and reading. Review the order forms and return them by Tuesday October 12th with checks made payable to Scholastic. Book orders generally arrive within 2 weeks.
We will meet with our Buddy Class again this week and the children are really looking forward to it. It is so fun to have a connection with some of the "big kids" on the other wing of our building.
Friday is individual picture day ~ so remember to return the picture packets and send your child to school with a bright smile!
Have a great week ~ thank you for sharing your little treasure with me each day!
We will begin focusing on one letter per week, working with things like letter sounds and proper letter formation. Each week will also include various literacy concepts to reinforce early reading skills. Our letter this week is "Mm" and this letter will be the focus during show-and-tell on Thursday. We will work with rhyming words ~ hearing and producing them, as well as interactive writing where the kids and I share the pen as we put our thoughts in written form. We will read the story, "Cat's Colors" and we will continue to work with color words. We will write in our journals as we explore letters, words, and literacy concepts. Phonics readers are small reproducible books that contain the concepts we are working on each week. We will begin reading these books together this week and the children will keep these book in their book boxes for browsing during our classroom library literacy center.
We are beginning to work with high frequency words, or sight words. These words appear often in print and they are words we want early readers to immediately recognize to enhance fluency and comprehension. Our first word wall words are "like" and "is".
Math ~ We are beginning the study of individual numbers and will work with the numbers 1-5. We will practice counting, early addition and subtraction, as well as proper number formation. We will begin math journals this week and will use these journals to reinforce math concepts we are learning. I will share these with you during our first parent/teacher conference time in early November.
Poetry Binders ~ Each week we will add 1-2 poems to our poetry binders and we will search for letters and words. These poems contain familiar text and will provide a great collection of poems and nursery rhymes for summer reading.
Art ~ The children will create a fall tree with leaves created by finger painting.
Scholastic Book Order ~ I am enclosing our first Scholastic Book Order of the year in the Wednesday Watch this week. This provides a wonderful opportunity to purchase inexpensive books to bolster your home library. The children love to receive new books and I encourage you to read with your child for 20-minutes each evening. This models fluent reading and encourages a love for books and reading. Review the order forms and return them by Tuesday October 12th with checks made payable to Scholastic. Book orders generally arrive within 2 weeks.
We will meet with our Buddy Class again this week and the children are really looking forward to it. It is so fun to have a connection with some of the "big kids" on the other wing of our building.
Friday is individual picture day ~ so remember to return the picture packets and send your child to school with a bright smile!
Have a great week ~ thank you for sharing your little treasure with me each day!
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About Mrs. Beatty
I teach kindergarten at Poly Drive Elementary and just love the days that I spend with the little ones! I have been married to my high school sweetheart for 27 years and we have two boys. Josh is 22 and lives in San Diego, CA. He married the love of his life this summer and we were thrilled to welcome Jessica to our family. Our son Tyler is 18 and attends Skyview. He was very proud to be the Best Man in his brother's wedding. We have a pet box turtle named Tortuga. I love to volunteer at our church, spend time outdoors with my family ~ especially camping, and I LOVE to read and learn new things!
Blessings ~ Mrs. Beatty
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Blessings ~ Mrs. Beatty
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