Spradley Kindergarten Week 5 Update

• Please empty and return student's white binders everyday. If items are in a sheet protector, please leave those items in the sheet protector.

• Help your students study for the two assessments this weeks:
• Math: reading, writing and representing 0-5
• ELAR: reading I, a, am, and like

• Wednesday: Wear yellow

• Friday: Wear Spradley Spirit wear

• Kindergarten parents may now come for lunch!

• You may sit with only your student at a designated parent table.

• Please only take pictures with your own child as other students could be on the No Photo list.

• Please remember that all kinder students are getting used to being away from home and some are still struggling with separation anxiety. If you feel your student will have difficulty separating from you after your lunch visit, please hold off coming for a few more weeks.

• We are also continuing to work on lunchroom procedures and routines. The Kinder Team would like to encourage all students to feed themselves, to open their own lunchbox items and to clean up after eating. Practice at home will promote these skills.

• Tuesday: Stautz and Schroeder
• Wednesday: Castillo and Kopenski
• Thursday: Scott

A safe place for your child to keep his or her library book is inside the backpack. This will ensure your child has it when it is time to check out a new book!

Please remind your child that water bottles should be placed away from library materials to avoid any damages.

ELAR:

• Phonics
• New High Frequency Words/Sight Words: the
• Review High Frequency Words/Sight Words: like, I, am, a *students will be assessed on these words this week
• Focus Letters: b, l, e, o
• Review Letters: m, a, t, s

• Writing

• Drawing detailed illustrations that help tell a story

• Handwriting
• Writing First and Last Name, Numeral Writing, Grip

Math:

• Reading, Writing and Representing 0-10 (students will be assessed 0-5 this week)
• Comparing numbers; One more/One less; Subitizing
• Counting to 30 by ones and tens

Social Studies:

• Rules for Technology, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Texas Pledge

Science:

• Properties of matter-Classifying objects by material, shape, color, size, and texture

Reading:

• Read books in Book Baggie
• Have your student track print by placing a finger under the words while reading
• Return books to the Book Baggie after reading

• Focus for September-Numeral Writing and Name Writing
• Students will be tested on writing numerals 0-5 this week
• 6-10 next week
• 6 and 9 cause the most confusion
• 10 is often mistakenly written as 01

Phonics:

• Read Week 2 "I Can Read" page (to be sent home Monday)
• Discuss which letters are vowels and which are consonants.
• Have students tell you the name of each letter and their associated sound
• Have students read words and sentences on the page.
• Have students find these letters and words in the books they are reading

The dictation sentence for this week is: I am Bob.

Ensure that you are reading the sentence aloud to your student and that your student is writing the sentence with a capital letter at the beginning and a period at the end.