Our class is awesome!!

To learn more about our classmates,

we are doing

"Student of the Week".

McKinley

Each day we will let the "student of the week" share a little bit about themselves.

On Fridays, the "student of the week" will have the opportunity to bring in a show-n-tell.

Something that is very special to them to show and talk about with the class.

Mrs. Austin and I are excited to celebrate each student in our classroom.

Reading Homework

We only have 9 weeks left of school!! Wow!

For this last 9 weeks, your child will be bringing home a reader in a plastic baggie. They may be able to read or not read the words. The reader is being sent home to cover a range of skills we have been working on in the class. It is not just about reading the words, especially for those who are not quite ready to read. Please take a few moments to read with your child. This will help them build a solid reading foundation!!

Your child may read the book with any other reader (it does not have to be you).

Once they have read or been read to (and discussed) (3x for shorter books and 1x for longer books), please color the square on the new yellow reading log in your child's binder. Once I see that a new square has been colored, I will send home a new reader. I hope that each child will read at least 10 books by the end of Kindergarten.

List of some skills to focus on:

• Following words left to right, top to bottom, page by page
• Rhyming words
• Digraphs - sh, ch, th, wh, ck, ng
• Sight words
• Ask and answer questions about words in the book
• Retell the story
• Tell the topic (what the book is about)
• Tell the central idea (most important idea in the book)
• Tell key details (information about the topic)
• Spell words from the book

If your child has an older sibling at White Oak and they would like to be a mystery reader, please EMAIL me to let me know and I will work out a time with their homeroom teacher!!

Thanks to all those who have already read and have signed up to read!

REMEMBER TO KEEP IT A SECRET!

Keep practicing the level your child brought home in their binder last week.
Have them say the problems out loud and write them.

TICKING FOR FLUENCY - WOW...the class is rockin' it! Keep working on them at home.

Students are tested every Friday.

ELA:

• Author Study - Eric Carle
• Word Families
• Beginning, Middle and End of stories
• CCVC words (ex. shop, chat)
• Long vowels
• Digraphs sh, ch, th, ck, -ng, wh
• "e", "o", "i", "u" and "a" Word Families
• Phonemic awareness - letter recognition, rhyming, beginning sounds, blending sounds, counting syllables
• Recognizing and writing letters in your name (they are working hard) - Working on formation of letters
• Sight Words (Ticking for Fluency)
• CVC (consonant/vowel/consonant) words - Initial, medial vowel, final sounds

Math:

• Even and Odd Numbers
• Missing Addends
• Word Problems
• Addition and Subtraction
• Categorizing data
• Making 10
• Coins - penny, nickel, dime, quarter
• Counting by 1's and 10's
  
• Counting to 100
• Shapes and Properties
• Number writing - number formation
• Counting Backwards
• Teens Family

Science/Social Studies

• Plants
• Rocks & Soil

Hey everyone! The White Oak Garden Club is collecting plastic bags. They have partnered with NexTrex. They have ONE year to collect 1k pounds of plastic bags. If they meet that goal, a BENCH will be donated to the school! So have your students bring in those plastic bags you aren't using...Publix, Walmart, Target, Shein, etc.... THANK YOU!

1. Please pack a snack each day for your child.
2. Send a water bottle each day with only water inside.
3. Don't forget to check your child's agenda in their white binder everyday.
4. White binders go home every afternoon. Please return white binders every morning in your child's backpack.
5. Fridays are the only days kindergarten may buy ice cream. Ice cream is $1.50 (only exact change)

DON'T FORGET - On Fridays, if you send in ice cream money for your child, please send in EXACTLY $1.50.

When your child earns all 10, this is a big deal!! They have worked very hard for their reward!