Kindergarten Weekly Newsletter

Week of Oct. 1- 5, 2018

Important Reminders:

·        PTO Meeting tonight (Monday) @ 6pm in the gym. Please come. PTO membership is $5.00 per family. You may send this to school or pay at meeting to join the PTO.

·        Zoo Trip Reminder- trip is set for Wed. Oct. 10^th. All parents are encouraged to meet us at the zoo to enjoy the day with our classes. Cost per student is $18.00 and needs to be paid by Oct. 9^th. A permission form will come home in folders this week to sign for your child to be able to ride the bus with us. We will be taking a school sack lunch for every student and we will provide a snack for them to have that morning before we view the zoo.

·        Please remember to sign behavior planners and check folders daily. There may be things to be signed and returned along with work samples, etc.

·        Please remember to read each night with your child. Nursery rhymes are great to start with.

·        Please remember to study alphabet letters, sounds, and sight words each night.

·        More information on the back of this letter. Thanks

This week:

Reading- Our new story for the week is Flowers. Our focus letter for the week is Aa and its sound in the beginning and middle of words. Comparing and contrasting is the skill we will also be working on.

Math—we are finishing up the chapter about comparing numbers 0-5 and will be taking our end of chapter test. We will then begin a new chapter on representing, counting and writing numbers 6 through 9.

Below are all of the sight words that we have introduced thus far. Please review them each night with your child. We go over them daily in class also. We will be taking our test on these on Friday.

I        am         a     to     the     little       red    

blue       yellow   green      orange     purple     brown      

black     white   gray    pink     zero     one     two    

three     four     five       have        is

Please remember that our newsletters and other important info. is on our school website @ goshenelem.com

Kindergarten Weekly Newsletter

Sept. 24- 28, 2019

Important Reminders:

·        Candy Sales ended today (Mon.)- if you forgot to send in the order and money it must come in tomorrow (Tues.).

·        Zoo Trip is planned for Wed. Oct. 10^th. Begin sending in the $18.00 for the trip as soon as possible. All money needs to be paid by Oct. 9^th. All parents are invited to attend, but you must ride your vehicle or carpool with other parents. You will pay your own admission and train ride money there yourself. We will send a student permission form home soon for you to sign for your child. We will be taking sack lunches that day also and a snack for the students.

·        Picture Day is Tues. Sept. 25^th. Dress for the occasion and be sure you have a big smile!

·         Breakfast- If your child is a car rider please get them to school before 7:25 so that they have time to go to breakfast. There are lots of students eating breakfast this year and that is great, but they need to be here in time to do so, since the tardy bell to class rings at 7:35. The lunchroom and principals are trying to work out the kinks to make it run smoother so that kids can get to class on time.

·         Sight word test will be coming home by Tues. to be signed and returned. There will be 3 new words added this week: white, gray, and pink.

This week:

Reading- Our new story is Dig, Dig, Digging and our focus letter for the week is Tt and its sound in words. Our skill is classifying and categorizing. Review all letters each night and practice pointing at letters in their own name and spell it out loud, this will help them learn that many letters.

This Week:

Math—We are still working with numbers 0 through 5 and comparing them. We are picking greater than and less than when two numbers are given or objects are counted.

Below you will see all 23 words that will be tested on Friday. Please continue to go over these at night. The list will continue to grow each week until we get to all 106 sight words.

I         am     a       to       the     little

red     blue     yellow     green

Orange       purple     brown     black

white       gray     pink     zero       one

two     three   four     five    

Kindergarten Newsletter for Week of

Sept. 17-21 2018

Important Reminders:

·        Sign planners every night. Read every night and study sight words, numbers, etc. Sign any papers that need to be returned.

·        Choc. Sales end on Sept. 24^th. All money and order form due then. The chocolates will be delivered to the school to pick up by parents on Oct. 11^th which is report card conference day.

·         Zoo Trip- is planned for Wed. Oct. 10^th. Please begin sending in the $18.00 (pays for admission, train ride, driver & mileage for the bus). You may begin paying for this trip as soon as possible. Deadline to pay is Oct. 9^th.   We will be taking a sack school lunch for all the kids. Parents may attend, but you will need to ride your own vehicle and pay your admission when you get there. Please go ahead and mark your calendars for this trip!

·         Fall School Picture Day will be Oct. 25th

This week:

Reading—We are on the story Smash Crash. Our focus letter for all week is the letter Mm and its sound. Our skill is characters. The following words will be tested this Friday, please study these each night with your child, we review them in class daily also.

I     am   red   blue   yellow   orange   green   purple   brown   black   one   two   three   four   five   the     little   to   a

Math—we are finishing the chapter on numbers 0-5 and the children will be taking a test to see what they have learned from the lessons taught. We will then begin a chapter on comparing numbers (greater than, less than) for number up to 5.

Weekly Newsletter for Kindergarten

Sept. 10- 14, 2018

Important Reminders:

·         PTO is tonight at 6pm in the gym. Please come!!!

·         Our candy sales kickoff begins Wednesday. Paperwork coming home with order form in it.

·         Please remember to sign the planners every night and return any papers marked to return with signatures, etc.

·         Thanks to all of the parents that have already sent in paper towels, shaving cream, baby wipes, sanitizer etc. These items can be sent in any time. Thanks so much again!!!!!

·         Remember ice cream is sold on Fridays for $1.00.

·         Progress reports will come home on Thursday. Please sign and return it by Monday.

This week:

Reading—our story this week is Miss Bindergarten Takes a Field Trip. The letters Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy and Zz will all be gone over this week and tested on Friday. The following words will also be tested: I   am  red   blue   yellow     orange   green   purple     brown   black   one   two   three   four   five   the   little

Kindergarten Newsletter for Week of Sept. 3-7, 2018

Important Reminders:

·         All kindergarten field trip t-shirt $ was due today (4^th). If you failed to send by today, send first thing in the morning, since we had a day off.

·         There will be a PTO meeting on the 10^th at 6:00 pm in the gym. We encourage all parents to attend and join the PTO and help make plans for our Fall Festival, etc. All money raised with PTO is used for our students throughout the year at GES.

·         Planners are coming home starting today and they will must be signed and returned in book bags daily, just like the behavior calendar was for the month of August. This is a daily notice if your child had a good day or not with their behavior.

·         Please remember to sign all test papers and anything else marked sign and return.

·         The book fair will be going on all week in the library. Please put money for it in a separate envelope or zip lock bag with your child’s name and amount they can spend labeled book fair.

·         Remember ice cream sales are on Fridays for $1.00 instead of regular snack being sold.

·         Fill out and return Grandparents form. Tell all grandparents they are to go to gym @ 1:00 (not our classroom) and they will be dismissed from there to come to the room.

This week:

Reading—Our story this week is Plaidypus Lost. Our focus skill is sequence of story events. Our letters that will be tested on Friday are: Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr and Ss. We review the whole alphabet daily and each letters sound. Please review at home also. The words that will be tested on Friday are: I   am   one   two   three   four   five   the   little   red   blue   yellow   orange   green     purple.

Math-- We are continuing to work on the numbers 1 through 5. The students should be recognizing the number, writing it and recognizing the spelling of the word. We will also be working on how to get 5 (ex. 1 and 4 =5, 2 and 3 =5, etc.). Shortly they will also be ordering numbers 1-5 also. If your child is having trouble recognizing these numbers, please review at home in a fun way. If they have access to computers, etc. there are some very age appropriate games to play to help them recognize, count up to 5.

Parents please join us for our annual Title 1 Parent Night on Monday, Aug. 27, 2018 at 6:00 pm in the Goshen Elem. School Library.  This meeting will inform our parents about Title 1 funding, Title 1 Compact for Learning and our Parent Involvement Plan.

Kindergarten Newsletter for

week of Aug. 20- 24, 2018

Important Reminders

* Please remember to sign the behavior calendar every night and return in their folders. We did get our planners in but we are going to wait till Sept. to start marking those for behavior. We will finish with the August calendars first!!

* We need paper towels, cheap foam shaving cream, hand sanitizer and baby wipes for activities in our classroom. If you could pick up some when you are out shopping to send in it would be greatly appreciated.

* Field Trip t-shirt money $12.00 for students and $14.00 for parents if you wish to purchase is due by Sept. 1st.

* New words to work on this week are:

I am red blue yellow

This Week:

Reading—we will be quickly introducing the alphabet letters Aa- Ee this week. Please review these at home, but don’t stress if they are having trouble. We throw all 26 letters out there quickly and then go back and spend a week or more on each later. We are also introducing words that they need to start recognizing. We will take a little test each Friday just to see what letters and words they know.

Math- Today we started our first chapter about numbers 1 through 5. We will learn how to write the number, count objects for the number and work on recognizing the name of the number also

Kindergarten Newsletter for

Week of Aug. 13- 17, 2019

Important Reminders:

* Sign the behavior calendar every day and return in the daily folder. This is one of our communication tools to help with discipline.

* Clean out work samples sent home unless it is marked to sign and return it.

* We will begin pressing our lunch/breakfast numbers in the morning. If you have not practiced with your child, please do so.

* T-shirt money- $12.00. We wear these shirts on all of our field trips, so we would like for everyone to purchase one. Deadline to order is Sept. 1st. Make checks payable to GES. Parents may order also.

* Forms- If we are missing any forms on your child we will send those home this week also. Please fill out ASAP and return in the daily folder to us.

* Behavior- For the most part things are going really well in Kindergarten- yeah!! However, we do have some children that are having trouble keeping their hands to themselves which is against school rules (to hit, pinch, etc.) We have told them all that if someone is bothering them to let the teacher know, before they hit and we will take care of it. Once they have hit before telling a teacher, then they are in trouble also. Please go over this at home also. We do not want any children hitting each other. Thanks for your help with this situation if your child is bringing home straight or sad faces and it says hitting, etc