Kindergarten News!
Happy Labor Day! I hope each of you enjoyed spending time with your families in the beautiful weather!
This week has gone by quickly! On Wednesday we celebrated red day! Next Wednesday will be orange day. We are finishing a beginning of the year literacy check called the ISEL (Illinois Snapshot of Early Literacy). We check for letter identification, sound recognition, matching initial sounds, and vocabulary.
We have started fundations and we are learning lowercase t,b, and f. Please have your child practice the names and sounds for these letters at home. We have also been practicing counting to 25 and writing our first names.
During shared reading this week we read ‘The Shape of Things’ and we are practicing being shape detectives by looking for shapes in our world. Today we walked through the playground to trace a square and rectangle and then we also made a circle and triangle. A few other shape words we are learning are: oval, trapezoid, parallelogram, and 3 dimensional. We learned that a sphere is 3 dimensional because it is not flat. We have also been counting the number of sides and corners a shape has.
For homework next week please have your child bring in one or more shapes from home and we are going to try to guess what they are. They can be 3 dimensional or flat. Please have your child bring them by Thursday. Thank you for your help!!
Just a few other notes…
- picture day is on Monday - Please have your child bring their picture envelope if they haven’t already if you are ordering pictures. There is an x here if I have an envelope from your child: ___
- orange day is on Wednesday
- library day is on Friday - We are excited to borrow new books from Mrs. Hickman!
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