Week of January 16th -20th Letter Nn

January 16, 2017

Dear Parents, 
I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend! Please sign and send back your child's report card envelope. The report card is yours to keep.

This  week we are going to be working with the letter Nn. The vocabulary words that we are going to be focusing on are: nail, necklace, noodles, nest, napkin, nine, newspaper, numbers, nuts, nurse, net, neck, needle, noise, and nose.

If you have any items at home that begin with this letter, send them over with your child and we will be discussing them in class, we will display them on a table and we will return them back on Friday. The kids get excited to bring things from home.

Some stories that we are going to be reading with the children are:

Nate is the nicest newt in the neighborhood. We will find out what happens when he decides to be naughty!!!

It's a rainy afternoon and Granny is snoring on the bed in a cozy room. A child crawls on top of her and dreams. Gradually, the pile increases with a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, a slumbering mouse and finally a wakeful flea who, by biting the mouse, sets off a chain of events which results in a broken pile and even a broken bed.

This is a wonderful little story about two birds who decide that they no longer like their old house and go on a quest to find a new house. However every house they find is either occupied or has hidden traps.

 The sight words that we are going to continue working with this week are: but,not like, my, we. Please take 15 minutes every day to practice them at home with your child. It is very important for all of them to recognize all the sight words we have covered in class so far. Once they can recognize sight words it is going to be a lot easier for them to read books. The following link is a nice and fun game to practice these words. http://www.fun4thebrain.com/English/popcornFinal.swf

In Math we will continue counting by 10's and 5's up to 100. We will be creating and interpreting bar graphs, and the concept of After. We will begin introducing addition.

It is hard to believe that the 100th day of school is quickly approaching and so it is time for us to start planning the festivities. We will celebrate the 100th day of school on Friday, January 27^th. We would like child to create a “100 Day of School Project.” For this, they need to create a project with 100 items. They can  use any item and display their project in any way. Their project should be in school on Wednesday, JANUARY 25^th. These projects will be displayed as a 100th day Museum for other children to come and visit. Pinterest has tons of ideas.Some items that you may want to use are pennies, cotton balls, q-tips, dot stickers, legos, popsicle sticks, wiggly eyes, buttons, etc. These are  examples of what you can come up with:

Children will be graded on their project. We will be using the following rubric:

Homework 

Tuesday 

IXL E.1 

https://www.ixl.com/math/kindergarten/count-to-30


 Wednesday 

IXL E5

https://www.ixl.com/math/kindergarten/number-lines-up-to-30

Monday - Thursday

Reading A-Z  Please have your child read at least 10minutes per day