Newsletter 11-8-13

Mrs.
Swales Love-Bug Weekly Learnings

November 8th, 20 !
*honi&s an" *honemi& +wareness

We play with sounds every day& This helps children gain e!perience and comfort with how our language works for reading and writing. This week for our morning work, we sorted words that start with 'm( and end with 'm( and other letter)sounds. The focus is to attend to the beginning A*+ ending of small words, really listening to the sounds. ,ou can practice this at home by finding pictures on line and printing them -map, man, moon, ram, zoom, gum.. ,our child should be able to sort these words and write them as well. /0EAT 10A2T$2E&
Math $ %ri&ky %eens

This week in math, the children learned the game roll and record. To play, the child rolls the dice and records the number rolled in the correct number column on the graph. New vo&abulary' &olumn, row, gra(h, "ata, more, less. )or those that nee"e" a &hallenge, they rolle" two "i&e an" a""e" the numbers. We analyzed our graphs looking at which number was rolled more, less, and all while practicing correct number formation. The children also became authors and illustrators for math, making their own counting books after reading and reviewing many published versions.
Blen"ing an" Segmenting Soun"s

An important skill in becoming a strong reader, writer is to be able to blend unknown sounds to make a word quickly for reading fluency. This takes practice. In book reading, we have the support of the content and the pictures of the book so we can think about what makes sense to help us with the unknown word. To improve fluent letter/sound knowledge we also practice with small nonsense words out of the context of a book. Write these words on a whiteboard or paper and have your child audiate the letters and then read the word. Cip seg lov waj So many important early reading fluency skills are learned with this practice !ou could even make flashcards to practice reading unknown words quickly
Share" #ea"ing
This week we read the books Animal Babies and What Animals Eat. Both were a nice selection of non fiction te!t. The first book gave us some new vocabulary" calf, grassland, cub, pup, #oey, foal. The second selection had predictable te!t so by the second reading, the children were able to use their reading strategies to us the picture cues and get their mouths started to read. $ also made little copies for the children to bring home in their pack and read bags so you hopefully were able to see their reading in action. The children are also starting to nocite our sight words within the books we are reading together which is great. The purpose for learning the sight words is so the children need not stop to decode but rather know them very %uickly for reading and writing.
Classroom Newsletter
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November 8th, !"#
Writers Worksho(
3o far we have covered the following4 A picture tells a story, writing the first sounds of words, writing the first and last sounds, a sentence has words, spaces, and a period -still learning other types of punctuation as children area ready.. This weeks focus was list writing. The purpose is for children to focus on writing all the sounds they hear in words. We read the book, The 5irst Thanksgiving and made a class list of what the 1ilgrims were thankful for. The children independently made a list of what they are thankful for today. We talked about past and present and compared. We read the book, There Was an 6ld 7ady Who 3wallowed a 1ie. As a class, we made a list of all the food items she ate in the story. $ndependently, the children made lists for what they would eat for their Thanksgiving dinner.
Weather 2hanges and 0ecess

As the days continue to get colder, please remember to send your child in warm clothing for recess time. The climber can get very cold on little hands. 6ur hallway is very congested with two kindergarten classes hanging all of their belongings. $ will be teaching the children to put their hats and mittens into their coat sleeve, and then hanging their coat. Backpacks will be emptied at the beginning of the day and placed in a bin out of the way to create more space on the hooks for coats and soon snow pants. 1lease remember to label all clothing.
,lassroom -.(e&tations
Behavior and social learning are #ust as important as academic learning in kindergarten. $ am helping children learn to be independent dressers with winter clothes, hanging coats and backpacks, taking care of backpack materials, cleaning up their table spaces and keeping our room in good order. We are learning to do the right thing even when others may not. We are learning to raise our hand and not shout out. There are too many of us to all shout out our ideas like we may do at home. We are learning to not interrupt when another person is talking. 7ately, we have been missing our free play time at the end of the day because many children are 'playing( and not noticing what needs to be cleaned up before we start our free time. $ am telling the children -love and logic. that $ want them to play but the clock tells the time and that $ cannot change. $ give reminders and do clock checks but it is taking some practice. We are working on two things ?.cleaning up %uietly ;. making sure the room is clean before we sit down. ,ou may wish to talk with your child about our plan and see how it is going each day.
)rien"shi( )east
We will have a classroom family thanksgiving on Tuesday, *ovember ;<th in the afternoon. 1lease send in a labeled baggie of nut free snack item. We will combine our snacks for a friendship snack mi!. We will invite our friends from 8s. Tatum=s class ne!t door to share in our feast. We will play games and celebrate what we have to be thankful for and what the 1ilgrims of the past were thankful for as well. 1lease send in your snack item by 8onday *ovember ;>th.
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Weekly S&he"ule
With warm regards, 8elissa 3wales 3wales9mr:elps.us

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Swales Love-Bug Weekly Learnings

honi&s an" honemi& +wareness

Math $ %ri&ky %eens

Blen"ing an" Segmenting Soun"s

$ove %ug $earnings

November 8th, !"#

Weather 2hanges and 0ecess

With warm regards, 8elissa 3wales 3wales9mr:elps.us

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