Kindergarten News
Jan. 4-8, 2010

Weekly Theme:
Winter/
Antarctica


Please ask your child to tell you his/her address, phone number and birthday!


JANUARY

Thank you so very much for the nice gifts, cards and remembrances. I appreciate each of you and your thoughtfulness!

Happy New Year! I hope that you had an enjoyable and relaxing Christmas holiday. January will be a great learning time for us in kindergarten. Your children are progressing nicely. Thanks for your support at home. Please send back the December reading calendar by Wednesday for the free pizza certificate. Remember the minimum goal for kindergarten is 15 minutes a night, 5 nights a week, which includes when someone reads to them and when they read to someone.

This week we will start a unit on Antarctica and oceans. It will be exciting to learn about this strange and beautiful place. We will also be reviewing skills in preparation for the next DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) assessment. These skills include letter recognition, beginning sounds, nonsense words (for example: ig, xup, taf) and segmenting words (for example, the tester says, “Tell me each sound you hear in “hat” and the student would say /h/a/t. Each segment of the assessment is also timed for fluency. The sight words we will learn this week are: we, run. We will continue to practice recognizing and writing the numbers 11-20 and have lots of writing experiences.

Thanks again for all you do to help ensure your child is having a successful school experience. You truly make such a difference!

linda.wood@ironmail.org
ginger.ekker@ironmail.org
586-2850