Kindergarten News
Feb. 1-5

Weekly Theme:
Dental Health

Early Literacy Ideas
• Read rhymes, poetry, nursery rhymes and stories that “play” with language
• Sing songs together and do finger plays

February

Wow, it is hard to believe that February is already here! January was a very productive learning month for us. The DIBELS testing went well and we are now learning some first grade sight words. We have been working hard to master the 25 kindergarten sight words and the students are doing well with those. Our 3rd Quarter Kindergarten Assessment begins next week and will include the following skills:
• Identifying rhyming words
• Reading kindergarten sight words
• Writing last name
• Recognizing and writing numbers to 20
• Counting to 50
• Adding sums to 5
• Graphing

Please send your child’s January Reading Calendar back to school with your signature on it. Thank you to those who are reading to your child or having him/her read to you for at least 15 minutes a night, five nights a week. I can’t emphasize enough how important this is! Please also send the leveled library books back and forth each day.
Thanks for your continued help and support at home. We will continue to work on those skills not yet mastered and encourage you to do the same.

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