Kindergarten News
August 30-September 3, 2010

Weekly Theme:
“All About Me”/Self-Esteem

Save your Box Tops!
Please remember to send in box tops with your child. Each box top is worth 10 cents for our school, so tell your relatives and friends to help with the collecting too! Help our class earn a reward by bringing the box tops in.

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER

We are very excited for our first week of school! We will be doing lots of fun, educational activities throughout the week. We will spend two days on each letter of the alphabet. The first day we will talk about the letter, its sound and how to write it correctly. We will also do one page in our alphabet book. The second day we will learn a poem and draw an object beginning with that letter in our “I Can Draw It” books.

We will also be working on our “All About Me” books. Be sure to ask your child to see their great work when these books are completed next week. Of course, math concepts and other areas of the curriculum will be interspersed with our learning.

We will send a Scholastic book order in your child’s homework folder tomorrow. If you are interested in purchasing books, please make one check to Scholastic Books and return the money and order form by Tues., Sept. 7th.

Thank you for your support. If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us!
linda.wood@ironmail.org
ginger.ekker@ironmail.org
586-2850

Kindergarten News
August 17, 2010

Weekly Theme:
“All About Me”/Self-Esteem

Literacy Idea
Sing the alphabet song. Be creative—sing it as a rap, skip every other letter, sing quietly, loudly, or backwards.

AUGUST

We are so excited that you will be a part of our kindergarten family this year! We will have a great experience as we work together to ensure academic and social growth, development and success for your child.
Our core curriculum contains a multitude of skills necessary for a five-year olds academic and social development. We will be engaged in literacy skills, math concepts, computer skills, life skills, science, social studies and physical education experiences.
Please feel free to call or email with any questions or concerns you may have. We appreciate your support and look forward to meeting with each of you!

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

Kindergarten News
May 17-21

Weekly Theme:
Review

Literacy Idea
Provide “real” reasons to write: letters, lists, cards, journals, etc.

MAY

Thank you for attending our Kindergarten Program. Your support is greatly appreciated and your children are wonderful!

Thank you also to those who volunteered to help with Field Day next Monday. We will begin at 9:30 for the morning class and 1:30 for the afternoon class.

Our Field Trip to Park Discovery will be on Tuesday, May 25th. Please watch for the permission slip to come home with additional information in your child’s homework folder.

The last day of school is Friday, May 28th. On that day, both morning and afternoon classes will meet from 8:50-10:30/10:40. From past experience it works much more smoothly if we dismiss the AM students at 10:30 and the PM students at 10:40. All PM classes need to be picked up in the kindergarten classroom. The buses will not be running for the PM students. There is no Extended-Day on that day. We need to do it this way in order to allow all students the chance to meet their 1st Grade teachers. We appreciate you changing your schedules accordingly. Have a great week and please feel free to call or email with any questions or concerns.

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

Kindergarten News
May 10-14

Weekly Theme:
Insects

End of Year Program

Remember our program on Thursday, May 13th at 6:00 for the AM class and 7:00 for the PM class!

MAY

Once again, the time continues to go by so quickly! All take home and school library books need to be returned by Thursday, May 13th.

The students are excited to present the Kindergarten program on May 13th. If your child is in the morning class, please have him/her meet in the school library at 5:45. The afternoon class will meet in the library at 6:45. The morning class will perform at 6:00 PM and the afternoon class will perform at 7:00 PM in the school gym. Please dress your child in Sunday clothes if possible.

The last day of school is Friday, May 28th. On that day, both morning and afternoon classes will meet from 8:50-10:30/10:40. From past experience it works much more smoothly if we dismiss the AM students at 10:30 and the PM students at 10:40. All PM classes need to be picked up in the kindergarten classroom. The buses will not be running for the PM students. There is no Extended-Day on that day. We need to do it this way in order to allow all students the chance to meet their 1st Grade teachers. We appreciate you changing your schedules accordingly. Have a great week and please feel free to call or email with any questions or concerns.

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

Kindergarten News
May 3-7

Weekly Theme:
Time

We will be doing DIBELS and Kindergarten Assessment Testing the next two weeks. If your child will be gone during this time, please contact me ASAP!!

MAY

Wow, the end of the year is coming so quickly! All take home and school library books need to be returned by Thursday, May 13th. The students are excited to present the Kindergarten program on May 13th. If your child is in the morning class, please have him/her meet in the school library at 5:45. The afternoon class will meet in the library at 6:45. The morning class will perform at 6:00 PM and the afternoon class will perform at 7:00 PM in the school gym. Please dress your child in Sunday clothes if possible.

The last day of school is Friday, May 28th. On that day, both morning and afternoon classes will meet from 8:50-10:30/10:40. From past experience it works much more smoothly if we dismiss the AM students at 10:30 and the PM students at 10:40. All PM classes need to be picked up in the kindergarten classroom. The buses will not be running for the PM students. There is no Extended-Day on that day. We need to do it this way in order to allow all students the chance to meet their 1st Grade teachers. We appreciate you changing your schedules accordingly. Have a great week and please feel free to call or email with any questions or concerns.

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

Kindergarten News
April 26-30

Weekly Theme:
Time

Help your child develop good comprehension skills
• Talk with him/her about the story and pictures
• Have him/her predict what a story will be about
• Have him/her retell the important parts of the story

April

We are working hard at end-of-level testing, DIBELS, and the kindergarten program. Thanks for your continued help and support! This time of year it is needed perhaps the very most. Please keep up the daily reading. It is so exciting to see the progress of each child! We will continue to practice and review skills that will give your kindergartner the opportunity to be successful in first grade.

The students are excited to present the Kindergarten program on May 13th. It will be held in the school gym. If your child is in the morning class, please have him/her meet in the school library at 5:45. The afternoon class will meet in the library at 6:45. The kids are great performers and are doing well learning their speaking and singing parts.

Have a great week and please feel free to call or email with any questions or concerns. Thank you!

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

Kindergarten News
April 19-23

Weekly Theme:
Vowels

Help your child develop good comprehension skills
• Talk with him/her about the story and pictures
• Have him/her predict what a story will be about
• Have him/her retell the important parts of the story

April

Thanks for all you do at home to help with your child’s education. I appreciate your support! Keep up the great work with the leveled books and the homework!

We will be testing your child beginning the first part of May for DIBELS, Kindergarten Assessment, and current reading levels. I encourage you to look over your child’s assessment from 3rd quarter and review with him/her any items that have an “N” by them. The 4th quarter assessment covers the following skills:
• Predicting what a story is about by looking at the pictures
• Retelling a story including beginning, middle and end
• Creating a series of 3 rhyming words (ten, hen, men) for example
• Reading all 25 kindergarten sight words
• Writing a story with a picture (including capital, spaces, and ending mark)
• Subtraction to 5
• Naming days of the week in order
• Identifying parts of a calendar
• Time/Money

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