Trunk or Treat Reminders

Here are a few reminders about Trunk or Treat and other Festivities for tomorrow!

Times:

1:00-1:30   Snacks socializing and fun on the kindergarten playground (families are welcome)

1:30-1:45   Trunk or Treat (families are welcome to come and watch)

1:45 Back to the classroom

2:25-3:15 Library

*Students may wear costumes to school (masks are fine, no weapons, please make sure your child is able to use the restroom)

*If you haven't signed up to bring treats for the party, feel free to send something in (no nuts of any kind including almond milk, peanuts, and peanut oil or peanut butter)

Thanks for all that you do.  It's going to be a great day!

We're Not Afraid in Kindergarten!

Reading Group Books  This week your child will bring home a plastic bag with his or her reading group book and sight word book.  Please make sure that these bags are returned to school every day.  I recommend practicing the book and sight words and then immediately putting it right back into your child's folder on the Return to School side.  This is our first week, so some students might come home with books that are a little too easy, but that's okay.  As we move along I will assess your child's reading level and place him or her in the appropriate level book.  

What We are Learning…

Thematic Big Book/Shared Reading: This week we will read and retell the story The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything.  We will compare the Little Old Day to characters in other stories.  Our shared reading poem is called Jack-O-Happy

Phonics:  We will practice handwriting, letter sounds and using letters and sounds to spell and read words.  This week we will focus on the letters Tt and Cc. 

Sight Words: Our new sight word this week are HE and SHE.

Daily Five: This week we will rotate through our Daily Five centers in small groups.  During class students will get a chance to read independently and with a buddy, they will listen to stories, work with words and work on writing.

Writing: This week we will practice reading, writing and tracking print. We are working on adding words to our writing, even if we are only able to write the beginning sound of each word. 

Math: This week we will complete our unit on numbers 0-10, we will play lots of fun games to practice counting and working with numbers. 
Science: On Fridays (or the last day of the week) we will begin our day with science.  This month is called Sink or Float.  This week we will explore why different objects are able to sink or float.  

Costume Day/Trunk or Treat/Party

Save the Date

Picture Make-Up Day- Wednesday, October 26th

No School- Friday, October 28th

Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast/Performance- Tentatively scheduled for Friday, November 18th at 1:30 PM.

Kindergarten Caroling- Tentatively scheduled for Friday, December 16th at 1:30 PM.

Spirit Days

Friday, October 21st- College Day

Monday, October 31st- Costume Day, Trunk or Treat

Friday, November 18th-Twin Day

Friday, December 16th-Pajama Day/Santa Hat Day

Water Bottles

Please remember to send your child with a water bottle each day.  

Helpful Websites

Starfall

ABCYA

Discovery Kids

CoolMath4Kids

FunBrain

Donors Choose 

Are looking for a way to help our class?  We are looking for some additional seating options for our classroom.  Please consider donating to my Donors Choose project.

Thanks so much to all of the families who have already contributed, we are getting closer to meeting our goal!

Our Project

Have a great day!

:) Mrs. Kalnicki

We're Not Afraid in Kindergarten!

Reading Group Books  This week your child will bring home a plastic bag with his or her reading group book and sight word book.  Please make sure that these bags are returned to school every day.  I recommend practicing the book and sight words and then immediately putting it right back into your child's folder on the Return to School side.  This is our first week, so some students might come home with books that are a little too easy, but that's okay.  As we move along I will assess your child's reading level and place him or her in the appropriate level book.  

What We are Learning…

Thematic Big Book/Shared Reading: This week we will read and retell the story The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything.  We will compare the Little Old Day to characters in other stories.  Our shared reading poem is called Jack-O-Happy

Phonics:  We will practice handwriting, letter sounds and using letters and sounds to spell and read words.  This week we will focus on the letters Tt and Cc. 

Sight Words: Our new sight word this week are HE and SHE.

Daily Five: This week we will rotate through our Daily Five centers in small groups.  During class students will get a chance to read independently and with a buddy, they will listen to stories, work with words and work on writing.

Writing: This week we will practice reading, writing and tracking print. We are working on adding words to our writing, even if we are only able to write the beginning sound of each word. 

Math: This week we will complete our unit on numbers 0-10, we will play lots of fun games to practice counting and working with numbers. 
Science: On Fridays (or the last day of the week) we will begin our day with science.  This month is called Sink or Float.  This week we will explore why different objects are able to sink or float.  

Costume Day/Trunk or Treat/Party

Save the Date

Picture Make-Up Day- Wednesday, October 26th

No School- Friday, October 28th

Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast/Performance- Tentatively scheduled for Friday, November 18th at 1:30 PM.

Kindergarten Caroling- Tentatively scheduled for Friday, December 16th at 1:30 PM.

Spirit Days

Friday, October 21st- College Day

Monday, October 31st- Costume Day, Trunk or Treat

Friday, November 18th-Twin Day

Friday, December 16th-Pajama Day/Santa Hat Day

Water Bottles

Please remember to send your child with a water bottle each day.  

Helpful Websites

Starfall

ABCYA

Discovery Kids

CoolMath4Kids

FunBrain

Donors Choose 

Are looking for a way to help our class?  We are looking for some additional seating options for our classroom.  Please consider donating to my Donors Choose project.

Thanks so much to all of the families who have already contributed, we are getting closer to meeting our goal!

Our Project

Have a great day!

:) Mrs. Kalnicki

Fire Safety Week

National Board Certification
Today I will send home a release form asking that I be able to video tape lessons in class in order to obtain my National Board Certification.  The letter will have more details, but I would really appreciate your support!  The part to sign is on the back of the letter.  Thank you so much!

Homework
This week I will send home name writing practice in addition to our weekly poetry homework.  Please help your child practice writing his or her name using an uppercase letter for the first letter, and lowercase letters for the rest.  Please help your child write letters appropriately (not starting at the bottom).

Please remember that kindergarten age students should have about 15 minutes of homework each evening.  While some children do enjoy working for longer periods of time, we want to make sure that homework is not stressful for your child.  One trick might be to set a timer and let your child know that if he or she works really hard for 15 minutes, they will be done when the timer goes off.

I am really hoping that your child's kindergarten year can be one where he or she learns to love school.  


Free Dress
Thanks to their behavior in the lunchroom and during specials, our class has earned a free dress day!  So, we will have free dress this Friday!

Save the Date

Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast/Performance- Tentatively scheduled for Friday, November 18th at 1:30 PM.

Kindergarten Caroling- Tentatively scheduled for Friday, December 16th at 1:30 PM.

Spirit Days

Friday, October 21st- College Day

Monday, October 31st- Costume Day, Trunk or Treat

Friday, November 18th-Twin Day

Friday, December 16th-Pajama Day/Santa Hat Day

Water Bottles

Please remember to send your child with a water bottle each day.  

What We are Learning…

Thematic Big Book/Shared Reading: This week we will read lots of books about fire safety.  Our Big Book is called Fire! Fire! Said Mrs. McGuire. We'll have a Fire Safety talk on Tuesday from Smokey the Bear and our local fire station will come with their truck later this week!

Phonics: This week we will complete our classroom alphabet line.  We will then go back and re-visit each letter.  We will practice handwriting, letter sounds and using letters and sounds to spell and read words.  This week we will focus on the letters Mm and Ss. 

Sight Words: Our new sight word this week is SAID.

Daily Five: This week we will rotate through our Daily Five centers in small groups.  During class students will get a chance to read independently and with a buddy, they will listen to stories, work with words and work on writing.

Writing: We will continue to write teaching stories, we will stretch out words and write the sounds we hear to label our pictures.  We will focus on persevering even when words or pictures are difficult to write or draw. This week we will begin identifying our personal writing goals and working on these goals. 

Math: We will finish our unit on shapes and positional words.  We will begin working with numbers through ten and finding different ways to show the number 6.  An example of this would be 2 and 4, 1 and 5, 3 and 3.  At this point in the year we are not working with addition or subtraction symbols. 

Helpful Websites

Starfall

ABCYA

Discovery Kids

CoolMath4Kids

FunBrain

 

Donors Choose Are looking for a way to help our class?  We are looking for some additional seating options for our classroom.  Please consider donating to my Donors Choose project.  

Thanks so much to all of the families who have already contributed, we are getting closer to meeting our goal! 

 Our Project

Have a great day!

:) Mrs. Kalnicki

Teddy Bear Week

Monday

I will not be at school today, students will have a substitute.  If you need to change your child's transportation method please call the office.  I'm sure the kids will have a great day, they are really getting into the swing of things :).    


Homework

There is no poetry homework this week.  Instead we are asking you to decorate your Trick-or-Treater as a family project.  This should be a fun project that you complete with your child. 

Save the Date

Fun Run: The Fun Run will be Thursday, October 6th @ 9:30, you are all welcome to come and cheer on your runners!  We will vote on our class theme on Tuesday. 

Teddy Bear Picnic: Friday, October 7th (1:30-2:30 PM)- Please join us for our Teddy Bear Picnic, bring a blanket and a snack for your family and enjoy getting to know your child's classmates and families. Students may bring a teddy bear or stuffed animal to school on Friday.   Thanks!

Spirit Days

Friday, October 21st- College Day

Monday, October 31st- Costume Day, Trunk or Treat

Friday, November 18th-Twin Day

Friday, December 16th-Pajama Day/Santa Hat Day

Water Bottles

Please remember to send your child with a water bottle each day.  I do purchase some extra water bottles that children my "buy" with a beach buck, but there is a limited supply.  Thanks!

What We are Learning…

Big Book/Shared Reading: This week we will read lots of teddy bear themed stories.  Our focus story is Corduroy and our classroom poem is called Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear. Students may bring a Teddy Bear or stuffed animal to school on Friday. 

Phonics: We are working on creating our classroom alphabet book and alphabet wall.

Phonemic Awareness: We are working on rhyming, isolation, and syllables. 

Sight Words: Our new sight word this week is GO.

Daily Five: This week we will rotate through our Daily Five centers in small groups.  During class students will get a chance to read independently and with a buddy, they will listen to stories, work with words and work on writing.

Writing: We will continue to write teaching stories, we will stretch out words and write the sounds we hear to label our pictures.  We will focus on persevering even when words or pictures are difficult to write or draw.

Math: This week we will practice writing numeral 0-5, we will learn about positional words and 3 dimensional shapes. 

Helpful Websites

Starfall

ABCYA

Discovery Kids

CoolMath4Kids

FunBrain

 

Donors Choose Are looking for a way to help our class?  We are looking for some additional seating options for our classroom.  Please consider donating to my Donors Choose project.  

Thanks so much to all of the families who have already contributed, we are getting closer to meeting our goal! 

 Our Project

Have a great day!

:) Mrs. Kalnicki