Hello Kindergarten Griffins!
Once again, thank you for your support as our scholars work hard to improve their pencil grips, remember the Spalding clock for the direction their pencil moves, and learn to write letters with Spalding formations. Please be sure to carefully review the handwriting homework that is coming home in your child's take home folder this week. An adult should recite the letter formation. The student should say the phonogram sound(s) as they write. Please watch their writing to ensure they are working on pencil grip, starting and stopping at the correct spots, and finger spacing between formations. We do not erase in Spalding, so have your scholar do their best and try again 'next door' on the next formation.
Another thing to continue practicing is number formation, as we have started to take off half points for incorrect formation and backwards letters. Also practice having your child recognize numbers and counting as they point.
Important Weekly News:
- Library- please make sure your child brings their book back every week, so they are able to check out a new book each week.
- KA and KB will go every Tuesday.
- KC and KD will go every Wednesday.
- SOW/DOI rubrics will go home this week in the Weekly Graded Work folder. Place sign and return the attached sheet along with any other tests/papers with a parent signature stamp in the black folder.
This Week
Math Skills
- Number Sense (Handwriting of numbers 0-8)
- Count Objects in Groups of 6 to 10
- Identify Groups of Objects
- Track Objects When Counting
- Chapter 2 Assessment, Tuesday (9/17)
Language Arts Skills
- Spalding Phonograms: i, j, k, l
- Identify letter names
- Isolating sounds in words
- Identify phonogram sounds
- Identifying rhyming words
- Letter formation/pencil grip, writing phonograms on paper
- Distinguishing upper and lower case letters; naming letters
Literature
- Story Map: Identifying characters, setting, events, theme
- Emotional Appeal
- Sequencing Events
Virtue
Core Saying
Poetry
History/Science
- Constitution Day
- Listening to the preamble
- Discussing what a rule is
- Science
- Finish Unit on Five Senses with Unit Assessment on Wednesday (9/18)
- History
- Christopher Columbus
- What is an Explorer?
Homework Reminders
- Be sure to read daily for 20 minutes; 100 minutes this week. Reading Logs will be collected on Monday next week. Please record on the Reading Log page. If you miss a night, please record 0 minutes and initial rather than leaving it blank.
- Spalding handwriting practice. One phonogram is practiced (5x per line) each night.
- Memorize poem by Friday!
Upcoming Assessments
- Math Assessment (counting and writing numbers 0-5) - Tuesday, Sept. 17
- Science Assessment (5 Senses) - Wednesday, Sept. 18
- Spalding Phonogram Assessment – Friday, Sept. 16: Students will identify phonograms read aloud to them.
Upcoming Events
- Sept. 13 ~ Early Release
- Sept. 20 ~ Early Release
- Sept. 27 ~ Early Release; Spirit Day
