Mrs. Palmieri

Kindergarten

Mrs. Danielle Palmieri

2012-2013

5/07/13

FYI

May 10, 2013 is our Basket Bingo. Please try to come out and support our school.

EARLY DISMISSAL DAY is on May 8, 2013

The 100 book club, "Popcorn for Books" will end on May 10, 2013. All of your recording sheets need to be in by May 14, 2013. The children that read 100 or more books will receive a t-shirt. Thanks for participating!

Book Swap is May 18 and it will be our last one of the year.

AIMS WEB benchmark testing will be given the week of the 13th.

Field Day is on May 24, 2013. You should have received two pink papers regarding this event. Let me know if you did not receive them. PTO has purchased t-shirts for this event for our class. Thanks again PTO!

HOMEWORK

HOMEWORK- The May homework packet was missing its first page. I sent that page home in your child's Falcon Folder. Hopefully, it will make it home. If not, let me know!

Scholastic BOOK CLUB- April/May Orders will be submitted by May 5th. This will be our last order for the year. So, please use your coupons before the expire! I strongly recommend the Guided Reading leveled books. Your child should start reading more to you, and these books are appropriate for them.

SS/Science

Season of Spring, Earth Day, BUGS & Frogs, plants

Ways to Learn Through Play!

Worksheets are not the only way children learn.

Write with chalk outside
Use bath crayons or markers to practice writing
Build words, letters or names using food (pretzel sticks, Skittles)
Let children have a journal to draw and write in
Make words in sand or out of play-doh
Play word bowling-Write words or numbers on empty plastic bottles and let children bowl over the words. Make students read the words they knocked down.
Play flashcard basketball-Students name the words or number correctly and they will get to take a shot. See who can rack up the most points.
Play "I" spy words
Have a word, letter, or number scavenger hunt

LA/ReadingTheme: BUGS PHONEMIC AWARENESS: Rhyming, Onset & Rhyme, Segmenting & Blending COMPREHENSION SKILLS: Visualize, Making Connections, Predictions, Synthesizing, Inference, Determining Importance, Questioning PHONICS: decoding CVC words VOCABULARY: Opposites, Number Words, Describing Words WRITING: Opinion Writing, using end marks, proper spacing, and Upper Case Letters at the beginning of a sentence Kidwriting Crowns: Spy of My, Wiz of Is, King of ing, Duh of The, Star of Are, Hand of And, Gent of Went, Dove of Of, Head of Said

** HIGH-FREQUENCY: a, I, my, see, the, like, are, to, and, go, for, said, he, she, here, have, you, with, look

*Decodable Text & Leveled Readers will be coming home after we use them in school. Please have your child read them!

Reading Fluency

The goal is to improve students reading fluency. When you receive a fluency paper in your child's folder, have them practice. Put the timer on 1 minute and have your child read the letters left to right. See how many letters they can say in 1 minute. Continue this activity and see if your child can beat their previous time. If your child has mastered letter naming fluency, try letter sound fluency. Use the same format except students name the sounds as fast as the can for 1 minute. These simple 1 minutes drills will help your child be a better reader. PSF (phoneme sound fluency) is measured by giving the student a word verbally. They have to segment the word back, for example, I might say the word "back." They would have to say /b/,/a/,/ck/, to receive 3 points.

MATH

Numbers Recognition, Rote Counting 1 to 50, Calender, Patterns, Teen Numbers, Counting by 5's & 10's, Adding quantities, Number stories, One-to-One Correspondence, Tally Marks, Number Words, Sorting, Comparing numbers

What Words Can I Practice with my Kindergartner?

Kindergarten Sight Vocabulary

a, I, see, my, like, are, the, is, here, and, go, said, to, for, play, he, she, was, have, you, of, look, with (tested)

Color and Number Words

red, yellow, green, orange, blue, black, brown, white, pink, purple, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten (not tested)


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