Week of Feb. 1-5

 

Our 100th Day of School will be Wednesday, February 3, 2020.  We will celebrate with lots of fun, hands-on activities and crafts. 

101st Day of School!

Thursday, February 4th, we will celebrate the101st Day of School by dressing up like dalmatian puppies from 101 Dalmatians!  Be creative, and have fun putting a puppy costume together!  If your child chooses not to dress up, they must wear their school uniform.

Valentine’s Exchange

Friday, February 14, 2020, the K5 classes will have a Valentine’s card exchange.  If your child would like to bring in a card for his/her friends, please be sure to send in one for each person in the class.  You may have your child write his/her name beside “from” and leave the “to” blank, or if your child wants to send out specific valentines, he/she may fill in the “to” blank.  (Contact your child’s teacher for a list of specific names.) Here are the number of students in each class:

        Childers:  15     Dixon: 15     Holbrook: 15 Kulp: 8

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING IN…

Bible - David and Goliath

Phonics - Identifying the sounds of the consonant digraphs ch, wh, th, ph and sh in given words.

Reading - Winter themed books integrated with Science and writing objectives.

Math - Greater than, less than and equal number symbols. Counting to 100 by 1’s, 5’s and 10’s.  Counting by 2’s to 30.

Social Studies/Science- Hibernation, Migration and Adaptation of animals for the winter season.

February 11th-15th- Winter Break- NO SCHOOL

February 24th- end of  2nd Trimester 

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING IN…

Bible - David and Goliath

Phonics - Identifying the sounds of the consonant digraphs ch, wh, th, ph and sh in given words.

Reading - Winter themed books integrated with Science and writing objectives.

Math - Greater than, less than and equal number symbols. Counting to 100 by 1’s, 5’s and 10’s.  Counting by 2’s to 30.

Social Studies/Science- Hibernation, Migration and Adaptation of animals for the winter season.

Create Opportunities for Independence- By Dr. Robyn Silverman for KnowMore.tv

Encourage Progress, Process and Effort

It's easy to get into the habit of praising or rewarding your child's results. For example, "I'm so proud you got an A!" or "You get 10 dollars for every A on your report card." But when we do this, we put the focus on results rather than progress and improvement. Children can then feel like they must do whatever it takes to get the best grade -- even if it means turning to you for help or resorting to cheating. Instead, praise your children for the effort they put in, the work it took to get their grade or the improvement you see in their results because of their work ethic and persistence. When we reward our children for the action they take rather than the results they achieve, they are more likely to do it again and again -- and have faith in themselves.

 

Week of Jan. 25 - 29!

                              

Our 100th Day of School will be Wednesday, February 3, 2020.  We will celebrate with lots of fun, hands-on activities and crafts.  If you are interested in donating supplies for our  celebration, watch for an email coming out early this week.

101st Day of School!

Thursday, February 4th, we will celebrate the 101st Day of School by dressing up like dalmatian puppies from 101 Dalmatians!  Be creative, and have fun putting a puppy costume together!   

Raz-Kids is coming soon to Kindergarten!

“Raz-Kids is an award-winning teaching product that provides comprehensive leveled reading resources for students. With hundreds of eBooks offered at 29 different levels of reading difficulty, it's easy to put the right content in every student's hands.

Kids access their leveled text through an interactive learning portal designed to keep them motivated and engaged. Every eBook is available in online and mobile formats, and allows students to listen to, read at their own pace, and record themselves reading. Students then take a corresponding eQuiz complete with an extended answer response to test comprehension and determine future instruction needs. Once a child has read ten or more of the leveled eBooks and passed each of the corresponding eQuizzes, they advance on to the next reading level where they have access to lengthier and more difficult text.”

Raz-Kids will be used in the classroom and at home to increase reading fluency.  Teachers are now in the process of setting up Kindergarten students for this program. Be on the lookout for information in your child’s Daily Folder.  We know your child will love this program!

Important K-5 Dates:

February 3rd- 100th day for K-5

February 4th- 101st day of school for K-5

February 11th-15th- Winter Break- NO SCHOOL

February 24th- end of  2nd Trimester

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING IN...

Bible - Samuel anoints David.

Phonics - Identifying the sounds of the consonant digraphs ch, wh, th, ph and sh in given words.

Reading - Winter themed books integrated with Science and writing objectives.

Math - Greater than, less than and equal number recognition. Counting to 100 by 1’s, 5’s and 10’s.  Counting by 2’s to 30.

Social Studies/Science- Exploring the Winter season.

    

    

             

 

Raz-Kids is coming soon to Kindergarten!

“Raz-Kids is an award-winning teaching product that provides comprehensive leveled reading resources for students. With hundreds of eBooks offered at 29 different levels of reading difficulty, it's easy to put the right content in every student's hands.

Kids access their leveled text through an interactive learning portal designed to keep them motivated and engaged. Every eBook is available in online and mobile formats, and allows students to listen to, read at their own pace, and record themselves reading. Students then take a corresponding eQuiz complete with an extended answer response to test comprehension and determine future instruction needs. Once a child has read ten or more of the leveled eBooks and passed each of the corresponding eQuizzes, they advance on to the next reading level where they have access to lengthier and more difficult text.”

Raz-Kids will be used in the classroom and at home to increase reading fluency.  Teachers are now in the process of setting up Kindergarten students for this program. Be on the lookout for information in your child’s Daily Folder.  We know your child will love this program!

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING IN...

Bible - The life of David

Phonics - Reading words with the digraphs ch, wh, th, ph, and sh.

Reading - Rhyming Words

Math - Place Value, Counting by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's to 100
Science - Winter

Create Opportunities for Independence- By Dr. Robyn Silverman for KnowMore.tv

While your children are young, allow them to take initiative: Let them pick out their own clothes (even if they don't match), make their bed (even if the sheets looks rumpled), water the plants (provide a towel for spills) or set the table (even if they sometimes forget the forks). These small tasks show kids that they can be effective on their own. As they get older, give them more responsibilities and step back. Without standing over them, allow them to make a salad, put away the groceries and get themselves ready for bed. We want our children to practice low-stake tasks on their own so that when the stakes are higher, they will have both the skills and the faith in themselves to move forward confidently.

For the week of Jan 11-15

                                         

Welcome Back and Happy New Year!!

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas Break!  

Sight Words, Sight Words, Sight Words!!!

If your child has still not earned his/her Superman and Spiderman brag tags, please continue to practice daily.  Over the next few weeks, we will be playing lots of games and doing many fun activities to practice sight words.

We will be working to earn the Wonder Woman brag tag, somewhere
near the end of January.  Keep working hard!  The following website has
many great ideas for practicing sight words at home:
http://www.sightwords.com/sight-words/games/

REMINDERS

• School starts promptly at 8:00 AM!  Please try to get your child to school as close to 7:45 as possible.  This allows plenty of time to unpack and use the restroom before class begins.  If your child arrives before 7:45, please send them to the Lower School Cafeteria for Early Care.
• Please send in a warm coat or jacket for those cold days.   Don’t forget to label it!
• Every Friday we add new sight words for the upcoming week to the card ring.  This enables you to practice the words over the weekend with your child.  Please remember to send the sight word cards back to school on Friday morning.
• Please continue practicing the following skills at home with your child:  counting to 100 by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s and blending CVC words.

Don’t forget...Monday, January 18th is MLK Day!  This is a school holiday.

Don’t forget...Monday, January 18th is MLK Day!  This is a school holiday.

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING IN…

Bible - Samson

Phonics - Consonant Digraphs (ch and wh)

Reading - Rhyming Words

Math - Counting orally by 1’s, 2’s, 5s and 10s to 100, and
numbers to 50

Social Studies/Science:  Winter