Mrs. Palmieri

Kindergarten

Mrs. Danielle Palmieri

2012-2013

5/28/13

FYI

Field Day is on May 24, 2013. PTO has purchased t-shirts for this event for our class. They will be handed out on Friday.

Kindergarten, Team A, will be in yellow. Located outside, there will be a sign out sheet for you to sign out your child. All of your child's belonging will be brought outside after lunch. You can sign out your child and take them whenever you want. Most outside activities are done by 1:30PM. It depends on how exhausted everyone feels!

Testing for our report card will take place the week after Memorial Day. Please review with your child.

Summer Birthday Celebrations will be celebrated. June birthdays will be celebrated on June 6, 2013. July birthdays will be celebrated on June 10, 2013. August birthdays will be celebrated on June 12, 2013. Remember we do have students will allergies. Please let me know what yo are sending in.

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-

SS/Science

BUGS & Frogs, Eric Carle

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: Author Study, Eric Carle 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:

** 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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