Just a Reminder:
CA Policy States:
Students will be taken outside for recess every day, weather permitting, above zero degrees Fahrenheit wind chill. When there is visible snow on the ground, snow pants, boots, hat, and mittens are required. Students who fail to bring adequate winter attire will be permitted to borrow gear from the lost and found. If there are no items available, they will be allowed a one-time pass to remain indoors, and a parent phone call will be made to provide the proper attire for the following day. Further unpreparedness will result in the student attending recess outdoors.
November through April we require that all students bring full winter gear (jackets, snow pants, boots, hat, and mittens).
Tuesday, November 24th, is going to be a fun-filled day, including College T-Shirt Day, Fall Party, OSA, Grandparents' Day and Book Fair. We will be having the Fall Party in the morning, from 9:30 - 11:00 am.
You will be receiving a flyer this afternoon, which will provide you with more details regarding Grandparents' Day. Please make sure you let me know, by Monday, November 23rd, if your Kindergartner will be going home with his/her grandparent(s).
NO SCHOOL Wednesday, November 25th - Friday, November 27th.
LITERATURE
The Story of Jumping Mouse Part 1 and Part 2
Tug of War
Focus: Characters and Setting
MATH
During the months of November and December students will work on the following skills:
· numbers 0-20 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)
· tally marks
· matching and sorting: shapes
· reviewing 2 -dimensional shapes
· patterns :ABC and ABB
· comparing, ordering, and measuring using non-standard units of measurement and with a ruler in inches
Throughout the year students will explore math through open-ended- problem solving journals, math stations, ipads/ipods, IXL, rekenreks, and a variety of math manipulatives.
HANDWRITING/WRITING
We are working on thinking like writers and getting our ideas on paper using pictures and words.
CORE KNOWLEDGE
Plants- kindergarteners will learn about the parts of a plant and what plants need to grow. We will be growing our own plants and completing an observation log.
