Happy New Year! We are off to a great start. We’ve already been working on ending sounds and spelling simple words. This is usually the time of year when all the things we spent the first half of the year working on starts to “click” and it starts coming together. It is very exciting to see! I hope you are noticing at home how much they are learning to read and write sentences!
Report cards come home today. Please send back the signature card and the brown envelope on Tuesday.
Next week we will be working on the letter F. Please send in pictures for our dictionaries. We will continue talking about winter and reading lots of fun winter stories.
Our classroom is sometimes cool, so please be sure your child is dressed for cold weather. And just a reminder, we do go out every day if the temperature is above 40 degrees. Please be sure your child has outdoor clothing too.
No school on Monday, January 16 as we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Looking ahead.… January 27 is the 100th day of school. This is always a big event in Kindergarten! You might want to start now helping your child start a collection of 100 items. This is usually displayed on a paper, poster board or in a zip lock bag. Some typical ideas are 100 cheerios, 100 pennies, 100 stickers etc.; but we always love to see the other creative ideas that students come up with! If you can display them in sets of 10, it helps your child learn to count by 10's and helps them to understand how many 100 is! More on this later.
I hope everyone has a great long weekend—stay warm!
