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6/1 - 6/4 Week at a Glance

Please send a drink for lunch, no more milk is being ordered. If you sent in cash to us we will send it back. Thank you.

Mrs. Shelley Zabroske, Teacher
Mrs. Marcia Connell, Aide
Mrs. Gina Bowman, Aide

Morning Meeting

During Morning Meeting the children are exposed to many math and language art concepts. We are counting by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's, using a bar graph and thermometer to keep track of the daily temperature, learning the names of coins and what they are worth, saying our coin poems to help us remember, tracking from left to right to get our eyes ready for reading, keeping a tally for school days, grouping popsicle sticks in 10's and 1's (one per day, we have 3 groups of 10 and 9 ones), learning simple patterns (ABC, ABCD, AB), place value (tens and ones), shapes, speaking in complete sentences, letter sounds, syllables, and rhymes. We started the 'Mystery Number' activity in December, the children turn around and I remove a number from our 1 - 100 counting chart and they have to tell which number is missing. The also have to say which strategy they used, e.g., counting by ones, counting by tens and then by ones, going down the column, or the before/after number.

We review the Word Wall words every morning. The words on the word wall are the color words, The, the, see, I, my, a, A, like, at, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, so, go, no, is, in, it, if, yes, that, they, am, an, can, and, my, me, he, she, be, we, look, like, said, are, you, have, do, to, did, come, for and the color words. The children should be reviewing their word wall words every night, it should only take a few minutes, many of them are sight words and can not be sounded out just memorized. The words should be kept in the zipper compartment of their folder.

Table Activities

Finding pictures to go with the beginning letters of the alphabet, writing the alphabet in squares on a large paper and gluing the pictures in alphabetical order. Memory Book activities. Guided Reading.

During shared reading the children are focusing on left to right eye movements, putting their finger under the print while reading, punctuation, rhyming, and predicting rhymes, detail questions, inference questions

Blending consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words, e.g., c-a-t.

Guided reading with Mrs. Zabroske (3 - 5) times a week

Listening for beginning for medial sounds, blending syllables, rhyming, abc order, shared reading, oral comprehension, blending words with sound boxes, the 'an' word family, pan, Dan, fan, tan, etc., blending onset and rimes (for the word 'sand', 's' is the onset and 'and' is the rime), listening to poems and finding letter sounds. The children will be getting increased sight words. I am going to give them words that rhyme and I recommend that you start out practicing them in the rhyming group, for example, 'so, go, no' and 'he, be, me, she.' Phoneme segmentation, say 'mop' and then have the child break apart the individual sounds, /m/ /o/ /p/. Syllable deletion, ask the child to say 'running' without the 'ing'

See if you child can match upper case to lower case letters, play rhyming games, clap out the syllables in words and break apart a word into the basic phonemes, e.g., /c/ /a/ /t/ to see if your child can guess the word, have your child use a highlighter to find letters/words in a newspaper or catalog, point out to them 3 sequences of an activity you may be doing (first, next, last), play visual memory games, show your child 4 to 7 objects, have them hide their eyes and take one away for them to guess

Monday, 6/1 - No School, Memorial Day Holiday

Tuesday, 6/1 - Gym

Wednesday, 6/2 - No Library

Thursday, 6/3- Computer Class, Hot Lunch

Friday, 6/4 - Last Day of School for Kindergarten

KB Notes

Thank you to all the parents and grandparents that helped to make our Letterland Celebration a great success! The children seemed to really enjoy themselves.

I am going to start a Reading Incentive Program in the classroom. Your child's folder will have a sheet of paper for you to initial stating that you, an older sibling, or another adult read a book to your child or your child read a book to an adult or an older sibling. The goal would be for your child to be read to/or your child read to someone every day. I am going to put a chart up in the room for the children to keep a tally of how many books they have read or someone has read to them. For each group of 5 they will receive a star.

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If you have any questions you can e-mail me at szabroske@sjsmch.org or call the school at 766-2564 and leave message.

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