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Scarlet and Gray Newsletter
November 30th to December 4th, 2015
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Volume 19, Issue 15
Monday
We did our ‘f’ page of our ‘Big and Little’ book. We
greeted classmates, said the pledge and our class
promise and did calendar. We sang our ‘Days of the
Week’ song and ‘Macarena Months’. We subitized
numbers to 10 in random placements, read our
popcorn words, did our ABC chart and ‘Action
Alphabet’. We reviewed the habits of thinkers. We
focused on hearing ending sounds when writing words.
Our kindergartner of the week shared his poster and
we wrote a sentence about him using shared writing.
We learned our new popcorn word ‘she’ and did
rainbow writing of it. We read our poem of the week,
‘Bingo’. We practiced doing some literacy workshop
stations in preparation for beginning reading groups
next week. We had recess. In small groups, we dug
deeper to explore each author we’ve studied so far
this year (Kevin Henkes, Mo Willems and Norman
Bridwell).
Wednesday
We did our ‘h’ page of our ‘Big and Little’
book. We then greeted one another, said the
pledge, sang ‘My Country ‘Tis of Thee’, said
our class promise and did calendar. We did
our ABC chart and ‘Action Alphabet’. We
counted to 100 by fives and tens and read
our popcorn words. We reviewed the six
habits of thinkers. Our kindergartner of the
week brought something for us to estimate
and we listened for ending sounds as wrote a
sentence about him using shared writing. We
did shared reading and read I Accept You As
You Are and It’s Okay to Be Different. We had
recess. We read Clifford’s First Snow Day and
sequenced five of the pictures from the book.
Tuesday
We did our ‘g’ page of our ‘Big and Little’ book. We
then greeted our friends. We read My Country ‘Tis of
Thee and practiced singing it, said our class promise
and did calendar. We did our ABC chart and ‘Action
Alphabet’. We counted to 100 by ones and read our
popcorn words. We reviewed the six habits of thinkers.
Our kindergartner of the week brought something for
us to estimate and we listened for ending sounds as
wrote a sentence about him using shared writing. We
read Whoever You Are, This is the Way We Go to
School and My Family, Your Family, all about children
around the world. We had indoor recess. We read our
last riddle in Clifford’s Riddles. We did shared reading
and read Cookie’s Week by our December author and
illustrator, Tomie dePaola. We learned a new math
word, ‘total’.
Thursday
We did our ‘i’ page of our ‘Big and Little’ book. We then
greeted classmates. We sang ‘My Country ‘Tis of
Thee’, said our class promise and did calendar. We did
our ABC chart and ‘Action Alphabet’. We counted
backwards from 20, subitized ten frames and read our
popcorn words. We reviewed the habits of thinkers. Our
(PM) kindergartner of the week shared something for
Social Studies and we listened for ending sounds as
we wrote a sentence about him using shared writing.
Then we each wrote a page about him on our own. We
read Tom by Tomie dePaola. The AM class practiced
literacy workshop stations. We had recess. We read,
highlighted popcorn words in and illustrated our poem
of the week. We read This is the Way We Eat Our
Lunch. The PM class had library.
Friday
We practiced writing our numbers 6-10. We then greeted classmates, sang My Country ‘Tis of Thee, said our class
promise and did calendar. We counted on from three different numbers and read our popcorn words. We did our
ABC chart and ‘Action Alphabet’. We reviewed the six habits of thinkers. We read The Baby Sister by Tomie
dePaola. We highlighted the popcorn words in and read ‘He Said No’. We did shared reading and read Hello! (which
taught us how to say hello in different languages) and Can You Count Ten Toes? , which taught us to count in ten
languages (along with native speaking students from our class). We had recess. We did fitness. We read the first
chapter of 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola. We did ‘Pete the Cat’ math where we rolled dice and colored
the corresponding numbers.
Dear Parents,
Contact Info:
Voicemail:
760-6298
E-MAIL:
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dublinschools.net
REMINDERS:
MONDAY:
Homework Due
A DAY: Library Books
Due
FRIDAY:
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•
Wear Tennis
shoes for
Fitness
Book Pockets
Due
• PLEASE
REMEMBER TO
STORE LIBRARY
BOOKS AND
BOOK
POCKETS IN
BOOKBAGS TO
PREVENT LOSS
OR DAMAGE.
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See us at:
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Your child brought home their book pocket today. Please read through
the colored sheet for specific instructions on how you can best help your
child practice their books each night. By next Friday, please sign the
white sheet next to the title and date of each book indicating that they
did, in fact, practice daily or nightly, and return the book pocket to
school. Just as with the library books, please have them keep these in
their backpacks when they aren’t reading them so they always have them
at school when they need them and they don’t get damaged or lost. We
discussed that memorizing the book or ‘reading with your eyes closed’ is
not really reading so we need to point under each word as we read.
Library books are typically read to kindergartners by parents but book
pocket books are to read by kindergartners to parents. It’s so
exciting to watch our young readers bloom!
If you are interested in the latest information on redistricting for
the 2016-17 school year, it is available at this site:
http://www.dublinschools.net/k8redistricting2015.aspx
Upcoming Dates:
December 18th - Holiday Parties
December 21st to January 1st – Winter Break – No School
January 13th – Parent’s Night
January 15th + 18th – No School – Teacher Workday and Martin Luther King
Day
January 11th to 22nd – Country/Culture Presentations
February ???- 100th Day of Kindergarten
February 15th – No School – President’s Day
February 17th – Father’s Night #2
February 17th to 25th – Round #2 Newsminutes
Thanks to our volunteers this week: Mrs. Gilliam, Mrs. Smialek, Mrs. Harden, Mrs.
Nosek, and Mr. White.
Have an amazing weekend! I’m hoping for some football chaos!
Vianne