Kindergarten Newsletter
Room 1
October 5, 2015
Mrs. Dowdell and Mrs. Copani
Ed Smith Vision Statement :
To be the most improved school in the district where every child learns and grows.
Classroom News
Thank you to all of the families
that were able to attend Open House last
Tuesday! It was a wonderful opportunity
to meet everyone and share information
as to what to expect in your child’s
kindergarten classroom this year. If you
were unable to attend, we sent home the
informational packets that were passed
out. Please read through them and let me
know if you have any questions.
This week is the first week of
homework! We send homework home on
Monday and would like it completed and
returned by Friday. We suggest that
your child do one page a day. For
homework they are practicing writing
numbers (with poems – they are on the
back of the newsletter) from 0 to 5. We
are sending home flash cards for your
child to practice so they can recognize
numbers to at least 10. They can use the
cards to practice number recognition,
putting the numbers in order and also
counting objects. If your child is already
fluent in recognizing numbers to 10, give
them one number and ask them what
number comes before that number and
what number comes after it. We would
also like your child to practice writing
his/or her name. Handwriting is hard
work. The more your child practices, the
better they will get!
Reminders
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If you have not already done so, please send in
$10.00 for your child’s snack. Thank you to
the families that have already contributed. 
School begins at 9:00. Breakfast is from 8:50
until 9:00. If your child would like to eat
breakfast, please have them here at 8:50. If your
child arrives after 9:00 he/she needs to get a
late pass from the office.
Please continue to work with your child to help
him/her master self help skills such as tying
shoes, zipping and buttoning jackets, etc.
Our weekly specials schedule
Monday – art
Tuesday – music
Wednesday – library
Thursday – gym
Friday – art
*Please remember to have you child wear sneakers on gym days.
Common Core Standards that we are working on
this week are:
* Readers answer questions (who, what, where,
when, how, why) to better understand the
story/nursery rhyme.
*Students can identify words that rhyme.
* Students hear and identify beginning sounds in
words (ex. What sounds do you hear at the
beginning of “fun”, “cat”, etc.)
* Math- students will name shapes (triangle,
rectangle, circle, square, rhombus, trapezoid,
hexagon) and colors and tell where they are - using
position words (above, below, beside, in front of,
behind, next to).
*students can count things at least to 10 and
recognize and write numbers at least to 5.