MRS. ANDREA H. DAVIS
Weekly Newsletter
October 9, 2015
THEME: All About Me
UNIT: Pets
Key Measure: My pets depend on me.
Dear Parents,
We had a great time with our Pets unit this week. It’s really been fun
hearing about our different classmate's pets. Next week we’ll move right into our
unit on Fall Harvest. Please send two apples, any variety and color, with your child
on Monday or Tuesday, after fall break.
LANGUAGE ARTS
LISTENING: At the Listening center, we heard the book on tape, Give the Dog a
Bone. We watched our first Lollipop Dragon filmstrip about being kind to pets and
other animals. We could watch the film again at the listening center as one of the
many ‘book on tape’ choices.
SPEAKING: The students will gain valuable oral presentation skills while sharing
their pet posters with the class. They are beginning to acquire experience asking
questions that pertain to the topic.
PHONEMIC AWARENESS AND PHONICS: As we listen to the big book Allie’s
Adventure, we are decoding what we hear to find the beginning sound of the
pictures on each page. Ask your child what kind of pet Allie is (cat) and what her
owner’s name is (Zack).
WRITING: The students heard the book Cookie’s Week about a pesky pet cat.
We are focusing on making our own drawings representational…no rainbow cats or
green mice…unless we are making a FICTION illustration.
READING: The students made the book Be Kind to Furry Friends by cutting and
putting the pages in numerical order. As part of our reading practice, your child
will be getting to borrow a little canvas bag with 3 books called “Star Readers.”
The bag of books will come home in your child’s backpack (starting after fall
break). Read the books with your child until he/she is comfortable with them.
You can keep them a day or longer if your child is enjoying reading them.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Cooperative working and playing is a big goal in Kindergarten! Five and six year olds
love to make friends, but sometimes don’t know how to keep them. We are learning
to use I-messages to tell people what we want them to know, instead of “tattling”
on them before talking to them about what happened. It’s OK to “tattle” when a
child won’t stop doing something to you AFTER s/he has received an I-message.
We are practicing looking the person in the eyes and using their name when giving
an I- message. We practice this every day :) I make a big deal about having LOTS
of friends in the Kindergarten class, which hopefully diffuses only playing with one
friend and excluding others. Let me know if your child is struggling with this.
MATH
We are graphing the different pets that we have at home and we are recording the
results on a bar graph. We measured and recorded lots of things in the classroom
using a favorite dog snack, bones.
SCIENCE
We learned that dogs and cats can be registered and that they must have shots,
just like people, to keep them from getting diseases. Ask your child what you call
the doctor who takes care of animals.
ART
VISUAL: We made cats and dogs at the art table.
MUSICAL: Ask your child to sing you the song “Rags.”
MOVEMENT & DRAMATIC PLAY: We moved around the room to the record
“Sammy.” Sammy pretends to be different animals and the kids acted those out.
FYI
th
October 14 Conference Day - No school
October 15th & 16th Fall Break - No school
Thursday, Oct 22nd, reader is K. WORKMAN - 8:30-8:55. Bring 3-4 books
Teacher Collaboration (LATE START FOR STUDENTS) is Thursday, Oct 29th.
Kids can come at 10:20. School starts at 10:40.
Friday, Oct 30th the whole school is dressing up as a BOOK character of your
choice. More details to follow.
Our 50th Day of Kindergarten Celebration – Tuesday, Nov 3rd. Please dress your
kiddo in some type of 50's attire. PLEASE don't feel like you have to buy an outfit!!! Some great
ideas for dressing up are jeans rolled up, cardigans, bobby socks, Ked type shoes, pony tails, denim
jackets, white t-shirts, etc.
It will be a fun day and we will take lots of pictures!!! Thanks for allowing your child to participate
in this fun extension of our curriculum!
Have a great weekend!
Andrea Davis