October News-Mrs. Wilcox’s Class
Sept. 28-Oct. 2 Read: Dig Dig Digging, and Fire Safety books.
Oct. 5-9 Story-Armadillos Orange, Fire Safety, Pumpkins
Oct. 12-16 Story Animal Homes and Raccoons and Ripe corn, Skeleton/bones
Oct. 19-23 Story Spider books, Autumn/Fall books, Very Busy Spider, Itsy Bitsy
Spider
October 21st Early Release Day
Oct. 26-30 Story Honk Honk A story of migration, Big Green Monster, The Old
lady who was not afraid of anything.
Tues. Oct. 6-Show and tell letter F
Tues Oct. 13-Show and tell Letter G
Tues. Oct. 20- Show and tell Letter H
Tues. Oct. 27-Show and tell Letter I
High Frequency words – see, can, did, to, do, go, no, it, is, like, come, am, an,
and, we, me, my, the, I, did, she, he, in, on, up, have, yes, & you.
ELA- Tell about parts of a book, identify 16 letters, know 16 or more sounds of
letters and 24 sight words, have a conversations with others about text including
unknown words, & Draw a picture to share information about a book. Reading at
level RB.
Math- Tell where objects are using positional words, recognize and Writing
numbers to 5, say a number for each object I touch without touching any object
twice. –( 0-10 objects), I can sort objects-(no shapes) and then compare using
least to greatest. use words like big and little to talk about the size of
something, use words like long and short to talk about the length of something,
use words like heavy and light to talk about the weight of something, I can use
an attribute to sort groups, recognize, draw, & build flat shapes, Tell about
shapes in your world using positional words, rote count to 25, count a group of
objects and write the matching number up to 5, & add one more to a group and
tell how many there are.
Conference* If I have not yet conferenced with you please contact
me so we can set up a date and time.
wwilcox@iss.k12.nc.us
Class Ground Rules:
We will be Respectful
We will be Responsible
We will be Safe
To do this we promise to listen to our teachers, to be respectful by keeping our
hands to ourselves, to work together, and to try our best each day.
Kindergarten is planning our pumpkin carving event with Dads and a Letterland
parade. More information to be sent home soon!
Our students are making great improvements on their book and print
awareness skills. Here are some ideas of things you can practice with them
while you read together.
-Show me the first letter in a word
-Show me the last letter in a word.
-Put one letter between your pointer fingers
-Put two letters between your pointer fingers
-put one word between your pointer fingers
-put two words between your pointer fingers.
-what is the period for at the end of the sentence.
Ask questions about the story after you read it. Who are the characters, What is
the setting, Was there a problem in the story, How did they solve it, Tell the
order of events in the story (sequence), Did you like the story and why or why
not?