Week of October 18-22

Halloween Party Information
On Friday, October 29th, we will have our Halloween parade and party. Please have children come to school wearing their costumes and a change of clothes in their backpacks. Please do NOT have masks that cover faces and NO swords or other costume weapons. The parade will start roughly around 9:15am and our party will start when the parade ends. The party will go to 10:40 and we will then have children change and continue the rest of our day. If you would like to help, please contact our room parent Stephanie Perenyi at intouchwithsteph(at)hotmail.com.

Cold Season
Many of our children have sniffles and other signs of a cold. This is a friendly request for any hand sanitizer you would be willing to donate to the class to help prevent the spread of germs. Please be sure to model good hand washing at home (saying the Happy Birthday song while rubbing hands with soap and water), and how to catch sneezes and coughs in our elbows. And as always, if your child has a fever or signs of the flu, please keep them at home, thanks!

Class this Week
For our literacy centers, we introduced Learning Passports. Every child received their own passport and it was their responsibility to take this with them to their centers. They get a stamp for behaving well (on task, not yelling, etc.) and a stamp for finishing their work. I'm going to use these passports to reward the kids who work really hard and well together by granting special rewards. So please encourage your child to do their best to get as many stamps as they can!

The letter "i" was our letter of the week. So many activities revolved around this letter. In writing, children wrote about ice cream, igloos, and many other topics that begin with "i." In reading, we worked on really looking at beginning and end sounds in words, and how sounds in words help us read. Children listened closely to words to pick up on sounds. We also learned to count syllables in words and used clapping to find out how many syllables we hear. This will help kids with their fluency and to really listen to what sounds make up words. We are training our ears to really hear all the sounds! In math, we looked closely at shapes and what makes each shape special. Then kids had to find shapes, without looking, in a bag. So their fingers would have to walk the shape to find the certain kind I asked them to find. Next week, we will learn a new math game called Spin the Number.

Keep practicing letter names and sounds at home using flash cards! For kids ready to work on sight words, here is a link to a website that has the sight words that you can easy print out to make flash cards and find other grades too when they are ready for an extra challenge like first grade words!

http://www.kidzone.ws/dolch/kindergarten.htm

Have a great weekend!