Mrs. Johnson’s Newsletter

Week of 11/17/08

A Look Ahead:

Date Change: January 16th Testing Day moved to the 9th of January

 

Oct. 16- Nov. 26th       Please send in gently used mittens or hats to be collected for the channel 7 coat drive.

Nov 17                          Apple Award Nominations Due

Wed, Nov 19               Class Thankgiving Celebration: 1:00-2:00 pm.  Parents are encouraged to attend.  If you are bringing food, please come at 12:50ish to help set up or drop it off in the classroom at 12:15. 

Thurs, Nov 20             School Thanksgiving Luncheon:  Since our students do not eat lunch at the school, we will be having a class thanksgiving celebration on Wed.  (Feel free to participate in both activities if you would like.)

Nov 25                          Dress Down Day & Virtue Awards

Nov 26-28                    Thanksgiving Break

Dec. 17th                      ACS K-2 Winter program:   5:30-6:30p.m. in ACS gym. Children should arrive promptly to our classroom at 5:15, dressed in “holiday best”.

 

Important Information

 

~I will no longer be sending home a weekly behavior sheet, unless your child slips below a green.

 

This Week in Kindergarten:

Language Arts—We will be using the McGraw Hill “Treasures” curriculum for our language arts program.  This curriculum will focus on several areas each week.

          High Frequency Words: have

Phonemic Awareness: Sequence of sounds, word segmentation, recognizing rhyme, syllable blending, phoneme isolation and onset/rime blending

          Phonics: c sound and the letter c

          Comprehension:  making inferences

Our theme for this unit is Food and our book is called Our Special Sweet Potatoe Pie. 

Math—We will be using the Saxon Math curriculum for Kindergarten.  This month the curriculum will focus on identifying and counting pennies, ordering and writing money amounts to $0.10, reading and showing time to the hour, writing the numbers 8-10, matching a number card to a set of 1-10 objects, comparing objects by weight unsing a balance, creating and reading an ABB color pattern, and acting out story problems. 

Core—This month our focus in core is on NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLES PAST AND PRESENT, and PILGRIMS.

Virtue—Stewardship

Mrs. Johnson

PM Kindergarten

johnsonk@academycharter.org