November 16th-

20th, 2009
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A Peek at the Week

Highlights!
- New Skills include: New Words to know:
Language Arts:
This week we will begin the –an family. We will learn
how words can change by deleting and adding a
different letter and sound at the beginning of a
word. Students have been working on the –at family Popcorn Words/High Frequency
and should have a good grasp of how a beginning First 9 week words:
sound can change a word. We are also working on the I, a, see, me, red, yellow, blue, green, can
Reading Strategy of Retelling a story. Students will do, orange, purple, the, brown, black, to, like,
learn how their hand can become a tool for retelling pink, white, we
as we work on the story of The Three Little Pigs. ______________________________________
Handwriting: Review: gray, go, my, you, am, is, yes, no, at, -at
Last week we worked on the letters Bb and Xx. This
family words (cat, sat, rat etc..), for, and
week we will do letter Pp and Ee.
Writer’s Workshop:
Our Concept books are almost complete. Ask New words this week: an, -an family words
your child what they picked to write about. We (fan, can, ran, etc..) are
had several concepts including, weather, seasons,
farm animals, clothes, wild animals and even
furniture chosen by your children. They are
beginning to do better with stretching out their
words and developing some confidence with Books we are
writing. This week we will share in our Author’s
chair our books- we get to ear an “author’s crown
when we are sharing our completed books.” We Reading:
will begin to discuss writing about one topic and
write in sentence format this week. Our Principal
Mrs. Lewis will do a special “prompts with the
The Three Little
Pigs,
principal” activity this Friday and will be giving us
a topic to try to write about. This is being
implemented one time per month as a part of our

Mrs. Wishy-
School Improvement Plan. I will score your
child’s writing using the report card writing rubric
and be sending home the results.
• Math
We have completed learning about proper Washy’s
formation for writing numbers 0-10. We have
begun to do ABC patterns in class
Assessments:
Scrubbing
Machine,
Number recognition 0-20.
Oral rhyming—I will be asking your child to give a word that
rhymes after I give a word to them orally.

The Farm Concert

Example: Teacher states: goat: child may say: Coat, tote, etc.
There is no one correct answer and they are allowed to give a
nonsense word for a response Example: cat, --student responds
/tat/
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Keep working on November Homework and
don’t forget to use your Math workbooks for
extra reinforcement of skills.
This week workbook pages 133-150 would be
good to do at home for practice.
- Reminders !
Thursday November 19th- Mrs. Hay out of
the classroom for ½ day Professional
Development. A.M. only guest teacher.
Friday November the 20th- cafeteria
Thanksgiving Meal- If you r.s.v.p.-ed see
you in the café on this special day with
your child. Our lunch is from 10:45 to
11:15 a.m.
November 26th-27th –No School
Thanksgiving Recess.
Class Compliment Competition begins on
11/24-12/4: Students will compete for
getting compliments in the hallways,
cafeteria, special class etc.. Blue Hallway
students K-2 will be competing to get a
traveling trophy. “The Golden Shield”
The class with the most compliments
during the designated time frame will get
to display the trophy until the next
compliment time frame. Let’s work for
those compliments!!
Big Event for 2nd 9 weeks: December the
18th: Students need to have appropriate
behavior during the 2nd 9 weeks in order
to attend this special event. If a child
receives 2 level 4’s- they are ineligible to
attend. Yikes!!
More for this week:
Our Miss Spider Tea party Photos are finally
posted on the blog—Sorry I did not get them up
sooner. Be sure to check them out- there are
some great shots of your children.
http://mrshaysdailydragon.blogspot.com/
Tom the Turkey disguises- Your Family Project” are
due this Friday November the 20th-
Check out some great examples on the Blog of Turkey
disguises if you are struggling with this fun project.
Save Tome the Turkey!!
From the Teacher’s Desk:
As always we are so busy in our
Kindergarten Class- I am proud of
• all the students accomplishments
so far this year.
It is amazing how they have
changed since their first day of
Kindergarten.
Thank you for all the continued
support on your end as this is so
important for your child. I
appreciate you as parents
reinforcing skills, reading
newsletters, and participating in
your child’s education. This
November I am Thankful for all
the great BPE Parents that I have
the opportunity to work with.
Mrs. Hay