Weekly Update 9/16-9/20

This Week at School:

• We practiced the letters F-M.
• We practiced our letter chant.
• We started learning about shapes.
• We worked on sitting quietly and raising our hands during carpet time.
• We made self-portraits.
• We learned about what it means to focus.

Next Week:

• We will practice the letters N-S.
• We will work on rhyming.
• We will read a story called My Friends and learn about reading together.
• We will talk about how to read books.
• We will learn more about shapes.
• We will learn about families.
• We will begin our word wall and recognizing each other's names.

What to Ask your Kindergartener:

• To tell you the sounds and motions we learned for the letters A-M.
• To practice writing their first name (trying to write it with one capital letter and the rest lowercase). 
• To count to 30.
• To tell you the carpet and line basics.

Reminders and Other News:

• Please continue to keep track of all books you read to your child or your child reads to you this month on your child's reading log.  Return it in at the end of the month for a special prize.  You will receive a new reading log each month. 
• If your child does not have their lunch number memorized yet, please help them work on this over the next few weeks to help make getting through the lunch line more efficient.
• It would be helpful if you could put your child’s name in their lunchbox and on their water bottle as these things often get misplaced.
• Check out our class blog and become a member or sign up for email updates to be notified when I make a weekly post. 
• If you have not returned a permission slip for the 10/23 field trip yet, please fill out the new one in your child's cheetah binder today as soon as possible.