Kindergarten News December 13 , 2013 flekindergarten.weebly

1. Kindergarten News December 13 , 2013 http://www.flekindergarten.weebly.com Ms. Boone: sboone@richland2.org, ext. 3139; Ms. Yoos: eyoos@richland2.org, ext. 3238; Mrs. Sitz: dsitz@richland2.org, ext. 3239; Ms. Latta: rlatta@richland2.org, ext. 3240; Mrs. Daniels: medaniels@richland2.org, ext. 3241 Reading/Writing/Language Arts: Let’s continue to practice writing sentences using spaces, an uppercase letter at the beginning and a period at the end. Let’s also practice writing our first and last names. In reading, we will review nouns - a person, place or thing and verbs –show actions. Also review the relationship between the illustrations and the text in books we read aloud. Continue to work on segmenting sounds in simple words and review sight words. Lastly, continue to work towards mastery in naming, writing and giving the sound of the letters we have learned. Math: We will continue to explore shapes and their attributes. We will also continue identifying, describing, and naming both 2 and 3-D shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres). Social Studies: As we take a trip around the world, we will continue to visit many holiday traditions. In this unit of “Holidays Around the World”, we will explore such traditions as Christmas, Hanukkah, Los Posadas, Kwanzaa, and the Chinese New Year . Science: We will continue to discover the changes in our environment as the winter season approaches. Dates to Remember Dec 20 (Fri): FLE performs Nutcracker at District Auditorium @ 10 am Dec 23 (Mon): Winter Break begins Jan 3 (Fri): Winter Break ends Jan 6 (Mon) First day back for 2014 Working on our Character During this month of December , we are still discussing Sean Covey’s 3rd habit: “put first things first”! This means to encourage your students to do the right thing and set priorities to reach their goals. Make sure they know the path they want to follow and to strive by making short term and long term goals with set priorities on how to get their. Stay “in the know” at FLE! This year, parents will not be receiving a hard copy school newsletter. To stay informed, visit our school blog at http://fleeagles.blogspot.com. You will be prompted to fill in your email address to register. To complete the registration process, Feedburner will send you an e-mail to confirm your subscription. Thank you, and enjoy browsing our school blog! • Tips to Encourage Reading • Encourage your child to write and draw every day. Reading and writing go hand in hand! Have your child read back to you what he or she has written. Encourage “invented spelling”, and help your child see the value in recording each sound that he or she hears, in order, without focusing or worrying about spelling correctly at this stage in your child’s development. Talk about spacing between words, using end marks, and using capital letters at the beginning of sentences, for the word, “I”, and for names • Reminders: • Please make sure that your child is in uniform! Every day that he or she dresses for success will earn a compliment! • Please fill out and return all forms sent home as soon as possible. • It sometimes gets chilly in our classrooms, so feel free to send a light sweater for your child to wear if necessary. • Please visit our kindergarten website! We plan to post pictures of our students engaged in learning experiences, but will they will not be identified. Additionally, any child who is mentioned in another area of the website will never have a last name posted. Please contact your child’s teacher if you do not wish to participate in this. • Students may not be checked out of the office after 2: 15 . • Parents MUST stay in the carpool line while dropping off/picking up their students. It is to ensure your child’s safety! Thank you!  December Birthdays Trayvon Jones 7 Raniya Reid 12 Harshdeep Wadhwa 15 MarQuez Thomas 17 Hannah Livingston-Osby 19 Kameryn Goodman 23 Sumorrya Abney 24 Zay’vion Green 27 Mrs. Jeter 27

2. Home Talk! As we explore many traditions around the world, here in America many boys and girls will look forward to receiving toys to help celebrate the tradition called Christmas. Take a moment with your family and enjoy some of the interesting trivia about toys from many years ago: 1. Which of these toys did Apollo 8 astronauts bring into space? a. Silly Putty b. koosh balls c.Magna Doodle 2. Which tokens were included in the original Monopoly game? a. none b. rocking horse, lantern, purse c. top hat, thimble, shoe 3. Who is the kid on the Play-Doh can? a. Play-Doh Pal b. Play-Doh Pete c. Hasbro Hal 4. What's inside an Etch-a-Sketch? a. tin beads and plastic gel b. plastic beads and aluminum powder c. styro-foam beads and scrap-metal shavings 5. What was the original name for Scrabble? a. Criss-Cross Words b. Upon My Word c. Scramble 6. What treat could you make in an easy-bake oven in 1966? a. bubble gum b. noodle kugel c. mini pizza 7. Who developed Lincoln Logs? a. the grandson of President Abraham Lincoln b. the son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright c. the daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt Answers: (1) a (2) a (3) b (4) b (5) a (6) a (7) b