Mrs. Powers' Kindergators

What a great week! My favorite quote from the week, "My Brain hurts because it got so big." We saw our "learning gator" Bridgit grow to enormous size in our water pond this week proving we did lots of cool learning. Now we are going to watch and see if she shrinks back down like the alligator in the book we read, "Zack's Alligator." We even discovered an animal called a gharial that is a cousin of the alligator. Have you ever heard of that? Here are some things we learned about this week: Reading: We began working on strategies for sounding out words. We teach them to ... 1. Look for the tricks in the word (but the words we did this week didn't have many-more to come on that later) 2. Put the first two sounds together by moving your voice slowly through both sounds turning them into one sound. 3. Say the first part and add one, then add another, and another. We hope you liked the books that came home: Drop It and The Mall Math: We worked...

Homework has begun! Your child should have brought their homework notebook home with them today. It is due back this Friday but we recommend keeping it in their backpack to help ensure it doesn't get left somewhere on that day.  Each night your child should complete the review skill, choice 1 OR choice 2 and then do some reading with you. Reading aside, the work should take no longer than 20 minutes. The work should be completed on the pages behind the homework grid and you can put more than one night on a page to save paper. Until the children get more comfortable in their writing, they may need to dictate some of their ideas to you. But after a week or two, they need to begin doing some or more of the writing.  All the questions from the homework relate to our Georgia Performance standards. For example, you will see a question about finding the numbers on the mailbox. This relates to our social studies standard of knowing their "place in space" from cont...