Mrs. Powers' Kindergators

We have a field trip planned for Thursday, September 19th. Permission slips for the trip came home today.  Please send us a quick email to let us know whether your child will be bringing a sack lunch from home or purchasing a sack lunch from the school for that day.  My email is jennifer.powers@cobbk12.org Please note that lunches from home must be "sack" style and not be in lunchboxes or tupperware type containers. We will recycle, compost or throw away all parts of the lunch after we eat that day.

Field trip permission slips and envelopes are coming home today in your child's binder. Please look for them, take a moment to complete them and send them back as soon as possible!

Kindergator Update 8.16.19 Marvelous! Magical! Magnificent! This week in kindergarten was all about the “m” sound for sure! Reading: We began exploring the difference between fake fiction and real reading (non-fiction). We examined lots of non-fiction books about alligators to notice the photographs (and not illustrations), captions, maps and diagrams. We learned a lot about alligators too. The best misconception we cleared up…..they are not called crocogators!!!! We learned lots of “m” words, and read books like The Big Cat (We hope they read that to you at home too.) We have been working on sight words lots this week in centers too. Math: We continued working on teen numbers and contrasted them with -ty numbers (as in 13 versus 30). We learned one strategy for how to transition from 9s to 10s (as in 29-30 or 79-80) and some of our kiddos even began counting by 10s. We examined number charts and used tens frames to represent teen numbers too! Writing: We worked on t...

Hi Kindergator Parents! As we are working on counting out loud to 50 we have begun to notice that many, many of our kiddos are confusing the sound of "f" versus the sound of "th." This can cause some confused counting as "thirteen" turns into "firteen" and then they skip fourteen altogether. We are working hard to over emphasize putting our tongues out between our teeth for "th" words. Please help us, if you can, by noticing if your child is pronouncing these sounds correctly and trying to help them work on mastering the difference between the two sounds when they count or speak. Sometimes practicing in front of the mirror is a powerful and fun way to help them see the difference!

We sent home 2 math workbooks with your child. These can stay at home for your own use. Should you wish for your child to do any extra practice, keep busy in the car or review any skills they are struggling with, feel free to use them at your discretion.

We had a visit from the Boy Scouts this week! We have wonderful troops here at Addison with wonderful leaders so please consider joining.

It was a great week in kindergarten! Here are some of the things we worked on in class this week. Reading: We focused on the 3 things teachers want their students to do when reading (think about their reading, talk about their reading and love their reading) while reinforcing the vocabulary of what an illustrator and illustration mean. We did all this while reading fiction books about alligators underbeds, growing in water and coming to school. Math: We worked on teen numbers, naming them, defining them as more than 10 and less that 20 that start with a 1. We learned about the words more and less as we began to subitize (know without counting) numbers shown in dots. Writing: We worked on the illustrations for our 3 sentence stories. The illustrations must have 3 details to further explain the main picture and at least 5 colors so this is no small task. We sounded out 1 word that begins with “i” on our bubble maps. Growth Mindset: We examined what our brains look ...