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Kindergarten Newsletter
Mrs. Leland’s Class
For the week of August 20-24, 2012
Language Arts
Focus:
Review
“Popcorn Words”
am
I
will
Math Focus:
This week we will start our “Name Helper” activities. If you were at the
parent night you might have remembered me talking about your child’s blue
“My Friends” folder. This folder is where all your name helper papers will go
into. They will not need to be returned, but are just there to help work on
letters and remembering friends’ names. Our name helper activities allow us to
practice seeing letters in names. We will be discussing vowels and consonants
as well as syllables. We will refer to the “All About Me” paper you and your
child filled out. We will use this paper to ask your child questions the day he or
she is our name helper! (If you have not turned in your All About Me paper,
please do so as soon as possible.)
We will also be reviewing our popcorn words this week. By the end of this
week, the student’s should be able to recognize am, I, and will simply by seeing
them. (In other words, they should not sound them out.)
Finally, this week we will begin our work stations. We will have 5 total stations
where the students will either be at a math station, reading group station with
me, a working with letters station, computer station, or art station each day.
As for math this week, we will continue exploring our five main shapes. They are:
circle, triangle, rectangle, square, and hexagon. I have noticed that a lot of students
knew what an octagon was before they knew the word hexagon. When I held up a
hexagon, many students called it an octagon. Please take time to review with your
child that a hexagon has six sides and six corners. We will be creating a shape book
this week in order to really zone in on each individual shape.
Also this week in math we will be doing some sorting. We will be sorting by one
attribute. For example, sort by color, or sort by shape, or sort by size, etc. We will
also take a look at observing items that are the same and different. What makes
them the same/different? These are in our math packet Topic 13 Lessons 1 and 2.
Notes from Mrs. Leland:
What a wonderful first full week! I am excited about
how quickly the students are learning their popcorn
words! They are becoming wonderful readers! 
School pictures will be this Tuesday! Please return your
picture envelopes if you would like to order school
pictures!
Items we need: empty toilet paper rolls for an
upcoming craft
Please send in a note if your child will be going home a
different way.
Homework Folders are due every Monday! This means
they should have been returned today!
*See reverse side for special class schedule
Calendar Notes:
Tuesday, August 21: Picture Day
Thursday, August 23: Kindergarten
Educational Meeting at the high school
Monday, September 3: Labor Day – No
School
Saturday September 15: PTO Family
Picnic
Contact Information:
Room: 205
Phone: 839-4802 ext 205
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: mrsleland.weebly.com
Special Class Schedule
Monday: Library
Tuesday: Art
Wednesday: Music
Thursday: Gym
Friday: Library