Tarver Fundraiser!

Fundraiser packets are coming home today!

Students are collecting dinosaur key chains when items are sold.  A $10 donation paid in the Tarver office is the equivalent of selling 1 item.  The first key chains will be distributed on 

Sept 5th!

Kindergarten Homework!

I am sending home our first homework assignment for the year!  Please check your child's backpack for the blue attache'.  Inside you will find the Unit 1 Everyday Math Parent Letter and a Home Link.  The parent letter will tell you what we are focusing on during this unit.  The Home Link is meant to be done together with your child.  You do not need to return them!  

You will also find a copy of our ABC chart.  We practice the ABC chant everyday in kindergarten.  It goes like this:
                                    A, a. apple     (letter name sound twice)
                                    /a/, /a/, apple (make short a sound twice)

                                     B, b, bear      (letter name sound)
                                     /b/, /b/, bear   (make /b/ sound twice)


Students will point to each letter and sing the chant.  Please help your child learn this chant as soon as possible.  Practice each day until they can recite it quickly, accurately and even out of order!  The ABC chart is to be kept in the attache'. Please return both the attache'and ABC chant tomorrow.

Thank you so much for your support at home!

Week 2 in the Books!

We made it through the second week of Kindergarten!  This is probably the most difficult week for the students.  The excitement of starting school has worn off  and the long school day starts to take effect- you might have had some grouchy, tired kiddos coming home.  Hang in there!  It will get better!

We had a very busy week in our room, learning new procedures and routines.   So far, we are practicing Independent Reading, Shared Reading, Read Aloud, Centers, Writer's Workshop and Calendar.  In math, we are learning about shapes and numbers.  In reading, we learned to read a book called School (which we will bring home to share next week) and learned our first two sight words, I and see.  The highlight of the week was probably going to the Computer Lab!  We went to Starfall.com and played an ABC game.  I have a link to the site on this blog if you would like to try it out at home!

Here are some of the most important things we are working on this week:
                  *Writing first name with 1 capital letter at the beginning and the remaining letters                                   lowercase.
                  *Able to recognize and name all letters in first name.
                  *Holding scissors correctly and being able to cut out a shape, mostly on the lines.
                   *Able to count to at least 10.
If your child is struggling with any of these skills, please spend some time practicing at home.

Please check your child's backpack for the "blue attache'".  Take out all papers and send back to school on Monday.  Also, if you have not signed up for an assessment time, please do so as soon as possible!

Have a great weekend!