No School Monday (2-20) and Next Week!

Important Dates:

2/20 (Monday) – No School

• President’s Day

2/22 (Wednesday) – Scholastic Book Orders Due

• Scholastic Book Orders were sent home in your child’s folder today. If you would like to order books from it, please send in your money by Wednesday.

3/16 (Thursday) – Kindergarten Music Concert

• Every year, our Kindergarten students perform a concert for families in our JELV Gym.

• Since there are 27 kindergarten classrooms, we must have different times for performances. Our classroom performance will take place at 6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

• Please arrive early to park and find a spot in the GYM.

• 10 minutes before the concert (at 5:50 p.m.) Teachers will meet their class in the CAFETERIA to prepare for the performance.

• Please have your child wear BLUE for our performance of our song, “BOY BLUE”

Box Tops Challenge!

• Our kindergarten classrooms are competing in a Box Top Challenge for the months of January and February.

• Please send in any Box Tops throughout these months.

• It is tough competition as there are 27 kindergarten classrooms in our school! So every little bit counts!

Our Classroom Facebook Group

• Please join our classroom Facebook Group, if you have not already done so! We try to keep you up to date with all of our classroom happenings and information!

• ** This Facebook Group is VERY IMPORTANT for Snow Day Work (Non-Traditional Instruction- NTI Days)

• You can request to join, go to the website below! And “request to join group”

• https://www.facebook.com/groups/Ms.LindlesK1617/

What Are We Learning Next Week?

Math:

• ways to make 5 and 10

• beginning addition with the symbols (+ and =)

• Math Vocabulary: “equal”, “add”, “all together”, “in all”, “sum”

Literacy:

• Beginning Sounds

• Medial/Vowel Sounds

• Ending Sounds

• CVC Words (3 letter words)

• “Chunks”- Sounds of sh, ch, th, wh

• Sight Words: review

Writing:

• Labeling pictures with beginning sounds

• Stretching out words verbally and writing the letters that we hear

• Writing pattern stories and sentences. “I see ….” or “I like….”

• Writing a Personal Narrative

Read Aloud(s)/Poem(s):

• Loose Tooth

• The Tooth Book

• Bear’s Loose Tooth

• Sweet Tooth

Specials Schedule:

Monday (--) –No School

Tuesday (Day 2) –Guidance

Wednesday (Day 3) –Science

Thursday (Day 4) –Gym

• Please send your child to school in tennis shoes on this day.

Friday (Day 5) –Music