Gingerbread Stories, Snow Day Work and Next Week!

Important Dates

12/4- 12/5 (Monday & Tuesday)- MAP Testing

12/20-1/2 (Wednesday-Tuesday)- No School

Winter Break

MAP Testing

Our class will be taking the Reading portion of the MAP Test on Monday & Tuesday. We look at MAP scores to help us plan and teach based on student understanding. Please treat this as an important day and assessment. Make sure your child has plenty of sleep on Sunday & Monday night! We are looking forward to seeing how much they have grown! Also, make sure to praise your child for any growth, they have been working very hard!

Non-Traditional Instruction (NTI) or

“SNOW DAY” Work

Our district has requested that we have 10 Non-Traditional Instruction Days on Snow Days for us to not make school days up by adding the days onto the end of the school year. Therefore, your child must complete the Snow Day Work and turn it in.
As winter nears and colder weather approaches, it is very important to make sure you know where your child’s Non-Traditional Instruction Packet (also called “NTI Work” or “Snow Day Work”) is located.
The Non-Traditional Instruction Packet is placed in the back pocket of your child’s folder. Please leave this packet in the folder so it can easily be found on a Snow Day.
In the event of a Snow Day, students are to complete the work for that day, and if it is completed and turned in the student will be counted as present for attendance.

Homework

Please help your child learn to tie their shoes! If you already know, you have no homework!

If you would like to work on skills at home. Please consider using your child’s CLEVER QR CODE to play on LEXIA, DREAMBOX or READING A-Z!
Go to http://www.jessamine.kyschools.us/
Then click on the “For Students” tab
Scroll down to “Clever Log In”
Click on the CLEVER BADGE Log In and use your device’s camera to scan your child’s “Clever Badge” – it’s a QR Code.
Hold up the “Clever Badge until a Green Check Mark comes on.
Students can then choose to play Lexia, Dreambox or Reading A-Z!

Recess

As the weather is getting cooler, we will still be going outside for recess daily unless it is raining, snowing, or is below freezing. Please send your child to school dressed to play outside for recess. Thank you!

WISH LIST

small toys for our Treasure Box
Headphones (not earbuds)

Facebook Group

Please join our Classroom Facebook Group to keep up to date with what is happening in our classroom!
I will be posting important dates and reminders to keep families informed about our classroom.
In the case there is a Snow Day, I will also be available ALL DAY for you to contact. I will be posting information to help you complete your SNOW DAY WORK in our Facebook Group

Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/Ms.LindlesK1718/

What Are We Learning Next Week?

Book(s)/Poem(s): Lil’ Ole Elf
Concepts of Print: words are written & read left to right, top to bottom, spaces, punctuation.
Writing: learning to spell words by the letter sounds they hear (with the exception of sight words)
Letter(s) & Sound(s): Review of all letters Aa-Zz
Math: numerals, amounts, counting, one to one correspondence, more, less, sorting, number words, five frames
Sight Words: I, see, a, can, like, the, my, to, is
Please make sure to never have your child use sounds to read sight words, these words usually do not follow language rules.