qMrs. Cotter’s Kindergarten News q October 16, 2015

I Literature: I

The Ghost’s Dinner By Jacques Duquennoy

It Looked Like Spilt Milk By Charles G. Shaw

Skeleton Hiccups By Margery Cuyler

Dem Bones By Bob Barner

K This is a hard working class! We’ve been in Kindergarten for 40 days!!

Our new October Journal has students f inishing a sentence starter so we’ve begun to talk about proper sentence writing structure. Math Topic D, Lesson 12, 13 & 14: Understanding the meaning of zero; Order and write numerals 0-3 to answer ‘how many’ questions; Write numerals 1-3. Represent decomposit ions with manipulative, drawings and equations. (number sentences) We’ve learned about the ‘at’ word family. We will continue to learn more word famil ies and add to our word family caterpil lar. After reading Skeleton Hiccups we sequenced the events in the book while discussing the story’s Beginning, Middle and End. Also, students were able to make their own skeleton using Q-Tips. The story Dem Bones helped groups assemble their own giant skeleton!!

Great onl ine resources for k indergarten: Check out these two apps: Bugsy Kindergarten Math and Splash Math (free Lite version).

They looked fun to me. Two great apps for practicing handwriting skills are Writing Wizard and iWriteWords. You

can download both from itunes. Have fun playing AND learning!

If you come across any great educational apps or programs I’d love to hear about them!

This week was white week. We read about the color white, sang a song about white and read about white ghosts and skeletons. We even got to eat white, vanilla ice cream. YUM!

! Thursday, October 29th is PUMPKIN DAY! We

wil l send deta ils soon. Volunteers wil l be needed again ! ☺

! Friday October 23- End of 1st quarter.

! Friday, October 30th- Halloween Party @

2:30.

# Wednesday is our day to check out books . Students must return their book before checking out another.

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s Reminders:

Sight Words !!

the red a

yellow I

blue green and

purple see pink brown white black orange

Please contact me if you have questions or concerns.

cottert@hcusd2.org or 815-933-6995 x107

# Next week, we will focus on the color black. Bats and spiders wil l be the talk of the week.

# Thank you, parents, for taking time to come in for Parent-Teacher conferences. It’s always nice to see you and discuss the little people we spend time with. I truly enjoy this group of kindergarteners and I’m finding the parents to be equally pleasant. I look forward to our continued work together this year. ☺