Sept. 30-Oct. 4

Monday, September 30 No School Teacher Inservice FYI:  A change was made to the school calendar.  There will be NO SCHOOL on Thursday, October 17.  Teachers will have an Inservice that day.  Please add this change to your calendar.	Tuesday, October 1 Literacy Word Work:  I, see Phonemic Awareness:  Beginning Sounds/Same Sound Sort Read Aloud: What’s My Favorite Color? Skill:  Predict/Infer/Sequence Activity:  Graph Food Colors Math  Top, Middle, and Bottom Read Aloud:  Tops and Bottoms Activity:  Graph Where Certain Foods Grow (top/above ground or bottom/in the soil)
Wednesday, October 2 SCHOOL PICTURES Literacy Word Work:  I Phonemic Awareness:  Beginning Sounds/Play Same Sound Sort Read Aloud:  Cap of Many Colors Skill:  Making Predictions Vocabulary:  Animal Names Writing:  Mm Math  Left/Right Activity:  Hokey Pokey Independent Work:  Set the Table Activity Homework:  Ask your child to identify his/her right hand!	Thursday, October 3 Literacy Word Work:  I, see Phonemic Awareness:  Beginning Sounds/”Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” Read Aloud:  The Big, Blue Sea Skill:  Making Predictions Activity:  Watercolor Fish Math  Same and Different Read Aloud:  Exactly the Opposite Independent Work:  Practice 1-5
Friday, October 4 Literacy Word Work:  I, see Phonemic Awareness:  Beginning Sounds/Focus on M Read Aloud:  What Do You do, Norbert Wu? Skill:  Making Predictions Math  Sorting by One Attribute Independent Work:  Practice 1-6 Activity:  Walk to Fareway and Learn how Items are Sorted (A BIG thank you to Greg Herrold!!!) Homework:  Show an example of how something is sorted at home.	Notes from the Teacher: *If you have not done so yet, please send $2 for parties AND $2 for our field trip to the apple orchard ASAP.  The money is used to buy supplies for our 3 parties. *School pictures will be held on October 2.  The kindergartners will have their pictures taken in the morning before recess. *Parent/Teacher Conferences will be held on Tuesday, October 8 (2-6pm) and Thursday, October 10 (4-8pm) *Skills we are working on:  Counting and number recognition 0-10, upper/lower letter recognition, writing our first names, and simple graphs. *A Friendly Reminder to:  Check Take Home folders nightly and Return to School. J * Mrs. Jenison, Miss Maas and Ms. Markwardt