Weekly News

We survived out first full week of kindergarten!! We are getting to know each other even better and having a lot of fun. Thank you for the many classroom gifts that we opened at our party on Friday. The students really enjoyed celebrating our first week.

    This week we will continue with our Letter of the Day activities.  We have completed A and B and will now work on letters C, D, E, and F.  Please look through your child's Sappington folder with him/her EVERY night.  Ask your child what letter we worked on today.  If they are not able to identify the letter please review/practice with them.

    Today we also began some sight word work.  Each week we will work on three new words.  This week's words are "I, see, like".  We will work on these words each day.  It would be very helpful for you to make flashcards of these words to also review at home.  A complete list of kindergarten sight words can be found in the Kindergarten Handbook.  Students who are already able to identify the letters of the alphabet will be assessed on the sight words at the end of each week.  At this time the sight word test is just them reading the words to me.  They are not expected to write the words.  If your child is still working on identifying the letters of the alphabet they will not be tested on sight words yet.  They will still work on the sight words in class but their assessment at the end of the week will just be on the capital and lowercase letters.   You will receive an email later today stating whether your child will be assessed on letters or sight words each week.

    Today we also learned how to write our names "the KINDERGARTEN way".  This means only one capital letter.  Please help your child practice this at home.

This week we had library on Monday.  We will have P.E. on Tuesday and Thursday.

   Tomorrow evening at 6:30 is our curriculum night.  There will be free babysitting in the gym as this event if for adults only.  Please make sure to have at least one parent attend as I will share lots of important information.

Upcoming Dates:

9-1  Papa John’s Night

9-3  School Night for Scouting

9-3  SPTG Dairy Queen Night 3-8

9-4  Bus Driver recognition day

9-7  Labor Day no school

9-8  SPTG Meeting 6:45 Library

9-9  Great American Fundraiser kick-off

9-10  School Store at lunch

9-16  Early Dismissal  Day.  AM class dismisses at 10:55.  PM attends from 11:30-1:40.