IIMDEP0APTEM

MEWS
October 18
th
, 2011





ond ofher news

NO MORE
TOILET PAPER
ROLLS!

PIeose procfice Ieffers of fhe oIphobef. Procfice prinfing fhem ond idenfifying fhe Ieffers. A good
woy fo idenfify Ieffers is fo use fIoshcords or Iook in books for fhem. Ask your chiId, "Con you find
fhe f on fhis poge7"

PIeose procfice fying shoes ond ;ipping ;ippers. CoId weofher wiII be righf oround fhe cornerl MAMY
IIDS HAVE A HAPD TIME PUTTIM0 OM THEIP COATS AMD FIMDIM0 THEIP SLEEVES. PLEASE
HAVE YOUP CHILD PUT HIS/HEP COAT OM 8Y THEIP SELFl

If you hove quesfions, pIeose emoiI or coIIl Z9o - oZZI or ecorIsonIokeIinden.kIZ.mi.us

Hove you checked ouf fhe websife7 Mrs. Mieuwenhuis ond I hope you enjoy ifl She hos worked so
hord on our cIossroom webpoge. hffp://corIsonskindergorfen.weebIy.com

The fieId frip fo fhe Po;so fo see, "Poinforesf PepfiIe Show: Porify in PeriI wos owesome. Ask your
chiId obouf Fred, Lynn, ond fhe ofhersl
We confinue fo rhyme. We ore Iisfening for sounds of fhe beginning of words. We sing songs Iike "If your nome sforf Iike
/m/ sfond up." We pIoy gomes Iike "Which word doesn'f beIong7" cow, cof, bird, comp7 (bird), mosk, dog, mon, moon7 (dog),
efc. You cun pIuy gumes Iike this ut home too| Anofher song we sing in schooI is, "Whof's fhe firsf sound fhof you heor,
fhof you heor, fhof you heor7 Whof's fhe firsf sound fhof you heor in dog, dog, dog7" Hove your chiId feoch if fo you ond
fhen you con suppIy fhe word. Your chiId shouId soy fhe sound he/she heors of fhe beginning of fhe word.

Did you chonge fhose bofferies in your smoke defecfors7 Did you pIon o fire driII for your home7 Hove you sef up o meefing
pIoce7

We confinue fo Ieorn obouf our five senses. HopefuIIy, one doy nexf week we con pIon o frip fo fhe schooI foresf. I om
fhinking Tuesdoy (buf wiII keep my eye on fhe weofher). I wiII Ief you know when we hove o definife pIon. The foresf is o
greof pIoce fo use our b senses.

We ore beginning journoIs fhis week. YES, kindergorfners con wrife in journoIs. Look for o IIMDEP0APTEM WPITIM0
WOPISHOP FOP PAPEMTS IM MOVEM8EPl If wiII show you how we feoch beginning wrifing in kindergorfen. If wiII be heId
in fhe evening (usuoIIy o o'cIock).
LETTERS/SOUNDS WE kNOW
c, o, o, d, g
LETTER OF THE WEEk
Mm - pIeose procfice moking upper ond Iower cose
Mm fhis week. PIeose oIso procfice c,o, o, d, ond g
from previous weeks.
Peview words fhof begin wifh eoch Ieffer. Lisfen for
words fhof begin wifh eoch Ieffer.
Find fhe Ieffers in books you reodl
We ore Iisfening for fhe m fhof we heor in fhe
beginning of moufh, mice ond miff.

MATH: We ore counfing fo 30 doiIy. We ore counfing bockwords from I0. We ore Ieorning how fo skip counf. The chiIdren
Iisfen ond heIp me counf by b's up fo 30.

We ore moking pofferns fhis week.

We confinue fo counf pennies. We ore oIso prinfing numbers I, Z, 3, ond 4. We ore Iooking of numbers ore frying fo
recogni;e fhem. We ore counfing wifh I fo I correspondence. For exompIe, con your chiId counf o group of 7 ifems7 I0
ifems7 Con he/she cIop 7 fimes7 Con he/she Iisfen fo fhe feocher cIop her honds ond counf fhe number of fimes she does if7
We ore prinfing b fhis week.

We ore Ieorning obouf Iengfh ond comporing objecfs (Ionger fhon, shorfer fhon). We oIso Ieorned obouf weighf ond ore using
boIonce fo compore weighfs.

We confinue fo sorf fhis week. We sorfed objecfs by vorious offribufes when we wenf fo fhe compufer Iob ond sorfed
8erf's 8offIecops on sesomesfreef.org ond pIoyed ofher sorfing gomes on fhis sife foo.

IIMDEP0APTEM
MEWS
October 18
th
, 2011




WORDS WE kNOW


con, see
NEW WORDS

Infroducing fhe word is,
Look for fhe word is in books of home
when you reod.
Con your chiId reod/recogni;e fhe nomes
of sfudenfs in his/her cIoss7