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Newsletter september 2013
- 1. Kindergarten Newsletter Volume 1 Andrew Jackson Academy September News
- 2. Welcome to School Welcome to the 2013-2014 school year! We hope you had an enjoyable summer. Kindergarten is the first school experience for some of our students and for others it is not. Let’s make this a wonderful experience for all! Parents and teachers working together will make a strong team. Remember parents you are your child’s first teacher. So lets work together to strengthen this team. Go team!!! Email address: Ms. Barbour: gbarbour@pgcps.org Ms. Hines: laura.hines@pgcps.org Mrs. Scott: tscott@pgcps.org Ms. Pusey:lauren.pusey@pgcps.org Ms. Lopez: cynthia.lopez@pgcps.org Mrs. Gill: kirstin.gill@pgcps.org What We Are Learning English / Language Arts Concepts of Print: • Identify that we read from top to bottom and left to right. • Students can: one-to-one match words. Reading Comprehension: • Compare and Contrast • Noting, Details, Beginning and end punctuation Phonemic Awareness: • Isolate and say the initial sound Rhyming words • Students will identify letters from A thru Z Word Work: • Read words I, and, see, we Writing: • Practice writing sight words • Capitalizes the first letter or the first word of a sentence. • Uses punctuation at the end of a sentence. • Capitalize first letter in their name What We Are Learning Oral Communication: • Use complete sentences. • Convey information gained from listening. • Repeat information heard from stories and spoken. Math • Position words and shapes • Reading and Writing numbers 0 – 5 • Comparing numbers through 5 • Putting numbers 1-5 in order • Graphing • Ordinal numbers (i.e. first – fifth) Science • Identify: simple and complex machines • Identify machines that help us move from place to place. • Identify why we use machines Social Studies • School Rules / School Helpers • Getting Along • Families Health • Your body grows and growing on the inside • The five senses • Building good character/ caring Reminders For Parents • Check your child’s folder daily • Help your child with his/her homework and read to them daily • Check your child’s balance on his/her lunch count regularly • Join the PTA Reminders for Students • Come to school ready to learn • Be prepared with all materials • Remind your parents to bring to school on time and pick you up on time
- 3. Upcoming Events September 2, Labor Day (School closed) Monday September 3- 30, Literary Assessments September 5, Roshashana (Schools closed) Thursday September 12, 6:30p.m.Back to School Night: Thursday September 16- 20 Math Assessment September 27 Professional Dev. (School Closed for students) Friday Look over what your child will be learning this month. Help him/her reinforce his/her classroom work by completing all homework and using every moment with them as an opportunity for learning!!! Homework Your child should have received his/her first homework calendar. Each month a new calendar will be issued. The assignments on the calendar are designed for you and your child to work together in completing them. The homework books should be sent to school each Friday, to be checked and returned on Friday for weekend work. Homework reinforces what is taught in the classroom. Please make your child completes his/her homework, it will be graded! Help Wanted! In order for us to go on field trips, WE NEED AT LEAST 4 VOLUNTEERS from each class to be finger printed. Please contact PGCPS Main office to have your mandatory background check completed. Then bring the yellow receipt to the school so the office can make a copy of it. PGCPS Fingerprinting / Background Check Office 14201 School Lane, Room #131 Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 301-952-6775 ABSENCES Please remember if students are absent they must come back to school with a note explaining the reason for their absence. Try to limit the number of absences. It can be very difficult for students to catch up when they miss school.