Happy Thanksgiving!

We Are Thankful!

We hope you enjoy our first Voicethread!

Welcome Cheddar!

We would like you to meet our class pet--Cheddar! Cheddar is a beta fish that the class earned from receiving 40 yellow wolf tickets for excellent HERO behavior. Keep up the good work kindergarten!

Congratulations to Mackenzie who had the winning journal entry and got to name the fish. Thank you to Mrs. Ginther for helping us with our "name the pet" writing contest!!

Have a good weekend!

Learning New Things!

I can't believe it is November already! The time is really flying by. I hope everyone is ready for the holidays. They are just around the corner! We hope you like the turkeys that we made this week!!

The students are learning a lot of new things everyday! One of the most exciting new things that we are working on is decoding words. For example, if the student sees the word "mat" he/she
must say the sounds in the word- /m/ /a/ /t/. The student must repeat the sounds faster and faster until he/she is able to read the word "mat". Here are a list of some of the decodable words we have been reading in class.

map
Pam
tap
Tam
pat
pet
big
spat
pats
past
sat
cat
top

You will notice that the little tan booklets that are sent home once a week (usually Thursday or Friday) will have some of these decodable words in them. I would suggest keeping the tan booklets and having your child read a few of them a week throughout the school year.

We also started learning about main idea and we are continuing to review the Unit 1 and Unit 2 sight words. We also practice identifying capital and lowercase letters and sounds on a daily basis.

As always please contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Here are a few pictures from our Fall Party!