Money, Money, Money!

In Math we are learning about the penny, nickel and dime. Your child will be expected to identify all three coins and tell the value of each coin. They will also be required to count mixed coins. One great way to practice at home would be to allow your child to use real coins to count money.

Next week we will review counting money and we will learn how to tell time to the hour.

This week in Language Arts we worked on reading words with beginning and ending blends. Here are some words you should have your child practice reading at home:
(slide , sled , sleep , flag , slow , clap , slip , crib , crab , flat, flip, plot, plug, trap, trip, spot, drops, skip, mask, lift, milk, cost, land, sand, left, past, desk)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Today for Valentine's Day my class wrote about things that they love. Check out our new podcast titled "Valentine's Day."

Here are some pictures from our Valentine Party! A special thanks to all of the parents that donated food--the snack were delicious. Thanks to all the parents that came in to help at our party!

February Fun!

February is Dental Health Month. We starting learning about how to take care of our teeth. We have been reading lots of books and doing fun activities related to dental health. Earlier this week we received a visit from "Happy Tooth".

On Monday we celebrated the 100th day of kindergarten. It was an exciting day filled with lots of fun activities. We had a lot of fun guessing the 100 items that everyone brought in. Some items included--shark teeth, puzzle pieces, M&M's, beads and stickers. Your child will be bringing his/her autograph booklet home very soon. We are still working on collecting 100 autographs from friends and teachers here at school.

We will be having a Math test on Friday. Studnets will have to count by 5's, 10's and 2's. They will also have to fill in missing numbers in the number patterns. Please also review even and odd numbers, ordinal numbers and the number line. Today we used our new frog number lines to practice moving "up" and "back" on a number line.

As always please contact me with any questions or concerns!

Postcards!

Good News--we reached our goal. We now have a total of 102 postcards. The students were so excited when I announced the big news. Thanks again to everyone who sent us a postcard.

Have a great weekend!

Counting Podcast!

We hope you enjoy our newest podcast! Please continue to practice counting by 2's, 5's and 10's at home!

Great News-- We have 98 postcards!! We only need 2 more to reach our goal. Thank you to everyone who took the time to send us a postcard. We enjoyed hearing from you!

Numbers, Numbers, Numbers!

We have been working very hard to learn the numbers 0-30. Over the long weekend, please continue to practice these numbers with your child at home. Your child should be able to count to 31, write numbers 0-30 in and out of order, name each number out of order, and identify forward and backward on the number line.

You can make flash cards at home to help practice number recognition. To practice making ten frames you can draw some ten frames on a piece of paper. Next, give your child a number and have him/her write the number on the paper. Finally have him/her fill in the ten frame using markers, crayons, paints, small toys, cereal, uncooked noodles or anything else they might find "fun" to use!

Next week we will learn about the hundreds chart and we will begin learning how to count by 2's, 5's, and 10's.

Don't forget to send us postcards! We only have 39 and our goal is to get 100 by the 100th day on school in the beginning of February!

Postcards!

So far we have collected 36 postcards. We only have 19 more school days until the 100th days of school. Our goal is to have 100 postcards by then so please keep sending us postcards! Here is the address:

Miss Korsak's Kindergarten Class
George Wolf Elementary School
300 Allen Street
Bath, PA 18014

Thanks!

On Monday we will be having a Math Test. The test will be on numbers 0-30, ten frames, number lines, and reading graphs. Your child will be coming home with a review worksheet today which will give you an idea of what the test will be like. Please make sure your child is able to identify and write numbers 0-30.

As always, please contact me with any questions or concerns.

Have a good weekend!