New Year & Loads to Do!!!

Wow, can you believe that 2014 has already arrived?  Like many of you, I always start off the New Year by making several resolutions both personal and professional.  One of my professional resolutions is to update this blog at least once a month.  Here’s hoping that this is one resolution that I can keep! 

Before the holiday break, we had such a fun day celebrating!  We read and watched The Polar Express, had pajama day, made shortbread cookies and also created reindeer ornaments.  The kids had an absolute blast!  They were smiling from ear to ear all day long!  Thank you to all the parents who made our celebration possible!  Thank you for volunteering your time, energy and also for donating the supplies.  I have truly been blessed this year with an amazing group of kids and parents!  I am certainly one lucky teacher! 

Two days back, and we are already back to work in our classroom!  In reading, we will continue to work on segmenting and blending CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words, asking and answering questions about fancy words; and, also identifying the characters, setting, and major events in a story.  In writing, we will begin working on crafting our own how to pieces.  At this point in the year, your child should be using upper and lowercase letters correctly in their work, making sure to use finger spaces between words, spelling common sight words correctly; and, writing the dominant sounds of words.  In math, we have begun studying both 2D and 3D shapes, and we will begin studying weather in science.  Like always, we are busy, busy, busy!   

Over the next several weeks, your child will be participating in mclass assessments in both reading and math.  And, at the end of the month, you will receive their second quarter report card as well as the results from the mclass assessments.  Also, I urge you to continue to practice your child’s sight words at home each night!  Sight words are so important for your child’s reading development and success.  I truly can’t emphasize that point enough!  Also, I am happy to provide you with more sight words, if you feel your child has already mastered the yearlong list sent home by the kindergarten team.    

Educationally yours,

Ms. Bruner