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Our classroom is a community of learners that work together to foster a sense of belonging. We are committed to every child’s emotional and academic success. Family and community involvement is integral to our students’ growth and achievement. The traditions of our school strengthen long-lasting relationships. We take pride in nurturing the spirit and joy of childhood.

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This Week: 5/29/17

Our last theme is dinosaurs. We already have a few experts in our class! We are open for sharing for dino items any day of the week from now on. If your child brings in something dino, we will have them take center stage and tell us all about it. They could bring in something different everyday if they wish.

We are writing stories and reading them out loud. We are playing CVC and sight word games.

For reading, we need to know both the sounds of letters with great speed and have a memorized bank of words that we are not able to sound out. We have been playing around the world with sight words and are getting super quick at reading our sight words! Our memorized sight words begin a lifetime of memorizing words for us to use in reading. See if your student knows all ten!

Sight Words: the, and, a, I, to, can, me, like, see, are

Bonus Words: it, we, was, good, go, for, from, is, by, my

Math: We are practicing writing our numbers 1-30 with no reversals. We are practicing solving addition story problems by putting groups together. We are practicing solving subtraction story problems by taking away from a whole group.

Special Dates Coming Up

Thursday, June 8th, 2017
Field Trip: Sacramento Children's Museum

Our 12 chaperone spots are filled. We only had space for 12 parents per TK class, or 65 maximum tickets allowed for our Maidu TK group.

Cost per student: $6 for the bus, $5 entrance fee = $11 total each

Cost per chaperone: $5 at the door. Please park, get your individual ticket, and be ready to receive charge of some excited students.

Thank you for your willingness to join us for the fun.

Love,

Mrs. Hagman

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Practicing at home for letters, sounds and motions:

Ask your student if they remember how to sing these letters. Sample: "Aa says /a/." Practice the letters and sounds for speed. We want them to know these very quickly.The faster your student can say the sounds when they see the letter, the faster they are able to process sounds inside words later this year. Please practice for speed at home.

a = eating an apple

b = bouncing a ball

c =clicking a camera

d = shutting a door

e = swinging arm around like the bottom of the lowercase e. The elephant is

picking up an egg in its trunk.

f =hands fanning face

g = swinging gorilla arms

h= hands throwing a hot potato

i=itching sides of body

j= jumping up and down

k= kicking feet