Newsletter 16

Kindergarten  News #16
Mrs. Confer’s Lincoln Kindergarten Class          January 31, 2021
Important Dates: Feb 1  - Wear Positivity Project Shirts  - Word of the week is Integrity Feb 3, 10, 17, 24 - Late Starts Feb 10th - Count Day Feb 12th and 15th  - No School Feb 16th - 100th Day of School REMINDERS: Computers to school each day: fully charged and leave charge cord at home. Labeled water bottle daily Check folder daily. Snowgear - LABEL EVERYTHING and put it all in a separate reusable bag.   Learning to reinforce at home: Handwriting - Encourage your child to practice writing their letters at home. Using a simple workbook like what you can find at dollar tree is fine. Finding simple sight words in books that you are reading together. Ask your child to answer simple questions about the stories that they have read.   Can they retell the characters, setting, what happened first, next and last? Are they able to make connections from their lives to the story?  Understand how the characters are feeling?	In School this week: Personal Narrative  - This is the last week for personal narrative writing.  Next week we will begin opinion writing.  Be sure to ask your child to read what they have written each day. Positivity Project: Integrity - being honest and speaking the truth. 3-D shape Museum - Please continue to send in 3-D shaped objects.  Label with tape with your child’s name please.  We will send objects back home this Friday.   Looking ahead: 100th Day We will celebrate our 100th day of school on Tuesday, February 16th.  A letter will come home explaining the project you and your child are to do and bring in on the 100th day.  We will display these for the week in the hallway and then return them home at the end of the week.  The projects can be a collection all together in a container, a collection displayed in a creative way, or items in groups of 5’s or 10’s.  Our 100th day is coming soon so start planning now what your child would like to bring in for their project!   https://conferk20.blogspot.com Any questions ?: aconfer@stjoebears.com text me at  773-968-9657