Hello Purple Room Parents,
I hope you all are enjoying your Saturday afternoon.
For those children who have not yet received their recipe books, I will be working on them during the next few days and hope to get the rest sent home by the beginning of next week.
Next week is S week. Seeing that they are many things that start with S, the week is open ended for children’s recommendations. I had a few students request that we talk about snails (seeing that they are invading our yard during play time!). So we will be doing a craft around snails as well as discussing the benefits of snails. I hope to encourage that snails are not to be squished and hit with our playground toys. We want to treat our animal friends as nicely as our human friends. Another student also had an interest in snakes. We will discuss many different kinds of snakes and will do a craft based on snakes. I would also like to talk about our solar system. We will talk about the planets that make up our solar system as well as stars and the different constellations found in our solar system.
Another important lesson that you may or may not be familiar with is sight words. Sight words are words that appear frequently in most of the text kids read, but can't easily be sounded out. Learning them helps children become more confident readers. The list below contains the most common kindergarten sight words. Although kids won't need to be able to read these sight words until the end of kindergarten, if you've got a pre-K child itching to get started with sight words, this is a great place to start before kindergarten rolls around. For those children who aren't interested yet, that's fine, no pressure.
• a
• at
• an
• and
• am
• are
• can
• do
• for
• go
• has
• have
• he
• here
• in
• I
• is
• it
• like
• look
• me
• my
• no
• play
• said
• see
• she
• so
• the
• to
• up
• we
Please keep this list handy. I encourage that you work with your child if they are interested and help them become familiar with these words. An easy way is through flashcards. It is important that the lessons we do at school be reinforced at home. This will help concepts “stick” with your child.
As I mentioned earlier, next week is still open for child recommendations for topics around the letter S. We will discuss the topics I’ve listed above, but there’s always room for more activities!
Looking forward to next week! Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Take care,
Shaina
