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Elephant News
October 1st-5th

• FYI
• Please practice letter/sound identification and
  sight words at home with your child.
• Conference reminders will be sent home tomorrow.
  
• Please remember to read with your child every
  night for 30 minutes. Together we can create the
  love of reading. ?

• This Weeks Studies
• This week we will
• study the letters Nn and Hh and their sounds
• represent, compare, and order sets of 6 to 10 in
  math
• write numbers 6 to 10
• introduce the sight word a and add it to our
  word wall
• learn about fire safety during Social Studies
• observe and sort items during Science
• Please remember, to demonstrate mastery of
  letters, your child needs to know its name, write
  it, and use the sound. To demonstrate mastery of
  numbers, your child needs to know its name, write
  it, and show objects to match it.
• To demonstrate mastery of sight words your child
  should be able to recognize the word in several
  different settings (alone, in sentences, or in
  books)

READ! READ! READ! Every night for 20-30
minutes Kindergarten teachers have always known
that kids have to believe they can read before
they can actually do it. -Reggie Routman, from
Reading Essentials
Touch Math We are working on numbers 0-5 as well
as learning their touch points. Touch math
contains dots and circles on each number. It
reinforces number values, eliminates guessing and
reduces errors (during addition and subtraction
problems).

• Important Dates
• October 3rd-Field Trip permission slips and
  payment (8) due
• October 4th-Early Release
• October 10th-Fall Pictures
• October 10th-Kindergarten Parent teacher
  conferences
• October 17th-Run for Fundz Pumpkin Patch
  permission slips and payment due
• October 19th- Field Trip to Harry and the Dirty
  Dog End of the first nine weeks
• October 22nd-Teacher Workday/Student Holiday-No
  School
• October 25th-Pumpkin Patch field trip (no mile
  club for our class)

Remember to save your box tops and soda tabs! Box
tops will help earn money for our school. Soda
tabs are collected, counted and sent to the
Ronald McDonald House. Remember to order your
SCRIPit is money you would spend anyway and it
earns money for our school!
If you every have any questions or concerns,
please do not hesitate to contact me via the
communication log in your childs folder, email
(LaPointeM_at_mail.okaloosa.k12.fl.us) or directly
at the school (833-4100).