April 8th - April 12th

Ribbit! Croak! Let’s learn about frogs! This week during reading and some of next week during writing we will be discussing Frogs by Elizabeth Carney. We will be hopping into this text to see how the author and illustrator can help us understand information all about frogs. We will be writing our own informational book all about frogs!

Vocabulary from the book:

• croak: the deep, hoarse noise that a frog makes
• gills: body parts that a fish or tadpole uses to breathe
• habitat: the natural place where a plant or animal lives
• poison: something that can kill or hurt living things

Here are just a few activities you can do at home with your child this weekend:

• Hop like a frog and count to 100 by 10s and 5s.
• Hop and spell CVC (dog, cat, pig, rat, sad, dad, mom) words.
• Small frogs like to eat ants! Make “ants on a log” for snack time. Place raisins on a peanut butter covered celery stick.

Monday in the Science Lab Mrs. Knobbe reviewed characteristics of plants and the students got to plant grass heads! Once they start growing they will come home! 

Dear Kindergator Parents,

We are excited to announce our Parental Pedagogy Week, coming the week of May 13-17.

We would like to invite our parents to come in to class and teach something unique and personal to our students. This can involve career related lessons, cultural tradition lessons, science projects, cooking lessons, art lessons or anything you think the students might enjoy. Hands-on lessons and projects are usually the most interesting, but sharing a special family story can be a wonderful experience too. This is a chance to promote the importance of education, have some fun, expand our curriculum, and show the students that everyone has something special to contribute! We welcome your ideas and can even help with some planning or materials if you need us.

Here are some examples from previous years that the children seemed to enjoy, if you need some inspiration:

Puppet Making, What Doctors Do, Learning Spanish, Making Mud Pudding, How to Play Baseball, What Facial Expressions Tell Us, Watercolors, Cursive Handwriting, and Theatrical Storytelling.

Attached you will find a schedule of times available that week. If you wish to participate, please email us what date and time you prefer and a generalized idea of what you will be teaching or presenting. This is always a fun and powerful week of learning, so we hope you can make time to be our next teacher.

Thanks as always,

Mrs. Rodgers

	Monday May 13	Tuesday May 14	Wednesday May 15	Thursday May 16	Friday May 17
9:00- 9:45	Field Day	9-9:30 Open		Chess 8:45- 9:35
9:45-10:30	Field Day	Coding Mice 9:30-10:15	Coding Mice 9:30-10:15
10:30-11:15	Field Day
11:15-12:00	Field Day
12:40-1:25	Field Day
1:25- 2:10	Field Day

Dear Kindergator Parents,
Our Habit of the Month for April and May is Sharpen the Saw. Sharpen the Saw means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have--you. It means having a balanced program for self-renewal in the four areas of your life: physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual. Here are some examples of activities:

Physical: Beneficial eating, exercising, and resting
Social/Emotional: Making social and meaningful connections with others
Mental: Learning, reading, writing, and teaching
Spiritual: Spending time in nature, expanding spiritual self through meditation, music, art, prayer, or service


For this habit, we would like to request a printed picture of your child “Sharpening the Saw”! We will use the picture for our hallway display for the night of the Gator Gala. If you could send in a picture by April 15th of your child “Sharpening the Saw”. 

Thank you,
Kindergarten Teachers

For access to leveled books and their 20 minute reading time you could use:

Kids A-Z Login Instructions

Step 1: Go to www.kidsa-z.com

Step 2: Enter or choose the teacher's username, jrodgers4

Step 3: Their student number is their username and password

ReadingEggs is great for both reading and math! It is often our technology piece on homework.
The students can access ReadingEggs or MathSeeds once they login using their student ID number for both their username and password: https://readingeggs.com/

Save any sight word books or practice pages that come home and go over them as well as using flash cards. 

Here are a couple websites to help with different strategies to use at home for sight words: 

https://www.k12reader.com/sight-word-teaching-strategies/

https://www.scholastic.com/parents/books-and-reading/raise-a-reader-blog/sight-words-101.html 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsAsYlJSSx-qcUr6D4i-LPBvkV2Suy0iV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGYHDxmjqlQ&list=PLQK2XiUY9C2goAU9vFtgyRWAO-srC6iJf

Letters and Sight Words of the Week 2018-2019

Date	Letter/Blend/Digraph	Sight Words
August 1	FIRST WEEK
August 6
August 13		I, it, is
August 20		a, as, do
August 27	M and short A	am, and, an
September 4	S	so, see, me
September 10	T	to, the, my
September 17	N	not, on, no
September 24	FALL BREAK
October 1	Short I	at, in, will
October 8	F	he, she, we
October 15	P and Short O	said, saw, was
October 22	C (hard and soft)	can, came, come
October 29	H	his, help, her
November 5	B	big, by, be
November 12	Short U	but, up, us
November 19	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
November 26	R	ran, run, him
December 3	Short E	when, then, well
December 10	G (hard and soft)	go, give, get
December 17	D	did, had, has
January 7	W/Wh	what, were
January 14	L	like, let, look
January 22	J	put, out, now
January 28	K	must, into, all
February 4	Y	your, you, yes
February 11	V/Z	very, love, of
February 18	FEBRUARY BREAK
February 25	Q	want, went, who
March 4	X	little, have, with
March 11	Bossy R (ar, or, ir, ur, er)	are, for, from
March 18	Long A	ate, make, say
March 25	Long E	please, eat, here
April 1	APRIL BREAK
April 8	Long I	find, fly, why
April 15	Long O	home, going, this
April 22	Long U	new, some, they
April 29	OO	soon, good, too
May 6	OU/OW	down, our, how
May 13	Sh,Th,Ch	there, where
May 20	LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL

Refer to https://rodgersaddison.blogspot.com/2019/03/march-18th-22nd-explanation-of-quarter.html for detailed explanation of the Quarter 4 Standards. 

Due to testing in the upper grades, our schedule will change beginning April 8th until the end of the year. Our specials time will move from 1:25-2:10 pm to 8:00-8:45 am.

Currently our lunch time (10:48-11:18) will stay the same. 

Be on the look out for any other changes that could happen during the end of the school year.

Check the Addison website for upcoming events at the school: http://www.cobbk12.org/Addison/