We have started the Science unit on Fabric and on Friday the children made collages of fabric scraps. The teachers walked around asking “How does the fabric feel? How does the fabric look?” We are listening for words such as: scratchy, rough, smooth, soft, silky, sheer, sparkly, light, dark, and bumpy. Those are vocabulary words that you can reinforce at home as your children do the homework assignment of attaching labels to household items made of fabric. It is always interesting to learn of the items the children identify as made of fabric in their homes. Here are your little collage artists busily creating:
Has your child been reading the letter books he (or she) has brought home from school? Please save them and read and reread them frequently. When your kindergartner reads these ‘letter books’ to you, the right thing to do is to have him (or her) follow along with his (or her) finger. Our sight word list is growing RAPIDLY! Please click on the list in the ‘Pages’ section at the top of this site. These are words to be memorized by sight, not to be sounded out.
Please read our October letter to families which will be in your child’s homework folder on Monday (10-5). Picture day is scheduled for this week (I don’t trust my memory to say if it is Tues. or Thurs.!) and Friday is a statewide Professional Development Day for teachers and that means a three day weekend for students!
