Week 30

Dear TK Family and Friends,

This week we will learn the following:

• Jesus has many friends; baptism
• Counting to 27
• Writing numbers 0 to 10
• Recognizing numbers to 27
• Addition Concept
• Letter Ww
• Sight word: she
• The 3 Pigs - vocabulary: bundle, blaze, fortune, huffed
• The 3 Pigs - character and setting
• pigs and wolves

We are busy learning in TK!

Save the Date!

Don't forget that we will be performing The Three Piggy Opera on June 9 at around 10:30 AM.  

Progress Report and How Mrs. Paragas Teaches the Class

I want you all to be aware that I try to teach to all the students.  This age group is very tricky to teach as some children are new to the school environment and are learning the basics of school; while some children have been in a school environment and know their ABCs and 123s...  Despite the wide range of learners in the classroom - I still teach to all.  I teach the basics (which is new to the children who are new to school) and I teach the advanced material to target the children who need more.  For example, when teaching the 3 Little Pigs, I ask the children to identify the letters in the words they see, describe what they see in the pictures, count what they see, what do the given words begin with, what happened at the beginning, middle, and end of the story and so forth... Meanwhile, I am also asking the children to listen to the story and based on the context of the story, what does the vocabulary word mean, story elements such as describe the character and setting, etc.  

We will also be diving in addition and subtraction in TK.  For some, I will only be teaching how to add and subtract to 5, while other students can do larger numbers.

Because of the wide range of learners in the classroom, Progress Reports will only go home (on Friday) with the children who are continually having difficulty with the material that has been covered up until this week (past letters, sight words, numbers, etc).  If you have questions or have any confusions, please send me an email.

Science Night

Tomorrow is Science Night at 5:30 in the hall.  I hope to see you there!

Volunteers

I would love to have parent volunteers in the classroom.  If you'd like to volunteer and have been fingerprinted and safe environment trained.  Please sign up.  I'd love to have your help :)

Have a great week!

Mrs. Paragas