We had a wonderful first week in Kindergarten! I am so proud of all of our friends! They are doing so well with listening, following directions, and staying focused. Thank you for all of your support! Together we can do this!
Next week, we will meet on Teams each day from 8:10-9:30. You will continue to log in for specials at 12:20 using the following schedule. Monday: PE Tuesday: Discovery Lab Wednesday: Music Thursday: PE Friday: Art During reading next week, we will continue to work on rhyming words, understand characters in stories, beginning sounds, and the roles of authors and illustrators. During our math lessons, we will focus on 2D shapes (square, circle, triangle, rectangle, hexagon) and 3D shapes (cube, sphere, cylinder, rectangular prism, cone). We will talk about the shapes’ characteristics (number of sides/corners, flat/solid) as well as real life examples of each shape. The Science/Social Studies lessons will be on Seesaw each day and will be done independently instead of as a live lesson. We will learn about map skills, our address, and sink/float. Please make sure that you picked up the learning packet for next week. You can pick up the packet from a bin outside of Dolvin. Instead of returning the packet each week, please take pictures of the required assignments and post them on Seesaw. For next week, you will need the rhyming cards (Tuesday) and “lesson 6 problem set pg. 4” (Monday) from the packet. During office hours for the next 2 weeks, I will be doing individual assessments. Please be sure to sign up for 2 separate sessions for your child. I will call your child via Teams using the Teacher Desk channel. It will be very important to allow your child to answer each of my questions independently. It is okay if your child does not know the answer to a question. This assessment helps me plan my instruction. Please sign up using the link below. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c044eaca722a4fe3-kgkids If you need anything, please let me know. I am really enjoying your children! We have a great class!
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Welcome to Kindergarten! I am excited to begin working with your child on Monday! I have a lot of information to share with you before we begin next week. Each week I will send an update that will be emailed and also available on my website (http://mshemmannsclass.weebly.com/).
First Day of School We will begin our first meeting at 8:10 on Monday. Please log into Teams using the ⌚Class Meeting🎤 tab. Then click on the Camera icon and join the meeting. Please make sure your camera is turned on and you are muted. If you are unable to join the meeting once it starts, it will be okay. However, I will not be able to help you with technical problems during the live session. We will figure it out during office hours (10-11, 1-2). We will meet for about 2 hours (8:10-10:00 AM). Here are the lessons we will do on Monday: -Morning Meeting – introductions, on-line etiquette, Dolvin Virtual Rules -Reading – we will listen to a story and talk about the letters in our names -Math – we will begin with Calendar Math and listen to a song about numbers. -Social Studies/Science – share our All About Me Bags Schedule Our URL schedule is attached. During specials, you will log into Teams for your lessons in PE, Music, Discovery Lab/Media Center, or Art. On Monday, our special is PE so you will log into Teams to do your lesson with Mr. Maloy at 12:20 PM. Student Information Form Please take a few minutes to fill out the linked form in order to help me get to know your child a little better. Please let me know if you have any questions. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14ZAzkeudL5FySy-zYv1eZbHSdJtbvm-jf95sEUnoVyc/edit Individual Meetings Beginning the week of August 24, I will be meeting individually with your child during my office hours (10-11 AM, 1-2 PM). I will use this time to assess your child on various reading and math skills which were taught in PreK last year (example: identify letters, letter sounds, numbers, counting, etc.). It will be very important for your child to answer my questions without your assistance in order to get an accurate assessment of what they currently know. This will help me place them in the appreciate reading and math group in a few weeks. Please sign up for one 20 minute meeting each week (2 total meetings) using the link below. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c044eaca722a4fe3-kgkids PTA The PTA would love to have all Dolvin Families join this school year. Please visit www.dolvinpta.org for information on membership and purchasing Dolvin Spirit Wear! Learning Packets Along with our live Teams meetings, you will need to pick up a Learning Packet for your child each week. Packets will be available for pick up outside of Dolvin beginning at 3:00 PM each Thursday. The packets need to be returned into a bin outside of Dolvin on Fridays. If you came through the Dolvin Drive-By today, then you already received your Learning Packet for next week. Attendance Attendance will be taken each week. Please make sure that you do at least 1 of the following in order to be marked present. -submission of work from weekly learning packet -participation in a live lesson Grades Grades will be taken on work either submitted online after live lessons or on the Learning Packets. More information will be provided soon. Photo If you have not emailed me a current photo of your child, please emailed it as soon as possible. These photos will help us get to know our friends better! Needed Supplies Each day, your child will need the following supplies when they come to our live meetings. -pencil with eraser -crayons/colored pencils/markers -scissors -glue stick -paper -composition writing journal (blank at the top with lines to write on at the bottom) -letter tiles (will be provided next week) I know that this is a lot of information and I promise that we will begin slow. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out via email. I look forward to a fun year in Kindergarten with your child! Jessica Hemmann Be sure to look for an email coming on Wednesday with how to access our Sneak Peek information. Our Kindergarten Drive-By will be on Friday, August 14th, from 12:20-12:50 PM. Be sure to drive by in order to wave to your teacher! I can't wait to see you all!
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