Mrs. Matacotta's Kindergators

We would like to take a moment to say thanks! First, Thanks to Mrs. Wessner and Mrs. Castro for volunteering to be our Room Moms!   Second, Thanks to Mrs. Mackintosh for volunteering to be a Science Lab volunteer! We greatly appreciate all of you donating your time to our class!! Finally, A GREAT BIG THANK YOU  to all of our parents for making the first night of homework such a great success! The students came into class today feeling very proud of doing their homework.  We even heard the words, "I love doing my homework!" echoing through the classroom!!  What a great first step into a successful school career for your child!                                                                

Your child should have brought their homework notebook home with them today.  It is due back this Friday  but we recommend keeping it in their backpack to help ensure it doesn't get left somewhere on that day.  Each night your child should complete the review skill, choice 1 OR choice 2 and then do some reading with you. Reading aside, the work should take no longer than 20 minutes. The work should be completed on the pages behind the homework grid and you can put more than one night on a page to save paper. Until the children get more comfortable in their writing, they may need to dictate some of their ideas to you. But after a week or two, they need to begin doing some or more of the writing.  All the questions from the homework relate to our standards. For example, you will see a question about finding the numbers on the mailbox. This relates to our social studies standard of knowing their "place in space" from continent down to home address. The question