Mrs. Matacotta's Kindergators

Dates to Remember  Friday, August 24th-  FBI - Fathers Being Involved Breakfast 7:00-7:45 Spirit Day - Wear Addison t-shirt or something green Monday, August 27th- Return library books Wednesday, August 29th- Early release day 12:15pm Thursday, August 30th-   Chick Fil A Night 3rd, 4th, 5th grades Grandparent's Breakfast Friday, August 31st- Kindergarten Career Dress-Up Day K,1st ,2nd grades Grandparent Breakfast Spirit Day - Wear Addison t-shirt or something green Monday, September 3rd-  Labor Day - NO SCHOOL

Congratulation to ALL of our Kindergators! They ALL turned in their homework journal yesterday!!  ALL students were able to move their names up the rainbow 1 space!  Some students moved their names all the way to Purple for completing both homework choices!  A big THANK YOU to all of the parents, too, for providing the support and encouragement your children needed to accomplish this task! Here is what we will be learning about this week: Reading- Retelling fiction stories.  Students will be practicing identifying the characters, setting, important events, problem and solution of a story. Writing- Writing a story with a beginning, middle and end. Math- Rote counting, counting objects, number recognition, and number writing. S.S.- American Symbols – comparing and contrasting our National and State flags Science- Matter- comparing and sorting objects made of different materials. Just a few reminders and notes: News F...

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 ques...

Dear Kindergator Parents,                                                            Hello. It was wonderful to meet you at Meet & Greet last week, and it has been very exciting to work with your children! We drew a picture of ourselves, read about a “Officer Buckle and Gloria” which lead into a discussion about how rules keep up safe.  We met and read about a “Ginger Bread Man” who got loose in the school.  This led us on a “wild goose chase” to find him and ended up taking us on a tour of all the special places in our school.  We chatted while we ate our snack, had fun during recess (in the gym), and had more fun chatting with our new friends at lunchtime. On Wednesday and Frid...

We are so excited about this year in kindergarten! Did you know that Addison is a Leader in Me school? This means we focus on the "Seven Habits of Highly Successful Children". We are very excited to help your children grow, lead, and succeed! For more information about Leader in Me and the 7 Habits, visit  http://www.theleaderinme.org/  . This year we hope to develop a love of learning in your children as they become readers, writers, and mathematicians. We hope to inspire them to try new things and think differently about the world around them. We want them to ask questions and develop their ability to observe and problem solve. To help your children be the best they can be, we will need help from you. Here are some ways you can help your children this year. 1. Check over this blog. It contains resources that explain what your child will be expected to know and strategies to help him/her be academically successful. 2. Read with your child every night. This includ...