Miss Rutherford's Kindergarten
Welcome to Miss Rutherford's Class
Contact Information
Phone: 217-965-5424
E-mail: Miss Rutherford
Mark Your Calendar
May 4th- Fire House Field Trip
May 8th- Richland Stables Field Trip
May 9th- NED Assembly
May 18th- Kindergarten Picnic
May 21st- 1:20 Dismissal
May 22nd- 1:20 Dismissal
Fun Day
May 24th- Report Card Pick up
Have a happy, safe, wonderful summer! Please continue working hard this summer.
Help Needed!!!
Our classroom is in need of volunteers to come into the classroom to read AR books and administer AR tests. If anyone is interested please let me know what times you are available. Also, if anyone is interested in volunteering to help with other classroom projects your help would be greatly appreciated as well. Before volunteering in the classroom you must fill out a volunteer form. If you are interested and have not filled out a form please notify me and I will send one home with your child.
I would like to thank everyone who has provided snacks for our classroom. The students enjoy every snack.
Snack List
Tuesday, May 1- Erynn
Wednesday, May 2- Dane
Thursday, May 3- LeRoy
Friday, May 4- Estella
Monday, May 7- Ryan
Tuesday, May 8- Darren
Wednesday, May 9- Jenny
Thursday, May 10- Jacob
Friday, May 11- Aiden
Monday, May 14- Erynn
Tuesday, May 15- Will
Wednesday, May 16- Cassie
Thursday, May 17- Xander
Friday, May 18 - Kindergarten Picnic
Monday, May 21- Summer
Tuesday, May 22- Carson
**Please bring healthy snacks. We are trying to reinforce healthy eating habits in our students. Cookies, snack cakes, and other sweets are not handbook approved snacks and will be sent home.**
Happy Birthday!
Carson
Erynn (Summer B-day)
Whenever sending money to school with your child for any reason please put it in an envelope with his or her name on it and the purpose for the money.
P.B.I.S.
The North Mac School District follows a behavior plan called P.B.I.S. (Positive Behavior Intervention Support). We will be using this plan in our classroom. It entails three rules:
Be Safe
Be Respectful
Be Responsible
There is a stoplight in our classroom to track each individual student's behavior. There are four different levels with corresponding consequences.
Green light- Appropriate/Expected behavior
Parking Lot- Warning for Behavior Improvement
Yellow Light- Consequence (student misses part of recess)
Red Light- Further Consequences
The students are given Panther Pride Tickets when they display good, expected behavior. The students can save and exchange their Panther Pride Tickets for classroom/grade level rewards at the end of each week. The tickets are then placed in the weekly Panther Pride drawing in the office.
There will monthly P.B.I.S. rewards for students who demonstrate appropriate school behavior. A student will not qualify for the reward if he/she has more than the maximum amount of yellow slips or any red slips. The amount of allowed yellow slips will lessen monthly. The goal is for all students to work towards being safe, respectful, and responsible. Every month is a clean slate and a new opportunity to earn the next reward.
| Month | Maximum # of yellow slips | Reward |
| October | 5 | Career Dress-up Day |
| November | 4 | Silly Sock Day |
| December | 3 | Movie and Popcorn |
| January | 3 | Pajama Day |
| February | 2 | Wild Hair Day |
| March | 2 | Crazy Hat Day |
| April | 1 | Game Day |
| May | 1 | Beach Day Lunch |
Monthly Family Projects
The kindergarten classrooms will be sending home monthly family projects. This month we sent home raindrops with the boys and flowers with the girls. These projects are meant to be fun and spark creativity in every student. Each is unique and imaginative. Every student beams when he or she sees his/her creation hanging in the hallway. I cannot wait to see each special creation.
Other Classes
Monday- P.E
Tuesday- Music and P.E.
Wednesday- Library/Computer and P.E.
Thursday- Music and P.E.
Friday- P.E.
Reminders: Please send tennis shoes with your child everyday for P.E. and return library books weekly.
Reading
We have been working on letter identification and letter sounds. The students in my class have learned about many different letters and their corresponding sounds. As the students learn sounds they will bring home a sound book. Students are eager to read their sound books to anyone who will listen. Any practice developing these skills will help your child learn to read. The students have been introduced to a set of sight words. Learning these sight words will increase a child's reading fluency. Each student will be tested on these words at the end of the quarter.
4th Quarter Sight Words
| and | we |
| to | like |
| a | go |
| is | will |
| can | love |
| it | have |
| see | I |
| blue | black |
| orange | green |
| pink | purple |
| brown | red |
| white | yellow |
| the | my |
| at | for |
| of | here |
| he | are |
| said | as |
| was | play |
| his | had |
| she | in |
| on | you |
We are working hard identifying numbers 1-20, and counting objects. The ability to write numbers is a skill students are working to develop. Oral counting is another skill students are working on developing. The end of the year oral counting goal for all kindergartners is 100. When students reach this goal they become members of the 100 Club. To celebrate this achievement Mrs. Bommarito comes to the classroom and awards these students with a pin.
I would like to congratulate the following students on becoming 100 Club members:
Jacob Will CheyAnne
Cassie Dane Summer
Ryan Alexander LeRoy
Erynn Estella Carson
Carma Jenny Aiden
The following students have counted to 200:
Jacob
Cassie
Estella
Congratulations! Great work!
Other math skills we are working on developing are skip counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's, measuring with non standard units, determining more than, less than and equal to, estimating, and graphing. We will be working on telling time to the nearest half hour this quarter as well.
