October 15th: Last day of the first quarter! Make sure you have no overdue lessons, grades are due!

October 16th: Teacher Work Day/ No school for students!

October 17th-18th: Fall Break-no classes or lessons

October 21st: 1st Day of 2nd Quarter

October 23rd-31st: Red Ribbon Week

October 28th: Parent Teacher Conferences-more information to come.

November 1st: Parent Teacher Conferences-more information to come.

November 7th: Parent Teacher Conferences-more information to come.

*Tuesday & Thursday homeroom help sessions with Ms. Pruett from 2:00-2:15pm. Be sure to attend if you have any questions I can help with!

Be sure to attend live class each day Monday-Friday for you required session on isntruction. Be sure to work daily OLS lessons to complete and master them as assigned to stay on track. Be sure to complete Progress Learning daily for 15 minutes of Reading and 15 minutes of Math. If you have been assigned Fast Phonics in Reading Eggs be sure to complete 15 minutes of it each day after progress learning time. Be sure to write in your journal each day for 10 minutes, and practice for 3-5 minutes on daily letter name and letter sound fluency homework and upload those assignments to sesaw as they are assigned by your teacher.

Some students only have one 30 minute class a day, some have more for their instructional needs, it is important to be in class each day unless you are sick to help you grow and to get teacher instruction. We know sometimes you will be sick, but please try to plan outings or appointments around your child's class schedule to help them attend both so they do not fall behind in schooling. Anytime you need to be absent please email your teacher to have that great two way communication so we can support your instruction during an absence. Teachers are always willing to help!

Most of these supplies can be found at Dollar Tree or Wal-Mart.

• Pencils
• Primary Composition Notebook or spiral notebook with wide rule paper, or white construction paper for daily journal writing.
• A real penny, nickel, dime and quarter when we do money units.

Always have your K12 provided materials easily assessible! Ones we will use all the time are:

• Whiteboard/ Dry Erase Markers
• 100s Chart
• Alphabet Chart
• Magnetic Letter Tiles
• Snapcubes
• 2D & 3D shapes
• Tens Frame and cardboard tiles
• Sight Word deck of cards
• Phonics Decodeable Book Readers

We would love to showcase and spotlight your student this year in Kindergarten. Feel free to share your journey in pictures with us! It can be school or home life related.

OVCA is excited to see how you splashed into the 23/24 School year. Please upload images of your students' first day of school, Back to School Bash or Splash Event by using the link below. We may use these images for the yearbook, website, social media, school newsletters, or to share with perspective students excited about joining OVCA.

This section is for our awesome learning coaches! If you have any useful tips, ideas, resources, materials, etc to share please reach out to your homeroom teacher and share them and we can share them here on the newsletter for other learning coaches and parents to see!

Here is a link below shared by a fellow learning coach to some lined spiral notebooks. These are not required, just an extra resource you may want to add to your school supplies. These lined spiral notebooks can be a great tool to help students with name writing practice, number practice, letter practice, sight word practice, etc.

-Writing Development with inventive spelling

-TGA's and Writing Sample assignments

-ABC letter name fluency

-ABC sound fluency

-CVC words & nonsense words

-Sight word memorization

-Beginning reader’s for repeated

readings to build fluency

-Reading fluency & comprehension

Below is the PDF sight word list we will be learning in Kindergarten this school year. Feel free to print the below PDF or save it to your computer to refer back to. It lists the unit we start sight words, so that you may practice both in live classes with your homeroom teacher and outside of live class during your school day. There is also a pdf picture of the sight word card deck you should receive with your curriculum. We will use this sight word card deck during live instruction and is a great resource to use to practice sight words during the school day.

Attached below is October PDF Letter Fluency Tracker. Record the number correctly read each day to help track your child’s growth on letter names and letter sounds. Set a goal with your child to try and read at least 15 different letter names and their sound correctly each night for October. We will set new goals each month.

-Shapes, colors, & number Fluency

-Read & write numbers to 100

-Count to 100 by 1’s and 10’s

-Patterns

-Basic Measurement & vocabulary

-Compare objects & numbers

-Coin Names & value

-Basic time and days of week

-Adding & subtracting up to 10 with objects & pictures

-speaking incomplete sentences to share thinking

Throughout the year in kindergarten your child will use an app called Seesaw to upload teacher graded assignments (TGA's) and writing sample assignments. Your homeroom teacher may assign other assignments in Seesaw to help collect data on student growth.

See on the picture below for the list of TGA's and Writing Assignments for ELA and Math. These will be assigned in class and explained on the assigned date in live class and posted in the Newsletter. They will be due on the due date in Seesaw.

** Please do not begin the assignment until after you have heard the directions assigned in class to help save on any confusion and to help your child not need to re-do an assignment they worked hard on. The list below is for our families by request to see TGA assignments for the year.**

MATH TGA #2: Please do not begin to work on this until instruction is given on October 15th in class. It will be due the same day by 5 pm in Seesaw. Directions are below in PDF attachment and in Seesaw.

Here are some tips to help you begin your school year with a successful start!

• Students with better attendance achieve more success during the school year.
• Make a schedule in your OVCA planner and get in a routine for your school day. Get your planner from you CFA today! See sample morning and afternoon schedules below.
• Make sure to wake up and eat breakfast and get dressed to begin your school day off with a great start.
• Check your email everyday! Best practice is to check it first thing in the morning and at the end of the day before you log off for the evening.
• Create a quiet learning space that has all your materials easily accessible.
• Schedule Brain Breaks throughout the day. (Here are some great ones!)
• Expect your student to school for 6 hours (give or take) with breaks and lunches.
• Remember starting out can be difficult, but making mistakes is okay. Do not be scared to reach out for help!
• Always communicate with your teacher and CFA, we can help with anything if we know about it and we can adjust things to help you school successfully!

Click on the link below to help your child use the whole body listening strategy during class and lessons to help them be engaged and grow!

Below are the listed times your homeroom teacher will be in the k12 zone, come join if you can and say hello!

Ms. Pruett will be in the K12 zone in the morning between 8:30-9 AM every Friday morning.

Miss Smith will be in the K12 zone in the morning between 8:30-9AM every Monday morning.

Best practice is to clear your browser history and cache for google to help your computer run more smoothly and quicker. We encourage you to do it anytime your computer is running slowly and then restart the computer. It is best to have a habit to do it daily at the end of the day before powering down so you have a empty and clear browser history the next day for schooling.

Click on the PDF below for step by step directions to do this.

OVCA Planner for School Year 2024-2025 available from your CFA. Ask today for one to get off to a great start to the school year and stay on track! See some of the resources provided in the planner below.

Click on the link below to follow Amy Sisco on Eventbrite to see all upcoming OVCA social events and see what fun events you and your family may want to attend!

Some links may not work right now. That's ok! We aren't using them all at the moment!

The below resources will be used throughout the year to help practice skills and grow in reading. More information will come.