Welcome to a new year! This will be my 33rd. year teaching. I have been teaching
at Hadley-Murphy for the past 20 years in the second grade and Kindergarten. My children once
were students in this school.  Please use this
website to find out what is going in your child's room this year. The second
page of the site, titled, "Kindergarten Korner" will
be a monthly newsletter that will keep you informed about what is going each
month. It will have information regarding what is being taught,  requests
for special materials for
your child's activities, as well as any  upcoming field trips and special events at school.
Please make a copy or request a copy to be sent home with your child.<p>
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The children will learn the following in math this year:&nbsp; Recognizing
numbers 1-30; counting to 100; patterns; skip counting by 5's and 10's; shapes;
telling time on the hour;&nbsp;recognizing a penny, a nickel and a dime and
their values; weight and measurement; and solid shapes.&nbsp; Each day we will spend time doing Calendar
Math so that the students will have an opportunity to use practical math skills.<p> 
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<p>The children have gym 2 times per week for 20 minutes.&nbsp; Please be sure
they wear their gym shoes to school those days.
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Science lessons will cover such topics at seeds, weather, seasons and lighter and
heavier objects.<p> 
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Social Studies topics for Kindergartners will cover knowing their phone number,
house number, name of their street, the city and country they live in.<p>  
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<p>In Language Arts the
children will learn to recognize the alphabet, learn letter sounds for them, be
able to write both upper and lower case letters in Modern Manuscript, blend
sounds to make words, recognize how many syllables are in a word, do rhyming
words and poetry, recognize high frequency words, color words, number words to
ten, draw and label their pictures using alphabet sounds that match what they
drew, move into recognizing sentences and even writing a sentence near the end
of the year, recognize that pictures, words, and letter sounds help us to learn
to read then applying that skill to their reading.<p>
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<p>The
children will learn to label pictures and then move into spelling some of the
words that they often use..<p>
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<font Size=+1><b>Parent Volunteers</b></font><p>
If you are interested in volunteering your time to help out in some way, please
let me know by e-mail or you may fill out the volunteer form that I send home at
the beginning of each year. If you will be volunteering you must also fill out a
district volunteer form to have a background check done. Your help will be appreciated! My e-mail address is: 
<a href="index.htm?MenuItem=SendMail&address=lblauet@lapeerschools.org">lblauet@lapeerschools.org</a><p align="center">
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