Hi!! My name is Ronnie Rains and I have been honored to be teaching your child for the 2007-2008 school year! I am so excited about my first year teaching at Pine Tree Primary! Kindergarten is such an important and fun time of growth for young children and I am enjoying the experience with you and your child.

I grew up in Spring, TX, and I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. I married my wonderful husband, Jason, in the summer of 2005 in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. I am also a proud mommy to my little girl, Zoe, who recently celebrated her 1st birthday in October.

Here are the sight words that you child needs to know this year: I, a, is,to, like, see, the, my, go, in, am, we, and, at, here, me, on, up, look, this, it, come

9/17-9/21 Colors and Shapes
9/24-9/28 I am Special & Ii
10/1-10/5 Watermelon & Tt
10/8-10/12 Apples & Aa
10/15-10/19 Fire Safety/
Transportation & Ff
10/22-10/26 Pumpkins & Pp
10/29-11/2 Halloween/Fall & Hh
11/5-11/9-Scarecrows & Ss
11/12-11/16-Turkeys/Thanksgiving & Ll
11/19-11/20-Thanksgiving & Review
11/26-11/30- Gingerbread & Oo
12/3-12/7-Christmas & Kk
12/10-12/14-Christmas & Gg
12/17-12/21- Christmas & Review
12/31-1/4- Winter
1/7-1/11- Mittens & Mm
1/14-1/18-Penguins & Ee
1/24-1/25- Bears (non-fiction) & Bb
1/28-2/1- Bears (fiction) & Rr
Ww
Nursery Rhymes & Cc

1st nine weeks.
*Identify numbers 1-10
*Identify shapes and their attributes- circle, triangle, square and rectangle
*Identify, create and extend a pattern. (some examples are ABC, AABB, AAB, ABB)
*Sort and identify likenesses and differences in objects
*Understand postitional words (example- over/under, 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.)
The 2nd nine weeks:
quantitive language- more than, less than, same
identifying missing numbers
counting 1 to 1 correspondence (to 20)
writing numbers 1-10
using numbers to describe how many in a set (to 20)
interpreting and using graphs

*Our School hours are from 8:00-2:30. Please make sure your child is on time. If late please walk your child into the school.

* Attendance is extremely important. Please make every effort to have your child at school each day. When your child is sick please send a note. If your child has an appointment with a doctor please send office slip with your child on his/her return to school.

We have a very neat rewards program at Pine Tree. I get to choose 2 of my students to be a "Pirate Pal" just about every other week. The students I choose are those who exhibit great behavior and prove to follow school and classroom rules. Some of our staff will take our "Pirate Pals" to Kid Station along with the other "Pirate Pals" from other classes. Please encourage your child to have good behavior and follow our rules.

We work on the following words Monday-Thursday. On Friday, we practice various computer skills through the program: TECHKnowledge.
Please go over these words with your child. Each word is spelled from memory. Have them use their sounds.
Book 1:(red) cat dog fish
Book 2:(blue) pig sun bed
Book 3:(green) rabbit leg three
Book 4:(orange) man snake vase
Book 5:(brown) jump hand wagon
Book 6:(tan) yard moon kite
Book 7:(yellow)zipper straw smoke
Book 8: (purple) turtle chair house
Book 9: (pink) oil horse wheel
Book 10: (aqua) uniform book butter

My conference period is 2:30 - 3:30.
I can be reached during this time at 903-295-5095.
Please feel free to email me at anytime – rrains@ptisd.org