Welcome to Kindergarten! I LOVE to teach Kindergarten! I am currently teaching my fifth year at Lumberport Elementary. I previously taught first grade and Music/Health to PreK-second grade at LES. I am in my 15th year of teaching. I was a substitute for two years, and I taught for 8 years at a local private school. While I was there I taught Kindergarten for 5 of those years. I am a West Virginia native. I have lived in West Virginia my entire life. I am a graduate of Washington Irving High School in Clarksburg and a 1995 graduate of West Virginia University. I currently live in Clarksburg with my husband, Tim, and four children. Three of my children are in school. I enjoy reading and spending time with my family. We like to spend our summers by poolside and enjoy snow skiing in the winter.
If you ever need to reach me, you may call the school or reach me by home phone number, which was given out at the beginning of the year. At school, I am available from 12:20-1:05 pm daily. You may also contact me via email at mgentilo@access.k12.wv.us Our entire school year is about getting our students ready for First grade. There are so many new things that our Kindergarteners need to master in order to be successful in First grade. We want the students to be able to read on a beginning level. They must be able to take those early phonics principles and apply them to their reading and writing. Some great websites for reinforcment in reading and phonics are www.starfall.com and www.pbskids.org, the Between the Lions link is especially good. Our students also use the Compass Odyssey learning website at school. The activities are sequential. Students can master the actvities at home or school and move on the next activity on the website. This is an excellent site for language arts and math activities. Students can log on at home using the same username and password that they use at school. irc.harr.k12.wv.us/childu/index.html
Classroom News for the Week of April 19-23, 2010 SPECIAL EVENTS: Lumberport Head Start, Shinnston Head Start and Station Street Daycare will be visiting our school on Thursday, April 29, 2010. Popcorn Sale - Thursday - price $.50 We will be making tie-dye shirts on Thurs. or Friday of this week.
Decodable Reader Bags: Your child's decodable reader is in a large Ziploc bag in his/her bookbag. Please review the book each night and send back to school in the bag. We will read the books each day at school. Hopefully, by Friday of each week, your child will be able to successfully read the book. A new book will be sent home each Monday.
READING: The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper; fiction/nonfiction stories; beginning, middle and end; characters and setting; onomatopeia; discuss types of transportation; students will be introduced to the letter /v/; students will blend and segment words with the /v/ sound; students will learn about the viper
We incorporate sign language with our weekly song that goes along with the reading series. This week's sign language: train, track, young, valley High Frequency Words: the, little, I, am, red, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple, brown, black, white, pink, to, a, have, is, we, like, my, he, for, me, with, she, see, look, they, of, you, she, do, are, that, here, go, from To help your child learn the above words, make flashcards at home and frequently quiz your child on the words. Vocabulary: mountain, roundhouse, engine, tracks, valley, passenger
MATH: Subtraction
WRITING: We have begun our writing journals. The students are doing a great job with their writing. Homework: Monday-Jan at the Fair decodable reader (continue to practice each night) Tuesday-Jan and Gus phonics reader (continue to practice each night) Wednesday- Letter V notebook Thursday-Letter V Show and Tell Friday-No Homework Schedule:
Mrs. Gentilozzi’s Schedule 7:45-8:00 Opening/Restroom
Planning Schedule M-gym T-library books due W-gym Th-library F-gym
Snack Schedule M-Jordyn T-Jeffrey W-Brandon Th-Joseph F-Justin
We have 23 students in our classroom. *please keep snack calorie limits to 200 calories. Please refrain from Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies, Little Debbie Nutty Buddies, and Little Debbie Fudge Rounds. If you would like to send in cans of juice or containers of milk or juice to be served at snack, it is welcome along with juice boxes. However, it is not necessary to send in drinks for snack.
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