Upcoming Events
*November
21 – Half Day of School
*November
22-23 – No school, Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving
Lunch
Our annual Thanksgiving Lunch was
on Thursday. The Kindergarten classes
did a terrific job of providing the entertainment for all three lunches! We
also had a great time enjoying wonderful food, served by amazing volunteers,
with our awesome buddies! I will share a link to a video of one of the
performances in an email to everyone.
Cold Weather
Clothing
The weather has started turning
colder and will be snowier, especially in the morning. Please make sure your child is dressed
appropriately for the conditions. Practice
zipping coats, putting on snow pants, hats, and mittens, and tying shoes at home. The children are required to wear boots and
snow pants in order to play in the snow at recess. Please remember, we expect the children to be
able to dress themselves in their outerwear.
When your child wears boots to school, you need to put a pair of inside
shoes (that they can get on and off themselves) in their
backpack. They will leave boots in the hall and change
to their other shoes at the beginning of the day. If you would like to send in a pair for them
to keep in their locker, that would be fine. We will be happy to help with shoe
tying and zipping until the Winter break.
After that, they are expected to take care of these things on their
own. Of course we will still untie knots
and unstick stuck zippers! Thank you for
your help and support at home.
Conferences
Thank you so much to ALL of the
parents that made it a priority to come to their child’s conference.
I enjoyed meeting with you and
discussing your child’s progress in kindergarten. It is amazing how much they have already
learned and will continue to learn this year!
This Cycle
Our
50th day centers were GREAT!
Thank you to all of the moms that were able to help us practice
recognizing, counting, and writing to 50!
Our
handwriting focus this past week was uppercase and lower case Dd, and reviewing
uppercase and lowercase Oo and Aa.
Please practice writing these letters correctly at home. Our strategy
with language arts this week was determining sequence of events and determining
text importance.
We
worked with many posters about growing plants to sequence the information and
determine its importance. We learned about signal words like first, next, then,
and last. We have started our new writing unit, Pattern Books. We are
practicing writing books that have similar words on each page, are all about
one topic, and use sight words and simple words! These are this kind of books
we are practicing reading by ourselves too!
Christmas Trees
Coming home this week is our next (and last) take home
project this year. We are decorating
Christmas trees to hang in our hallways this holiday season. Please work with
your child to decorate your tree and return it to school by November 31st.
Thank you and have fun!
Gingerbread
Houses
We are going to be decorating our gingerbread houses the
week of December 3rd. I will email the exact dates and times later
this week or early next week. We will
need help getting supplies ready, supervising the decorating process, and
cleaning up after. We would love to have
you. ALSO, we need some help before
preparing the houses for decorating.
This involves hot gluing graham crackers to a small milk carton and then
onto a plate. I have one glue gun. If you would like to help with this important
prep work, I would LOVE to have you.
Box Tops
Please send in your Box
Tops! Our school is having a competition
to see what class can collect the most.
If we win, we get a prize!!!
School Store
Our student council runs a
school store during lunch on some Wednesdays.
They sell pencils, erasers, and other little trinkets. Most things cost less than a dollar. Your children are welcome to bring money (only
a dollar at most please) and purchase items during their lunch. These days are usually announced on our
morning school news.
This
Thanksgiving Season I am especially thankful for all of my amazing students and
their wonderful parents!
Happy
Thanksgiving!
