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 50^th 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 3^rd. 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!