News From The Jungle

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! See you on Monday!

Remember, if you have not already sent your child’s library book back, please do so on Monday in order for them to check out a new book!

Upcoming Events

9/19 Scholastic Book Order Due (ORDER ONLINE ONLY)

9/20 Half Day – 11:40am

9/25 Late Start – arrival at 9:35am. School starts 9:40am.

9/26 PBIS Party – Yard Games

9/27 No school for Kindergarten students ONLY!!!

Agenda for the Week

We learned the routines and procedures of Daily 5. The children had the opportunity to practice work on writing, read to self, and word work. We were able to learn three out of the five round of Daily 5. We will continue to practice next week and soon the children will learn how to make a choice of which round they would like to do first.

This week we worked on the letters Aa and Zz, as well as the sounds these letters make. We learned a letter sound song to help us with this as well. The children learned that letter sounds help them to become readers and writers.

I am just about finished with our initial round of assessments and this will allow me to begin grouping the children by skill set in order to provide instruction at each individual level.

Please utilize RazKids, Readingeggs, and Mathseeds at home. These are all wonderful resources to progress your child’s skills. When your child first logs on to Readingeggs and Mathseeds, it will ask them to take an assessment. This assesses their skill set and places them at the lesson that is best suited for them. Some of your children may start on lesson one or some may start on lesson nine. I love these programs because they place the kids at their own learning level!

Housekeeping Items:

Snack Time

Please be sure to put the snack in a separate place from their lunch. Please show your child where you will put their snack each day in order to foster independence for them. Sometimes, when the snack is packed inside the lunchbox, the children try to eat their whole lunch at snack time. Please only send one snack with your child. Thank you for your assistance in separating your child’s snack and lunch.

Snacks should be healthy to provide the children with energy for their day. Please send a simple snack such as fruit, vegetables, cheese, and crackers. Please do not send candy as a snack. Juice and milk are not allowed in our classroom. Please do not send any kind of juice box or milk with your child for snack time. The children may have the juice or milk for lunch in the cafeteria.

Folders

Please make sure to empty the folder each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before. Please be sure to send the folder to school each day. It is a big part of our arrival and dismissal routines and the folders help the children keep all of their papers organized.