Dear Families,

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and stayed warm and dry! I am so excited for our field trip this Wednesday and for another week in school with your children. I am so proud of their hard work 🙂 Here is what we will be working on this week. If there are any changes I’ll be sure to add them as they come up!

Important Dates:

*There will be coffee with the principal on Monday, September 30 at 8:50 AM.  The focus of the session will be exploring community resources in order to examine how nutrition plays an important role in student achievement and wellness.  Our featured guest for coffee with the principal will be Nadia Akanan, a local nutritionist, who is interested in helping families learn more about the impact of food on a student’s daily life.

October 4th: Bingo for books in the cafeteria (Note went home in folders Monday night!)  

October 18th: Halloween Dance in Gym 5:30pm-8:30pm more info to come!

October 24th: Picture Day! Picture orders will come home in the near future 🙂

Rock Decorations: A special thank you to Noah’s, Luciana’s and Jack’s moms for volunteering to help us decorate beautiful rocks for our school garden. The kids were THRILLED to do them and it was so amazing! I can’t wait to do this again in the future for another project!

Field Trip Reminders: We will be heading to the Apple Orchard this Wednesday! Please make sure to send your child at 8:35am as usual with a sack lunch and dressed for the weather. Wiard’s is very big and the kids will do a lot of walking around so walking shoes are best! If you are a chaperone riding on the bus, please kindly send in your $11 tomorrow so we can give it to the office. Thank you again for your helping us!

Library Check Out: This week we will be visiting the library on Tuesday so please make sure your child’s book is in their backpacks on Monday night 🙂

Homework: This week I will be collecting last weeks packet (not the game) and sending home the next five lessons with a new math game!

Language Arts: Non Fiction Trade Book is “A Tree for All Seasons” (Robin Bernard) and “Tap the Magic Tree” (Christie Matheson) We will learn and identify what an author is, make inferences and connections, ask and answer questions from the text. Poem: All The Leaves Are Falling Down (In addition, we will be reading additional stories and picking out word pairs that rhyme vs word pairs that do NOT rhyme.

Sight Words: come, and Letters: Oo, Ii

Writing: (Narrative Focus) This week we will keep working on our unit “Writing Through Pictures” and incorporate some writing about the apple orchard!

Math: Continue Unit 1 Numbers to 5 and building stamina for stations mixed in with the lessons. We are doing really well with math so far and I am pleased with the “number sense” that students are building with the numbers!

Science: This week we will do an experiment to find out how much force to give our wrecking ball in order to knock down a wall without knocking down the houses behind it! Then, we will move onto Mystery 4 in the Force Olympics.

Social Studies: Cont. Unit on “Getting Along With Others”

Dear Parents,

Thank you all for volunteering your time to accompany our class to Wiard’s Apple Orchard on October 2nd. Here is the result of our lottery and the parents we have pulled out of the hat! We will be actually taking seven parents! If your name was not chosen this trip, feel free to drive separately and meet us there! We’d love for you to join your child’s group for the afternoon. Just remember, your child must ride to and from the field trip on the school bus with Mrs. Ross and the class. Thank you all in advance for helping us make this field trip amazing. The following parents will meet us at DuVall by 9:00am on October 2nd, sign in at the office and sign in before being sent down to room 106. If for any reason your schedule has changed please let me know as soon as possible so we can pull another parent to chaperone 🙂

Noah’s mom

Virginia’s mom

Jillian’s mom

Andrew’s dad

Mohamad’s mom

Anthony’s mom

Luciana’s mom

Dear Families,

I hope you had a great weekend. We had another wonderful and successful week in kindergarten and we accomplished SO much. We spent the week working hard on our theme of friendship and worked with some very good trade books in language arts, writing and social studies. Here is a list of books we used just in case you’d like to read these at home with your child: Huggapotamus (Steve Metzger), Why Should I Share? (Claire Llewellyn), When Sophie Gets Angry Very Very Angry (Molly Bang), The Crayon Box That Talked (Shane Derolf).

Important Dates/Reminders:

Please send in any last minute field trip permission slips and/or your child’s $11 for the Apple Orchard if your child was not here last week 🙂

Wednesday: Late Start (School starts at 9:35am. I will meet you outside on the yellow line!)

Friday, September 27th: KDG STUDENTS ONLY have no school today while teachers have professional development meetings all day.

Popcorn: No school for KDG however if your child has an older sibling at DuVall feel free to send in those quarters with them!

Library Check Out: Tomorrow will be our first visit to the media center to check out books! Your child is allowed to check out and take home ONE book per week in kindergarten. Please help your child to become responsible by keeping the book in one spot at home and away from little siblings, food and water. Our check out day will always be Tuesdays (unless there is a holiday, snow day or another reason indicated on the blog) so please make sure the books are in their backpacks every Monday evening. Thank you in advance for your help!

Language Arts: Apples for Everyone (Jill Esbaum) and Ten Red Apples (Pat Hutchins). This week we will compare the difference between narrative and informational books as we read about apples. We are so excited to visit the apple orchard in October.

Spelling: Words of the week: at, look Letters of the week: Aa,Dd

Math: This week we will continue working in Unit 1 Numbers to 5. This week I will collect the homework packet on Monday and replace it with the next packet lessons 6-10. In addition, your child will receive another math game to place in a sheet protector and collect in their math binder. Your child may keep this game and play various skills all year long. No need to return the games.

Social Studies: Unit 1 “Getting Along with Others”. We will continue reading, discussing, sorting “green choices” (things we should keep doing) and “red choices” (things we should stop/not do in school). In addition, we will discuss how to “cool down” when upset or angry. This week we will read a great book called “The Juice Box Bully” by Bob Sornson.

Science: Begin Unit 1 Mystery Science “Force Olympics.” This unit helps students develop their first concept of “force,” and the idea that by playing with forces and thinking about them, we can accomplish surprisingly big things.  This week we will begin mystery 3! We have been learning about force and work words such as: push, pull, lift, dump, turn, spin, tilt. We also discussed why workers use big machines to build things such as houses, buildings and roads.

In October, we are going on our first field trip, with both kindergarten classes, to the apple orchard! We are going to Wiard’s orchard on October 2nd, 2019. Please send in the form and money ($11.00 cash only please) by this Friday the 20th. We will pick chaperones next week by lottery, based on your response from the field trip form. All volunteers need to have an Ichat form filled out in the office (you will need a driver’s license when you fill out the form). Thank you for time and support!

Mrs Ross and Ms Shapas

We are going on our first field trip, with both kindergarten classes, to the apple orchard! We are going to Wiard’s Orchard on October 2nd, 2019. Please send in the form and money ($11.00 cash only please) by this Friday the 20th. We will pick chaperones next Monday by lottery, please be sure to indicate your interest in chaperoning by checking yes or no on the permission slip. All volunteers need to have an Ichat form filled out in the office (you will need a driver’s license when you fill out the form in person). Thank you in advance for your support and helping to make our first field trip this year run as smoothly as possible!

Sincerely,

Mrs Ross and Ms Shapas 🙂

This is a reminder that all elementary students have a half day of school on Friday September 20th. 2019. Dismissal will be at 11:45 am and there will be no lunch for students. If your child would still like to bring in a snack we will still have one in the morning!

Mrs. Ross 🙂

This week we have been very busy! We have worked SO hard to learn many different procedures and the foundations of what will be our “subjects!” We worked on how to follow two and three step directions in order to transition from any subject to another, recess, lunch and dismissal. We worked on AM procedures and lunch choices. Wr leaned our first choice for Daily 5: “Read-to-Self” and practiced building independent reading stamina. Today we reached five minutes of uninterrupted reading! We explored and discussed what we need to become illustrators and tell stories through our pictures. We also worked a lot of our social studies unit “Getting Along With Others.” We also worked hard on four Eureka math lessons and incorporated small group stations into our math workshop! We are so proud of our hard work this week and wanted to share some of our pictures with you! Hope you have a wonderful weekendEnjoy ☺️

Good morning all! The lunch menu was changed for the rest of this week so here are the choices I’ll be offering this morning and the rest of the week to your little darlings 🙂

PS. We are working on making a list of “safe” foods to bring into the classroom for snack that will not contaminate the room or materials we all share such as pencils, crayons, paper, books etc. Fruits, fruit cups, apple sauce, fresh veggies (not avocado), cheese sticks are super great ideas for today! THANK YOU ALL so much for working with us to make our room safe for all our little ones!

Wednesday: hamburgers or spaghetti

Thursday: Chicken Nuggets or cheese pizza

Friday: Cheesy bean taco or hot dogs

Welcome back kdg families! I hope you all enjoyed a restful extended weekend with family and friends! I spent most of my weekend in Rochester Hills at a soccer tournament and I am as red as a lobster! I am looking forward to our first full day tomorrow 🙂 Here is what you need to know this week. If there is anything else I need to add or change I will be in touch! Have a wonderful week.

Arrival/Dismissal: This week I will meet you outside on our yellow line with the purple rectangle for morning pledge and dismissal. Arrival time is 8:35AM and dismissal is 3:35PM.

*Emergency Cards/Concussion Forms: Thank you for returning the beginning of the year packets so promptly! If you have not sent them in yet please do as soon as possible this week in the blue homework folder. :- )

Lunch/Snack: Tomorrow is our first day eating in the lunchroom and making lunch choices! Please help your child make a decision and know what they are choosing before school. Thank you in advance for all your help. Remember we are a nut free classroom for snacks! We will still have snack time in the AM and PM in the classroom.

KDG Assessments: THANK YOU to all the families who made arrangements to bring your little ones back to school last week! I am almost done with assessments and have only a few that were not able to make it and a few new students to get scheduled. If you didn’t get an opportunity to come last week during soft start please see me to make arrangements for before or after school this week. I’d be happy to meet you at your convenience! It was wonderful getting to know your child all a little bit more 🙂 They are all so precious and I am so lucky to be with them this year!

Math: Homework has not begun yet! This week we began our first lessons in Unit 1 of Math which is about numbers 0-5 🙂

Spelling: This week I will introduce the first two words on our word wall the, I (your child is NOT formally assessed on these words yet!)

LA Book: Cont. working with the book “We Don’t Eat Our Classmates”

Writing: This week we will begin our first unit in Writer’s Workshop: “Writing Through Pictures.” We will focus on setting up the structure and learning the procedures and expectations of “Writer’s Workshop”

Social Studies: We will continue learning about our first unit in Social Studies! Our first unit is called “Getting Along with Others”.