Dear Families,

I hope this message finds you well and warm! I can’t believe next week is a two day week and Thanksgiving already! This year is flying by, but time flies when you have such a wonderful class to work with every day. I am one lucky teacher who is so thankful for her students. Have a wonderful week and I’ll update you if there are any changes or additions to our plans!

Next week, I would like to share a “Friendsgiving” meal with our class and the other kindergarten and first grade classes for Thanksgiving. we will be lining the hallway with tablecloths and having ONE LONG table to share this meal with the K/1st grade classes 🙂  I will be bringing in pumpkin bread to share with the kids and we will eat pizza and spend some time appreciating our friends in the class 🙂 We will line the long hallway with tablecloths and make one LONG dinner  table of friends 🙂 We also saved the juice boxes that Jack Bungee brought for the Halloween party and we are getting thirsty, so we will drink them 🙂 Thank you again Jack! Though this meal is not a “party”, If you would like to share this moment with us, I would LOVE to extend the invitation to parents in our classroom to join us. It’s so sweet watching the students relax and spend time enjoying each other and being grateful for our friendships. If you would like to help us with our meal, please check out our sign up genius to either send in paper goods, food items or a dollar towards pizza. We THANK you in advance for your support!

*I sent out the sign up genius tonight. Here is the sign up genius link though if you’d like to cut and paste this into your address line:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/409094da8ac22a0fe3-friendsgiving

Important Dates and Information:

*Next week: We only have school for two days of school due to Thanksgiving break!

*Friendsgiving: Tuesday, November 20th 2:00pm

*Homework:. A new packet will be coming home tonight along with a new math game! This week in math we will be working on new lessons and we are almost done with module 1! I am so proud of all the progress our class has made working with numbers from 0-10.

*Conferences: Conferences are back to back so please be prompt 🙂 Make sure to check your child’s reminder slips and back of the folder for your highlighted date/time on the behavior sheets 🙂

*Popcorn: This Friday we have popcorn sales so bring those quarters! 

*Library check out: Your child will visit the library again on Tuesday morning. Please make sure that your child’s book is in their backpack Monday night ready to be returned this next morning. Any lost or damaged books front he DuVall library will need to be replace by the individual child’s family. Thank you for helping your child become a responsible penguin!

*Reading Packs: Thank you for sending them back every day and spending about 10-15 minutes a night on the letters/words you find in there. This will help your child SO much reviewing their personal bags each night! Those students who had books sent home last week, make sure they are in there this week because they will be switched for one to two more this week! Woohoo these students rock!

Letter(s) of the week: This week we will be reviewing all previous letters

Words of the Week: This week we will be reviewing all sight words taught thus far

Review words: I, can, see, the, to, like, look, at, come, and,a,we, go, in, he, my, is, has, for, are

*Science: Unit on Climate and Weather

*Social Studies: Begin New Unit on Needs and Wants. THANK YOU to Cameran James for bringing in pictures from magazines that were examples of “needs and wants.” We enjoyed discussing the difference between the two and sorting them on a t-chart! If your child has more pictures for us to sort and discuss we’d LOVE to work with them this week as well. THANK YOU in advance for your hard work and support!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I hope this message finds you all well and dry and enjoying this weekend with your families! My weekend has been filled with soccer and family 🙂 Here is what you need to know for this week in kindergarten. If there are any changes to be made or additional information added, I’ll add the news as the week progresses. Have a wonderful week!

*Please join us on Halloween for our parade and classroom activities at 2:00 pm 🙂 Please sign into the office and get a visitors pass and join us on our walk around the block if you wish! After the parade we will go directly to room 106 and enjoy some activities and treats! If you are donating anything to the party feel free to send it in tomorrow, Monday 10-29-2018. If you have food items, please send in the day of the party on Wednesday! Remember to send your child to school in regular clothes and have them bring their costume to school in a bag with their name on it! Students can change into costumes after lunch right before the parade at 1:30 ish. Your child may also bring a small piece of candy or small candy bag for each child if they want but please make sure all items are individually wrapped and not baked goods. They will be placed into paper bags and then into backpacks and could get really messy! THANK YOU in advance to all the families and students for helping donate items for this party and for your amazing generosity and support. We are so lucky and I am the most lucky teacher around 🙂

Mrs. Ross 🙂

*Important Reminders:

*Homework: The homework packet from last week is due on Monday the 29th. A new packet will be coming home tonight along with a new math game! This week in math we will be working on regular lessons and I will also be assessing again for updated math skills for the report cards.

*Conferences are quickly approaching! Please make sure you have signed up for one spot on one of the days provided. I will assign any family who has not yet signed up to make sure we meet and send home reminders at the end of the week on Friday.  🙂

*Popcorn: This Friday we have a half day of school so there will be NO popcorn sales!

*Library check out: Your child will visit the library again on Tuesday morning. Please make sure that your child’s book is in their backpack Monday night ready to be returned this next morning. Any lost or damaged books front he DuVall library will need to be replace by the individual child’s family. Thank you for helping your child become a responsible penguin!

*Reading Packs: Thank you for sending them back every day and spending about 10-15 minutes a night on the letters/words you find in there. This will help your child SO much reviewing their personal bags each night! Those students who had books sent home last week, make sure they are in there this week because they will be switched for one to two more this week! Woohoo these students rock!

Letter(s) of the week: V, Z

Review letters: S,M,R,T,N,B,a, A, D, O, I, C,G, H, F, P, E

Words of the Week: is, has

Review words: I, can, see, the, to, like, look, at, come, and,a,we, go, in, he, my

*Counting syllables in a word

*Which two words rhyme?

*This week in language arts, I will be assessing students on their letter ID (revisiting to see what else they have picked up out of 52 letters), recognizing rhyming, beginning sounds, syllables and the sight words we have covered so far. 🙂

Dear Families,

I hope this message finds you all well and warm and enjoying this BEAUTIFUL weekend with your families! My weekend has been filled with soccer as usual and a block party 🙂 Here is what you need to know for this week in kindergarten. If there are any changes to be made or additional information added, I’ll add them as the week progresses. Have a wonderful week!

Mrs. Ross 🙂

*Important Reminders:

*Homework packet: Lesson 16 homework assignment is due tomorrow. In order to keep your homework packets one week behind instruction, this week your child will receive two new games to add to their homework “Game Binders” and a membership to “Zern.org” a game website linked to our kindergarten curriculum with fun games yay! Look in your child’s folder for the letter and login information stapled to it 🙂 Enjoy, and please let me know if you need any help setting your child up.

*Apple Orchard: We are all set! Looking forward to the field trip this week! Remember to send your child with a warm outfit and the proper coat and shoes to stay warm and dry all day! In addition, a bag lunch that can easily be thrown away after eating. No money please we will not be visiting the orchard store.

*Conferences are quickly approaching! Please make sure you have signed up for one spot on one of the days provided. I will assign any family who has not yet signed up to make sure we meet 🙂

*Popcorn fundraiser sales are almost every Friday so bring those quarters (no limit per child) first thing at 8:35 am. This Friday popcorn sales will be back on!

*Library check out: Your child will visit the library again on Tuesday morning. Please make sure that your child’s book is in their backpack Monday night ready to be returned this next morning. Any lost or damaged books front he DuVall library will need to be replace by the individual child’s family. Thank you for helping your child become a responsible penguin! Last week we had 19/20 return their books. Wow! We are really learning to be responsible with our school materials.

*Reading Packs:Thank you for sending them back every day and spending about 10-15 minutes a night on the letters/words you find in there. This will help your child SO much reviewing their personal bags each night!

Letter(s) of the week: H,F

Review letters: S,M,R,T,N,B,a, A, D, O, I, C,G

Words of the Week: go, in

Review words: I, can, see, the, to, like, look, at, come, and,a,we

*Counting syllables in a word

*Which two words rhyme?

*This week in math I will be returning to regular instruction and continuing with lesson 17. Please have your child play the games from their homework game binder each night to review all skills and log onto zern.org to register themselves on the site. This is an additional way to fulfill homework skill practice a night and as your child completes assignments and games it will naturally move them up (like Razkids does)! Have fun.

*This week the kindergarten teachers will be setting up a “sign up genius” for our Halloween party which will take place from 2:30pm (or directly following the 2:00pm parade) to 3:30pm on Wednesday October 31st, 2018. Please take a minute to view the supplies needed for the party and sign up to donate items if that is possible for your family. NO PRESSURE 🙂 Parents are welcome join us for the party and we will also need parents to help run stations and manage crowd control lol! The class and I thank you in advance for your generosity and assistance to make our Halloween at school successful and most importantly FUN!