Dear Families,

I hope this message finds you all dry and warm and enjoying your weekend with your families! 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:

*This Friday 10-12-2018 There is a half day of school for all elementary students. Half day means no lunch at school, but students are welcome to bring a snack for the morning!

*Homework packet #3 is due tomorrow on Monday (the roll and write number to 5 game is yours to keep though) and your child will be bringing home packet #4 in their homework folder!  Thank you again to Johnny’s mom for stapling and organizing our math homework each week. You’re such a tremendous help!

*Apple Orchard Chaperones: If you received a chaperone letter on Thursday, please send in your $10.00 in school as soon as tomorrow in an envelope with your name on it marked Apple Orchard Chaperone $  Thank you ALL once again for volunteering your time to help us make this a special day.

*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 will be a half day of school so there will NOT be any popcorn sales!

*Library check out: Your child will visit the library again on Tuesday morning and bring home a new book. 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!

Letter(s) of the week: C,G

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

Words of the Week: a, we

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

*Counting syllables in a word

*Which two words rhyme?

*Last week in daily 5 we began launching “Listen to Reading”. Students used the ipad to listen to books electronically on the ipad from the website Raz-Kids! I was so proud to log on and find students are also reading at home. Way to go my amazing students keep up the great work!

*This week in math I will be administering the mid module assessment for unit 1 to check for understanding of all concepts so far: number writing, counting objects in a group/line/scatter/circle (any way it is moved), sorting into groups/classifying and subitizing. Each child will be assessed one at a time and this type of formative assessment helps me to guide personal instruction for each child. I am excited to see how well the students are progressing in math and have already seen much growth in your children. I will have the data for your child available to show you at conferences 🙂

Dear parents,

We just pulled the names of 6 moms that will ride the bus with us to Wiard’s Apple Orchard for our field trip on the 18th. I wanted to THANK all of the parents for volunteering your time to accompany us and I wish we could take ALL of you on the bus with us. Unfortunately, we do not have enough space to do that, and we are so luck that 14 moms volunteered. WOW, that is amazing! I will say this though. If you still wanted to spend the day with us, I would like to invite you to either drive yourself or carpool with other mothers and follow the bus there (or meet us at the entrance gate). If you would still like to come, we’d love to have you. You would simply pay your entrance fee when you get there and join us there.

Here are the mom’s pulled to ride the bus. If something changes in your schedule which permits you from joining us, please let me know and I will pull another name from the basket. Thank you and have a great day!

Paisley’s mom

Kaydin’s mom

Johnny’s mom

Jack’s mom

Alex’s mom

Cameran’s mom

Kindergarten families on room 106,

Next Tuesday on October 2nd the kindergarten teachers and principal will be holding a language arts meeting (about new book bags comings home, the Language and Literacy Instructional program for selected students, and the read by third grade law. The meeting will be held in the library at 8:45 am. Only one parent is needed to come for the meeting and please sign into at the office to get a visitors pass before coming down to the library. Thank you for you support and I will see you then!

-Mrs. Ross 🙂

Tomorrow the school is having a “Peace Assembly”. The principal Mr. Attee has asked for the whole building to wear pink or white for the day. We will be taking a school picture on the playground during the day and would like for the student body to match 🙂 Thank you for your help!

*This post is from Mr. Attee’s blog. See you all tomorrow at 9:35 am!

DuVall Families,

This is just a reminder that there will be a late start day on Wednesday, September 19th.  School will start one hour later (dismissal is still at 3:35 PM).  The students will still line up on the playground and the first bell will ring tomorrow at 9:35 AM.

-Mr. Attee

Tonight I have sent home a zip lock baggie of homework supplies. These supplies were donated by a family in the district and are yours to keep! The supplies you have donated to the classroom along with your child’s personal pencil box will remain there for us to use. This baggie is to help you make sure that your child has the proper supplies at home to do work. Thank you again for all your support with our new homework program.

Mrs. Ross and Class 🙂

Happy Monday Kindergarten Families!

I hope this message finds you all well. It was so nice to see so many of your families at open house. Thank you all for coming and taking a peek at what our room looks like after 13 days of hard work! After a lovely weekend FULL of soccer in Petosky, here is what we have in store for us this week in kindergarten:

Reading/Daily 5: Letters T. N          Sight Words: like, to        rhyming     Daily 5: Continue practicing stamina for Read to Self

Writing: Narrative Writing Cont.

Math: Continue Module 1 counting, classifying, sorting

*Math homework is coming home tonight for the first time this year! Your packet is due one week from the date given (unless adjustments have been made for holidays or days absent for illness, or snow days). Please make sure your child has somewhere quiet to work with an adult on these review pages. The “game” of the week is always yours to keep (in a sheet protector in a math binder at home) and will remain at home! All skills are review skills that have been worked on in school and parent sheets were given to help explain journal pages. However please feel free to email let me if you have any questions about how to complete or organize math homework. Have fun and thank you in advance for your help with math homework.

Social Studies: Continue Unit 4: Getting Along With Others

Science: Push and Pull

Important Dates: Apple Orchard field trip October 18th! If you have not sent in your child’s permission slip/money ($10) for the field trip please do so this week. If you’d like to be in the lottery for chaperones, make sure you pop in the office to fill out an ichat background check!

Have a wonderful week. If there are any adjustments or updates to our week I will send them out as soon as possible.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Ross 🙂