The first KDG bootcamp for LA and Math will go home this week! Look for the invite with the date and time in your child’s homework folder this week. I hope to see you all there 🙂
Author Archives: Margaret Ross
Week of 12-4-2016
Greetings Fantastic Families of room 111!
I can NOT believe that it is already DECEMBER! Where has the time gone, this year is flying by so fast! Last week on Thursday we celebrated our manners at the PBIS Town Hall and then Friday our whole class was able to attend the party! Congratulations to Hassan Jaffer who is our new students of the month this month!
Here is the information you need to know this week!
Letter(s) of the week:Â Pp and Qq
Word(s) of the Week: said, do
Monday: Gym with Mrs. Fenner (new homework assignments go home today)
Tuesday: Music with Mrs. Wilder and Art with Mrs. Brown
Wednesday: Technology (This is our week for library check out! Make sure your child’s book is in their backpack Tuesday night)
Thursday: Music with Mrs. Wilder
Friday: Gym with Mrs. Fenner (individual sight word assessments and letter ID assessments)
As we reach December here are a few reminders for school to home connections:
Students should be doing at home…
Reading from their reading packs every night for 10-20 minutes (paper books and hardcover books)
practicing sight words/letter cards (reading and writing them)
Working on counting by 1s, and 10s at home to 100
Working on reading and writing numbers to 10 or more!
Be able to count objects up to 21 regardless of their arrangement (in a circle, square, line, diagonal)
Reviewing the behavior calendar every night with parents and working toward a new behavior month
Have a wonderful week! I will be in touch with any additions or corrections to the post this week!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Ross
Thank YOU!!!
Dearest Families of room 111,
THANK you so very much for helping us make our “Thanksgiving Feast” and “Thankful Grams” a complete success!!! Our kiddos were so happy, and thankful and FULL! All the food was so appreciated and devoured! The good news is that we have more juice boxes left to start planning our next party for the winter break lol! Here are some pics that I took and Zach’s aunt shared. THANK you all again for your love and support. Have a wonderful, restful and peaceful Thanksgiving vacation with family and loved ones. Give your kiddos a squeeze from my family to yours.
With love and gratitude,
Mrs. Ross and Friends…
 
Feast Donations Update!
Dearest families,
Thank you SO much for your donations! I have an updated list because several families have volunteered for the same items! Here is what we already have in class and still need… Thank you again in advance. Please respond on the blog from now on so that we don’t have multiple donations fo the same items. The kids say thank you and are SOOOO excited for Tuesday!
Already donated:Â
Crackers (1box) thank you Hassan Jaffer!
Popped Popcorn: Thank you Hassan Jaffer!
Juice Boxes: Thank you Hassan Jaffer!
Plates/Napkins: Thank you Mariam Alzaroui!
5 pizzas: Thank you Zachariah! we will have 3 cheese and 3 halal pepperoni pizzas
Need Still:
2 more boxes of crackers: Rama Joumaa will bring one and Ruqaya Hamza will bring the other
grapes: 3 bags should be enough?
pumpkin pie: Mrs. Ross is going to bring individual pumpkin breads for each child!Â
raisins: individual packages in the small boxes?Â
Cheese cubes:Â They sell these in bulk at Gordon’s but also at Krogers
Reminders and Corrections…11-15-2016
Corrections,
Dear families,
*Late Start:Â This note is a reminder that tomorrow is a late start day…Students get to sleep in and report to school at 9:00 am! I will see you all bright and early at door #10 tomorrow morning.
*Media Check out: Tomorrow we also have library check out! So, please make sure that your child’s library book is in their backpack tonight and ready to go 🙂
*Correction: Mrs Ross was SOOOOOO goofy and the printer did NOT correctly print the letter Aa homework sheet ahhhhh Thank you Mrs. Abdo for pointing that out to me! Also, I didn’t put the recording sheets in there for the homework calendar ooops!!! I guess I’m not as perfect as I thought I was? I apologize for the setbacks and will correct it all tomorrow. If you need to go right ahead and have them turned in by next Tuesday before break because we have a weird seven day week!
*Correction: Due to the other two kindergarten teachers wanting to join us for Kindergarten Boot Camp this month, we will be changing the date for after Thanksgiving Vacation! We will all meet as one large KDG group after school still though at 3:15pm the last week in November and I will
*Turkey Grams: are due by Friday and are for any friend your child would like to say they appreciate! Make sure you turn them in with the correct amount of money in an envelope! This money goes to KDG yay!!! We will be purchasing awesome computer sites for your child to use at school and home!
Have a wonderful night everyone and thank you for all you do with your children!
Week of 11-14-2016
Happy Thanksgiving
Dear McCollough Families of Room 111,
Greetings and I hope this message finds you well! This is going to be a LONG blog post today and will cover us for next week as well because it is only two days! I can NOT believe how quickly the year is flying by!!! Here is everything you need to know for the next 7 days of school!
Letter(s) of the week: Aa this week and Ee next week
Word(s) of the week: am this week and for next week combined
LA Focus: Thanksgiving
Writing Focus: I am Thankful For…
Math Focus: New Unit 3! Numbers from 6-10 and all numbers 0-10 now!
Social Studies: New Unit beginning on Needs and Wants
Conferences: If you were unable to attend your conferences last Wednesday, please see Mrs. Ross to reschedule so we can discuss your child’s progress and I can give you their report card and NWEA testing information.
Conferences this week: I am looking forward to seeing you all at your conferences this week on Wednesday the 16th or Thursday the 17th! Please be prompt, conferences are only 15 minutes and they are back to back!
I Am Thankful Grams!
Kindergarten students are doing a fundraiser this week to raise money to buy specific educational websites we use in the classroom that are going to expire soon! I know several parents wanted out passwords for these, and we want to try and buy them for you again! Please take a few minutes to fill our the grams at night and return them to me by Friday the 18th, 2016Â with the exact change in the envelope and your child’s friends and their teachers names and room numbers. The Thankful Grams will be $0.50 a piece. I hope the list helps. The kindergarten team and students thank you in advance for your support!
Thanksgiving Feast:
Our class is planning to participate in a k-2 Thanksgiving feast on Tuesday, November 22nd. We will be joining the other students in the hallways to eat a wonderful thanksgiving meal and thanks for our wonderful McUnis school family. This feast is for students only because the hallways has limited space but I PROMISE to post pics on the blog of our feast! I’ll be sending home a note this week on Monday if your family would like to donate some supplies for the feast! If your child would like send in $2 each we can order some pizza! You can send the paper back in with an x next to what your child would like to bring. I thank you in advance for your generosity and will be updating the blog as the week goes along!
Math/Reading Boot Camp!
This year one of my professional goals is “Parent Communication” as it pertains to your child’s academic and social growth. In order to connect to parents more with our school strategies I plan to help periodic “boot camps” after school where you come in at 3:15pm for about an hour and we learn, make and play a Language Arts and/or Math game! Then when the time is up, you will take this game home to practice the specific skills with your child! If would be awesome if someone from every child’s family was present because all the students love these games and could use more practice at home 🙂 Our first boot camp will be in our room 111 November 21st right before Thanksgiving break from 3:15pm-4:15pm! We’ll work on one LA game and one MATH game to “make and take” home! I hope you can all make it!
If there are more additions/corrections to this weeks newsletter I’ll up date you in the next seven days! I hope you have a warm and blessed Thanksgiving Break.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Ross 🙂
Reminders and Thank you!
THANK YOU to all the mom’s (Jenna’s mom, Adam’s mom, Adam Chami’s mom, Mariam’s mom, Zahraa’s sister, Lana’s mom, Ramaa’s mom and grandmother, Hassan’s mom, Zach’s mom, Nabaa’s mom, Mujtaba’s mom, Ruqayah H’s mom,  that came in yesterday to help us with our party and/or see us parade our costumes! You made it a HUGE SUCCESS and we had a blast. I just know you all had such a great time making those pumpkins (lol) but they were just gorgeous thank you for your help 🙂
Reminders:
*Tomorrow is library check out, so please make sure your child has their library book ready to go tonight in their backpacks!
*Picture day envelopes went home today! Our picture day is this week on Thursday, so make sure your child is looking sharp and dressed appropriately for the weather. If anyone needs help filling out the envelopes, please bring them to me after school tomorrow instead of Thursday morning. I’m always here to help 🙂 But, please have exact change. I won’t have it and the office never does…eek!
*Homework: The kindergarten teachers and I decided to give your child another day to rest and recuperate from all the crazy candy and trick-or-treating yesterday! So relax and read with your child tonight and get to sleep early 🙂 Homework packets will be waiting for you tomorrow, and they can be turned in on Friday if they are done, or on Monday instead if you wish 🙂
Hope this message finds you well,
Happy November!
Week of 10-31-2016
Happy Halloween to all families of our wonderful room 111! This is going to be a very crazy but fun week! I hope you are all able to make it to our party tomorrow. If you can’t make it at 12:30, please feel free to come to the parade and take a spot around the track! The students will be proudly strutting our stuff to show off our cool costumes! I wanted to say a HUGE THANK YOU to all the families that donated such lovely supplies for our party tomorrow. We are so very grateful. There are just a few things we are desperately in need of. If anyone can help out this would be greatly appreciated! Please hit reply to let me know if you are coming tomorrow, and I can give you a “job” to help with the pumpkins lol! I bet you’re so excited!!
Need Still:
pizza (if nobody brings it no worries Mrs. Ross will!)
HAIR DRYERS!!! We need parent volunteers to help Mrs. Ross melt the crayons on the pumpkins! It is SO cool, but I only have 1 maybe 2 hairdryers!
Here is what we have in store this week:
Letter of the week: Vv
Word of the week: it
LA Book study: Stellaluna and Bats
Science: Cont. Becoming a scientist and the 5 Senses
Math: Sorting and Grouping numbers and objects 0-10
Social Studies: End of Unit 1 “Getting Along with Others”
Monday: Happy Halloween! Remember to PACK YOUR CHILD’S COSTUME so that they are not freezing at lunch and uncomfortable during gym class! Halloween party from 12:30-2:00pm. Parade from 2:00pm-? and then continue party and packing up for home! Safe trick-or-treating if you go out. Also, new homework calendars and PBIS calendars are coming home today for November!
Tuesday: Music, Art
Wednesday: Computers
Thursday: Music
Friday: Half Day 11:10 dismissal from our door at room 10Â (no lunch that day)
*I am sure there are a million corrections or additions that I will send out as they come! Have a wonderful Halloween and week! I can’t believe it’s already November! Time flies when you love your class I guess 🙂
Boo Grams!
Dear Parents,
The first grade is doing a fundraiser to sell “Boo Grams” and raise money for their school field trip. If your child wants to buy a Boo Gram for a friend in their class please send in the money tomorrow and I can get it to the first grade teachers. IT is easier if the students just give it directly to me instead of having to worry about handling the money at lunch! Please read the flyer and have the appropriate amount of money and the names/classes filled out ahead of time 🙂 Thank you for your help!
Mrs. Ross 🙂
Week of 10-24-2016
Woops! Let me try this again. My post never went up yesterday I apologize it was stuck in the “draft world!”
Greetings Room 111 familes,
I hope you are all out enjoying this beautiful weekend! I dressed up my baby in a light snow suit for Ben’s soccer game and then felt really silly when we were sweating lol! Always smart to layer though 🙂 Speaking of layering the weather this week is going to be colder than usual! Please make sure to send your children in winder coats from now on (like Antonia, we can always remove hot layers!).
Letter of the week: Nn (review) and H h
Words of the week: you and see (review) past words we have worked on so far (to, the, he, we, go, a, I, you, see, in, on)
MOnday: GYM. Your child is taking home their new homework packet. This is the last week of October! Next week, your child will be getting the new November calendar. Way to go all student that have been completeing and returning them! You have been working SO hard and will be rewarded at the end of the year!
Tuesday: Art and Music
Wednesday: Computers
Thursday:Â Music
Friday: Gym
Important Information:
*We need your help!!! We would love to decorate and explore pumpkins this week and on Halloween! If any parent would like to donate small pumpkins for our kids to have individually we would REALLY appreciate it! IF you can’t, we’d appreciate any help towards our party for supplies and food. See below!
*Elementary Conferences are coming up quickly! PLEASE come to see Mrs. Ross this week anytime after school to sign up for conferences. If I don ‘t hear from you I’ll assign you a date and send the reminders in the mail the week prior to your conference. You must attend this first conference. However, I am ALWAYS available to conference with parents and welcome it every day as long as it’s after school 🙂 The November conference dates will be…
November 10th
November 16th
November 17th
*Halloween:
YES we will be celebrating Halloween this year in school!!! Mr. Farhat our principal is letting all students k-5 dress up woohoo! However, all day is tough for our kids to be in the costumes and some are too cold for outside at lunch! So, please send your child’s costume to school in a big bag with their name on it so they can change after lunch! Our kids also have gym after lunch at 11:30, so you can imagine how hard it will be for little princesses to exercise in their gowns lol! I am also welcoming all families to come on in at 12: 15 to help us get changed and celebrate! We are hoping to take the kids outside around 2:00 pm for a parade on the track for all families to see!!!
In our classroom we would really appreciate any donations for food and decor. Here is a small list of things we could use some help with for Monday. Please hit reply and I will take the first parents who reply online! Thank you in advance for your help and generosity it should be so much fun!!!
23 juice boxes
23 apples
23 donuts
a spool of plastic ribbon to wrap donuts
long rods or broomsticks to hang the donuts for a game! Promise you can take them back home unless you don’t want to sweep anymore lol!
face painting packages (3)
6 black,orange or Halloween themed table cloths
4 or 5 $5 pizzas (a couple parents could go together on this)
pretzels
hair dryers: we need as many hair dryers as we can get!!! I want us to melt crayons and glitter on top of a pumpkin for each kid and it takes a while so the more we have the better lol!
Hot glue guns and glue
glitter
*Students may also bring in individually wrapped goodies for each child. There are 23 students in the class 🙂 Thank you for your help and generosity!