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 🙂
Dear Families,
I hope this newsletter finds you well and enjoying this beautiful weekend! It was so nice to see you all at open house on Thursday and continue to meet more of your family members. We enjoyed a FULL week together last week. I am SO very proud of how hard your children are working to learn our classroom expectations, procedures, PBIS “green behaviors” and how to make friends and get along with others. Here is what you need to know for this week. If there are any additions or changes I’ll be sure to be in touch. Have a wonderful week!
November Conferences: If you didn’t get a chance to sign up for conferences please feel free to send me an email, note or see me after school. I look forward to meeting with you in November 🙂
Popcorn: This week there will be popcorn sales on Friday morning at 8:45am. Students may buy as many popcorn bags as they wish!
Gym: Mr. Tapp is collecting pictures of students participating in athletic activities. If your child would like to be featured on his bulletin board feel free to send in a picture of them in the blue homework folder 🙂
Spelling: sight words: like, to, Tt, Nn (students are NOT tested on sight words at this time.)
previous sight words: the, I, can, see
previous letters: Ss, Mm, Rr, Bb
LA Book: Huggapotamus by Steve Metzger The theme this week is: Friendship. Students will be identifying “characters” in the story and the “problem.” We will also be working on asking and answering questions as they pertain to the story and rhyming all week when it occurs. Our poem this week is “The Wheels on the Bus.”
Writing: Continue building components and stamina of Writer’s Workshop. Students will continue learning to express their stories through illustrations. We will be drawing characters from Huggapotamus, making connections about friends and how we are alike but different!
Math: This week we will continue working in Unit 1 Numbers to 5. This is our first week sending home homework! The homework is stapled in a pack of 5 lessons and is good for a week from the day I send it home. I typically send them home on Mondays. However, if we have a snow day or another reason for the delay the packet will be due one week from the day I put it in the blue folders. In addition, your child will receive one math game almost every week to play at home! This is the game that can be placed in a sheet protector and collected in a binder. Your child may keep this game and play various skills all year long. No need to return the games.
Social Studies: We will continue learning about our first unit in Social Studies! Our first unit is called “Getting Along with Others”. This week we will continue reading, discussing, sorting “green choices (things we should keep doing) and “red choices” (things we should stop/not do in school).
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 2! We are having fun learning and acting out work words and pretending we are big machines!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Here is what you need to know this week as we approach our second full week in school! If there is anything else I need to add or change I will be in touch! Have a wonderful week.
Book Fair: Tomorrow morning we will preview the book fair as a class and fill out “wish lists” to take home in our homework folders. You can send in money in an envelope with your child’s name on it the next day or come back in the building after school with your child to shop together!
Open House: Please join us Thursday evening. Open house will be from 6:00PM to 7:30PM. Looking forward to seeing you there and telling you once again how much I love your little penguins!
Arrival/Dismissal: 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. We are working on being “brave” and independent as we come in alone and I am SO proud of our little penguins so far.
*Emergency Cards/Concussion Forms: If you have not sent them in yet please do as soon as possible this week in the blue homework folder. :- )
Lunch/Snack: Wow, the lunch menu has changed so much every day I wanted to thank you and your children for being SO flexible! Please help your child make a decision at home before school and remind them that we will need to continue being flexible until the deliveries become more accurate! 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. Yogurts, cheese sticks, fresh fruit and veggies are welcome!
*Milk: milk CAN be ordered separately from a lunch in the cafeteria! Milk alone is $.50 and your child can pay as they go each day. Or, you could put money on their lunch cards in the office. Thank you
NWEA: This week we will take our NWEA computer assessment for the first time this year. It will be tough for them the first time but don’t worry, the second time in January and the third time in the spring it will become much easier 🙂 I will give you a printout of their scores at our first conference.
Math: Homework has not begun yet! This week we continue our first lessons in Unit 1 of Eureka Math which is about “Numbers 0-10” 🙂
Spelling: sight words: can, see letters: Rr, Bb (students are NOT tested on words. )
previous sight words: the, I
previous letters: Ss, Mm
LA Book: Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae
Writing: Continue building components and stamina of Writer’s Workshop. Students will continue learning to express their stories through illustrations. In addition, students will learn the difference between the “illustrator” and the “author.”
Social Studies: We will continue learning about our first unit in Social Studies! Our first unit is called “Getting Along with Others”.
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 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”.
Dear families,
I hope you have a safe and wonderful extended weekend! I will miss all your little darlings this weekend and see you all on Tuesday September 3rd, 2019 for our first full day in school! I will also be posting our first weekly blog post this weekend with our lesson plans for the week and any important dates or reminders for the week.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Ross
REMINDERs…
*this morning is our first gym class! Please make sure that students are wearing tennis shoes to class! We have gym every Thursday and Friday morning.
*We have one more day of snack today and then Monday your child will need a full lunch if they are not eating from the lunch line menu! Please be careful of snacks we do have a nut free classroom this year! A note will be coming home to help inform us all. Thank you SO much for your help making sure all our little penguins are safe in our classroom 🙂
Today in our wonderful world of kindergarten we had SO much fun! We packed a TON of things into our short morning. I am pretty impressed thinking back on our day. We continued practicing our morning procedures, completed our daily calendar (counting days in school, tally marking the day, marking the day in school on a ten frame, writing the number 3 in the air while Mrs. Ross writes it in the calendar area (singing our number three poem), sang the “Good Morning Song” again with 5 new friends in the poem (to help up with learning our friends names, rhyming, one to one correspondence, concepts of print, sight words and punctuation marks), counting to 100 (twenty so far), counting together in a circle, identifying important places/regions of the classroom and where to find certain items, played with Play-Doh, learned and practiced the outdoor recess expectations at recess, enjoyed snack time and listened once again to our new book “We Don’t Eat our CLASSMATES.” Whew! Your little ones worked so hard they must be exhausted! I am SO proud of their hard work. Here are a few pics of our awesome day and a few pictures to share our recess expectations and what our calendar area looks like 🙂 Enjoy 🙂
Dear Families,
Today we got a shiny new penguin! Please join me in welcoming Virginia Rose and her family to our kindergarten class. We were thrilled to make a new friend today 🙂 I will see you all outside tomorrow on our yellow line at 8:35am. Can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings…