Today is a half day with an 11:10 am dismissal! Have a wonderful weekend! 

  Room 111 KDG Newsletter

Week of January 9^th, 2017

Dear Families,

Happy New Year! I hope this newsletter finds you all well rested and recharged to start a wonderful new year full of good health and love. I have had a wonderful and relaxing vacation with family and friends and as always miss my classroom kiddos! I am so proud of those students that went on RazKids and got started reading over the break! Your child was rewarded 500 bonus points from the teacher for their hard work!

With the start of the New Year, there will be some adjustments to our weekly homework assignments and the addition of our weekly spelling word families (and tests) to our individualized spelling program! This is very exciting and I feel we are ready to take on a more sophisticated school to home connection now. Here is what you need to know:

Spelling:

Each week, your child will be responsible for learning one or two new sight words from the pre-primer Dolch high frequency Sight Word list as usual. In addition, in January the kdg students in DPS begin learning “word families”. This week, our first word family is the “–at word family.” The teacher will send home a family note on Mondays which introduces the words your child is responsible to practice and learn. We will work on them every day in school and your child will take a weekly assessment every Friday to monitor their progress of the word families and Dolch high frequency sight words. I have circled three words on the –at family note that will be the “hot words” or words that you know I am putting on the assessment. In addition, the teacher will pick two “cold words” that will make a total of five words tested so make sure your child practices ALL SEVEN WORDS. The last word on the test will be the Dolch word of the week.  As always, if any of this seems confusing please feel free to pop in and see me, or send me an email! I will respond within 24 hours!

Homework:

Your child will continue making their phonics folder with the “letter of the week” for homework. In addition, I will be sending home a small “packet” of homework pages instead of the monthly calendars. This will allow students more practice of classroom skills and new word families! As always, I recommend one page per night so your child does not become overwhelmed! Homework packets will be handed out on Mondays and collected the following Mondays from now on giving your child seven days to complete them. Each week your child turns in their homework, they will get a point. At the end of each month, they can pick a prize from the prize box for their hard work! Remember, reading is also part of homework every night for 20 minutes and Raz Kids absolutely counts!

NWEA: This month we will be taking our NWEA test for the second time. This is an important assessment in math and reading and you can help your child prepare for it by reading daily and completing their homework every night. Also, the night before please make sure your child gets a great night sleep and eats a healthy breakfast. Also, please talk to your child about how this is just one test, but it should be taken seriously and they should take their time to listen and mark the best answers they can instead of rushing through and just clicking. As always, their report cards are affected by this assessment now and we want to show our best progress. I am excited to see changes in our growth data!

Mrs. Ross’s iBlog:

Please make sure that you are reading my iblog every Week! This newsletter was printed on paper, however the district requires me to use the blog to communicate more efficiently. If you are not registered please type in the following link and register for the blog. ALL important information regarding curriculum and classroom news are being communicated through this. I thank you for your help and support to make your child’s year successful! Please come and see me if you need help registering it takes two minutes! Just enter your email address on the homepage and hit create subscription!

https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/ross/

Have a wonderful month, and please look to the iblog from now on each Monday for all classroom information! Happy New Year to my wonderful classroom and families!

Mrs. Ross

Important Dates:

January 16^th: No school

January 18^th: Late Start

January 27^th: 11:10 Dismissal

Greetings room 111 families!

This week is going to be a review week for class. We will review all letters/sounds and words we know so far! Instead of sending home a packet this week please work on all letters/sounds and green cards your child has. In addition, please continue reading from your child’s reading packs every night 🙂 Over the break I will send home a packet for your child to work on. We will be also decorating and eating snowman cookies on Friday in school. I have all the supplies for the cookies so don’t worry about sending anything in 🙂

Tomorrow is our reward for PBIS though, so please send your child to school in their pajamas for the reward day! They will be enjoying a movie! If you’d like to send them to school with ONE “junky snack” go ahead! (Like cookies, a chocolate bar, cupcake, brownie etc. but limit to one please!)

The last announcement is that Thursday morning at 9:15am is our Winter Singing Concert! I do not think the music department has a note to send home so I am trying to reach you all here to invite you! Don’t be late we’re in the first group to sing!!! See you there 🙂

Mrs. Ross and Class!

Dear Room 111 Families,

Hip hip hooray it’s a SNOW DAY!!! I hope you are all able to stay warm and cozy, sleep in, relax and enjoy a lazy day today! Here is what we have in store for this week in kinderland…

Letter of the week: Q q

Word of the week: want (we will learn about needs/wants in social studies this week!)

Monday: SNOW DAY! We will relax at home and read our books in our reading packs, practice sight words and count all the snowflakes that fall outside! Oh, and eat homemade cookies and shovel!

Tuesday: Music with Mrs. Wilder and Art with Mrs. Brown

Wednesday: Technology with Mrs. Pantaleo (Boot-camp at 3:15pm in room 111!)

Thursday: Music with Mrs. Wilder

Friday: Gym with Mrs. Fenner

Important Dates:

Wednesday December 14th at 3:15pm-4:15pm our first KDG boot-camp to make and take games for skill practice!

December 21st, Late Start (9:00am at door 10)

December 23rd: Students will have a winter celebration in room 111! Details and sign ups to come as the date gets closer!

Winter Holiday Break: begins Saturday December 24th and ends Sunday January 8th (school resumes Monday, January 9th, 2017!)

Have a wonderful week! Stay tuned for any updates and modifications to school happenings!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Ross 🙂

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 🙂

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:  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

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…

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: 

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! 

raisins: individual packages in the small boxes? 

Cheese cubes: They sell these in bulk at Gordon’s but also at Krogers

Corrections,

Dear families,

*Late Start: 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!