Beloved Families of Room 106,

Thank you all for EVERYTHING you have done for us (for me)  and your child’s classroom this year. We appreciate you all SO much. Thank you for all the countless hours reading and helping your child with homework. Thank you for bringing them everyday with smiles on their faces and love in their hearts.We have been such a great team. We have had so many special moments together to cherish! Our last weeks here have been so wonderful and we could NOT have had them without you. A special thanks to Mrs. Dunlap for being our point person for the amazing park and pool day on Tuesday, and to ALL the wonderful parents who came out to chaperone and donate goods or their time to our little darlings. We had a blast!

Tomorrow is our last day of school (sniff sniff). It will be a half day from 8:35 am to 11:45 am.  I will be getting the final report card tonight and will send it home tomorrow with your child (along with the NWEA results). In addition, the office will be giving you the recommended “First Grade Supply List.”

I can not believe that it is that time again. This gets harder and harder every year. I want to take this opportunity to thank each of you for letting me join you on this educational and social journey of your child. They are all so precious to me and I am so proud of them. We have grown so much together this year and I look forward to watching them continue to grow and thrive in school and life. I have loved having them in my classroom this year and will look over them always. We are family.

With love and gratitude,

Mrs. Ross

Field Day is here! Students will report as normal at 8:35am. Kindergarten will be enjoying our field day activities in the PM at 1:30pm. If you are a chaperone, please sign in at the office and join us in room 106 by 1:00 pm. We will begin walking over to the park at 1:10pm! Students are encouraged to wear their red DuVall Spirit shirt today 🙂 Thank you once again for all your help today! See you this afternoon…

Mrs. Ross and Class!

Dear Families,

Greetings! I hope you all had a restful and wonderful Memorial Day weekend! I can NOT believe that we are so close to the end of the year (pausing to wipe my TEARS!!!). This week we are making sure that we are all set for the last two field trips! Here is what you need to know/remember:

Friday May 31st, 2019 DuVall’s Annual Ice Cream Social! (THANK YOU to the families that donated $1-5 towards our classroom “Soccer” themed basket! Make sure to stop in and bid on our basket, it’s gonna be a showstopper!

Thank you to Mrs. Dunlap for being our point person for the park and pool field trip. I’ll be working with her to organize the location and details of the picnic. Check our our sign up genius for the Park and Pool field trip June 11th at: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/409094DA8AC22A0FE3-park

Driving iChats for the Park and Pool: Some parents need to stop in to make OR renew ichats to be a driver for the park and pool. Notes were sent home in your child’s homework folder today if this pertains to you 🙂 Please come in as soon as possible to make sure yours is processed in time! Thank you 🙂

Reading Packs: Reading packs were collected today 🙁 PLEASE remember to still read with your child at night and over the summer months. I will be keeping your little darlings in my Raz-Kids account over the summer and until the new school year begins! To avoid the summer slide and loss of important reading skills please have your child spend 10-15 minutes a day on razkids, reading books from personal libraries and visiting the public libraries in Dearborn also! I am SO proud of all they have learned this year.

Reading License Ceremony: Please have a representative (or as many as you want!) from your family join us on Monday June 10th, 2019 at 9:00am to celebrate your child’s hard work and skills gained this year in KDG!

Looking forward to all this FUN!!!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Ross and Class 🙂

Dear Families,

Friday we began our NWEA language arts testing and will finish them this week. We will also begin our math NWEA assessment. We do them in small groups of 5-8 students so that I can keep an eye on the speed/time duration of each child. This test is hard for our kiddos because they need to take their time, listen carefully to each question and decide what the best answer is. If they are impulsive and click quickly, it can misrepresent their comprehension of skill areas. Results will be stapled to your child’s 4th report card. However, if you are curious as to how they did feel free to ask me sooner! I should have the results of all testing (reading and math) by Friday. Here is how you can prepare your child for this week:

*Make sure they get plenty of sleep

*Give them a hearty breakfast

*Make sure they are present this week

*Pack snacks and water for the hot weather days

*Give them a little pep talk of support and encourage them to take their time and weigh their options carefully before clicking! Remind them to take their time.

*Not putting a huge amount of pressure on them so that the test makes them nervous.

Dear Families,

Friday the 31st is our annual Ice Cream Social and we can’t wait. Each year the kdg donates a raffle basket for the DuVall community to bid on. This year, our basket will be a soccer themed sport basket! Ms. Shapas and I will be purchasing the items in the basket this week to make it easier and we are pumped! If your child/family would like to help us purchase basket items, no pressure, but donations of $1-5 are welcomed (NO PRESSURE). Just be careful to put your monetary donation in an envelope marked KDG raffle basket donation so that we do not confuse it with the end of the year field trip to the park and pool! Don’t forget to come on Friday and bid on our basket. It’s going to be amazing 🙂

I’ll also be donating a personal basket from just Mrs. Ross marked “Lunch with the Teacher” and I will be purchasing a hot lunch and desert for the winner!

Thank you again for all your help with our basket!

Dearest KDG Families,

I am sitting here drinking my coffee from my special new mug and thinking of how lucky I am to be the first elementary classroom teacher of your precious darlings. I wanted to say an overdue THANK YOU again for all of the beautiful flowers, classroom supplies, gift cards, cards, perfume, presents and goodies your families SPOILED me with during teacher appreciation week. I am overcome with gratitude and love. Each day I am so thankful for my job and my role in your child’s educational and life journey. Even after 15 years, each day is a new and exciting learning experience for me and I am so grateful and lucky to spend it with all of you and your little ones. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support and hard work you have put in to make your child’s kindergarten year a success! I am so sad that the end of the year is approaching and the thought of sending them along is truly bittersweet for me. However, I am so very proud of all that we have worked on, grown from and academically accomplished this year! Together, we have made a great team and taken them oh so far.

The last couple of weeks, I have begun the end of the year assessments for Language Arts and Math. You will notice that reading packs have slowed down on new books and will stop soon, so it is very important that students KEEP READING from personal libraries, neighborhood library trips and raz-kids! I will not put my new class in until September, so your child will remain in my class account ALL summer yay!!! Last week was our last week to check out new books in the library, so this Tuesday we will simply turn in our books. Please make sure they are in your child’s backpack Monday night so they are ready to go Tuesday morning!

Here are some end of the year reminders and important dates to remember:

26 Day Count down is still on! Monday starts with letter L on your countdown calendar…

Friday, May 24th- No school (Happy Memorial Day weekend!)

Monday, May 27th- No school (Happy Memorial Day!)

Friday, May 31st- Ice Cream Social! 5:30pm-8:00pm (Please come and join in the fun and bid on a raffle prize to support our school!)

Monday, June 3rd- No school (Happy Eid!)

Tuesday, June 4th- No school (Happy Eid!)

Wednesday, June 5th- No School (Happy Eid!)

Thursday, June 6th- Field Day. PM or AM- Times are TBD…

Monday June 10th: Reading License Ceremony 9:00am Rm 106! All Family members welcome! More information to come on iblog 🙂

Tuesday, June 11th- Park and Pool. All day Event. Parent Drivers Needed. Make sure you get the proper ichats done ASAP!

Friday, June 14th- Last Day of school! Half Day with AM Dismissal at 11:45am  

*If you would like to be a chaperone to any of the end of the year events PLEASE stop by the office to make sure that you have a CURRENT ichat AND a driving chaperone ichat (they need to be renewed every year and we will need a lot of drivers to help us take students to and from Dunworth Pool at Levagood park on June 11th!) Thank you in advance!

Hi everyone,

Please click on the link below for the Ice Cream Social Sign-Up Genius!

Thanks!

Yasmine Hicks

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4aaaaa23a0fd0-icecream

Dear families,

I am so sorry, I need to reschedule our special surprise project day. Last night we had the sad loss of my father in law and today I will not be in school. I am so very sorry but I should be returning tomorrow and would love to move our “looking special but practical” project to tomorrow if this is ok for everyone. Please tell the kiddos hello for me and that I will return before they know it! Thank you all for your understanding,

Mrs. Ross and Family

Dear Moms,

We need your help! We will be working on a special surprise for you tomorrow in school 🙂 Although we can NOT tell you what the surprise is, please send your child to school wearing something both cute and practical but please don’t feel you have to go out any buy anything new:-) More details for our Mother’s Day event to come…Thank you in advance for your help!

Sincerely Mrs. Ross and Class