Week of 3-6-2017

Greetings room 111!

Happy March is Reading Month! Our theme this year is “Reading Rocks”! Last week we kicked off reading month with a Rockin’ Read Aloud/PJ Night in the gym! Thank you to our students from 111 that came we had so much fun šŸ™‚ If you weren’t able to come don’t worry, we have more in store for you to participate in soon! I am currently teaming up with the fundraising committee to plan a “Rockin’ Movie Night” in the next few weeks! I’ll keep you posted as this develops and send home a flyer as soon as the fundraising committee finishes it! We were even lucky enough to have a “Mystery Reader” come and read to our class last Friday! If you’d like to be a Mystery Reader just return the form you receive this Monday in your child’s homework folder and we’ll get you scheduled to come in šŸ™‚ Just remember you are a surprise mystery reader so shhhhhhhh don’t tell your child when you’re coming! Just go to the office and sign in on the day we schedule you and knock on our door. Your child will be thrilled it’s their parent! It’s going to be a great month in school, thank you in advance for all your participation and help to make it amazing!

*Be sure to check your March Activity calendar to help your child “dress accordingly” on the fun days we have sprinkled throughout the month and especially on Fridays!

PS. Friday you received a permission slip for a field trip we got extra money for last week from the office YAY! SO, we need to make sure we send in the forms ASAP! I am SO SORRY that we don’t have the funds to take chaperones on this trip šŸ™ But promise we’ll take many on the next one please forgive me! We are planning to have a “picnic” lunch in the hallway and read with our friends for reading month when we get back on Thursday, so please send a packed lunch to school on Thursday because we will miss our lunch time! Anyone that wants to meet us on Thursday after the field trip to be a mystery reader we’d LOVE to have you back at the school!!!

Here is what is going on in class this week. Have a wonderful week, I will be sure to update the iblog as needed with classroom news!

Word Family: ā€“en family (hen, den, pen, wren, ten, men)

LA: Informational with focus on: What is important in the text, inferencing, key details in text

Poem: “Five Hungary Dinosaurs”

Math: Shapes 2D and 3D continue…

Science: Force and Motion continue…

Monday: Gym with Mrs. Fenner. Please return homework packets, new ones will be sent home today

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

Wednesday: Computers with Mrs. Pantaleo

Thursday: Fiend Trip to the Ceramic Art place! Music with Mrs. Wilder in the PM

Friday: Gym with Mrs. Fenner

*Important Dates:

March 15th: Late Start 9:00am at our playground door

March 30th: Annual Reading Night: 5:00pm-7:00pm

Rockin’ Movie Night: Rock your PJs and enjoy a movie and food for $5! Date is TBD…

 

*Supplies: Dear parents, we are in desperate need of dry erase markers, baby wipes, play dough and sharpened pencils! If you are able to donate any of these items we would greatly appreciate it!

Week of 2-27-2017

Greetings room 111!

I hope this message finds you all well and that you enjoyed our WARM winter break! I had the pleasure and luck to spend the week with my wonderful family and friends, and take my children to soccer and library day! It’s not glamorous but it’s exactly how I love to spend my time šŸ™‚ I hope you all feel rested and relaxed and your children are ready to get back in the groove! I have missed them so much and wanted to also send a big THANK YOU for all the beautiful and sweet Valentine’s cards and treats. I LOVE them all and as usual have felt very special and spoiled! We also had SUCH a wonderful day for the 100th day of school! We had so many things to do that we ran out of time for everything planned! But as usual, my classroom was wonderful and I was ever so proud of us. Here is what is going on in class this week. Have a wonderful week back, I can NOT believe it is almost March!Ā  I will be sure to update the iblog as needed with classroom news!

Word Family: ā€“un family (bun, fun, gun, nun, run, sun)

LA: Informational with focus on: What is important in the text, inferencing, key details in text

Poem: “A Slippery Little Snake”

Math: Shapes

Science: Force and Motion continue

Monday: Gym with Mrs. Fenner. Please return homework packets, new ones will be sent home today

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

Wednesday: Computers with Mrs. Pantaleo

Thursday: Music with Mrs. Wilder

Friday: Gym with Mrs. Fenner and Today is the PBIS reward day for those students that have had enough greens

 

*Important Dates:Ā March 15th, 2017 Late Start 9:00am at our playground door

*Supplies: Dear parents, we are in desperate need of dry erase markers, baby wipes, play dough and sharpened pencils! If you are able to donate any of these items we would greatly appreciate it!

Week of 2-6-2017

Greetings room 111!

I hope this message finds you all well and enjoying Superbowl weekend! I am not the biggest football fan, but love watching all the funny commercials each year! I hope you looked over the great report cards your children brought home this weekend and I will be sending home the NWEA results this week! We will be having an ice cream treat this week from Mrs. Ross to celebrate all our hard work and progress we have made so far this year šŸ™‚ Our 100th day celebration is coming up soon, so take a look at the note home today and let me know if you are able to donate anything! Have a wonderful week and I will update the iblog as needed with classroom news! Here is what’s happening this week in kindergarten.

Word Family: –ig family (dig, fig, wig, pig, big, rig)

Sight Word: little

LA: Narrative Books, theme “Kindness”

Math: Numbers 11-19 “Teen Numbers”

Social Studies: History and Timeliness

Science: Force and Motion

Monday: Gym with Mrs. Fenner. Homework packets dues and new ones sent home

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

Wednesday: Computers with Mrs. Pantaleo

Thursday: Music with Mrs. Wilder

Friday: Gym with Mrs. Fenner

*Supplies: Dear parents, we are in desperate need of dry erase markers, baby wipes, play dough and sharpened pencils! If you are able to donate any of these items we would greatly appreciate it!

REMINDERS…..

hELLO WONDERFUL FAMILIES OF ROOM 111,

Just a reminder that:

*tomorrow is the spelling test for the -et family from the homework packets

*Homework packets are NOT due until Mondays

*Timeline project is due tomorrow for social studies! Please make sure that you have written something small down under each picture to explain what happened at that point in your child’s life! Can’t wait to see them and thank you again for your help!

Library Check Out Reminder!!!!

 

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Tomorrow is library check out! Please make sure to send in your child’s library books (place them in the backpacks not reading packs tonight to make them easily accessible!)….Thank you for your help. We have had many students lately forgetting books at home. Please look and find them to avoid fees!

Week of 1-30-2017

Greetings wonderful families of 111!

I hope this message finds you well. I can notĀ  believe that it is already February and we are beginning our second semester! I am so proud of all the hard work your children have done so far this year, and look forward to all the progress this new semester will bring. Report cards will also go home this week and although we do not have conferences this time around, I am always available to discuss your darling’s progress! If there is anything I’ve left out as always I’ll be in touch with more posts!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Here is what you need to know this week:

Word Family: -et (*jet, *wet, pet, get,* vet, net) more words:met, bet, set

  • jet, wet, vet are the hot words guaranteed to be on the test
  • Word of the week: like

Monday: gym with Mrs. Fenner

Tuesday: NWEA Reading assessment in the morning (get a great nights sleep and eat a good breakfast everyone!) and Music and Art.

Wednesday: Computers with Mrs. Panteleo

Thursday: Music with Mrs. Wilder

Friday: Gym with Mrs. Fenner and an ice cream surprise from Mrs. Ross for all our hard work the first semester and NWEA growth.

 

Important Dates:

The 100th day of school is coming soon! So, start looking for some “old” clothing to dress you little one like they are 100 years old! We will be sending home a letter and a sign up sheet for making a 100 day trail mix. However, if anyone would like to donate any of the following items early that would be amazing! Make sure to buy enough for EACH child to have 10 pieces. They need to fill ten ten frames worth of snacks before dumping them into a bowl! You can send these items in whenever you want and we thank you in advance for all your help!

m&ms

mini pretzels

teddy grams

goldfish

fruit snacks

raisins

popcorn

cheerios

chex cereal

skittles

 

 

Week of 1-9-2017

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Ā  Room 111 KDG Newsletter

Week of January 9th, 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 ā€œword familiesā€. This week, our first word family is the ā€œā€“at word family.ā€ 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 ā€“at family note that will be the ā€œhot wordsā€ or words that you know I am putting on the assessment. In addition, the teacher will pick two ā€œcold wordsā€ 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.Ā  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 ā€œletter of the weekā€ for homework. In addition, I will be sending home a small ā€œpacketā€ 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. Rossā€™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 childā€™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

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Important Dates:

January 16th: No school

January 18th: Late Start

January 27th: 11:10 Dismissal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week of 12/19-2016

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 šŸ™‚ 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 aboutĀ sending anything in šŸ™‚

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 šŸ™‚

 

Mrs. Ross and Class!

 

Week of 12-11-2016

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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 šŸ™‚