Dear Families,

I am writing to inform you that I have applied for intermittent FMLA to care for the needs of a sick family member.  This means I will be absent from time to time to assist with care giving.  Although these absences were unexpected , the students have fallen into a good routine and are very familiar by now with our daily classroom procedures and expectations.

Please keep in mind the days I am not at school I will be available by email.  I will be keeping up with curriculum and classroom lesson planning while away from the classroom.  Students will carry on and continue to follow the Kindergarten curriculum and pacing as set by the district.

Should you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me.  Thank you for your support.

Jennifer Ruselink

ruselij@dearbornschools.org

Just a reminder that Boo Grams are due tomorrow since there is no school for Kindergarten Friday.

We will celebrate Halloween at school on Wednesday, October 31st.

There is a school-wide costume parade for Kindergarten and Young Fives.  Parents are more than welcome to attend.  It will begin at 9:00 a.m.  Usually parents stand in the hallways to watch near the office.

Students should wear their costume to school.  We will participate in the parade and then the students can wear them for our classroom party (10:00-10:45).  We will take our costumes off right before we go to lunch.

Please make sure your student’s costume is appropriate, fits comfortably and isn’t too warm…..we’ll be inside.  Please no play weapons that may go with your student’s costume.

We will enjoy cider and donuts and then rotate through a game and craft.

Below is a link to sign up for donations.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090A4FABAE2CA6FE3-halloween1

With our large class there are not very many things to donate for this celebration.  But keep in mind you can donate to our Holiday party coming in December.

Please email me if you can volunteer that morning.

ruselij@dearbornschools.org

Thank you!

Letters of the Week: P, E (Alphabet books due Thursday).

Words of the Week: my, he

Math practice book:  Lessons 21-23

Continue nightly literacy homework, add Razz Kids

$4.00 due for a subscription to Raz Kids

Donations for our Holiday Boutique Raffle Basket

Unsold Raffle Tickets and monies due

Boo Grams due Thursday

No school for Kindergarten and Y5 on Friday

Have a good week!

I hope families found the subscription information for Razz Kids sent home in the red folders today.

Please let me know if you have any questions logging on.

I set reading levels based on what I have observed in class.

This will be a good addition to the Nightly Literacy Homework.

Letters of the Week: H, F (Alphabet books will be sent home Tuesday).

Words of the Week: go, in

Math practice book:  Lesson 19, 20, 21

Continue nightly literacy homework

$4.00 due for a subscription to Raz Kids

Donations for our Holiday Boutique Raffle Basket

Late Start Wednesday.

Haunted School Friday, 6-8 p.m.

Have a good week!

Sorry for the quality of the picture.  It didn’t come out too well.  If you have any pictures you would like to share from the trip send them to me and I can post them.

ruselij@dearbornschools.org

News and Information:

Wednesday, October 17th:  Late Start

Friday, October 19th:  Haunted School, 6-8 p.m. (watch for tickets being sold before school this week).

What We Did This Week:

ELA: 

• Our letters of the week were Cc, Gg
• Our sight words were we, a
• We read stories with rhyming words, we talked about “the characters” of our stories and the beginning, middle and end of our stories.
• Our Poem this week was “My Friend!”
• We rotated through Daily 5 (read to self, work on writing and word work).  We are beginning to meet in small groups.
• In Writer’s Workshop students wrote in their journals after participating in a “shared writing” with me.  They are helping to record the sounds they here in words.

Math:

• We completed Lesson 17 and 18 this week.  Feel free to complete the practice pages from these lessons in the at home practice book.

Leader in Me/ Social Studies:

• This month we are learning about Habit 1 – Be Proactive
• In addition to what Responsibility means we are learning about being Fair.  We wrote about a time when we were fair.  We roll played some different school scenarios and discussed ways to be fair with our friends.

Science:

• We continue to discuss push and pull.

We visited Gym, Art, Music and Media.

We played during Free Choice Time.

• Alphabet Books were due Friday (Letter C and Letter G page).
• Nightly Literacy Homework for October can be turned in Monday.
• Reading bags should travel back and forth to school daily in the backpack.  The ring of words should be in the reading bag.
• I am asking for 4.00 from each family to cover the cost of the Razz Kids subscription.
• I hope that every one saw the letter that came home regarding the Holiday Boutique Raffle Basket.

Have a great weekend!

Sorry I did not get to passing out red folders and alphabet books to go home!  I will send them tomorrow!

Thank you to the many parent chaperones that made our trip to the orchard a success!  Thank you for enduring the mud, the humidity and bee stings!

The students had a great time!  They were able to recognize many things about the orchard that we had read about in class.

Hope everyone is getting clean tonight!