December Scholastic Book Orders are coming home today.

Orders are due Friday, December 5th in order to have books here before Winter vacation.

There are attached directions on how to order online.

Thanks!

The Young 5’s will have the opportunity to shop at the “Santa Shop” on Thursday, December 4th.

All items are 2.00.

An envelope is being sent home today for you to create a “shopping list” for who your child would like to shop for.

Money and lists can be brought in Thursday morning.

Thank you!

Don’t forget that tomorrow is our November reward party with a short movie and “junkie snack” from home!  All of the students in our class earned this reward!

Thank you!

Please note that the guideline for having outdoor recess, lining up outside in the morning, and having safeties on outside posts has been changed.  If the wind chill is 20 degrees F or above students will wait outside in the morning, will be having outside recess, and corner safeties will be on post.  If the wind chill or air temperature is 19 degrees F or below students will line up inside in the morning, will have indoor recess and no corner safeties will be on post.  There are many students who are being dropped off as early as 7:45 am, which is way too early.  Please be aware that while students are welcome to play outside for a short time before school, there is no school staff supervision of these students.  Also, when it is too cold to line up outside the student lines in the hallway will be supervised  by teachers starting at 8:25 am.  Please do not drop off students early on these “inside” days unless they are going to breakfast.  Breakfast is served in the cafeteria starting at 8:15 am.  The cost is $1.25.  Parents who need to drop students off early can contact Kids’ Club to enroll their children.  This service is available for a fee but then you would know your child is being appropriately supervised.  We want all students to be safe!

News and Information

Good Behavior Reward Party for November

Tuesday, December 2nd – We will be watching a short movie and you may bring a “junkie snack” from home

Late Start

Wedensday, December 10th

What We Did This Week

We reviewed all of our Alpha Friends

In math we played dice games to practice counting and reading numbers

In Science we “popped corn” and used our five senses to observe what was happening

We read many stories about Thanksgiving

We had our first Lock Down drill today.  I called it a “listening drill” with the students meaning we had to lock the door, turn off the lights, and sit close together in a corner of the classroom.  I told the students we needed to “listen” for directions from Mrs. DeNeen on the walkie talkie.

Have a good holiday.

Mrs. Ruselink

News and Information

No School

November 26^th-November 28^th, Thanksgiving Recess

November Reward Party for Good Behavior

Tuesday, December 2^nd

We are watching a short movie and you may bring your favorite “junkie snack”

Winter Clothes/ Boots

Winter has come early!  Thank you for dressing your student so warm!  Please remember to pack tennis shoes if your child wears snow boots to school.  They will need to change into shoes before coming in the classroom so we can keep the floor and rug area clean and dry.

If the temperature is above 20 degrees (with windshield) we are allowed to be outdoors for recess and morning line up.  If the temperature is below that there will be indoor recess and students are allowed to line up against their locker in the hallway in the morning.

What We Did This Week

Our new AlphaFriend was Callie Cat, letter C

In math we continued work with patterns, writing numerals and using our geometric shape templates to draw shapes.

During Daily 5 we used the Wikki Stix to outline alphabet letters, listened to a story about Bears, wrote in our Work on Writing notebook and selected new texts for Read to Self.

In handwriting this week we focused on letter E, using “big line” and “little lines”

In Science we used our sense of sight to observe color changes using water and food coloring.

We continue to read and write about Thanksgiving.

We had a lot of time to interact during Free Choice (with indoor recess all week) and work on play skills.

Have a good weekend!

News and Information

No School

November 26^th, 27^th and 28^th – Thanksgiving Recess

Evening Conferences

November 19^th

November 20th

What We Did This Week

Our AlphaFriend was Vinnie Volcano, Letter V

We sorted lower case letters at “Word Work”

We wrote in our journals using our alphabet charts

We rotated through Daily 5

We worked on reading and writing numerals 1-20

In handwriting we worked on capital F

Our Social Skills lesson was review of the previously studied feelings (angry, sad, happy) – we also worked on partner cooperation playing a math game

The cold weather is here!  Please practice with your student at home zipping coats and putting on winter clothes (boots, hats, mittens)!  We will still be going outdoors for recess in the cold weather.

Thank you!

Have a nice weekend!

Just a reminder that Popcorn Friday is tomorrow – 0.25 a bag!

Also tomorrow is our November deadline for ordering books through Scholastic Book Club.

Thanks!

Just a couple of reminders for the week:

Return library books on Tuesday

Late Start on Wednesday

Popcorn Day on Friday

Have a good week!