Dear Families,

We will be celebrating our Holiday Party on Friday, December 19th at 10:15 a.m. until 11:45 a.m.  Our class is booked solid in the afternoon between having the PBIS Reward Game Day, gym and computer lab.  We will be having our students engaged in a variety of Holiday Corner Activities.  If you would be interested in helping during this time, please email me at wrightt1@dearbornschools.org or leave a comment below.  In your child’s red folder tonight, you will find an envelope asking for a dollar donation to help us pay for craft materials.

We need these donations for the party as well:

30 undecorated sugar cookies in the shape of the gingerbread man- we just love the gingerbread man in our class. 🙂 ( students will be decorating them during the party)  We are asking for a few extras in case of breakage.

0ne can of white frosting

one can of white frosting

one bag of mini m&m for buttons/eyes

box of plastic knives

25 juice boxes ( flavor of your choice)

large container of oatmeal

5 lb bag of sugar

container of red sprinkles

container of green sprinkles

25 holiday napkins

25 holiday plates

6 plastic red tablecloths (from the dollar store)

Have a great weekend!

Ms. Wright

Dear Families,

Look out Ford Motor Company!  We have future engineers ready to work.  Yesterday during our Mad Science session we asked the question “Which ball will go down the ramp the fastest?”  We wrote down our hypotheses in our science notebooks.  Take a look!

Next, we tested out our hypotheses!  We wondered which ball would be fastest?  The choices were a golf ball, marble, super ball and a ping pong ball.  After several tests, we found out that the golf ball was fastest down the ramp!  Scientist Sebby wondered if the golf ball won because of what lane it was in.  

So we tested each ball in each of the different lanes and the golf ball won each time.  We realized that it did not matter what lane the golf ball was in, it was still the fastest.  Many scientists thought it was because the golf ball was “heavier.”

Next, our scientists made their own ramps out of blocks and tested them out.

Thanks to Charlie’s mom, Elijah’s mom, Gracie’s mom and Isaac’s aunt for helping us.  Thanks for taking such great pictures!

Have a great weekend!

Ms. Wright

Hello Families,

Here is what you need to know for our kindergarten class this week:

Lunch choices for Monday are Ravioli ( chef’s choice) and grilled cheese!

• Monday:  Letter books will be sent home today.  We will be studying the letters G and g.  Please return library books to school if your child hasn’t already done so.  We did not check out books last week since we were on our field trip during our check out time.  Wear gym shoes!
• Tuesday:  We will go to the Media Center, music and art today!
• Wednesday:  We will go to music today.
• Thursday:  Mad Science at 1:00 p.m.  If you are interested in helping us, please let me know!  Thanks!
• Friday:  Letter books need to be returned.  Wear gym shoes

PBIS:

In order for your student to be invited to the PBIS Reward they must stay on green 80 percent of the month.  Since we have 15 school days in December, that means that they can’t move their clip more than 3 times.  Some students are already getting close.  Each morning, please remind your child to follow our classroom guidelines to BE SAFE, BE RESPECTFUL and BE RESPONSIBLE!  Our December reward party is Game Day and will take place on Friday, December 19th.  More info will be sent home soon.

Number Poems:  During conferences last month. several parents asked for the number poems we say in class to help while practicing writing numbers at home.  I thought every family might find them useful so look for them in your child’s red folder on Monday!

Here’s is what we will be studying this week in:

READING:  Retelling the beginning, middle and end of a story.

WRITING:  We are still writing  our opinions!  We have lots of opinions in our class!:)

MATH:  We are solving addition and subtraction word problems.

SOCIAL STUDIES: We are finishing up on our Social Studies project!  We have been learning all about needs and wants, goods and services and service workers.  Later in the week I will be administering the District Social Studies Assessment to your child.  The assessment covers the topics that we have been studying during our project.

SCIENCE:  We will begin our investigation of Force:  Pushes and Pulls!  Thanks to Martin’s family for sending in an excellent picture that demonstrates a push.

Here’s to a great week!

Ms. Wright

Dear Families,

Have you ever taken your own children to Kroger’s and it seemed a bit hectic?  Well, our awesome chaperones came and helped 50+ kindergartners navigate through Kroger’s this morning.  The students reviewed what they knew about a variety of social studies concepts and went through the store looking for these things.  Take a look at some our our teams in action!

Please ask your kindergartner to tell you about:

• wants and needs
• goods and services
• what service workers did you see today?
• How many grams of sugar should a healthy snack have?  (Answer:  less than 5 grams)

Thanks again to the family members that came and helped us today!

Ms. Wright

Dear Families,

Take a look at all the students who brought back their Nightly Reading Homework today!

Enjoy the personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut!  Keep reading every night!!

Three Quick Things

• Tomorrow is our field trip to Kroger!  If  possible, please have your child wear red or their Lindbergh shirt!
• We will be shopping at the Santa Workshop this week.  Information came home today in your child’s red folder.  If you would like your child to shop, please make sure that the Santa Workshop envelope is filled out and return to school by Wednesday, December 3.  We will be shopping either on Wednesday or Thursday!
• I will need some family members to help us on Thursday, December 11 at 1:00 p.m.  In yesterday’s post, I put down Wednesday by mistake.

Have a great evening!

Ms. Wright

Dear Families,

Hope you had a relaxing Thanksgiving!  Here is what you need to know for this upcoming week:

• Letter of the Week:  I  i  Letter books will be sent home on Monday.  Everyone has done a great job of  getting them completed by Friday.
• Words of the Week:  am   you    see    go   he   is       These words will be placed on your child’s ring of words.  Please practice these words at home.  Your child will practice them at school during Daily 5 each day.

• Monday:  Please have your child return their Nightly Reading Homework today.  If your child has a reading necklace and charm from last month, have them bring it to school  today so we can add to it.  Return library book.  Wear gym shoes.
• Tuesday:  We are going on our field trip to Kroger today.  Chaperones need to arrive to Lindbergh at 9:00 a.m.  The bus will leave around 9:15 a.m. We will return to Lindbergh by 11:30.  Please have your child wear a Lindbergh or red shirt.  In the afternoon,  Lindbergh students will be having their PBIS reward. This month it will be a movie and a junkie snack.  Your child is invited to the reward if they did not move their clip 4 or more times in the month of November.  We have 21 students attending the reward.  If your child is going to the reward, please send in a junkie snack.
• Wednesday:  We will begin our physical science unit about Pushes and Pulls today.  We will be brainstorming about Pushes and Pulls.  Please send in any pictures of your child demonstrating a push or a pull.  Examples might include:  pushing a snow shovel or pulling a wagon.  Although we won’t need any parent volunteers for science this week, we will need some for next Thursday, December 11th.
• Thursday:  I will be at Science Leader Training today.  Mrs. Miller will be our guest teacher today.
• Friday:  Letter books due.  Popcorn Day.

That is all for now!

Ms. Wright

Dear Families,

We couldn’t say no when it comes to helpful volunteers for our upcoming field trip to Kroger’s on Tuesday.  If you signed up, thank you so much.  Here is my list of volunteers:

• Kamyl’s mom
• Ashley’s mom
• Ian’s mom
• Yusef’s mom
• Gracie’s mom
• Elijah’s mom
• Lydia’s mom
• Kayla’s aunt
• Sebby’s mom
• Charlie’s mom

Please rest up for the big day.  It won’t be your typical Kroger trip.  We will all be taking the bus to school, please arrive to Lindbergh by 9:00 a.m.  You receive more info the morning of the trip!  🙂

Please remember to have your child return their Nightly Reading Homework for the month of November on Monday, December 1st.  If your child received their charm necklace from last month, please make sure they wear it to school.

Have a healthy Thanksgiving!

Ms. Wright

Hello Families,

Although it will be a short week, it sure will be busy!  Today we had our first “King of ing!”  Take a look at Ameena!

In Social Studies we have been learning about Needs and Wants.  We have been discussing how we need to eat healthy foods.  Several students asked the important question of how do we know if something is healthy or not.  We started looking at labels of  some of our favorite snacks.

I put out a variety of snacks for the students to pick, some healthy some not. Zeinab was the only student to pick fruit over cookies or chips. Although it didn’t surprise me about the snack choices of kindergartners, it did surprise me when I took the leftover snacks to a staff meeting and many teachers picked the chips and cookies over the fruit!:)

We found out that many of our favorite foods have lots of sugar!   Tomorrow we will be actually measuring out how much sugar some of our favorite snacks have.  This project ties into our upcoming field trip to Kroger.  Thanks to everyone who brought in their field trip permission slip and money!  I haven’t had a chance to go through all the permission slips yet, but will let you know who will be coming to help us on Tuesday, December 2nd to our field trip to Kroger!  I will post our chaperones tonight or tomorrow!

• Letter books will not be sent home this week due to the short week.
• Words of the Week:   mom    dad
• Please return library books for Tuesday.
• In your child’s red folder tomorrow, students will bring home something  special for Thanksgiving.  Thanks to Thomas’s mom for helping me today with the Thanksgiving project.

Until next time…

Ms. Wright

Hello Families,

Hope you had relaxing weekend!  Here is what you need to know for this week:

Monday:  Letter books will come home today.  We are working in the letters L and l this week.

Tuesday: Please return library books if you haven’t already done so.  We will go to the Media Center, music and art today.

Wednesday:  We have music today.  There are scheduled parent/teacher conferences today.

Thursday:  There are scheduled parent/teacher conferences today.

Friday:  Please return letter books today!

Our literacy framework is called Daily 5.  We started the fifth component today called Word Work.  During this time, students have the opportunity to practice important sight words.  Your child needs to learn these words so they will automatically recognize them while reading.  Since there is a huge range of abilities in kindergarten, some students  already know many of these words while other students know just a few.  Each week your child will take home a ring of cards in their book bag.  Please practice these words at home, while we will continue to practice at school.  If your child already knows how to read these words, then have them practicing writing these words. The ring of cards will need to be placed back in their book bag each night so we can use them the next day during Daily 5.  We will not begin formal spelling words or tests until the third card marking, sometime in the spring.

Week 1- Words of the Week

• look
• I
• me
• like
• we
• can

Lunch Recess:

At Lindbergh, we understand the importance of children getting plenty of exercise each day.  Please plan on your child to go outside for lunch recess unless the temperature is below 15 degrees.  If there is snow on the ground or grass your child needs to wear snowpants and boots in order for them to play in it.  Otherwise, students who are not wearing snowpants or boots will need to stay on the blacktop.  If your child gets wet during lunch recess, there will be no phone calls home for a change of clothes.  Please make sure your child has an extra change of clothes in their locker, in case they need it.

As always, thanks for your support!

Ms. Wright

PS  Due to your generosity, our Holiday Boutique basket brought in $290, which we can spend on our classroom.  Thanks so very much!

Dear Families,

Help!  We need some shopping papers or advertisements for tomorrow’s social studies lesson.  Examples : Kroger, Meijer’s or Target circulation papers.  The purpose is to be able to cut  pictures of “wants.”  Today the students were placed in teams and brainstormed “needs.”  Ask your child about things we need in order to live.  Each team did a fantastic job brainstorming together as well as working together as a group!

Many thanks!

Ms. Wright