Dates
to Remember
August 30th – Gingerbread Day (please wear your kindergarten
tee shirt that day)
August 31st – No School
September 3rd – No School – Labor Day
September 4th – School resumes
September 5th – Picture Day for K-2
September 6th – Elementary Fundraiser Kick-off
September 7th – Book orders due (checks only payable to
Scholastic books or order
online with class code TKFJW)
September 28th – Fun to be Fit @ 1:30
This week in class!
Language Arts:
Names, getting to know you
& School Routines
Reading – Kissing Hand reviews, Gingerbread Man
different stories,
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Reader’s workshop
– Reading 5 favorite books
from home, (Please send
in 5
special/favorite books from home. Label
inside their names too)
why we love books, how to care for books.
Grammar – syllables in our names
Writing – how I can to school journal writing,
creating a gingerbread man
book, and a names book.
Math:
-
1.2 – Introducing pattern blocks, coloring
first letter of their name with
pattern blocks
1.3 – Gotcha: A Counting Game (Homelink)
Social Studies:
Feel the Wheel rules
Chapter
1, Session 1 Myself and Others Ch. 1 How do we get along with
each other?
Science:
Explore our class
butterflies and their life cycle using our five senses
Technology:
Starfall on computer
IPad: IPad rules and promise, take picture on iPad, Write my
name app,
candy count app
Happy Birthday Dylan!
We celebrated his Aug. Birthday
last week!
All About Me Boxes
Please turn in your
child’s All about me boxes sometime this week or early next week.
We will be doing a lot of name games and
getting to know one another the next two weeks.
Gingerbread Day
We will
be having our special gingerbread day this upcoming Thursday.
Please have your kinder wear their new
Kindergarten tee shirt they received
on the first day of school. We will be baking a Gingerbread man and when
we
go and find him, to our surprise he will be missing. We will be going on a school
wide hunt
looking for our Gingerbread Man. This is
a good way to remind
ourselves of our school wide expectations and rules as we
go into different rooms throughout the school.
When we
return to our room, we will find that he has returned to our room. We
will be enjoying our Gingerbread Man with
milk and cookies for our snack then.
Please don’t tell your student what is going to happen, let them tell
you afterschool.
Picture Day Sept. 5th
You
can send in your child’s picture day envelope and money any time from
now until
picture day. I will hold onto it until
that day.
Daily Folders
We will be staring to send home daily folders every day until we get
our Busy Bee Binders up and going. Most
days we send home the
papers we worked on that day in class. Mondays will have all of our
main notes from
me and from the office. Please return the folders
daily! Thank you!
Special
Classes
We had our first gym class today, ask your little
all about it. We will have Music class
tomorrow
and Gym again on Wednesday. We
will not be
going to Library until the week after Labor Day.
We will start Show-n-Tell also the following
week,
not this week as we do not have class this Friday.
So Far So Good
I
am very pleased so far with our class’ attention, kindness, and
participation. They did very
well last
week and I’m very encouraged that we will have an outstanding group of kiddos
this year!
Please
remind your child to wait patiently, as it is so hard for them to understand
that I cannot call
on them all of the time and please remind them to wait their
turn to talk. They all have so much to
tell me and the class, that they all blurt out, so we will be working hard this
week to learn to raise
their hand to speak, wait patiently, and listen to
others.
We
will be drawing tickets for prizes at the end of this week for earning “Feel
the Wheel” tickets!
The kids are so
excited to be caught doing something right and kind for others. Hopefully they
told you over the weekend,
what a Bucket Filler is. They all seemed
to really enjoy that story!
