Dates
to Remember
August 29th – Gingerbread Day (please wear your kindergarten
tee shirt that day)
August 30th – No School
September 2nd – No School – Labor Day
September 3rd – School resumes
September 10th – Picture Day for K-2
September 5th – Elementary Fundraiser Kick-off
September 13th – Book orders due (checks only payable to
Scholastic books or order online with class code TKFJW)
September 27th – Fun to be Fit @ 1:30-2
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:
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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 Lillian!
We will be celebrating her birthday this
upcoming Thursday.
All About Me Bags
Please turn in your
child’s All about me bags 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. 10th
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!
