Friday, December 8, 2017

DECEMBER 4-8


DATES:
Dec 15: Family movie night  (CANCELLED!)
(Polar Express—wear Pj’s!)
Dec 18:  Delayed Start
Dec 20: Wear your favorite 
             ugly or beautiful
          sweater/shirt to school
            Christmas party (PM)
 Dec 21:  PJ day, sing along (AM)  
               ½ day (dismissal 11:35)
Dec 22-Jan 2: Christmas break

Thank you again for having hat, mittens, shoes and folders---all the necessary supplies for your child to have a successful day!  It helps them to be ready to learn!

Please send notes for bus changes to school with your child if possible.

CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES:
For our Christmas party on December 20 in the afternoon, the children are going to do a gift exchange.  Girls will buy a girl gift and boys a boy gift.  They will put to a girl or boy on the tag and then from them. 

(Example: 
To a girl. From Ms. Thompson). 
The children can bring in their gifts any time!  Our tree is up!

  Our helpers for party day are Deseray T and Niki V.  Our party will be at 2:00 as we have gym and recess in the afternoon. 

Party donations:
24 plates:  Madelyn
24 Christmas napkins: Kenzie
24 cups:  Carolina
1 container rasp sherbet: Drake
1 container rasp sherbet____?
Finger Jello:  Drake
Snack mix:  Zimmie

Party day is also wear your favorite ugly or beautiful Christmas sweater or shirt day!

Our last day is a half-day and we will be wearing our PJ’s to school! 

READING:
LETTER: Oo
SIGHT WORDS:  you, on
VOCABULARY:  equipment, uniform
CATEGORY WORDS:  jobs

Our big book is about jobs and tools needed to do different jobs.

We are learning to blend letters together to make words. 

WRITING:  We are learning about pattern books (such as Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see). We will be writing our own pattern book next week.

SCIENCE and SOCIAL STUDIES:
We continue to learn about senses. 

MATH:
We are working on tricky teens—learning that the teen numbers begin with 1!  We also will be building hexagon shapes using smaller combinations of shapes from our pattern blocks.

We learned the ‘Line’em up ap’ to help us learn to put numbers in order.  We started with 1-10, as they become comfortable with it, we will move up to 11-20.
STUDENT OF THE WEEK:
Justin

Justin has 6 goats; he loves mud trucks and someday wants to be a rock star!  His favorite movie is Moana. 
Justin likes PB & J, chicken nuggets and pizza.  He wants to have the best year ever at school and move to 1st grade!  He also wants to see the butterflies make it back to Mi
November 27-December 1


DATES:
Dec 15: Family movie night
Dec 18:  Delayed Start
Dec 20: Christmas party (PM)
Dec 21:  PJ day, sing along (AM)   
                 ½ day
Dec 22-Jan 2: Christmas break

READING:
Letter Cc
Sight words:  go, in
Vocabulary:  routine, neighborhood
Category words:  sequence words
Our big book is Please Take Me for a Walk.  It’s about a dog and the neighborhood.
Comprehension:  we are learning about character, setting and events in a story

WRITING:
November journals go home Thursday and we begin December on Friday.  The children are learning to sound out words, leave spaces between words and use end marks.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
December we will talk about families and our 5 senses at Christmas time.

MATH:  We are working on counting to 50, identifying and sorting shapes according to shape, size, color, thickness (attributes).  The children will be introduced to a calculator ap on the Ipad, and we will do a class graph on our favorite colors.  The children have also made a count down to Christmas chain.  Each night they tear or cut off a ring and when they get to the yellow one it will be Christmas.

Thank you again for having hat, mittens, shoes and folders---all the necessary supplies for your child to have a successful day!  It helps them to be ready to learn!

Please send notes for bus changes to school with your child if possible.
Thank you for all your donations for our Thanksgiving/Stone Soup feast!  The children had a very busy and fun week!  Thank you to Alexis Presson for coming in to help us cut veggies and to help serve/clean up!  We could not have done it without you!

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:
Reese:
Reese has horses, she can ride her bike without training wheels and she has 23 1st  cousins!  Reese likes cereal, chips and cheese, chips and ketchup!  Her goals are to learn to read and learn math.  Her favorite movie is Descendants 2!

CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES:
For our Christmas party on December 20 in the afternoon, the children are going to do a gift exchange.  Girls will buy a girl gift and boys a boy gift.  They will put to a girl or boy on the tag and then from them. (Example: 
To a girl. From Ms. Thompson). 

 Our helpers for party day are Deseray T and Niki V.  Our party will be at 2:00 as we have gym and recess in the afternoon. 

Party donations:
24 plates:  Madelyn
24 Christmas napkins: Kenzie
24 cups:  Carolina
1 container rasp sherbet: Drake
1 container rasp sherbet____?
Finger Jello:  Drake
Snack mix:  Zimmie
  
Our last day is a half-day and we will be wearing our PJ’s to school! 

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

November 6-10

DATES:
Nov 8—buy at the book fair
*Nov 9-- ½ day dismissal at 11:35
 Parent teacher conferences 1-7
*Nov 10-- ½ day—dismissal at 11:35
Nov 15 --NO SCHOOL— Deer Day
Nov 17-Kindergarten Stone Soup rotations (AM)
Nov 20--Delayed Start
Nov 21--Cut veggies (AM)
Nov 22—Stone Soup Feast (2PM)

**NO LUNCH is served on November 9 or 10.

PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES:
I’m looking forward to meeting with each of you regarding your child’s progress!!!

BOOK FAIR BUYING is Wednesday at 12:45
Please send the order forms with correct money in an envelope with your child’s name on it.  OR you can buy books when you come to conferences on Thursday!! It is located in the library.

READING:
The book for this week is ‘How do Dinosaurs Go To School?’  It’s about following rules.  We have been talking about rules being everywhere in our lives!  Discuss rules you have at home, and where else they have rules to follow.
Letter:  Ii
Sight Words:  to, it
Vocabulary: cooperate, rules
Category words:  Action words
Beanie Baby strategies:
We are introducing the Beanie CHUNKY MONKEY—He reminds us to chunk up words to sound out.

WRITING:
We will be looking at different leaves and writing/drawing about them as we practice to be a scientist.  We will go on a nature listening walk to the Butterfly Garden to gather items to write about.

SCIENCE and SOCIAL STUDIES:
Practice ‘respect’ (our character for the month. 
We are beginning our wants and needs (learning about Market Economy) investigation leading up to our Stone Soup activities that start on the 17th.  On the 17th we will do a fair trade for items we need to make our stone soup on November 22.
We are also talking about Veterans Day and how we can show respect for our Veterans.

MATH:  We are putting numbers in order from biggest to smallest.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:
Madelyn
Madelyn likes to play with toys, Mario Kart and with her friends!
She likes peas, chicken nuggets and chocolate.  Madelyn wants to learn to read and write!  Her favorite movie is Frozen.

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Halloween:
We will be having our Halloween parade INSIDE due to the weather!  Please head to the Middle School gym by 1:00!

Monday, October 30, 2017

October 30-November 3
DATES:
October 31 (PM)--Halloween party
  Parade at 1:00 downtown McBain—weather permitting—If it rains, be in the middle school gym by 1:00 and we will parade there shortly after.
November 1 --NO SCHOOL—Teacher Professional Development
November 2—shop at the book fair
November 3 --Report cards home
    Family Movie night
November 8—buy at the book fair
November 9-- ½ day
   Parent teacher conferences 1-8
November 10-- ½ day
November 15 --NO SCHOOL— Deer Day

HALLOWEEN:
Please send costumes in their back pack.  We do not dress until after 1230!  Kindergarten is not going to the wax museum.  We will be ready to watch the beginning of the parade by 1:00.  If you are coming to watch, please go downtown (if the weather is good) or in the middle school gym—they will tell us in the morning what they are choosing.  She said she’d post on Facebook on the Elementary page if we are inside.  We’d love to have you along the parade route to cheer us on whether we are downtown or inside!!!

Please no make up or weapons for the school Halloween party.
Parent volunteers can arrive at 12:30 to help dress

Please remember, if your child wears boots to school to have shoes in their backpack.  Plus 1-2 pairs of mittens.  2 pairs help so they have dry mittens for each recess.

BOOK IT:
October Book it calendars may come in on Thursday!!  November ones will go home on Thursday too!

PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES:
Thank you for returning the orange confirmation notes for parent/teacher conferences.  I am booked pretty tight from 1-7:15—but I will try to switch if you cannot make it.  I’m looking forward to meeting with each of you regarding your child’s progress!!!

READING:
This is a review week of the letters (a,m,p, s, t) and sight words (I, can, the , we, see, a, like)  that we have investigated so far this year.  Our big book is all about bugs!
Vocabulary:  curious, observe
Category words:  Movement words
Beanie Baby strategies:  Pop the weasel—helps us to remember that our sight words should POP right out as we read them.  Iggy the Inferring Iguana reminds us to make predictions about what we are reading and inferences as we read, then validate or adjust our predictions as we read.

WRITING:
We will be looking at different leaves and writing/drawing about them as we practice to be a scientist.

SCIENCE and SOCIAL STUDIES:
We will be talking about Halloween safety.  Practice ‘respect’ (our character for the month.  We will read scarecrow and fall harvest stories.


MATH:  We will be looking in to numbers and different ways we can represent them (fingers, tally marks, ten frames, using beads or counters).