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

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).

October 9-13, 2017

DATES:

October 13--Mobile Dentist

October 16--Delayed Start

October 19--Title 1 Family night

October 31 (PM)--Halloween party

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:

Aubree

Aubree loves tractors.  She loves to give hugs.  Aubree has her own dog.  She likes mash potatoes, mac & cheese, and tacos.  Her favorite movie is Garfield.  Her goal is to make friends and learn new things.

READING:

Letter: Ss

Sight word: see

The big book this week is Senses at the Seashore --A story about senses you have when at the seashore.  I brought in my conch shell for the children to listen and also touch.

Our Beanie Baby is Stretchy Snake.  Stretchy reminds us to stretch out and sound out new words (both when reading and when trying to write)

WRITING:

We write daily in our journals.  We also are continuing to talk about ‘small moments’.  This week we are brainstorming a story about our own small moment.

MATH:  We are continuing to use Halloween counters (erasers) to practice counting, sorting and patterning. We are investigating shapes.  We will also work on 5 and 10 frames.  We will continue to practice counting (to 30) and write and identify numbers.  We warm up counting to Jack Hartman.  You can Google him (He’s on YouTube!)  He has counting to 100 by 1’s, counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s!  We also do the letter of the week with Jack!!

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:

We are talking about fall and apples. Friday we will have firefighters visit with a fire truck.

TECHNOLOGY:

The children are all working on the computer every day doing Enterprise. They also get on their I pads.  I will be teaching them a rhyming ap this week.

**The PTO is having a book Fair starting November 2—if you would be interested in helping, please let me know and I will get you in contact with the organizer

**Title 1 family night is October 19—please return the attached yellow paper by the 17^th.  They are serving dinner beginning at 5:30—there will be activities to do in our room starting at 6 and will be available until 7.  Each child will bring home a packet of fun things to do at home!

October 2-6, 2017

DATES:

October 1—Pizza Hut Book-it program begins

October 13--Mobile Dentist

October 16--Delayed Start

October 19--Title 1 Family night

October 31 (PM)--Halloween party

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:

Isaiah

Isaiah loves to learn.  He loves to watch TV and snuggle.  He loves to play games.  Isaiah’s favorite foods are bananas and gummie snacks.  He wants to be a hunter and a dad when he grows up.

READING:

Letter: Aa

Sight word: we

The big book this week is Pouch!  --A story about a kangaroo. 

WRITING:

We write daily in our journals.  We also are starting to talk about ‘small moments’.  This week we are brainstorming a story about our gingerbread day.

MATH:  We are using Halloween counters (erasers) to practice counting, quantity, sorting and patterning.   We work on adding and subtracting as well. 

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:

We are talking about fall and apples.  Friday fun day we will be listening to a story about a little red house with no doors, no windows and a star inside!  Story is included so the children can help tell it to your family!  We will be taste testing 3 kinds of apples and graphing our favorite!

TECHNOLOGY:

The children are all working on the computer every day doing Enterprise (the older students do Success Maker)—this program works with the children at their level and challenges them as they work.

They are also getting on their Ipads and some have taken to Teach your Monster to Read!  The Monster sends the children letters or certificates as they progress through!  This ap is free and it works first with letters/sounds then on to words and sentences.  I sent home login and password information.

Pizza Hut Book-it calendars for October went home earlier this week!  Children should read or be read to at least 15-20 minutes a day.  Every day they read or are read to, they color in the cat of that day.  The First of November, return the signed and completed calendar and your child receives a coupon for a personal pizza from Pizza Hut!  Children that return all calendars from October to March get a prize from me! The children know there are 3 ways to read a book---read, look at pictures to tell the story or retell a story they know!  Have fun reading!!!!  

The children have all brought home a laminated paper with their first and last name on it.  They also have a watercolor marker.  They can practice tracing their name and then use a damp cloth to wipe it off and write again!  They can practice letters, numbers or their name also on the back!

September 29, 2017

The past 2 weeks have been busy in Kindergarten!

We finished our quick journey through all 26-alphabet letters the last 3 weeks. This week we began our study of letters—we will be doing one letter a week for a while.

This week we investigated the letter Mm.  We learned that we always start our letters at the top and that lower case letters are smaller than upper case letters.  We have learned a few more aps on our Ipads that have to do with either reading or ABC’s.  We have learned I, can and the sight words. 

Our book for this week is “What about Bear?”  We are talking about making new friends.

Beanies for this week are Questioning Owl (to remind us to ask questions about the stories as we read them) and Spinner Spider (who reminds us to make connections as we read stories)

Math:  We finished looking at numbers 0-10.  We have learned to look at dice dots, tally marks, dots on a ten frame, counting objects.

We are looking in to shapes—describing and sorting them as well as making patterns with them.

Science and Social studies:  we are looking in to the fall season.

Our character trait for September is KINDNESS.  We are talking about what it means and are watching videos and reading about it.  The boys and girls are trying very hard to earn their kindness token for their necklaces!

We have finished up most of our early assessments.  We will be sharing results with you soon and will be able to discuss our plans.  Progress reports are attached to this newsletter.  I have also included our upper and lower case letter assessment.  If the letter is highlighted in green it is a letter your child knows.  If it is white it is a letter that you and your child can practice. 

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:

Every week I will feature one of our students in our class for student of the week!  This week it is Bryce:

Bryce is a lefty!  He likes milk and likes to collect Lego kits.

His favorite food is spaghetti!  Bryce wants to get good grades and be a football player.  His favorite movie is Boss Baby.

                                            

Thank you for all you do!  Reading to your child, making sure they are rested, making sure they have gym shoes, back packs and folders each day!  It all helps to have a child ready to learn!