3:00-3:30- Information Session- In Gym 3:30-4:30- Classroom Visits 4:30-5:00- Break for teachers 5:00-5:30-Infor
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Monday, July 17, 2017
Friday, March 24, 2017
March
24, 2017
Dear Parents,
This
week we talked about spring and plants. We
began by discussing where we see plants - the different habitats that plants
grow in. Then we talked about the parts
of the plant and we did 2 experiments: one where we looked at how the roots
soak up the water in the ground and one where we saw how the stem sucks up
water to take to the other parts of the plant.
Then we discussed what plants need to grow and we planted our own bean
seeds. We will keep our plants at school
next week and watch them grow. We will
record the things we see in our plant journal.
We also worked on writing in story form.
We also finished this week
discussing the story Jack and the
Beanstalk. In math, we reviewed
covering pictures with pattern blocks, the different ways to make 10, and solid
and flat shapes. We worked on
decomposing the numbers 13, 14, and 15.
Next Week
Theme: Culture Word
Family: -ame, -ide, -ite,
Story: The Little Red Hen Nursery
Rhyme: My Black Hen
Reminders
·
Be sure you have checked the culture sign-up to
bring in an item for our culture day celebration. Please let me know if you have any
questions. Food can be prepared from
home. We have one food allergy –
peanuts. Please be sure your dish does
not contain any nuts. We will have food
for students and adults that come.
However, remember we will have a variety of food, so even though you may
need for 40 people. You will only need
small portions. Food will need to be
brought in on that day around 11:45. We will begin lunch at 12:00. Then about 12:45/12:50, the students will
present about each country. We will go
to the gym after that for a short parade and for grades to present something
about one of their countries. Once this
is over we will be done. I know it may
make for a long afternoon, but it will be a good and fun learning experience
for the kids. I hope you can come and
join us.
·
Your child’s assignment for their country needs
to be sent in on Tuesday. You can just
print the pictures out and clip them together and put your child’s name on
them. Please let me know if you have any
questions.
·
Friday will also be the end of the month. We do not need Homework notebooks. April’s calendar is behind March. All you have to do is pull out March and it
is there. You do need to send in your
reading logs if you do not do it online.
Reading logs should be sent in by Monday April 3rd. Please put your child’s name on the log
before you send it in. This is the last
month for the pizza certificates, but you do have a log for April, so you can
continue reading.
·
Please do not forget that the fieldtrip money
and forms are due on Thursday March 30th.
·
I still have a few more pages to take and
develop pictures for on the kid’s memory books.
I am looking for anyone that is able to donate money or gift cards to
Walgreens to help finish these last pages.
I know many of you are unable to do this with the many things we have
going on already and I completely understand.
But if there are some of you that can help it would be greatly
appreciated. Any donation amount you can
contribute would be great.
·
Easter is coming up soon. Please don’t forget everyone needs to send in
$6 by March 28th.to cover lunch for that day. Also, send in at least a dozen prefilled
eggs. You can start sending your eggs on
anytime. All eggs should be in by
Tuesday April 4th.
·
Congratulations to Ariana. She received the most donations out of the
whole school for jump rope for heart.
Way to go!!
·
Congratulations to Gabby for receiving the
compassion value award this month.
·
On Thursday, the second graders are having a wax
museum. This is where these students
dress up as a famous Americans. Then
when you put money in there cup they will tell you about themselves. We will go visit the wax museum that
afternoon. For students to be able to
have them speak they will need change.
There is no set amount. Any
amount is appreciated. The money they
raise will go to Lisa Brogdon, who is our speech teacher who was recently
diagnosed with cancer and just had surgery.
Please send your donations/change in a plastic Ziploc bag. You can either put your child’s name on the
bag or put the bag in the money envelope.
·
Enrollment forms went home this week. They are due April 7th. A form needs to be filled out for every
child. You should fill out a form for every child you have. Please go ahead and fill them out and get
them turned in as soon as possible.
·
Collection for the pop tabs ends April 1st,
so please send in any you have.
Dates
Monday March 27th: Return books for Book-In-Bag & Library
Books
Thursday March
30th: Send in change for the wax museum
Fieldtrip
money due
Friday March 31st:
Reverse Raffle
Mrs.
Hodges & Mrs. Roycroft
Friday, February 3, 2017
February
3, 2017
Dear Parents,
This
week we have finished up our unit on geography.
We finished up by discussing maps of the world that included the
continents and major oceans. We made a globe
that the kids took home and in groups we painted a map that I have put up in
the classroom. Then we discussed different landforms and physical land
features. We finished the week talking
about groundhogs and Groundhog’s Day. In
math, we have been learning how to tell the time to the hour, measuring
objects, and ordering objects. This week
we worked on decomposing the number 10.
Next Week
Theme: Dental Health Story:
Cinderella
Valentine’s
Day
Word Family: -ub, -ath, -ith Nursery Rhyme: Three Men in a Tub
Reminders
·
Monday is the 100th day of school for
kindergarten. Students are to wear a
shirt that has 100 items of anything on it.
They need to wear it to school that day.
Also, if they have any hugs written on their 100 hug sheet they can turn
that in too. Snack will be provided for
that day, so students do not need a snack.
Please let me know if you would like to help Monday with some of our
center activities. We need volunteers to
help from 8:15-9:35.
·
Be sure to check your child’s folder today. There is info about an upcoming in-school
fieldtrip and about graduation in there.
- Please remember to send in water bottles each day.
Dates
Monday February 6th: Return books for Book-In-A-Bag & Library
Books
100th
Day!!
Mrs.
Hodges & Mrs. Roycroft
Friday, January 20, 2017
January
20, 2017
Dear Parents,
This
week we have continued discussing our unit on weather. We have been drawing the weather daily. We have also been charting the temperature
throughout the day to see how it changes over the time of a day. We also talked about weather tools and wind. We have discussed who Martin Luther King is and
talked about all the things he did. We
also discussed other famous black Americans like Rosa Parks and George
Washington Carver. In math, we reviewed adding
and subtracting, and working on decomposing numbers 6 and 7. Students should understand that the numbers 1
& 5, 2 & 4, 3 & 3, 0 & 6, make the number 6, and that 1 &
6, 2 & 5, 3 & 4, 7 & 0, make the number 7.
The kids really enjoyed our “Frozen day.” We did several activities before watching the
movie Frozen. We did a
snowman glyph, we made a snowman with marshmallows, we wrote about building a
snowman, and we learned about the states of matter – solid, liquid, gas. It was a great day!
Next Week
Theme: Weather Story: Goldilocks and
the Three Bears
Geography &
Maps Word Families: -og, -op, -ot
Nursery Rhyme: Diddle Diddle
Dumpling
- Next week
our school is participating in “The Great Kindness Challenge.” This is a week that schools are taking
to discuss and perform as many acts of kindness that you can. I will be discussing this with the kids
on Monday. There is a website you
can check out that has a checklist of acts of kindness. We hope to be able to do many acts next
week. I have picked 1 act each day
to concentrate on. We want to try
to do that act as much as possible at school and at home. Also, I thought a class project we could
do was to collect items to donate to the local animal shelter. I talked with them and they accept
donations ranging from food for the animals they rescue, beds, cleaning
supplies to clean pens like Clorox wipes or other cleaning items, monetary
donations, and anything animal related.
I would like for every student to bring in any of these items next
week. We will collect items all
week. Then Friday, the items will
be taken to the animal shelter. I
will be happy to take them, however if there is anyone who would like to
take it with their child on Friday, please let me know.
Acts of Kindness:
Monday – Pick up
trash outside
Tuesday – Smile at
people
Wednesday – Hug
your friend or sibling
Thursday – Give
someone a compliment
Friday – Say thank
you to others
Reminders
- Scholastic
orders are due on Monday January 30th. Be sure to take a look at all the great
books they have.
- We will
only check out library books when we go to library on Tuesday’s. I will only collect books on Monday’s
and Tuesday’s. She only wants to
take them on Tuesday and I do not want to keep them in the room for a long
time. So if you sent yours in this
week on a different day, I just left it in their book bag so they could
keep it until next Monday.
- If you
did not send in your homework notebook today, please send it on Monday so
the new sight/spelling words can be added.
- Be sure
to check your child’s folder for a letter about the 100th day
of school. It is coming up soon and
the kids can make a shirt for that day.
- Be sure
to check the volunteer calendar for open times. Our school will have some visitors the
following week coming to observe our school and what we are doing. Every so often you have to go through an
accreditation process. We have done
this before and this is kind of like renewing it. Anyway, they will be coming by our
classrooms on the 30th or 31st. I would really like to have 2 volunteers
for the 30th during literacy centers to allow things to run
more smoothly. Please let me know
about any days on the calendar that you can volunteer.
Dates
Monday January 23rd:
Return book-in-a-bag & Library books
Mrs.
Hodges & Mrs. Roycroft
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)