October 2, 2015
Dear Parents,
This week we talked about seasons
and fall. We talked about many things
that go along with fall – the weather, how things look outside, how leaves
change colors, and how animals begin to prepare for winter. We discussed how the leaves don’t change
color in the fall they actually turn back to their original color because the
leaf stops making chlorophyll. Then we
talked about properties of leaves and looked at some real leaves. We learned some new words like chlorophyll, pigment,
migration and hibernation with animals.
In math, we worked on sorting leaves, learned the words wide and narrow,
and worked with patterns. We have had a
busy week.
Also
remember each month we will celebrate a different character award. These follow our school values. At each 9 weeks awards assembly for the
traits we have been over, the students will get an award from the school. September’s value was Communication.
Congratulations to Wesley for winning this award.
Next Week
Theme: Apples Color: Red
Handwriting Letters: X, Y, Z, C Nursery
Rhyme: Little Bo Peep
Letters: P, Q, R, S Shape:
Review 4 Shapes
Number: 8, 9 Story:
Little Red Riding Hood
Reminders
- Keep
sending in those box tops and pop top tabs off of cans.
- Items
for the Operation Christmas Child can be sent in now until October 30th. Kindergarten is to send in hygiene items
such as toothpaste, toothbrushes, toothbrush holders, brushes, hair bows,
bar soap, bar soap holders, wash clothes, baby wipes, any non-liquid items.
- If you
did not send in your homework notebook today, please send it on Monday so
the calendar can be changed.
- Don’t
forget to send in your 3 different kinds of apples on Monday. There is a sheet that was sent home
about it this week.
- I
would like each student to send in a bag of Halloween candy. It can be any kind just be sure it’s
items that are individually wrapped you can send it in anytime next week
or the week of Halloween.
- You
may have noticed that the Handwriting letters for homework do not match
the ones that are mentioned on the newsletter for the next week. This is because I teach them in class
that week about those letters, so then the next week they should know how
to properly write them. So the
letters they ae doing on Monday’s for homework they have been taught in
class how to write. I just wanted
to make sure there wasn’t any confusion about that.
- Students
do go to library 2x a week, however they will only check out books 1x a
week on Monday’s. For this reason
we will only collect library books on Friday & Monday. So if we see a library book in the book
bag, if it’s Friday or Monday we will take it out and assume you are done
with it.
- We
were going to have community helpers visit us today, but due to the
weather we rescheduled them to come on Wednesday.
Help/Needed
- On October 16th
we will be carving pumpkins, I need 3-4 volunteers that would like to come
in and help. We will be carving
from 9:45-11:00. Please let me know
if you would like to come in and carve.
If this time does not work for volunteers to come in, I may change
it. I will also need pumpkins to
carve, so if you can come and bring a pumpkin to carve let me know.
- I am also in need of ink
for the printer. I do print a lot
of things and don’t use the copier for printing to save my copies. Anyone who is ever willing to purchase
any ink, it is Canon 240 Black and 241 Color.
Dates:
Monday October 13th: Return books for
Book-In-A-Bag & Library books due
Scholastic
Orders due – Check out the October flyers there are great deals.
