Friday News - September 21

Pizza, pizza our room smells of pizza!  We certainly enjoyed our special lunch!  Thanks again for your support that made it possible!!

 Letters: Pp as heard at the beginning of purple, paper and pumpkin (no ph sounds) and the letter Cc as heard at the beginning of cat, cow and cup (no ch words).  Those two letters will keep us busy!! 

Sight Words:  I and like.  We will soon be reading and writing sentences!!! 

Math: practice numbers 1-4 as well as learning about ordinals (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th).  We will do more patterning and making up addition/subtraction stories! 

Religion: Men of faith Jacob and Joseph

Topic of the Week:  Apples Apples Apples -  We will study different varieties (please remember to have your child bring in an apple on Tuesday-in a bag and labeled with the variety).  The most fun will be our taste testing!  I am planning several fun activities!!  Still in need of apple seeds for one of our activities!!

Snack Days:

• Mon.    Elizabeth
• Wed.    Dylan

 

TAG DAY: Friday - children may bring their dollar and wear their tag day attire.

Library Books:  Remember to return each Wednesday!  And a special request-please no red juice/punch for snack-it definitely stains the carpet!  Thanks!

Friday News - September 14

Thank you for coming to Back-to-School Night on Tuesday.  Your support and interest is always appreciated…and great news…the Kindergarten class is having a pizza party because we had the best parent attendance!!!  That is being planned for next Friday as our lunch time so we will enjoy our pizza and goodies in the classroom that day!  I will remind you of this special happening next week!!!

Letters: Tt as heard at the beginning of turtle, train and top

Sight Word:  the
 I hope you are listening as your child reads his predecodable books that he brings home every week.  They are pretty simple right now, but words will continue to be added as we learn more and more about putting letters together and forming words.  Save them, review them and watch how they build upon each other!!  Sorry they are only in black and white-we read the colorful version at school!
Math:  patterning, graphing, reviewing shapes, practice writing numbers 3 and 4. 
Religion:  men of faith - Noah and Abraham!

We have spent some time this week talking about our five senses and we will complete that next week with tasting and smelling! 

APPLE Unit: We then begin our APPLE unit!  On Tuesday, Sept. 25 I would like to do some apple tasting, comparing and graphing so I am asking each child to bring in an apple that day-I am hoping for a good variety so if you can please try to bring in an apple that is a little unusual-this may mean a trip to Fresh Market or Whole Foods (but only if you have the time and would like to do this).  Please place the apple in a bag and have your child bring it in his backpack to keep it safe (might be a good idea to write on a slip of paper what variety the apple is-just in case I cannot figure it out)!!  Thanks, I always have a lot of fun with our apple unit!!  I could use some apple seeds for a project, so if you happen to be eating apples just pluck out the seeds and send them to school by next Friday!

NATURE CLUB: (joint and exclusive members are “K” and 1^st grade) has had two meetings.  Last week our school nurse, Mrs. Barker, talked to us about bees and beekeeping-it was too cool.  Today we asked the question “What is nature?” and had a special activity with that.  Next Friday we will be studying seeds-please feel free have your child bring in a couple of Ziploc bags with a few seeds-be sure to label-please do not go out and buy special packages for this purpose. Check your own foods and flowers or grandma and grandpa always have everything!! 

Snack Days:

• Mon.     Christopher
• Wed.      Edward
• Friday     Hamilton  

Thanks so much for your help!!

Friday News

Thank you for supporting our TAG DAY last Friday.  We are sending $142 to AR Children’s Hospital! 

School Directory:  While we are waiting for the school directory to be assembled I have taken the liberty to make a class list of names, addresses and phone numbers.  That way you will be able to communicate with one another to plan any play dates or other important times together!  It was sent home Friday. Please let me know if there need to be any changes/corrections!!

Back to School Night:  Tuesday, September 11, at 6:30 p.m.  Your special invitation was sent home Friday!  Babysitting for school age children will be provided so that you can feel free to visit with me in the classroom and ask questions!  I will briefly talk about my plans for the year and review some items in the Kindergarten “Yellow Pages” - so please bring to take notes!!!

Letters:  Rr as heard at the beginning of rain, run and rooster.  

Sight words:  my

Math:  ordering numbers one through five, writing numbers 2 and 3, graphing (most/fewest), and acting out number stories (adding)

Religion:  finishing our creation booklets.  

Student of the Week:  Alex

Field Trip:  coming soon - Motley’s Tree Farm and Pumpkin Patch (permission forms were sent home)

Have a blessed and safe weekend.  Remember the Lord’s Day!