Hello Families!
I hope you are all having a meaningful Veteran's Day today! Here is what's going on this week...
THURSDAY, 11/14 CONFERENCES AND 1/2 DAY:
Dismissal is at 12:00 in the auditorium.
There will be an abbreviated lunch time so you can choose to have your kids eat lunch in school or have them eat after pickup. They will still have a snack so they can hang on if necessary!
Conferences start at 12:50 and continue with one break until the last one at 7:30.
In thinking ahead, if you have a specific goal, concern, question(s), this will be a private time to bring it/them up.
I will do my best to strictly stick to the allotted times. Please don't be late - I won't be able to push over into somebody else's conference time. Thanks!
OLD FAVORITES PARADE: To celebrate our reading unit about Old Favorite books, the entire kindergarten is having a parade that will march through the Town Hall on Friday. Our class is dressing up as the colorful elephants in Elmer. I have asked for a couple volunteers to help the kids get ready - they are putting on grocery bag costumes, elephant ears and trunks. I will need this help around 9:35ish. Our Town Hall starts at 10. I will ask somebody to film the parade so I can send it to you! Warning - it might be cuteness overload!!
STAR REPORTS: These are the progress reports MSC uses. I will be giving them out some time this week by handing you a hard copy either in the mornings or at dismissals. I believe you can also see them on line in your child's school account. If you don't know how to get into that you can ask Malaka our Parent Coordinator in room 503. Any hard copy reports that I don't get to hand out will go to you in the mail.
WHAT WE ARE UP TO:
In phonics we are getting fluent with our alphabet charts. We are working on matching the first sound a word makes with the letters on the chart and coming up with alternative pictures that we think would be more helpful and straightforward. We are also getting fluent with our snap words. We will be learning "Snap Word Basketball" this week - spelling out snap words and shooting the word through the imaginary hoop!
In writing we are going to learn that when we want to write a book with a bunch of pages it sometimes helps to talk and write in a pattern. We can use a snap words we know to create these patterns! We will also continue to practice using all the tools we have learned about so far - alphabet charts, the word wall, writing charts and writing partners.
In reading we are going to unleash some more powers! Did your kids tell you that Princess Leia of Star Wars wrote us a letter and sent us all mini light saber power pointers to help us point under each and every word we read?? I'll let your children reveal which new powers they will discover this week so stay tuned!
This week in math we are going to be learning the concept of "one less." Last week we worked with "one more" and learned some fun games and now we will focus on the opposite. We are also getting familiar with the number line as a tool to help us. We will be learning a "One Less Bump" game and then will move onto another math concept - comparing numbers.
In social studies, we have Stacie coming this week to start working on a new theme and song called I Feel. This is a unit on learning how to communicate and honor all possible feelings and to have empathy for one another. And while we play we will use what we learn about communicating our feelings to make sure we are expressing ourselves clearly to our friends. We are also going to be moving into a study of our school! What do we already know? What do we want to know? What workers do we know about in our school and who can we learn about?
Don't forget that Wednesday morning when we come into the classroom kids are to work on their Weather Wednesday Journals. The purpose of keeping track every week of the weather/season/month is to collect evidence of seasonal changes. We are scientists!
Have a great week!
Love,
Lynn