11.13.11

We have a big week next week! It's going to be a great week!!

Our 2nd field trip of the year is on Tuesday, November 15th to the Georgia Aquarium.

• Send a completely disposable lunch - in a brown paper bag. If your child purchased a lunch from the Dinning Hall, they will have a sack lunch that day. 
• Wear comfortable walking shoes.
• Wear red uniform shirt and jeans.
• Make sure your child is on time for school.

Our Friends and Family Feast will be on Friday, November 18th, in the Dinning Hall from 1:15-2:15. 

Parents are welcome. It's going to be so much fun! 

This week our school is teaming up with NorthStar Church and MUST to help with the canned food drive.

Everyday next week, your child gets to dress up differently, if they bring in the right number of cans. 

Monday - 1 can : spirit shirts inside out with uniform bottoms

Tuesday - 2 cans : wear team shirt with uniform bottoms

Wednesday - 3 cans : wear wacky socks in full uniform

Thursday - 4 cans : wear your favorite hat in full uniform

Friday - 5 cans : NUT PASS - no uniform day

Kennesaw Christmas Parade Raffle

A form went home on Friday to win a chance to walk with KCSMA Kennesaw Christmas Parade!

Parents must walk with the students, if they are chosen. It's .50 per each raffle. The parade is December 3rd at 1:00pm.  All entries must be turned in by November 18th. 

I'm slowing able to put pictures up. If you weren't able to see the New School Picture slideshow I posted on Friday, please scroll down and check them out! I will post more pictures as I can! 

We are so lucky to have Kahlo in our class. He's a wonderful addition to our class family. We now have 15 amazing students in our class. 

Thank you to Ben's Nana for being our Mystery Reader this week.

Jan was chosen for student of the week. He has Max the Moose for the weekend. Have fun!

Next week's spelling words:

did

got

sad

wet

fun

Academic Update:

Literacy: Friends and Family Unit. We are working on sounding out sounds and blending them together to make a word. The sight word list for next week is a good example of the blending sounds. We are working on hearing the sounds and being able to put the letters together to form a word. 

Math:  We are currently in the middle of chapter 5. We are learning the difference between plain and 3-D shapes. We are learning that some shapes have curves and edges and some stack and slide. 

Social Studies:  We have been talking about the difference between pilgrims and us. (Then and Now). The other questions we've talked about are: What is a pilgrim and a Indian? Why do we have Thanksgiving? What are we thankful for? 

Have a great rest of the weekend! :) See you at the Family Feast on Friday!!

New School Field Trip

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11.4.11

What an exciting week we had!! We started the week off with our "Orange you glad it's Fall" Celebration. It was so much fun. Thank you to all the parents who came. It was such a big help and the kids were so glad you were there! We had a great time! Tuesday, was our first field trip! We visited the new school. I'm sure they talked all about the bus ride, but we really enjoyed seeing the inside of the new school. It looks so GREAT! The 3rd and 4th grade classrooms already have cubbies and the bathrooms already have beautiful tiles on the wall. Most Kindergarten classrooms didn't have ceilings. It was amazing. I can't wait to post pictures. I will post pictures when I can. I'm currently without a computer due to a recent smash and grab incident involving my car. I will post pictures when I can, I promise! I know y'all want to see what the new school looks like and what we are doing the class!

We had a 20 minute live video chat with NASA today. It was awesome. We saw live pictures from space and talked with a man from the Johnson Space Center in Texas. He showed us pictures of how astronauts train underwater at the center. We saw lots of great pictures from space. We asked lots of great questions. It was great!

Thank you to Jan's Dad for being our Mystery Reader this week!

Lauren was chosen for student of the week. She has Max the Moose for the weekend!

Ivy and Ethan are the Chick-Fil-A October students of the months. Congrats!

Field Trip money is due this Wednesday. $19 cash! Don't forget!
There is NO school on Tuesday! It's a Teacher Work Day... for Election Day!

We had a review week in our spelling words. Our words we had this week were: am, for, my, the, us.
We need to keep practicing our spelling words even though we are learning new ones each week.

Next week's spelling words are:
they
out
have
look
was

Academic Update:
Literacy: We learned two new letters this week, W, V. Keep working on sight words and reading as much as you can.
Math:  We finished chapter 4 this week. We started chapter 5 with talking about different shapes: cube, sphere, cinder and cone.
Social Studies: We are learning about where are are in the world. Keep practicing our address, county, state, country.

Have a great weekend. This is a big Bama weekend.... Roll Tide!