Welcome to Mrs. Estes' and Mrs. Joani's Kindergarten Class at Kennesaw Charter Science and Math Academy. Thanks for checking the blog out!

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

12.22.11

Good Bye 2011, Hello 2012! Thank you to all the parents for coming to our Holiday party on Tuesday! We had such a great party! The kids had a great time and thank you for all the help!

Ms. Joani and I want to thank you for our gift from the class. Y'all are too sweet! Thank you again for your generous gift.

Christmas Around the World was a blast! We had a great time learning about the traditions around the world. We had a great time dressing up in our PJ's today. We began to watch the Polar Express. We ate popcorn and drank hot chocolate! Yum!

Just a reminder: There is NO SCHOOL on Monday, January 9th. See you on January 10th!

Next week's spelling words:
play
all
you
her
his

Have a great break! See you next year! :) Roll Tide!

Friday, December 16, 2011

12.16.11

What a great week we had! It fun with all of our Elf on the shelf surprises! Next week is a big week! I sent an email home this week about it.

Monday, December 19th is Christmas Around the World.
Tuesday, December 20th is our class party @ 1:00 and Parents are welcome!
Wednesday, December 21st is our Polar Express Day. We will watch the movie. Students can wear PJ's to school. No Slippers.

Thank you to Kahlo's mom for helping in Literacy Centers this week.
Thank you to Lauren's mom for being our Mystery Reader this week.

Ethan was chosen for student of the week. He has Max the Moose for the weekend! Enjoy!
Analice celebrated a birthday this week! Happy Birthday!

I sent home our book box books today in a gallon size bag. Our book box was getting full! We should be able to read every book in the bag. Please reread the books with your child at home for extra sight word practice.

There will not be a spelling test next week.

Academic Update:


Literacy: GKIDS Testing, en family and blending sounds. Keep reading every night.

Math: GKIDS Testing, We finished chapter 6 today.

Social Studies: GKIDS Testing, Christmas Traditions around the world

Have a great weekend and see you Tuesday at the Party! :)

Saturday, December 10, 2011

12.10.11

Happy December! We are in full swing of the holiday season in the classroom! We had such a great week this week!

Thank you to Giovanna's mom for being our Mystery Reader this week.

Adelaide was chosen for student of the week. She has Max the Moose for the weekend. Have fun!

I will be sending an e-mail with the sign-up for the Holiday Party needs this week. Our Holiday party is Tuesday, December 20th at 1:00 in the classroom. Parents are welcome to attend! At the party, we will have food, games  and a student book exchange. The price for the book exchange is $5.00. There are some really great books at the dollar store... please do NOT spend over the $5 limit.  Be mindful, a boy might not like getting a Strawberry Shortcake book and a girl might not like getting a book about trucks. Also, make sure the book is wrapped. :)

Wednesday, December 21 is our Polar Express Day. Students may wear their PJ's to school. No slippers, only sneakers.

The school is having a Candy Cane fundraiser. $1 buys one candy cane, $5 buys 6. Students can write a special message to the person to whom they purchased the candy cane for and the candy canes will be delivered next Wednesday to our class.

Please make sure your child wears a coat to school. We go outside for recess unless it is 35 degrees or below. The kids need the fresh air and running around time outside. Please make sure you are sending them in a good coat. I've put my coat on a few students to make sure they can go outside.

Next week's spelling words are:
The "en family"
pen
ten
then
hen
men

Academic Update


Literacy: We are doing our GKIDS testing. We are working on blending our sounds together to make words. Keep reading at home and working on our sight words.
Math: We are in Chapter 6, working on our teen numbers and ten frames.
Science: Living and Non-Living

Thank you for your home support and have a great weekend! :)

Friday, December 2, 2011

12.2.11

Good Bye November and Hello December!! I hope we all had a great Thanksgiving. We were all very excited to be back and get into the swing of things again. We had a great week this week!

Congrats to Nolan and Analice for being our Chick-Fil-A students of the month!

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

Thank you to Kahlo's mom for being our Mystery Reader this week.

There is a new homework packet in the folder. The nightly homework calendar is already placed in the folder. You will see a difference in the format and assignments. The new format is to allow for a more challenging homework.  Don't forget to work on the sight words in the folder as well. We had a few students move up in lists this week.

Next week's spelling words are:
not
for
saw
let
had


Academic Update
Literacy : We are decoding, blending and sounding out words. Keep reading and writing every night. We talked about The Gingerbread Man this week as well.
Math : We started chapter 6 and we are practicing and learning our teen numbers.
Science: We are learning about living and nonliving things. We also did a really cool gingerbread science activity this week.

Have a great weekend! :)