10.28.11

Good-Bye October and Hello November! Next week is a big week. Monday is our "Orange you glad it's Fall" day. Students can wear the color orange. It is a no uniform day. No Costumes. The book character pumpkins are due Monday. Don't forget to bring the book that goes with your pumpkin. I can't wait to see them!

We had a great 50th day of school on Monday! We danced in our sock-hop, counted our 50 items and drank sprite floats. It was a blast! Everyone looked so cute in their 50's attire.

Tuesday is our field trip to the new school. We will leave the school around 8:45 and be back in time for lunch at 10:00. Make sure your child has good walking shoes and brings a jacket.

Don't forget to send in the field trip form and money for the Aquarium. The cost for students is $19 cash only. If you are planning on being a chaperon, the cost will be 18.50 cash only too. Please send it in by Wednesday, November 9th.

Tuesday, November 8th is NO SCHOOL- Happy Election Day.

Thank you to Ethan's mom for being the mystery reader.

Ben was chosen for student of the week, and has Max the Moose for the weekend. Have fun!

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

Academic Update:
Literacy: We learned the letter J and discussed the at family. We did GREAT on our spelling test this week! We are learning about spiders and did lots of literacy lessons about spiders.
Math: We are finishing up chapter 4. We are really working on our numbers. We are learning how to separate  a group of cubes equally. 
Science: We talked all about spiders this week. We also counted the seeds in our pumpkin and felt the inside of a pumpkin.

Have a great Fall weekend! :)

10.23.11

We had a great week. We have been getting in the fall mood... reading books about fall and pumpkins and we learned the stages of how a pumpkin a grows. Next week is a BIG week. 

• Early Release Days: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. School releases at 12:30. No need to bring a snack. We will not be eating snack. Please DO pack a lunch, we have lunch at the same time. 
• Monday is the 50th day of school! Yay! You can dress up! Boys can wear jeans and white t-shirts. Girls can wear poodle skirts. If you do not dress up, you MUST be in FULL UNIFORM.
• Conferences are this week as well. See you at your scheduled time.

We had two birthdays this week, Ravin and Connor. Happy Birthday!

Thank you to Adelaide's mom for coming to Math Centers and volunteering. 

Thank you to Grayson and Ravin's moms for being our mystery readers this week. 

I sent home a field trip form this week. We are so excited about going to the Georgia Aquarium on November 15th. We are looking for 2 more parent volunteers on this trip. Let me know if you are interested.

At our conference, I will also be asking you to sign another field trip form. 12 teachers and their class got picked out of a hat to go visit the site of the new our new school. My name was picked!!! We will be going November 1st. It's free and we will be at the site of the school, for about an hour. I was so excited! I haven't told the kids yet. I'm telling them on Monday. They will be so thrilled!! 

Continue working on the pumpkin book character project. The project is due Monday, October 31st. E-mail me if you have any questions about it. Don't forget, you have to have a book to bring in to sit next to your project. 

Our spelling words this week are: learning the "at" family.

cat

mat

bat

sat

rat

Academic Update:

Literacy: We did lots of fall literacy activities this week. We also learned the letter P this week. Keep reading and working on sight words. 

Math: We are in the middle of chapter 4. We are learning our numbers up to 10, writing them correctly and still using the words more and fewer.

Social Studies: We are talking about where are we, on a map. Please continue to help them work on their address. Knowing that we live in Cobb county, the state of Georgia and the United States of America,  is a standard. 

Have a great rest of the weekend! :)

10.14.11

We had a crazy great week! There are lots of great things happening in the month of October!

• We will be celebrating the 50th day of school on Monday, October 24th. We will dress up as the people did in the 50's. Boy can wear blue jeans and white t-shirts and girls can wear poodle shirts. This is a NO UNIFORM DAY for Kindergarten ONLY. However, If your child chooses to not dress up, he or she will need to be in FULL uniform. We will attend a mini sock hop, drink coke floats and count 50 items. Please send in 50 items such as cotton balls, pennies or buttons. If you would like to donate something for 50's day- let me know. We would need cups, spoons, napkins, rainbow sherbet and sprite. If you want to donate anything else we would love it as well! Just e-mail me! :)

• Parent/Teacher conferences are starting soon. I sent the form home with the circled time for your child's scheduled day and time. Please make sure you are on time, we only have a few minutes to discuss your child's progress. We can always reschedule another conference.

• Early Release Days are 10/24, 10/25 and 10/26. Carpool starts at 12:30. If your child is still here after carpool is finished, they will go to ASP for a fee. Please make sure your child has a lunch, whether it's in the lunchroom or packed from home; we do have lunch on early release days.

• On October 31st, Kindergarten will be celebrating "Orange you glad it's fall!" NO COSTUMES.This day will be filled with fun and games. We will have our fall celebration at 1:30. Details will be sent home next week. Parents are welcome to attend the celebration in the classroom.

• Kindergarten is in the process on planning our first field trip for November 15th. More details will be come home soon!

Thank you to Analice's mom for helping out in Math centers this week.

Thank you to Lauren's mom for being the Mystery Reader this week.

A family project went home this week. The book character pumpkin project should be fun-filled experience for the family. You may use real or fake pumpkins, gourds even. How creative can you be?

Efe was chosen for student of the week. Max the Moose is our class stuffed animal that will travel home with every student at some point throughout the year. Efe has Max for the weekend. Have fun!

Next weeks spelling words:

see

so

by

can

at

Academic Update:

Literacy: We learned 3 new letters this week: H,K,L. Keep working on your sighwords in your folder. We have some students that are moving through the levels and some that are still working on List A. Keep up the great work!

Math: We finished chapter 3 today and will be starting Chapter 4 on Monday. We are really working on writing our numbers correctly. Practice at home!

Social Studies:Where are we in this world? Start or keep practice learning our address!

Have a great weekend! Roll Tide!

10.9.11

We had an apple-tastic week! We talked and learned so much about about apples! It was so much fun!

Congrats to Adalaide and Luke. They are our Chick-Fil-A students of the month!

Thank you to Luke's mom to came and helped out in our science lesson.
Thank you to Grayson's mom, for volunteering in Literacy centers.
Thank you to Ben's mom for being our mystery reader!
The kids love having parents come to class! You too can come visit and volunteer!! Sign up at the tab at the top of the blog!

If you have extra change, send it in for the JDRF contest the school is having. The contest is 10/10-10/21.

The new spelling words are:
or
us
get
me
red


Academic Update
Literacy: We studied apples all week. We learned the parts of an apple and learned the stages of an apple.
Math: We are learning the words more and less.
Science:We did lots of science with apples this week. We learned that if you pour lemon juice on an apple, it will not turn brown as fast than air, coke or water. So fun.

Have a great weekend. Enjoy the Fall Festival from 10-2 on Saturday at the school. Roll Tide!

9.30.11

Good Bye September and Hello October! We had a great week! This week was tons of fun with this week's spirit days. We had a blast dressing up and bringing our stuffed animals in. We raised $35.50 in our class alone! Way to go! October is a big month. There is lots of things happening. I will be letting you know what is happening on the blog. So stay tuned! There will be new a calendar with lots of dates on it and a new homework packet on Monday in the folders.

Thank you to Ethan's mom, who was our mystery reader this week!
Thank you to Ben's mom for coming to Literacy Centers and helping out!

You can come and volunteer too! Check out the parent website tab at the top of the blog! Choose either Mystery Reader, Math Center Volunteer or Literacy Center Volunteer! The kids love love love having parents come visit!!

Thanks to all the parents who brought your child to Yogo-Ono. Our class tied for first! At the school wide morning meeting today, the teachers had a "dance off" to see who would win the trophy. The other teacher won, but it was fun!

We received a letter D for our letter exchange from Lompoc, California. So fun!

The new sight words for the week are:
   by
   no
  am
   is
  one
We are doing really well on the tests on Friday. Keep up the great work. Some of the ways we practice the sight words in class are: stamping the words, finding them in books, making them in magnetic letters, writing them on the smart board and talking about them. These are some ways you can practice the words at home as well. I don't want the words to be a flash card drill, so I make it fun. We want learning sight words to be fun!

Academic Update:


Literacy: We learned the letter D and have been doing great with our sight words. We are now really using them in our writing. Review the previous letters T,F,B,M,C,A,I,R,O and G. Keep reading as much as you can at home.


Math: We have finished up our chapter on patterns. We will start our next chapter on Monday.


Science: We are finished talking about rocks and soils.

Have a great weekend! Roll Tide!

9/23/11

We had a great, great week! Don't forget Yogo-Ono is tonight 9/23 3:30-8:00! Next week is a big week. It's our first spirit week of the year. We are supporting CURE Childhood Cancer. Each day is .50 and Friday is $1.00 to participate. Make sure your child is still in uniform everyday.  The class with the most money wins a prize! Please help us win!

Monday: 9/26 "Sock it to Cancer" Wear crazy socks. (.50)

Tuesday: 9/27 "Hats off to Patients" (.50)

Wednesday: 9/28 Wear a purple shirt and uniform bottoms (.50)

Thursday: 9/29 "Hugs for Patients" Bring in a stuffed animal (.50)

Friday: 9/30 N.U.T. PASS = No uniform ($1.00)

Adelaide's mom was our mystery reader this week. Thanks for coming to read to us!

We received another letter for our letter exchange this week. The letter O came from Roseville, California! So fun!

Thanks for all the families who showed up at Barnes & Noble. It was great to see you there. If I didn't see you there, I'm sorry I missed you. Thanks again for the books that were purchased for the class. Y'all are so sweet!

We had our spelling test today and we did awesome! Continue working on the words at home. We are doing a great job. The words lists in the folder will be tested at random dates. The class was tested this week. Most everyone is on list A except for a few on list 1-4. There is not time limit for these lists. The kindergarten standard for reading words is 30. I want them to go WAY above and beyond that. That is why I am providing multiple lists for them to go through... on their own time. The spelling test each week is just a small challenge I give them to help them learn the words. 

Next week's words are:

we

go

if

my

but

Academic Update:

Literacy: We learned two new letters this week: O and P. Keep working on letters, sounds, and sight words. 

Math: We are starting Chapter 2 in math on Patterns next week. 

Science: We talked a lot about rocks and soils this week. We touched and explored the difference between Georgia red clay and sand.

Have a great weekend! Roll Tide!

9/16/11

We had such a great week! Sometimes, laughter is the best medicine -  and we do a ton of laughing in our class!! We also do a ton of singing and dancing. I'm sure your child has come home singing a color song, the number rock song or maybe the days of the week rap. Either way- we are having a blast! 


We had our first Mystery Reader this week! Thanks so much to Ravin's mom for coming and reading to our class! She also gave each student a book! So sweet!! Thanks again!


Don't forget- you can go and sign up to volunteer to help out in Math Centers or Literacy Centers. The sign up is right on this blog! Check out the Parent Website tab at the top!


We received another letter from our letter exchange. It came from Orlando, FL. The letter was the letter K. So fun! 


If your child wears a dress or skirt, PLEASE make sure they are wearing shorts under them. We are still learning how to be a little ladies when wearing them. We spend a lot of time on the floor, so this is very important. 


Please save the date: SEPT. 23, 3:30-8:30p.m. This is our school's YOGO-ONO night. My class won twice last year for class participation and I would hopefully like to carry on that tradition. YOGO-ONO is a yogurt shop on Chastain Road. All proceeds go back to our school. The class with the most class participation wins the knight trophy. It's a big deal. I will be there. SEE YOU THERE!!

Milk is now 30 cents. Please take note. 

Spelling Assessments*
*List A & 1 sight WORDS; help your child learn how to read these words. Read them a story and see how many sight words can they find in the story.

*Please help make learning these words fun for your child. You can also make flash cards and have them learn to read the words 5 at a time until they can read the whole list. Allow them to find their sight words in a book or newspaper. These words are not to be drilled but make the learning fun. Thanks for your help.

*We will start calling them up to read them to us next week. Allow them to read the list to you at home for practice. They must read the entire list to go into the treasure box. One treasure for each complete list read.

*We will have our next spelling test Friday, September 23, 2011. After they learn the words give them a practice spelling test at home. Number a piece of paper 1-5, then call the words out to them one at a time and have them write them next to the number. Thank you in Advance for your support!

*Spelling Assessment Words*

be
it
up
of
the



Academic Update:


Literacy: We learned two new letters this week. Letter I and Letter R. We also learned five sight words as well; I, a, in, he, to. 


Math: We are working on patterns.


Social Studies: We finished up our unit on community helpers.


Have a great weekend! Roll Tide!