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Today your Kindergarten student is bringing home his/her first quarter report card!  Our students have learned so much during their first quarter in Kindergarten.  Please take some time to celebrate with your very special Kindergartner with a RED PLATE dinner!  I am so proud of our hard work and the growth we have made this quarter.  We had our "ribbon ceremony" today and had fun celebrating with our friends who have met Kindergarten goals!  Don't forget to sign and return your child's report card envelope!

Please remember to write your child's last name on his/her coats, hats, gloves, etc.  Lost items are placed in our school's "Lost and Found".  Unclaimed items are kept in Lost and Found for one month.  After one month these items are donated to charity.  If your child's name is on your lost item, it will NOT be donated!  Help your items find their way home by writing your name!

The students had a great time at our Fall Festival Party!  Thank you to all of the parents who donated items, prepared for the party, and helped today!  It was AWESOME!
Next Week's Schedule:
Monday-C Day
Tuesday-D Day
Wednesday- A Day 
PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES
Thursday- NO SCHOOL
PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES
Friday-NO SCHOOL

Fire Safety

This week our Kindergarten class has been busy learning how to stay safe around fire.  We learned to call 911 when there is an emergency.  We learned to stop, drop, and roll if our clothes catch on fire.  We practiced a fire drill at school.  Please take some time this weekend to talk with your family about your fire safety plan at home.  What is your family's meeting place?  This is also a good time to practice your address and phone number with your child.  It is very important for your child to know this information in an emergency.  Jeremy O'Brien (Justin's dad) is a firefighter.  He came to our class and taught us how to be safe during a fire emergency.  He dressed in his firefighting gear so we could see what a fireman looks like and would not be afraid if a fireman was helping us.  Enjoy looking at the pictures from his visit!

We finished our 6th Jolly Phonics sound book (y, x, ch, sh, and th).  We only have ONE sound book left to go!  Continue to practice reading and writing words with the sounds, especially the double letter sounds!  Please remember to help your child complete the Word List homework!  Completing this homework is very beneficial for helping your child GROW as a reader!

We have been very busy learning how to "stretch out our sounds across our fingers" to write words to label pictures during writer's workshop!  We are very good at writing 3 letter words but writing longer words can be very challenging!  Next week we will learn and practice writing sentences in our stories.

In math we continue to study 3D shapes!  The students are really beginning to identify these shapes in their environment.  Continue to practice identifying these shapes at home!

Schedule for Next Week:
Monday- NO SCHOOL TEACHER WORK DAY
Tuesday-C Day
Wednesday- D Day
Thursday- A Day
Friday-B Day

Fall

The students have been learning that during the fall seasonvthe weather turns cooler, the leaves begin to change colors, animals find food and eat a lot to prepare for winter.  The students have had the opportunity to experience these fall changes this week!  Brrrr....it is cold outside.  Please remember to dress your child appropriately for recess!  I suggest leaving a jacket and a hat in your child's backpack so he/she is always prepared for cool weather.

The students are working so hard to learn Jolly Phonics sounds!  We are ALMOST finished with our Jolly Phonics program.  PLEASE continue to practice the sounds every night at home.  This week we learned the sounds for oo, y, x, and ch.  The students learned that ch is a part of the "h" brother family and is the VERY noisy brother!  We have been busy reading and writing words with these sounds.  I am so proud of the hard work students are doing at home practicing blending sounds on Word List homework!  Please help your child "blend" the sounds together and read the words on the word lists.  Don't forget to sign your name to the list and return it to school.

We have really jumped into work in Writer's Workshop.  This week we focused on drawing detailed pictures.  We visualized the picture we wanted to draw in our minds and tried to see what it looked like in real life.  Then, we tried our best to draw the picture.  We didn't give up even if the picture was hard to draw.  We worked really hard to draw people with arms, bodies, legs, hands, feet, and all the facial features.  We used words to label the items in our picture to help our readers know what we were writing about.

In math we have been busy learning 3D shapes.  The students have been exploring their environment and looking for spheres, cylinders, cones, cubes, rectangular prisms, and pyramids.  We have been comparing and contrasting the shapes by looking at the "faces" and the "edges".  We ended the week playing the "Game of Compare" with our third grade buddies.  We worked on number identification while playing this fun game with a third grade friend.

Our schedule for next week:
Monday - B Day
Tuesday- C Day
Wednesday D Day
Thursday- A Day
Friday- B Day