Kindergarten News Week of October 6-10
Our Week
We have been busy learning about seasons, trees, and ways we can help conserve water during our science discussions. Students are working well as a community and contributing to classroom clean up and taking responsibility for jobs and behavior. We are wrapping up our Tools of the Mind unit on Family and preparing for our next unit. We have been practicing our Breathing Tool, Patience Tool, Personal Space Tool, and Forgiveness Tool.
Please continue to work on prompt arrival at school each day. If you will be on a family vacation or absent from school for several days, please send an e-mail to Suzanne Barrow and Molly Bozzo.
The Reading Envelopes that go home on Monday and return empty on Friday are meant to enhance communication between home and school. The letter formation directions are meant to help parents, teachers, and children have a consistent experience with writing. The practice of letters of the week can be completed in any fashion that works for your family. Writing on paper, painting, drawing with chalk, creating with bathtub crayons, or skywriting are all fun and effective manners of letter formation. The more automatic and confident the students are at letter formation, the more joy they experience with writing. The Lexia Core5 component is an extra and optional activity for your child to do at home. We appreciate that life is busy.
We have asked the children this weekend to attempt to find 10 acorns each and bring them to school on Monday for a science collection. We are focusing on sorting, patterns, descriptive vocabulary, ordinal numbers, greater than and less than, one to one correspondence, oral addition problems, and number formation.
Portfolio
The majority of your child’s artwork and activities stays at school in a Portfolio. We send home some samples of your child’s work in the green folder. You are welcome to browse through this after school between 3:15 and 5:20. We will go over accumulated work during conferences and meetings and you will receive the work at the end of the year. Our intention is to create a central and useful continuum of work that reveals strengths, weaknesses, interests, and assists with goal setting.
Poem of the week
This is the squirrel
That lives in a tree
This is the tree he climbs
This is the nut
That he takes from me
As I sit very still sometimes
Field Trip
We will be going to Swank Farm in Hollister on Wednesday, October 15. We will begin loading the bus at 8:30 and departing at 8:45. Please be sure to send snack, lunch and a water bottle for your child. This will be a free dress day. Remember to layer and apply sunblock. Please check the weather for Hollister that day. If you are a parent volunteer, remember to bring yourself a lunch and water.
Food
The school day is long and requires a large amount of energy from the children. Please be sure to have a discussion with your child about the quantity of food you are sending them to eat and the choices. If you order your child Aquaterra, please make sure it is a food item that they enjoy or are willing to try. Sending in many small snacks helps children get through the day with enthusiasm and comfort. Children all must have a water bottle. The water fountain is not an adequate substitute. Exploring the remains of your children’s lunches together often provides valuable feedback and important discoveries about likes and dislikes.
Parent Teacher Conferences
Our first conferences are scheduled for Friday, October 17 or Saturday October 18. There will be chairs outside of the classroom for you while you wait. Please help adhere to the time schedule by arriving a couple minutes prior to your conference, if possible. We look forward to seeing you and discussing your child’s kindergarten experience.
Reminders
· e-mail teachers if you have had volunteer training and would like an opportunity to volunteer
· Friday, October 17 No School (due to Parent-Teacher Conferences)
· Monday, October 20 No School
· Friday, October 24 Free Dress All School
· Friday, October 31 Halloween Parade and Carnival
· Friday, November 14 Free Dress All School
· November 17-21 Canned Food Drive
· Friday, November 21 Grandparent and Special Friend Day @ 1:30
· Thanksgiving Break November 22-30
· Class Resumes on Monday, December 1
Thank you,
Vicki Copeland and Manon Pratt
Kindergarten
Stevenson School
We have been busy learning about seasons, trees, and ways we can help conserve water during our science discussions. Students are working well as a community and contributing to classroom clean up and taking responsibility for jobs and behavior. We are wrapping up our Tools of the Mind unit on Family and preparing for our next unit. We have been practicing our Breathing Tool, Patience Tool, Personal Space Tool, and Forgiveness Tool.
Please continue to work on prompt arrival at school each day. If you will be on a family vacation or absent from school for several days, please send an e-mail to Suzanne Barrow and Molly Bozzo.
The Reading Envelopes that go home on Monday and return empty on Friday are meant to enhance communication between home and school. The letter formation directions are meant to help parents, teachers, and children have a consistent experience with writing. The practice of letters of the week can be completed in any fashion that works for your family. Writing on paper, painting, drawing with chalk, creating with bathtub crayons, or skywriting are all fun and effective manners of letter formation. The more automatic and confident the students are at letter formation, the more joy they experience with writing. The Lexia Core5 component is an extra and optional activity for your child to do at home. We appreciate that life is busy.
We have asked the children this weekend to attempt to find 10 acorns each and bring them to school on Monday for a science collection. We are focusing on sorting, patterns, descriptive vocabulary, ordinal numbers, greater than and less than, one to one correspondence, oral addition problems, and number formation.
Portfolio
The majority of your child’s artwork and activities stays at school in a Portfolio. We send home some samples of your child’s work in the green folder. You are welcome to browse through this after school between 3:15 and 5:20. We will go over accumulated work during conferences and meetings and you will receive the work at the end of the year. Our intention is to create a central and useful continuum of work that reveals strengths, weaknesses, interests, and assists with goal setting.
Poem of the week
This is the squirrel
That lives in a tree
This is the tree he climbs
This is the nut
That he takes from me
As I sit very still sometimes
Field Trip
We will be going to Swank Farm in Hollister on Wednesday, October 15. We will begin loading the bus at 8:30 and departing at 8:45. Please be sure to send snack, lunch and a water bottle for your child. This will be a free dress day. Remember to layer and apply sunblock. Please check the weather for Hollister that day. If you are a parent volunteer, remember to bring yourself a lunch and water.
Food
The school day is long and requires a large amount of energy from the children. Please be sure to have a discussion with your child about the quantity of food you are sending them to eat and the choices. If you order your child Aquaterra, please make sure it is a food item that they enjoy or are willing to try. Sending in many small snacks helps children get through the day with enthusiasm and comfort. Children all must have a water bottle. The water fountain is not an adequate substitute. Exploring the remains of your children’s lunches together often provides valuable feedback and important discoveries about likes and dislikes.
Parent Teacher Conferences
Our first conferences are scheduled for Friday, October 17 or Saturday October 18. There will be chairs outside of the classroom for you while you wait. Please help adhere to the time schedule by arriving a couple minutes prior to your conference, if possible. We look forward to seeing you and discussing your child’s kindergarten experience.
Reminders
· e-mail teachers if you have had volunteer training and would like an opportunity to volunteer
· Friday, October 17 No School (due to Parent-Teacher Conferences)
· Monday, October 20 No School
· Friday, October 24 Free Dress All School
· Friday, October 31 Halloween Parade and Carnival
· Friday, November 14 Free Dress All School
· November 17-21 Canned Food Drive
· Friday, November 21 Grandparent and Special Friend Day @ 1:30
· Thanksgiving Break November 22-30
· Class Resumes on Monday, December 1
Thank you,
Vicki Copeland and Manon Pratt
Kindergarten
Stevenson School