Newletter Updates - Week of October 10th

DATES TO REMEMBER:
-Friday, Oct 14th—Fire Dept Presentation
-Friday, Oct 14th—Book Orders Due
-Monday, Oct 31st—Halloween Party
-Tuesday, Nov 1st—No School-Professional Dev.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:
Our student of the week is Aiden Shepardson. Aiden enjoys playing football and baseball, watching movies, and playing video games. He would like to be a football player for the Detroit Lions when he grows up. Congratulations to Aiden on being Student of the Week!

ELEMENTARY TITLE 1 NIGHT:
Thanks to all who were able to come out for our Title 1 Night—it was great to see so many families engaged in the activities!

FIRE SAFETY PRESENTATION:
This Friday, October 14th, we will have volunteer firefighters from the McBain Community Fire Dept. coming in to talk with the Kindergarten classes about fire safety. Our classroom will be going outside at 9:30 for a tour of the fire truck and then be going to the elementary lunchroom for a short presentation. You are welcome to join us!!

NEEDED:
Please send in:
**a medium-large sized empty cereal box for your child to use as a book box
for their ‘good fit’ books AND
**a gallon milk jug (empty & rinsed) for us to use for an upcoming art
project. We’ll be needing these items in a couple of weeks, but you can
start sending them in any time.
Thanks so much!

CD PLAYERS/HEADPHONES:
I’m looking for a couple more walk-man’s/personal CD players for the students to use in the listening center, as well as extra headphones. I’ve exhausted my supply from my closets at home, and with all of the new technology out there, I was thinking that some of you might have these items in a garage sale pile that you’d be willing to donate?? If you do, please send them in; we could put them to good use in the classroom!

READING:
This week we will be reading the book Big and Little as we practice identifying and naming opposites. Our focus letters this week are L, U, Q, & F.

WRITING:
This week we will complete several journal pages; we will be drawing a rainbow and practice using our offices to write color words; we will also draw and write about a fire truck, and practice drawing pictures using shapes. We have been working on including at least 3 details in our drawings and trying to write the ‘first sounds’ we hear in words.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
October is Fire Prevention Month. We will be learning about fire safety and prevention the next couple of weeks. This week we will wrap up our Science Unit on Living and Non-living Things and on Tuesday we will take our unit assessment.

MATH:
This week we will work on identifying, ordering, and writing numbers 1-6. We will also continue to work on patterning, sorting, and graphing using pattern blocks. I’m getting ready to begin assessing the students for report cards. For this first quarter, the goal is for students to be able to count 1-25 orally, count 10 objects, recognize the four basic shapes, sort objects by color, and create an AB pattern.

HALLOWEEN PARTY:
Our Halloween Party is scheduled for Monday, October 31st. We will spend the morning doing activities in the elementary lunchroom with all of the Kindergarten classes. I’ve included the sign-up list for volunteers and supplies.

Snack Sign-Up
1 dozen plain doughnuts Xavier Ramon
1 dozen plain doughnuts Xavier Ramon
1 dozen plain doughnuts Xavier Ramon
1 can of white frosting Camden Powell
1 can of white frosting Camden Powell
1 bottle of Halloween sprinkles Maisie Eling
1 bottle of Halloween sprinkles Baylie Eisenga
1 bag of candy corn Ali Wright
1 bag of candy corn Kaden Abrahamson
1 large bottle of apple juice Aiden Shepardson
1 large bottle of apple juice Blayn Hughston
1 large bag of cheese popcorn Ali Wright
1 large bag of cheese popcorn Tyler Hubbard
2 dozen plastic knives Mattalyn Canfield
Halloween plates (24) Kasey Shank
Halloween cups (24) Taylor Agar

Parent Volunteers for the morning of October 31st
Amanda Ramon, Karen Abrahamson, Cassie Shepardson, Jessica Ouwinga, Kristen Hughston, Roxanne Eisenga, Kristin Shank

*Please send your child’s costume to school in a bag; we will be dressing at school and then changing back into our regular clothes for the afternoon.
*Parent volunteers should plan to arrive right away in the morning around 8:00. I will need parents to help set up activities in the lunchroom as well as help students get into their costumes.
*We will start our Kindergarten parade around 8:45 and our activities in the lunchroom will be from 9:00-10:30.