Newsletter Updates for the Week of November 14

DATES TO REMEMBER:
-Tuesday, Nov 15th—No School—Deer Day
-November 24th & 25th—Thanksgiving Break

THANKSGIVING/STONE SOUP: Next week will be a busy week for us in Kindergarten. One of the concepts that we need to teach in Kindergarten is the idea of a ‘fair trade’ in a market economy. To address this standard, we will be making stone soup. All of the Kindergarten classes will bring in 1 or 2 of the ingredients needed for the soup. Then each class will have to ‘trade’ some of their surplus ingredients with the other classes, in order to obtain all of the ingredients needed to make stone soup. Here’s what we have planned for each day
Monday, November 21st: Thanksgiving Activities
We will rotate through all of the Kindergarten classrooms to do several Thanksgiving-related activities. This is the day that students will be trading our surplus of celery & cabbage, for other ingredients that we will need.
Supplies Needed:
-1 Bag of Red Apples—Taylor
-1 Bag of Red Apples—Ali
-1 Bag of colored mini marshmallows—Clara
-1 Pkg of 100 small paper plates—Ryan
-1 Bunch of Celery—Mattalyn, Lauran, Tyler,
Blayn, Logan, Xavier, Brenden, Kasey,
Aiden, Baylie, Claydon
-1 Head of Cabbage—Kaden, Emerson,
Mariah, Camden, Abby, & Maisie
Parent Volunteers: D. Pluger, R. Eisenga, & J. Ouwinga
Tuesday, November 22nd: Cutting Up Vegetables
Parent Volunteer: J. Bell
Wednesday, November 23rd: The Feast
Supplies Needed:
-24 Paper Plates—Maisie
-24 Bowls—Kaden
-24 Spoons—Baylie
-24 Napkins—Claydon
-24 Cups—Taylor
-2 2 Liters of 7-up—Ryan
Parent Volunteer: G. Cook
Thank you for donating supplies to make our Thanksgiving Celebration a success!!!

CONFERENCES: Thank you for taking the time to come in and meet for parent teacher conferences. I firmly believe that parents and teachers working together is what brings about success in students! Please continue to reinforce letter names and sounds, sightwords, and counting while working with your child at home.

READING: We will finish up with the letter Ss this week and work on the sightwords can, at, & see. We will be reading Growing Vegetable Soup as we work on vocabulary, comprehension, and predicting. We will also be reading several books about vegetables as we practice using our first 2 Comprehension Strategies for Reading: 1) Spinner Spider—reminds us to make connections as we are reading & 2) Picturing Penguin—reminds us to make a picture in our mind as we are reading.

WRITING: This week we will be drawing and writing about turkeys. We will also write in our journals about what we are thankful for and what we’ve learned about the Pilgrims.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: This week we will continue to reinforce safety as we read Officer Buckle and Gloria; afterwards, students will choose a safety tip to illustrate and write about in their journals. We will also revisit Eddie Eagle and reinforce what to do if we ever find a gun: Stop! Don’t Touch! Leave the Area! Tell an Adult! We will also be reading several stories about Pilgrims and The First Thanksgiving; we will track the Pilgrims Voyage on the Mayflower as they traveled across the sea.

MATH: This week we will continue to work on number recognition 0-10 and counting 1-30. We will be playing Number Bingo and practice ordering numbers 1-30 on the calendar.