DATES TO REMEMBER:
-Wed., Oct. 2—Student Count Day
-Fri., Oct. 4—Progress Reports Home
STUDENT OF THE WEEK:
Our student of the week is Aubrie Kamphouse. Aubrie enjoys reading & baking. She also enjoys playing Barbies & dress-up with her friends. Aubrie’s favorite places to be are outdoors and on the farm. When she grows up, she aspires to “help others and live for God!” Congratulations to Aubrie on being Student of the Week!
HANDOUTS ATTACHED:
There are numerous handouts attached to our newsletter this week. I realize that it is a lot of information and a bit overwhelming. :) The concussion form needs to be signed and returned for our records ASAP.
BOOK-IT CALENDAR:
Attached you will find an October Book-It Calendar with an informational letter. Just keep track of the days that you read with your child, send back your calendar @ the end of the month, and I will return your calendar with a Pizza Hut certificate. Pizza and Reading: what a great combination!
Pizza Hut is also partnering with us for Coins for Hunger—great incentives for sending in your coins. :)
FRIDAY = COOKIE DAY:
The kitchen offers cookies every Friday for the students to purchase for 25¢. However, students are NOT allowed to deduct the cost from their lunch account. This is difficult for Kindergartners to understand and even trickier for them to keep their 25¢ safely in their pocket until lunch. I will do my best to collect their quarters Friday morning and then hand them out at lunch. I just wanted to make you aware of this opportunity.
PROGRESS REPORTS:
Progress reports will be sent home this Friday with students. We are really beginning to fall into a nice routine here at school and gel together as a class. The progress report will give you an idea of how your child is doing socially and with following the rules and routines at school. If you have any questions regarding your child’s progress at school, please don't hesitate to give me a call or stop in.
READING:
This week we will be reading The Wheels on the Bus as we work on comprehension and vocabulary skills. We will introduce our first sightword: the, as well as a new beanie baby strategy for Comprehension: Spinner Spider; he helps us remember to make connections as we read. During read to self time, students will have the opportunity to share some of their favorite books from home with a partner; we will also begin adding some new materials to our book boxes so that students can bring their books back home soon.
WRITING:
We will read through our September Journals and talk about how good writers go back and ‘edit’ their work. Students will be bringing their journals home to share with you; please take a few moments to read through it with your child. This week we will begin our October Journals as we write about trees in the fall and spiders. We will also create a class book based on The Itsy Bitsy Spider nursery rhyme.
MATH:
This week we will continue to work on identifying numbers, building numbers, writing numbers, and comparing numbers. We will also begin talking about measurement as we compare heights and lengths.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
This week we will begin our Science Unit on Living and Non-Living Things. We will continue to observe the changes that occur in the Fall and we will read several narrative and informational texts related to spiders.
I will be sending blankets home today to be washed and then returned for rest time. I will try to do this at the end of each month. :)
