Busy Week

Hi everyone,
We have very busy week coming up!  We will wrap up the letter T this week, and wrap up our Thanksgiving Activities this week!

Monday morning we will be rotating between all of the Kindergarten Classrooms to do activities:
-Mrs. Brinks - Apple Turkey Snack
-Mrs. Green - Macaroni Necklaces
-Mrs. Freeland - Trading Post
-Ms. Thompson - Making Corn Bread & Butter
-Mrs. Nelson - Pilgrim Games

Several of you signed up to bring items that we need for Monday:

1 Bag of Red Apples (10-15) - Madelyn

1 Bag of Red Apples (10-15) - Akira

1 Bag of colored mini marshmallows—Deven

1 Bag of colored mini marshmallows—Wesley

1 Box of Toothpicks—Lily

1 Pkg of 24 small paper plates—Drew

1 Pint of Heavy Whipping Cream—Avery

1 Box of Jiffy Corn Bread Mix—Grayson

1 Box of Jiffy Corn Bread Mix—Canden

Mrs. Hill is coming in to help out in the morning. :)

Also, we need all of our veggies by Monday morning so that we can make fair trades at the Trading Post.

-1 Onion—Deven, Dylan, Avery, Canden, Akira, Carlee, & Cyle

-1 Bunch of Celery—Angie, Coleman, Grayson, Aubrie, Anna, & Lily

-1 Head of Cabbage—Madelyn, Drew, Ayla, Miley, Lauren, & Wesley

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Tuesday we will be cutting up our veggies.  Mrs. Carpenter and Ms. Snoderly will be coming in to help us with this. :)

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Wednesday we will be eating our soup in the afternoon.  Mrs. Cook is coming in the morning to help prepare the soup and Mrs. Valle is coming in to help serve the soup in the afternoon.

Here are the items that we need for Wednesday:

24 Plates—Lauren

24 Bowls—Wesley

24 Spoons—Mrs. Brinks

24 Napkins—Cyle

24 Cups—Lily

2 Liter Bottle of 7-Up—Ayla

2 Liter Bottle of 7-Up—Miley

Thanks so much for bringing in supplies to make our feast fabulous!! 

Newsletter Updates for the Week of November 18th

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Mon., Nov. 25th—Thanksgiving Activities (am)

-Tues., Nov. 26th—Making Friendship Soup

-Wed., Nov. 27th—Our Feast (pm)

-Thurs., Nov. 28th—Thanksgiving (No School)

-Fri., Nov. 29th—No School

-Sat., Nov. 30th—PTO Craft Show

CONFERENCES: 

Thank you for taking the time to come in and meet for conferences; it was great to meet with each of you to discuss your child’s progress thus far in Kindergarten.  Research shows that parents and teachers working together is a huge predictor of student achievement!  Many times it’s the ‘little things’ that can make the biggest difference in our children’s lives.  I commend your commitment to their success in school!

NEW DROP OFF & PICK UP PROCEDURE:

Remember that if you are picking your child up from school at the end of the day, you will pick them up in the elementary cafeteria. We are asking parents to park in the big parking lot, enter the side door of the elementary cafeteria, and sign them out.  Please be sure to send a note, or call the office, if you plan to pick your child up, and don’t usually do so, that way we can get them on the sign out for the day and have them waiting for you in the cafeteria. :)

READING:  

Our focus texts for this week are Stone Soup & Dinner at the Panda Palace which we will use to work on comprehension, vocabulary, predicting, and making connections.  We will also read several texts related to trains and practice identifying ’voice’ as we read Bed Hogs.  Our focus letter for this week is Tt and our new sightwords are like & am.  We will also introduce a new beanie baby strategy for Accuracy—Stretchy Snake—he reminds us to s-t-r-e-t-c-h/say all of the sounds in the word and then blend them together to figure out an unknown word.

WRITING: 

This week we will continue our Writing Unit which focuses on being writing like Scientists.  We will practice using Stretchy Snake to stretch out our words while writing.  We will also complete a couple of fun journals related to turkeys and practice writing an apology letter to Farmer MacNugget.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: 

This week we will read several informational texts related to the Pilgrims and learn how they endured many hardships.  We will also compare and contrast their lifestyle then to our lifestyle now.  We will continue to discuss wants, needs, and fair trades as we prepare to make fair trades for our stone soup ingredients next Monday.

MATH:  

This week we will work on comparing numbers, comparing weights of objects using a pan balance, and practice matching dominoes with the corresponding numbers.  Students will also learn a new math app—Monster Squeeze!!

**Keep reading and marking your Book-It Calendar!

Stone Soup Ingredients

Stone Soup Ingredients:

1 Onion—Deven, Dylan, Avery, Canden, Akira, Carlee,                  & Cyle

1 Bunch of Celery—Angie, Coleman, Grayson, Aubrie,

                                 Anna, & Lily

1 Head of Cabbage—Madelyn, Drew, Ayla, Miley,                                               Lauren, & Wesley

**Please send in these vegetables on or before Monday, November 25th :) 

Thanks so much!

Thanksgiving Sign-up

It was great to meet with each of you at conferences!  Thanks so much for the great response in signing up to provide supplies for our Thanksgiving Activities.  It will be a busy week of preparing for our feast!  Here is the completed sign-ups:

Supplies for Thanksgiving Activities

 (Monday, November 25th)

1 Bag of Red Apples (10-15) - Madelyn

1 Bag of Red Apples (10-15) - Akira

1 Bag of colored mini marshmallows—Deven

1 Bag of colored mini marshmallows—Wesley

1 Box of Toothpicks—Lily

1 Pkg of 24 small paper plates—Drew

1 Pint of Heavy Whipping Cream—Avery

1 Box of Jiffy Corn Bread Mix—Grayson

1 Box of Jiffy Corn Bread Mix—Canden

Supplies for Thanksgiving Feast

(Wednesday, November 27th)

24 Plates—Lauren

24 Bowls—

24 Spoons—

24 Napkins—Cyle

24 Cups—Lily

2 Liter Bottle of 7-Up—Ayla

2 Liter Bottle of 7-Up—Miley

1 Package of Oyster Crackers—

Parent Volunteers:

Monday, November 25th

Kindergarten Thanksgiving Activities—we will be rotating through all of the kindergarten rooms to do activities in the morning

Katy Hill

  

Tuesday, November 26th—morning

Cutting Up Vegetables w/students

  

    Christin Carpenter & Alexis Snoderly

Wednesday, November 27th—morning

Feast Prep

Gail Cook

Wednesday, November 27th—afternoon

Serving the Feast/Clean-Up

Tiara Valle

Winter Wear

Well . . . it looks like Winter weather is here . . . sooner than I'd like.
Please be sure to send your child to school with ALL of the appropriate clothing for recess - snowpants, winter coats, mittens, hats, boots, etc.  We had a lot of students who were cold and wet after recess today.  I have a few extra mittens in case of emergencies, but I don't have enough extras for every student.  Please help your child stay warm and healthy as we will continue to go outside for recess 3 times each day. :)

Thanks so much!
Mrs. Brinks

Newsletter Updates for the Week of November 11th

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Thurs., Nov. 14th—No School—Parent Teacher Conferences & Book Fair

-Fri., Nov. 15th—No School—Deer Day

-Mon., Nov. 18th—Delayed Start

-Mon., Nov. 25th—Thanksgiving Activities (am)

-Tues., Nov. 26th—Making Friendship Soup

-Wed., Nov. 27th—Our Feast (pm)

-Thurs., Nov. 28th—Thanksgiving (No School)

-Fri., Nov. 29th—No School

-Sat., Nov. 30th—PTO Craft Show

STUDENT OF THE WEEK: 

Our student of the week is Miley Goodrich.  Miley enjoys doing crafts and running; she has put in a lot of laps this Fall during the Mileage Club.  Miley’s favorite place to visit is Myrtle Beach and when she grows up, Miley aspires to become a teacher!  Congratulations to Miley on being our Student of the Week!

CONFERENCES: 

You should have received your conference notice last week.  Please be sure to return the bottom portion ASAP, to let me know your availability.  I encourage you to try to arrange your schedule, so that we can meet to discuss your child’s progress.  I look forward to meeting with you, sharing some of your child’s work samples, and discussing future learning goals together!  Don’t forget to check out the Book Fair during conferences; it will be located in the hallway connecting the elementary and middle school.

NEW DROP OFF & PICK UP PROCEDURE:

In your child’s report card envelope, you should have received a yellow note explaining our new procedures for dropping off and picking up students from school.  The intent is to increase safety and security during these busy times.  This will take affect, next Monday, November 18th.

READING:  

Our focus text for this week is Growing Vegetable Soup, which we will use to work on comprehension, inferring, and predicting.  Our focus letter for this week is Ss and our new sightwords are can & at  We will introduce another  new beanie this week for Comprehension—Iggy the Inferring Iguana.  He reminds us to pause while we are reading and use clues from the story to make predictions about what might happen next.  We will also practice using Picturing Penguin to help us visualize while reading The Talking Pot.

WRITING: 

This week we will continue our Writing Unit which focuses on being writing like Scientists.  We will use our collections from our nature walk last Friday, to practice drawing, labeling, and capturing details, as we write our own Non-Fiction/Informational Texts.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: 

This week we will continue to read books about America and Patriotism in observation of Veteran’s Day.  We will also begin our Social Studies Unit on Market Economy as we learn about wants, needs, and making a fair trade.

We will also read the story of Stone Soup to reinforce this concept and to help us prepare for our upcoming Friendship Soup project.

MATH:   

This week we continue to work on symmetry as we discover that our bodies are symmetrical.  We will also review patterning, digits, practice writing our numbers and counting with partners.