Week 15

Welcome back!  I hope your Thanksgiving Break was relaxing and rejuvenating!  I am so thankful for many things!  Let me tell you about some of them…

Mrs. Karren my TA.  She is always there ready to jump in and help me and the children at any given moment.

All of who came and supported our Literacy Night.  It was so much fun preparing for it and preforming for you! I didn’t get any pictures that night so please, please send me any pictures you took.

I’m thankful for all of the wonderful parents that donate supplies to our class. Thank you for being so generous! 

I am grateful for our wonderful room mothers who help plan and execute our class activities throughout the year.  Mrs. Norman helps me prepare the Home Learn Folders each week.  Mrs. Cottle comes to our class every Monday and spends countless hours helping me and the students.  Many parents have saved me even more time cutting, pasting, and collating projects for the classroom.

And last but not least, of you parents that support your child’s learning at home through Raz Kids, spelling sorts, reading logs, and weekly homework packets.

Q & U Wedding

The wedding of Mr. Q (a.k.a. Dilan) to Miss U (a.k.a. Kaylee) was fabulous!  They will forever be known as Mr. & Mrs. QU /kw/.  Never to be apart as long as they have words together.

The QU wedding cake was donated by Antonio Gandara’s mother and was so pretty, and yummy! The wedding ceremony was performed by Jacob Sibbet’s mother. Thank you ladies! Take a peek below for some really fun pictures…

Waiting for the wedding to begin.

Introducing...   Mr. Q & Miss U

The wedding party

Exchanging rings

After the ceremony Mr. & Mrs. QU /kw/, shook hands. 

(because there's no kissing in kindergarten)

The bride and her beautiful bride's maids.

The groom and his 2 handsome best men.

We danced after the ceremony!

We presented the couple with our favorite QU words.

The beautiful wedding cake.

We ate wedding cake, yummy!

Mr. & Mrs. QU eating cake.

THIS WEEK…

TUESDAY ~ Nov. 29^th

STUFFED ANIMAL & FREE DRESS DAY

(Mrs. Scalise’s Class ONLY)

We have earned a FREE DRESS DAY by spelling PERFECT ATTENDANCE!

We have also earned our goal of 100 tally marks by synergizing together as a class. Our reward is that we get to bring our 1 favorite stuffed animal to class!

LOOKING AHEAD to December…

We only have a little over 3 weeks until Winter Break so I want to make the most of it.  I encourage you to do all that you can to make sure your child does not miss even one day. 

• Language Arts and Math Practice

We have now learned the entire alphabet and all letter sounds.  

Uu is for umbrella.  Look what we put under our umbrellas.

Zz is for zig zag zebra.

Qq & Uu are for queens under a quilt.

Please make sure your child is able to recognize and name all letters in RANDOM order.  Also, each child should know the letter sounds including long and short vowel sounds.  21 Sight words have also been taught and your child should be reading them fluently in random order and be able to find them in books and other text.  Also, please continue to read every day with your child.

We will begin our Unit 3 Language Arts Assessment next week and I will be sending the completed assessment by Winter Break.

• ·         SHAPES

We will be taking our shape test-Math Test Unit 5 this week. The children will need to be able to recognize all of the 2D (flat) shapes and 3D (solid) shapes that came home with their memory match game, 2 weeks ago.

A cone and a sphere make an ice cream cone!

Look what we can make with triangles and rectangles.

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 Show-and-Tell with SHAPES

Go on a shape hunt throughout your house searching for the following shapes:

cone

 sphere

 cube

cylinder

Bring objects that have one of these shapes in it to class any day this week.

Examples: can of food, ball, party hat, or a box.  I will pay pennies for each one they bring.

   

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WTW Spelling Sorts

We have 3 more spelling sorts until Winter Break.  Please help your child each week by cutting, sorting and writing the letters or words depending on which level of sort they are currently studying.  I am so pleased with the progress each child is making!  Please continue to support their progress.

DECEMBER CALENDAR…

*Remember that Tuesday each week is our Library Day and we need to return the book each week.

Friday, December 2^nd - Minimum Day dismissal at 10:20.  It is also a $1 Dress Day

Friday, December 6^th - Ogden Nature Center

KINDERGARTEN FIELD TRIP to 

We have an opportunity to go to the Ogden Nature Center on Tuesday, December 6^th to learn about animals in the winter and hibernating.  We will be leaving the school at 12:00 and returning in time for regular dismissal at 3:00 pm

We will be going rain, snow or shine so please dress your child for the weather with hat, gloves, warm coat and boots if needed that day.

I will need 2 more parent chaperone to go with us that day.  Mrs. Cash has already volunteered.  All 3 parents will need to ride on the bus with us.  If you would like to volunteer please contact me.  I will take the first 2 that contact me.

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Tuesday, December 20th- Graham Cracker House STEM project  8:15 am-11:00 am

We will need many parent volunteers that day (please, NO siblings).  I am sending home a list of needed supplies with your child in the Home Learn folder on Monday.

• 6 boxes graham crackers
• Bags of candy, cereal, pretzels, etc.  Anything you think could be used to make a good pattern.
• Royal icing from Topper Bakery (contact me if you’d like to donate this)
• 26 dinner size paper plates-really heavy duty kind.
• 26 plastic knives

Go ahead and start sending your donation this week so that we can begin to separate them into colors.  Thank you in advance. 

If you would like to donate a bag of candy the best kinds are ones that have a variety of colors so that the children can make patterns with them on their house: M&Ms, gumdrops…If you can help with the donations please contact me at the school or through an email.

Friday, December 20th- Minimum Day dismissal at 12:45

Winter Break- December 21st- January 3rd

Return to School on January 4th

Have a Very Happy and Safe Holiday Season!