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. 29th
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:
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 2nd -
Minimum Day dismissal at 10:20. It is also a $1 Dress Day
Friday, December 6th -
Ogden Nature Center
KINDERGARTEN
FIELD TRIP to
We
have an opportunity to go to the Ogden Nature Center on Tuesday, December 6th 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!