Thursday, December 2, 2010

Kindergarten News for the week of December 6th - 10th

Kindergarten News for the week of December 6th – 10th
The fundraiser pick-up will be on December 8th from 3-8pm.
The Christmas concert for grades K-2 will be on December 13th at 9:30am. There will also be a PTO meeting on that evening at 6:30 in the school cafeteria.
The PTO sponsored movie night is tonight. (December 3rd) The PTO sponsored K-2 dance is on December 10th. The party sponsored by NSHS Interact will be on December 12th. Please respond to the e-mail address that was on the invitation that your child received.
In math next week we will be making shapes on a geoboard, placing items on a real graph, identifying ordinal position and paying for items using pennies.
In reading we will be reading the story Whose Garden is It? This is a rhyming life science story and your child will be learning if something is reality or fantasy. We will also review the letter and sound for Ii.
In phonics we will be learning the letter Ff as in fish. We will also be reading some frog books. Your child should now know Ll, Oo, Gg, Hh, Tt, Pp, Aa, Nn, Mm, Ii, and Ss. They should know how to recognize the letter and know the sound.
Please practice word list 5. We will be having show and tell for Ff on Thursday and will be tested on word list 5 on Friday!
Monday will be day #4 on our rotation schedule. That means your child will have gym and book exchange on Wednesday.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Kindergarten week of November 30th - December 3rd

Kindergarten News for the week before Thanksgiving
This is just a short note to let you know what’s going on next week!
There will be no school store until January! The pto ladies are busy getting set up for Santa’s Shop! We will be shopping at Santa’s shop on December 1st. We will shop in the morning before lunch.
The lunch menu for Wednesday Nov 24 2010 is:

Hot Dog on a roll
Baked Beans
Fruit cup
1/2 pint of milk

The Alternate will be Pre-made PIZZA...

No Hot Ham and Cheese Sandwiches will be offered

No Wraps will be offered....
There is no breakfast that day. We will be eating LUNCH at 9:15. We will also not be eating snack that day due to the early dismissal!

We will be reading the story Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson. We will not be learning a new letter. We will begin the letter Ss when we return after Thanksgiving! We will have a new word list!

In math we will be comparing objects by weight using a balance. We will also be working with shapes and using the attributes of shape and color.

We will be making a craft with our reading buddies and watching Charlie Brown’s Thanksgiving with them!