Just a few reminders (if you haven't already done so):
- School fees are due in the office ASAP
- Send a pair of tennis shoes to be kept at school for your child to wear for gym
- Send a plain white t-shirt to be kept at school for an art shirt
- Check out the link view and purchase some AWESOME school clothing
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Important Dates:
9/20: No School for students
9/22: Family Night: Hot Dogs and How to Help
9/22: Family Night: Hot Dogs and How to Help
9/28: Kaukauna Homecoming Parade (more info to come)
10/19: Kindergarten Field Trip to Heckrodt Nature Preserve and Kaukauna Fire Dept (more info to come)
***To help us be prepared for field trips and opportunities to volunteer in the classroom later this year, please let me know if you need a background check form. Background checks take 2-3 weeks to be verified and are required every 5 years.***
This week the entire school district will be having a "safety week." You should have received information about this electronically via Infinite Campus messenger and will be receiving a letter detailing the events of this week. During this time the students and I will be participating in several drills to ensure we are all aware and comfortable with safety procedures. We will have the following drills this week: fire drill, tornado drill, lockdown and hold drill and evacuation drill.
Some of these may be new or could possibly cause some anxiety or questions among the students. Please know I will do my very best to explain everything we are doing to them and will make sure they know they are always safe at school. If you have questions please feel free to contact myself or Mrs. Frischmann.
Now, here's a peek at our week:
Reading: This week we will welcome a new type of book to out reading workshop: Old Favorite Storybooks! These books are stories the boys and girls have heard me read aloud several times and are ready to "reread" on their own. They are by no means expected to read these verbatim, but instead will work to rely on story elements and pictures to support their attempts. This type of work sets them up to really begin to understand the connection that words and pictures have in books. It also gets us one step closer to reading conventionally. I cannot wait to listen to the students read these beloved books!
Writing: We will continue to write teaching books this week and will really work to plan how our books will go page by page. We will be working with a partner to ask and answer questions about our books as a way to add more and will work hard attempt to write words in our books by stretching them out and recording the sounds we hear. Lastly, we will be using a checklist to make sure our writing is the best it can be...I know the boys and girls will feel so grown up doing this!
Math: This week in math we will continue to work with matching numerals to quantity and will work to create drawings to show what quantity numbers represent. We will also work to create different arrangements that represent the same number to increase our knowledge of quantity and will even look to break these arrangements apart to find partners of a number (numbers that are added together to make a larger number). We will begin to work in math centers each day that will allow us to work with a small group and really get to share our thinking about math.
Social Studies: Each of us in Room 80 has determined a hope and dream for the school year! I am very proud of the boys and girls for being able to choose something that suits them and that they feel is important for them to work on. We are now in the process of creating 3-5 rules for our classroom that will help each of us reach our hope and dream. Stay tuned for our published rules later this week.
Word Work: We have begun to study names in our classroom. Each day one student is chosen to be the Star name. We study, spell and chant their name and then take some time to learn about them with a quick interview. The info we gather is then turned into a book about each child that we can ALL read. Each child will also get a copy of his/her book to read at home. The boys and girls have been so excited about this!
Have a great week!
Reading: This week we will welcome a new type of book to out reading workshop: Old Favorite Storybooks! These books are stories the boys and girls have heard me read aloud several times and are ready to "reread" on their own. They are by no means expected to read these verbatim, but instead will work to rely on story elements and pictures to support their attempts. This type of work sets them up to really begin to understand the connection that words and pictures have in books. It also gets us one step closer to reading conventionally. I cannot wait to listen to the students read these beloved books!
Writing: We will continue to write teaching books this week and will really work to plan how our books will go page by page. We will be working with a partner to ask and answer questions about our books as a way to add more and will work hard attempt to write words in our books by stretching them out and recording the sounds we hear. Lastly, we will be using a checklist to make sure our writing is the best it can be...I know the boys and girls will feel so grown up doing this!
Math: This week in math we will continue to work with matching numerals to quantity and will work to create drawings to show what quantity numbers represent. We will also work to create different arrangements that represent the same number to increase our knowledge of quantity and will even look to break these arrangements apart to find partners of a number (numbers that are added together to make a larger number). We will begin to work in math centers each day that will allow us to work with a small group and really get to share our thinking about math.
Social Studies: Each of us in Room 80 has determined a hope and dream for the school year! I am very proud of the boys and girls for being able to choose something that suits them and that they feel is important for them to work on. We are now in the process of creating 3-5 rules for our classroom that will help each of us reach our hope and dream. Stay tuned for our published rules later this week.
Word Work: We have begun to study names in our classroom. Each day one student is chosen to be the Star name. We study, spell and chant their name and then take some time to learn about them with a quick interview. The info we gather is then turned into a book about each child that we can ALL read. Each child will also get a copy of his/her book to read at home. The boys and girls have been so excited about this!
Have a great week!
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