Corduroy

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

This week, we are focusing on the story Corduroy.  Please remember to send a bear with your child on Thursday.  We will be doing various activities using our stuffed bears.

I have noticed great improvement in some of the students' writing this week.  It looks like a lot of you are really helping your child at home.  That is wonderful!!  Thanks for your help and support.

Library is cancelled this week. 

This week

I would like to thank all of you for coming to conferences!  I was nice talking with each of you about your child and his/her progress.  

The book fair was a great success!  Thanks to all who donated money for our classroom library.  I bought 3 great books, one even came with a CD for listening.  I also had a book donated from Sam.  Thanks to all!

The family homework turned out great!  If you haven't turned it in yet, please feel free to bring it in Monday or even Tuesday.  We really would like to hear about all of the families.

With the weather changing, please make sure your child has the proper gear for outdoor recess.  I also wear a hat and gloves outside.  When there is snow on the ground, the children must have boots to play on the playground.

The week at a glance

This week we finished up colors and also learned about shapes.  One hands-on activity we did was make shapes with Pixie Sticks.  It seemed more challenging for some than I was expecting, so it was a good chance for me to observe the students in action.  The kindergarten benchmark includes circle. oval, square, rectangle, trapezoid, rhombus (diamond), and hexagon.

The students really enjoyed the color songs these past two weeks.  You can locate the color songs on You Tube if you want to review them at home.  We mainly did the songs to learn how to spell the color words. 

I sent home the October homework with the Book-It certificates today.  Congratulations to those students who turned them in!

Please remember to send in the family circle map homework by Thursday next week.  The due date that came home stated Friday, but the students do not have school.  I will gladly accept the homework on Friday though.

Halloween pics!

Color Week

Today was red day.  Wednesday is orange day.  Try to dress your child in orange.  Thursday is yellow and Friday is green day.

Most of the students know their colors, so we are focusing on how to spell them this week.

Our words this week are like and you.