Week of September 18-22, 2017

Kindergarten News 

Congratulations to ALL the students who earned their first DRESS DOWN day for our PBIS behavior plan.  They have shown they can follow the rules and be SAFE!  This week we will be looking for students to PARTICIPATE!  If they earn 3 stamps by Thursday afternoon (9/21), then they will earn another DRESS DOWN day for Friday, 9/22!!!

~ Our Reading story will be Plaidypus Lost.  We will be talking about how families cooperate, we will be learning to recognize the letters Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, and Ss, and we will practice the comprehension skill: sequence.  Watch for your Family Times newsletter to come home in your child’s folder.  Continue to read at home, talk about story characters and setting, and recognize the letters from Aa-Nn, as well as the high frequency words I, am, the and little. 

**Word List 1 for “Camera Words”/ sight words, was checked last week!  Check the list enclosed in your child’s folder (PLASTIC SHEET).  Please keep the list there, but use it to study the appropriate list(s) for your child.  Lists should be checked every week or week and a half as time allows.

~In Math we will begin Topic 14.  We will learn to identify and describe 2 and 3 dimensional shapes such as; circle, square, rectangle, triangle, hexagon, cone, sphere, cube, and cylinder.  Please take some time to review the daily practice pages that your child brings home in his/her KEEP side of the communication folder. 

~Last week we started a Social Studies Unit—Citizenship.  Our focus is on the question, “What does it mean to be a good citizen?”  Our first lessons have been about rules and laws and our next lessons will be about good and bad choices, being a good friend, sharing, and taking turns, working hard and trying our best and cooperating.  Take some time to ask your child about the daily lessons and discuss what being a good citizen looks like at home and in your community!

~Friday, September 22^nd is the First Day of Autumn/Fall and we will be starting an “APPLE” theme and continue it through the remainder of September.   We will learn about the seasons and continue our Science observations using our apple theme. **Students are asked to bring in an apple on Monday, September 25^th.  The apple can be any size, color, or kind.  Each day of that week we will use the apples for sorting, graphing, and/or tasting. It should be a sweet week!!!

~The Kindergarten Fall Festival will be held on Thursday, October 5^th.    If interested in volunteering, please be sure to complete and return your volunteer form that was sent home earlier in the week.  **The next Fall Festival meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 19^th @ 6:30 at Chill Out on the Gold Star Highway, Shenandoah.  All volunteers who will be participating at the Fall Festival MUST have all 4 clearances (Child Abuse, Criminal, FBI Fingerprinting, and Mandated Reporter Training) on file in the office.  The Fall Festival is not a PTO event, so you do not have to be a member of the PTO to help.  **Also, if you haven’t already, please try to send in $3 for the Fall Festival to help pay for supplies and to make the day special for the children.

~ Due to the changes in temperature inside and outside the school, some students may want to bring a sweater or sweatshirt without a hood to keep in their cubbies in case they feel chilly!  Jackets with hoods should not be worn inside during the school day.

 Monday, Sept. 18^th will be Day 4- GYM, on our special classes’ schedule.  **Boys and girls will need sneakers for gym class on Monday, 9/18.  Tues, 9/19 will be Day 5- ART, Wed. 9/20 will be Day 6-COMPUTERS, Thursday,9/21 will be Day 7- MUSIC, and Friday, 9/22 will be Day 8- LIBRARY.