Sunday, December 17, 2017

Weeks of December 18, 2017-January 5, 2018

Kindergarten News 
*NSE students will travel to the High School on Tuesday, December 19th to enjoy some holiday songs performed by the high school band and chorus.  Fa la la la la la la la la!
* Kindergarten will be having a “Polar Express” day on Wednesday, December 20th.  Students are invited to wear their pajamas to school to dress like the characters in the book.  **Hot chocolate and cookies will be provided for snack!
*The monthly PBIS Reward will be held on Thursday, December 21st.  Students who earned 4 stamps and chose the Jammies and Movie for reward are permitted to wear pajamas all day 12/21!  Those who chose Reindeer Games should wear sneakers.  (Reward tickets will be sent home on Tuesday, 12/19 so you know which reward your child will receiving!!)
*There will be an early dismissal on Friday, December 22nd.  Students will be dismissed at 12:00 pm.  **Please note there will be NO BREAKFAST served and NO special classes on 12/22 due to the early dismissal and the school assembly THE NED SHOW!
            School will be closed from December 23rd through January 1st.  We will return to school on Tuesday, January 2, 2018.  **Take some time over the long holiday to review and practice sight words.  It is also a great time to read together with your child and maybe even take the opportunity to let him/her “show off” his/her reading skills to visiting relatives!! (Also don’t forget to return AR “Book Buddy” recording sheets by Jan. 2nd!  The goal for December is 15 books!) 
            For Reading after the holidays, we will move on to the story, George Washington Visits.  It is a historical fiction story, and we will be discussing how life today is different from life 100s of years ago.  For phonics, we will be working with the letters Dd and Kk and their sounds /d/ and /k/.  Watch for your family times newsletter for more details. To reinforce the letter sounds the boys and girls will be presenting dinosaur reports and the boys will get to be “Kings for a Day” one day. (Details will be enclosed in folders before the holiday break).  We will work with the K and C Spelling Rule.  The rule is that we spell the /k/ sound with the letter K when the sound is followed by the letters e, i, and y.  We spell the /k/ sound with the letter C when the sound is followed by the letters a, o, u, and any consonant.  For example:  K before e, i, or y (keg, kid, milky)  C before a, o, u, or any consonant (cat, cot, cup, clip) 
                  In Math, we will be working with Topic 4.  Take some time to review practice pages and continue to practice counting by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s to 100, identifying numbers to 0-100 and naming next numbers when given a number from 0-100.
                  A big THANK YOU to Mrs. Amy Dower for visiting our class on Tues. December 5th to share with the class her career working with Interventional Radiology and X-rays.  The boys and girls loved seeing the X-rays and the real bones!!  **Any parent or family member is welcome to be a guest reader throughout the school year—Just contact Mrs. Potts to arrange a date and time!! J
 **Monday, December 18th will be Day 4-GYM on the special classes schedule.  Students will need sneakers and gym attire on 12/18.  
Tuesday, January 2nd will be Day 8-Library on the special classes schedule and students will need Library books 1/2/18, and Gym attire and sneakers on Wednesday, January 3rd (1/3/18).  **(Please note that whenever school is CLOSED due to inclement weather, the rotation schedule is just bumped to the next school day, so students do not miss the scheduled special class for the cancelled day.)
We hope you like all the things we’re making for the upcoming holidays:  Reindeer hats, train photo frames, plates for Santa, and especially our thumbprint reindeer ornaments.  Don’t forget to put out the reindeer food and Cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve.
        Have a safe and happy holiday break—See you next year!

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