Week of September 24-28, 2018

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Kindergarten News

This week we will be starting our 4^th story for Reading, Miss Bindergarten Takes a Field Trip with Kindergarten.  Watch for your Family Times newsletter to come home on Monday.  We will be talking about People in Communities and will be learning how to classify and categorize.   Continue to read at home and practice the high frequency words; I, am, the, and little; practice rhyming and counting syllables in words and identifying the letters from Aa-Zz.  

**Word Lists for “Camera Words”/ sight words, were not checked this past week, but will be this week. Be sure to practice!!

            September “AR” Book Buddy recording sheets will be due on Friday, Sept. 28^th.  Any student who has read 15 or more books will receive a monthly treat!!

            For Math, we will be continuing with Unit 1:  Numbers 0-10.  Be sure to review daily practice pages.  Practice identifying numbers 0-10, writing numbers, counting objects and/or sets with one-to-one correspondence, and matching numbers to sets. 

            Our Science theme for the week will be APPLES.  Students are asked to bring in an uncut apple (or 2) on Monday, September 24^th.  **The apple can be any size, color, or kind.  Each day of the week we will use the apples for sorting, graphing, and/or tasting! It should be a sweet week!!!

            Mrs. Diane Rowland will visit with our class on Thursday, September 27^th during Guidance class.  She will be speaking with the children about Drugs and Alcohol in preparation for the annual Red Ribbon Week, which will be held in October.  Take some time to ask your child what he/she learned and/or discussed at school that day! 

            October is National Bullying Prevention Month.  If your child wears a BLUE SHIRT on Monday, October 1^st to support bullying prevention in Schuylkill County, then he/she will get a FREE DRESS DOWN DAY.

            The Kindergarten Field Trip to Rohrbach’s Farm in Catawissa will be Thursday, October 11^th.  **Permission slips are due by Friday, September 27^th.

         The next Kindergarten Fall Festival meeting will be held on Monday, September 24^th @ 7:00 pm at Francesco’s restaurant (upstairs) in Shenandoah.  **The festival will be held on Friday, October 26^th.   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.  **Anyone who has not yet sent in his/her $3.00 donation for the Fall Festival is asked to do so ASAP.

October Scholastic Book Orders will be due by Thursday, October 4^th.    (Orders can be placed online with the classroom code GJXGV or sent to the teacher in an envelope.)

           

  Monday, September 24^th will be Day 10—Art, on our special classes’ schedule.  **Students will need sneakers on Friday, 9/28.  (Tues. 9/25—Computers, Wed. 9/26—Music, Thurs. 9/27—Guidance, Fri. 9/28—Physical Education)