Apple Orchard Fun!!

We had such a great time at the Apple Orchard last week.... I just wanted to share a few photos with you.... enjoy!


We learned how the apples are cleaned in the machine........


We learned how to properly pick an apple off of a tree, put it in the bag and then they all go into the crate.






We got to see some fun farm animals too!

Schedule for the Week of September 26-30

• M - P.E./Music & Media with Mrs. Williams (*Please return your library books by today!)
  
• T- PICTURE DAY!! Music/P.E.
  
• W- Art
  
• Th- Music/P.E.
  
• F- Music/P.E. & Computer & Celebrate Camryn's Birthday!!

Star of the Week: Camryn

Sight Word: my

Letter of the Week: Tt

Vocabulary: Review (ability, confident, encourage, talent, differ, perfectly, resemblance, reverse

Math: Chp. 2 - Patterns

Schedule for the Week of September 19-23

• M- Music/P.E. & Media
• T- Art
• W- Music/P.E. & Field Trip to Apple Orchard
• Th - Music/P.E.
• F - Art & Computer

Letter of the Week: Rr

Sight Word of the Week: a

Phonics: Counting the number of syllables in a word

Math: Starting Chp. 2 on Patterning

Vocabulary Words for the Week: differ, stalking, mellow, automatic, perfectly, resemblance

Schedule for the Week of September 12-16

• M - Art and Character Assembly
  
• T - Music/P.E.
  
• W - Music/P.E. & Reading Fluency Testing
  
• Th -Art
• F - P.E./Music & Wolf Ridge Kick-Off Assembly

Letters of the Week: Mm & Ss

Sight Word: I

Phonics: Counting the number of words in a sentence

This is our first FULL week of kindergarten and I know the students will love it. We will have our first Character Assembly of the year with Mrs. Swanson and I think she has a pretty exciting message in store for us. (Hint: this year's Character Theme is "Team Shirley Hills"). We will also begin starting to learn and focus on the letters Mm and Ss in handwriting and reading the sight word I with our first theme "All About Me." We will also learn some new vocabulary words: ability, talent, confident, complained, encourage, and reverse.
In Math we will be reviewing concepts in the next two weeks such as shapes, directional words (i.e: right, left, above, below) and sorting objects by color, size and kind.
I'm looking forward to a great week!

Welcome Class of 2024!!

Hello and Welcome to My Classroom!!

It was great to meet so many of you at Open House Wednesday evening! Parents, can you believe these new kindergarten students are the young faces of the Class of 2024?! I'm happy you get to start your educational career right here at Shirley Hills! We are going to have such a great year, I'm looking forward it!

A few things that may be of help to you as we begin the year:

1. School Supplies Needed for Kindergarten (Please bring these to your first conference scheduled for either Sept. 6th or 7th):

1 - Clorox wipes, 40-ct (boys)
10 - glue sticks, .21 oz
1 - hand sanitizer, 4 oz. bottle (girls)
1 - kleenex, 175-ct box
1 - markers, dry erase, 4-ct box
2 - markers, washable, 8-ct box
1 - notebook, spiral bound, wide ruled
3 - pencils, #2 wooden, sharpened (yellow only)
1 - pencils, colored (12-ct)
1- pocket folder, red
1 - scissors, 5” blunt Fiskars

Donations of any of these additional kindergarten supplies now or during the school year would be greatly appreciated.

- Brown paper lunch bags
- plastic cups, regular size
- Elmers white glue, 7 oz. bottle
- Napkins
- Plastic forks and spoons
- Ziploc bags, gallon or quart size
- boxes of healthy snacks (Goldfish, crackers, etc.)

2. A link to the School Lunch Menu and PAMS Lunch Account, which will need to be set up before Septemeber 9th for your child to receive school lunch.

3. Plan ahead and put the Back to School Barbecue on your calendar: Friday, September 9th!

4. For other school or district information, please check out the Shirley Hills Web Page!

5. To plan ahead for future activities and events, please view the District Calendar.

I'm looking forward to seeing you all at your listening conference next week!
~ Mrs. Koepp