Schedule for the Week October 25 - 29

• M - Computer and Music/P.E. (please remember helmets for rollerskating!) & we will also be celebrating Joey's Birthday!!
  
• T - Art and Media (please remember your library books!)
  
• W - P.E./Music
  
• Th - Music/P.E. & Picture Retake Day!!
  
• F - Halloween Safety with Mrs. Swanson, Art and Class Halloween Party! (Please send costume with your child to school in a separate bag.) School Halloween Parade begins at 2:15pm - parents may watch the parade from the gym.
  

Sight Words for the Week: Review: I, a, my, the, go

Letter for the Week: Aa

Vocabulary: Review: feast, gusto, prepare, lonely, remind, preoccupied, appetite, savor, urgency, aroma, surround, tradition

Hello Families!
We have a very busy couple of weeks ahead. Hopefully you all got your Conference slip reminder a week ago. If you have any questions regarding your conference day/time, please feel free to contact me. I'm looking forward to meeting with all of you in the next couple of weeks. This week the students will be getting very, very excited for our Halloween celebration. There are some parents planning our class party which I know will be a great success.
I looking forward to a fun week!

Schedule for the Week of October 26-30

• M: Computer & Art
  

• T: P.E. & Picture Re-takes
  

• W: Music & Media
  

• Th: Art
  

• F: P.E. & Halloween Party in the Afternoon (Please bring costume to change into) ..... Parade begins at 2:15pm

SiGhT WoRd Of ThE WeEk: Review sight words: I, a, my, the, go

Letter we are working on: Aa - short vowel sound and writing

This week we will be working on letter Aa and reviewing the sight words we have been practicing. On Friday afternoon we will be having our Halloween Party. Please send your child with their costume in a separate bag so they can change into it in the afternoon for our party. I am also looking for one more parent volunteer to help us out with our party. Please let me know if you are interested. Parents, if you would like to watch the parade, please go to the gym and you will be able to see all of the students in their costumes, which is also a great opportunity to take pictures.
Let's have a great week!!!

Happy 2009 and Welcome Back!!! Week of Jan. 5-9

Hello and Welcome back!

I hope you were all able to rest, relax and enjoy special moments with family and friends over the past two weeks.

One of my new year's resolutions is to become more technologically advanced. :-) I realize there is always more to learn when it comes to technology, but now that we have a SMART board in our classroom, I want to learn even MORE and share the amazing things that this technology can do with the kindergarten students. Also, to make life a little easier, I will not be using our classroom website anymore. Instead, I will only post information on this blog so please be sure to check this blog weekly for any updated information. (I will put a link to the classroom website, so you can be sure to access this blog from our school and classroom website.)

After resting and spending quality time with my family, I am geared up to start the "New Year" and get back to a daily schedule.
This coming week, we have quite a bit going on.

Here is a glimpse at our specialist schedule and a few other events:

Monday: Art, having Character Class (Honesty) with Mrs. Swanson and we will be
celebrating Sami's Birthday!

Tuesday: P.E.

Wednesday: Library (remember to return your books!) and Music
and we will be celebrating Cody's Birthday!

Thursday: Art

Friday: P.E.

This coming week we will also be welcoming a new friend to our classroom. We are looking forward to having Tsione join us! We will also be concentrating on our first vowel of the year - letter A. We will be concentrating on the sounds the letter A makes and how to write it correctly. With the "new year" we will also be starting a new math chapter! Chapter 5 will be reviewing some concepts we have learned, but will also start introducing some geometry. In computer, we will be starting Type to Learn, which is a program that helps students understand the keys of the keyboard.
In the next few weeks I will be assessing the students to see where they are at with their reading skills, letter identification and letter sounds. These assessments will be used for upcoming report cards and will also help me identify our reading groups as we begin "Guided Reading" in a couple weeks. Look for more information to come on how these groups will work in the coming weeks.