Upcoming Dates
* Next Week’s Sharing: Something that starts with the letter B
* Monday, October 26th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Students do not come to school on this day. The teachers will be gathering to receive professional development in math and writing. If you are a Monday sharer (or you didn’t get to share last Thursday or Friday, please bring your sharing in Tuesday, October 27th. Thank you!
* Thursday, October 29th: Picture Day
Students will all be taking their individual pictures on this day. An envelope will be sent home the day before, and you can choose to buy pictures of your child. Please make sure to return the envelopes Thursday morning!!!
* Friday, October 30th: Halloween Schedule - ALL KINDERS COME 10:55am-3:05pm!
You may send your child to school already wearing their Halloween costumes (that way we don’t have to worry about changing clothes). There will be a parade for the entire school after lunchtime from about 1:30pm-2:15pm, and parents are welcome to come during this time. Afterwards, the students will return to the classroom to finish some Halloween activities and have their treat.
* Sunday, November 1st: Daylight Savings Time
Don’t forget to set your clocks back one hour!
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Dear Families,
I am so happy to see the sun still! On Monday, we had a little bit of rain, but fortunately it was not like the stormy day from last week! I’m happy to see that the kids are slowly all returning back to school and staying healthy. Thank you for all the parents who volunteered this week for Traffic Duty before and after school! We really appreciate the help from parents each week.
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts: This week, I started sending home a Literacy Center evaluation sheet. This will help to let you know whether your child has been completing all of the activities or not.
o Star of the Week: Raphael
o Letter of the Week: T
o Story of the Week: Apples, Apples, Apples
o Phonemic Awareness: Blending and Segmenting Letters, Rhymes
o Strategy Focus: Evaluate
o Comprehension: Story Structure: Characters / Setting
o High-Frequency Word: my
o Concepts of Print: Capitalize First Word in Sentence, End Punctuation, Spacing
• Writing: In our journals this week, we wrote about Pumpkins and drew a picture of pumpkins sitting on a fence. We focused on having a capital letter in the beginning, a period at the end, and two-finger spaces between our words. We also practiced spelling the words see and like.
• Science: We finished our Pumpkin, Pumpkin stories this week. The students enjoyed making and reading their books about a pumpkin’s life cycle!
• Math: We continued reviewing the vocabulary words more and less, fewer, and equal. We practiced comparing objects in two groups and sorting.
• Computer Lab: This week, we started our Pumpkin pictures using Kidpix. We practiced using different drawing tools including the oval, rectangle, and curved line tools. We also practiced typing our name with a capital letter in the beginning.
• Art: We saw Mrs. Abada on Tuesday and she taught us a lesson using pastel chalk. We learned how to draw beautiful pumpkins sitting on the grass at night. She taught us about shading and where to draw darker or lighter. They turned out wonderful!
• Library: Thank you to Edison’s mom, who started coming on Mondays to help during library. As you could tell in the homework envelope, this week was the first week we checked out books! Please read the story to your child and then complete one activity in the Take-Home journal. Return everything on Friday. Next week, there is no library since we don’t have school Monday, so we’ll skip the journals until the following week.
Thursday was Enrichment Day for the school. During the entire day, the PTO found different volunteers to present a session to the different grade levels. Kindergarten participated in the following sessions: a dentist taught us about our teeth and how to keep them healthy, a firefighter showed us what to do during a fire emergency, a doctor taught us about our incredible body, and finally, we learned how to fold origami! This was a fun day to learn about our community.
Today was the Pumpkin Patch! I hope everyone had a good time, and thank you again to all the chaperones: Connor’s mom, Keona’s mom, Kumiko’s mom, Leah’s dad, Matthew C.’s mom, and Matthew N.’s mom. Please remember to get a TB test to the office if you would like to chaperone in the future! Thank you as well to Yash’s family and Kumiko’s family for bringing the raisins and juice boxes for the children’s snack. Also, if your child did not get to paint a red shirt, please have him or her bring one to school next week and we will find time for them to paint theirs! Thanks!
Colleen’s mom and Shaunak’s mom are our room mothers. Colleen’s mom, Sue, has kindly set up a Yahoo Group using all of our emails, so that we can communicate with each other as a whole group. If you have not yet, please make sure to “Accept” her Yahoo Group invitation so that you can be a part of the discussions. This week, I used the Yahoo Group to find volunteers, so that was very helpful. Thank you Sue!
One more thank you to Matthew C.’s family, who donated 2 books from the Book Fair: I’m Your Bus and Chester Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully. Thank you for adding to our classroom library! Also, thank you to Kavya who brought in a small pumpkin to share with the class!
Have a great weekend everyone! Enjoy your 3 day weekend and I will see you on Tuesday! Everyone rest and I hope there will be no more absences! It’s been a long time since all 30 of us have been to school together =( Take care!
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