WEEK IN A PEEK!
September 25, 2009
Dear Parents,
THIS WEEK WE: are continuing to work on our handwriting. Encourage your child to play school and practice writing. Watch as the form the letters. Make sure they start with their pencil at the top.
We celebrated Johnny Appleseed’s birthday this week and made applebutter. We made graphic organizers with the apple theme and wrote a book. It is titled I Like Apples. They are doing a great job!
NEXT WEEK WE WILL: talk about our community helpers and jobs that they think they would like to do. Everyone dreams of being a firefighter, policeman or cheerleader someday! We will think of other professions that might be pretty cool. If you would be willing to share your profession with us in some way, give me a call and we will schedule a day that you can talk to the class. We would love to hear from you. We will finish interviewing each child in the room and continue work on introducing letters for handwriting. Practice them at home using the form that is on the reference sheet I sent home earlier.
CHECK OUT LIBRARY BOOKS: It is always a big deal to get to check out books from the big library. Mrs. Jones has been teaching them how to take care of books. Tuesday was their first time to get to check out books! We will go everyday to Open Checkout. (or almost everyday) This is a time for the children to return books and check out new ones. The books do not have to be returned every day but if you have read them, it is an opportunity to get some more! Be sure to write them down on the book slips too!
OPEN HOUSE: THURSDAY OCT. 1st Come out and visit our classroom. It will be open from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
BOOK SLIPS: I got several book slips back this week. Since next Wednesday is the last day of September, I will accept book slips for Sept. until Thursday. After that it will go toward the October goal. Continue reading and turning in the slips when you have filled them with 10 books. I want to add just one more suggestion. After you read the book to your child, close the book and have your child tell you about the story. I am finding that after reading a story they are not able to retell it to me. This is the same for children that can already read themselves as well as the ones that are not reading and are just listening as you read a good book. They should be able to sum up the story in just a few sentences. If they struggle with this, ask them questions using Who, What, Why, Where and When. It will add to their enjoyment of reading a book together and they will get a lot more out of it.
PARENT CONFERENCES:
It will soon be time to share with you what your child is learning in Kindergarten! Please plan to attend on either Oct. 27th or Oct. 29th. There will be a sign up sheet at Open House on next Thursday, Oct. 1st.
FIELD TRIP: The trip to the Campbell’s Maze Daze is Oct. 8th. If you have not returned your permission form and money, please send on Monday in the Friday folder. Thanks.
Grandparent/Grandfriend Day
Monday, September 28th, Mathews School Gym
Please note the start times of each grade level program below!
Kindergarten 1:15 p.m. 1st Grade 9:30 a.m.
2nd Grade 11:30 a.m. 3rd Grade 12:15 p.m.
4th Grade 10:30 a.m.
Each grade level will begin their time with a performance directed by Mrs. Genung. Following the performance, Grandparents/friends will then get a chance to see the classrooms, visit with teachers and take pictures!!
We look forward to seeing you!!!
Reminder: Students will be eating sack lunch in their rooms on this day! The sack lunch will consist of ham and cheese sandwich, chips, cookie, fruit and milk.
(School lunches will not be available for guests)
Any questions may be addressed to Mrs. Brock, Counselor 449-3115
MERIT AWARD:
Congratulations to Cody Gardner. He gets our merit award this week. Way to go! :)
Thank you,
Donna Mountjoy
THEME: Occupations