Dear Parents,
I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving break. I'd like to thank all of you for making last Monday & Tuesday such a success! We had a wonderful spread of food at the feast, and the children all looked darling! Thanks to the MANY parents who helped with that event. Also, Grandparents' Day was another great event. It was wonderful to see so many Grandparents & friends in our room that day. We had a fun time!
Also, thank you to the parents who sent in glue sticks before the break. If you were able to pick any up while you were out and about the past few days, we can always use more!
Now...onto a very busy but exciting time in kindergarten as we prepare for our Nutcracker presentation on the 16th, as well as continue with all the academics & seasonal artwork!
We will have a new letter this week, Vv, and the Alphafriend is Vinnie Volcano. We will also have a new high frequency word, to. We will begin a math topic on addition this week. Any reinforcement you can provide at home on this would be great, as this is obviously a core concept.
If you look to the right on this web page, there is a link for kindergarten websites. I link a website, http://www.spellingcity.com/k2grist that I'd like you all to check out with your children. This is a fun way to reinforce both the sight words and short-vowel words that they will be expected to recognize and spell in kindergarten. I have pre-loaded the list of sight words onto Spelling City, but if you want to make your own list of short-vowel words, you can do that, too. These are just extra tools to reinforce learning.
We will return to centers both this week and next week, then we take a break from centers again the week of December 11th. Please check the helper schedule below, as well as on the website.
This week's sharing is Book Share. Please send in a book with your child, with a favorite page bookmarked. Children should be prepared to tell the title of the book & a bit about what it's about.
Thank you for returning your blue bags last week. They will go home again this Wednesday as well as the following Wednesday. They will not go home on December 14th.
REMINDER: There is a Wacky Wednesday this Wednesday the 30th. The p.m. class runs from 10:00 to 1:20.
Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!
Upcoming Events:
11/28: Alta Vista Star-Gazing Night on Upper-Grade Blacktop @ 6:30 p.m.
11/30: November's Wacky Wednesday
11/30: Dining for $ @ Armadillo Willy's 5:00-9:00 p.m.
12/14: December's Wacky Wednesday
12/16: Kindergarten Nutcracker Performance @ 10:00 (a.m.) & 1:30 (p.m.)
12/19-1/2: Winter Break
1/16: MLK Holiday
1/25: January's Wacky Wednesday
