I hope you are all enjoying a long weekend. In the upcoming week, we will continue parent-teacher conferences through Thursday. I have enjoyed meeting with many of you so far, and have gained some great insights about your children from you. Thank you for meeting with me and being such active participants in your child's education. I look forward to meeting with the rest of you this week. For this week, early dismissal at 1:15 continues through Friday.
There will be no classroom centers again this week, due to the early dismissal. Centers will resume on Tuesday the 29th.
Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day
Monday is Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day. This is a schoolwide event. Please help us acknowledge the difference made by this young kindergartener by wearing purple and/or walking to school.
Friendship Feast
We are looking forward to seeing everyone at our Friendship Feast on 11/18 at 10:00. A few reminders:
- Similar to the Halloween parade, you must go through the office & scan your license to enter campus. You may want to come in early when you're on campus in the morning or during conferences to pre-register. Although the line won't be as long as for Halloween, since only kindergarten is involved in this event, you still want to allow plenty of time to get through the office (if not pre-registered) since we will be doing a brief performance right at 10:00.
- Please do not enter the cafeteria before we bring the children in. They will be forming a large open rectangle for their performance of a couple of songs. It will be best for you to wait until we get in position so that you can choose where you stand around the outside of that rectangle, based on the location of your child.
- Please remember to label all dishes & servingware that you bring to this event, especially if you have to leave early. If you stay until the end, please take your dishes with you when you leave. Thank you!
- Please do not send in any dishes with peanuts or tree nuts. Thank you!
Language Arts
This week, we will wrap up the introduction of all letters with Qq and Zz. If you notice that your child does not recognize all upper & lower case letters, as well as know all letter sounds, please provide additional reinforcement at home. To help your child form this week's letters correctly, please see the Fundations Family Letter. In this week's newsletter, there is also an activity to review all letters and their sounds. Our sight words this week are run and big. For a list of the 21 sight words (also called high frequency words) we've introduced so far, as well as all words we'll be studying this year, please see the class website. Again, if you notice that your child is not able to read these sight words, please continue working on them at home.
This week, children will be sharing the turkeys that they disguised. They will do a little presentation in front of the class where they will talk about their turkey. After Thanksgiving, we will begin circulating a book of all the turkey projects so that you can enjoy them at home with your child.
Math
In math this week, we will continue reviewing all concepts we've covered so far. We will begin a new unit on measurement after Thanksgiving.
Cornerstone & Clay
We have two activities from Alta Vista's enrichment programs scheduled for this week. On Tuesday, we will have a Project Cornerstone lesson. This program helps foster the development of SEL skills such as inclusion, diversity, tolerance, problem solving, respect, and conflict resolution. Thank you to Shereen for presenting these lessons this year. On Thursday, we will be glazing our clay projects that we made in early October. Please do not send your children in any "favorite" clothes on Thursday, as the clay glaze stains. Thank you to Marina, Yufi, Ruby, and Mike M. for helping with the clay program.
Nutcracker
Looking ahead on your calendars at this busy time of year, I wanted to make sure that you all mark your calendars for Wednesday, December 14th at 9:15 a.m.-- our performance of The Nutcracker. This is an annual kindergarten favorite. If you are heading out of town that week and your child won't be at school on the 14th, please let me know so that I can plan parts accordingly.
Reminders
**P.E. is every Monday-- please send your children in shoes & clothes appropriate for fitness. (PE is canceled this week due to the shortened days)
**Library is every Wednesday. Please send your child's book back to school by Tuesday each week
Nutcracker
Looking ahead on your calendars at this busy time of year, I wanted to make sure that you all mark your calendars for Wednesday, December 14th at 9:15 a.m.-- our performance of The Nutcracker. This is an annual kindergarten favorite. If you are heading out of town that week and your child won't be at school on the 14th, please let me know so that I can plan parts accordingly.
Reminders
**P.E. is every Monday-- please send your children in shoes & clothes appropriate for fitness. (PE is canceled this week due to the shortened days)
**Library is every Wednesday. Please send your child's book back to school by Tuesday each week
**Grasshopper t-shirt days are every Friday.
This Week's Helpers & Activities:
Monday: Dismissal @ 1:15
Tuesday: Cornerstone (Shereen), No centers, dismissal @ 1:15
Wednesday: Library (Bora & Katy), dismissal @ 1:15
Thursday: Clay (Marina, Yufi, Mike M., Ruby), No centers, dismissal @ 1:15
Friday: Friendship Feast @ 10:00, no centers, dismissal @ 1:15
Upcoming Events
1/14-11/17: Parent-Teacher Conferences continue
Friday, 11/18: Friendship Feast @ 10:00
11/21-11/25: Thanksgiving Break
Wednesday, 12/14: Nutcracker Performance @ 9:15
12/19-1/2: Winter Break
