Newsletter for the week of September 11th, 2009

Dear Families,

Miss Sizemore is doing a great job teaching the children.  She is now teaching full time and has jumped in with great enthusiasm! 

This week, the children have been reading the Big Book titled “Cookie’s Week”.  The story is about a cat who gets into all kinds of mischief.  Tuesday, the children took a picture walk through the story and then listened as it was read aloud to them.  Wednesday, they practiced echo reading the story back to Miss Sizemore.  Thursday, the children looked for the days of the week in the story. 

The children also started a new Predictable Chart.  It is titled, “If I had a Pet…” and the children had to include things they would need to do if they had a pet.

This week in Open Court (our new Phonemic Awareness kit) we reviewed the letters K, L, M, and N.  We also read “Go Play!” (a decodable book). 

We are also reading our way through the Magic Tree House series and have finished 2 books: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Hide Tide in Hawaii.  On Tuesday, I received notification from DonorsChoose.org that we received funding for a grant proposal I wrote to receive most of the 41 titles in the series.  We have the Washington Township Schools Foundation to thank along with Lucia (my mom), and the Johnson family from (Irvine, CA).  I’ve also posted another grant called “Books without a Home!” so we’re hoping to get that one funded as well! 

During Math Work Stations this week, all the materials were switched out for materials that focus on Sorting.  The children rotate each day to one station and the materials remain in each tub until the children have visited each one at least one time.  A BIG Kindergarten thank you to Grace and Ella’s mom’s for helping in our classroom on Thursday!  You helped to make our math lesson run very smoothly!  Some children practiced covering numbers on a chart of 30 numbers, others played Number Bingo, and others rolled a large die and counted cubes! 

Thanks for another great week!  Please check out the Specials Schedule on the back of this newsletter.  Be sure to check your snack calendar as well! 

Kristen Poindexter

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
September 14th-Yellow Day	September 15th- Green Day	September 16th- Blue Day	September 17th- Red Day	September 18th- Orange Day
September 21st- Yellow Day	September 22nd- Green Day	September 23rd- Blue Day	September 24th- Red Day	September 25th- Orange Day
September 28th- Yellow Day	September 29th- Green Day	September 30th- Blue Day	October 1st -Red Day	October 2nd- Orange Day

 

 

 

Snack Calendar for September:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Ryan-14th	Brigid-15th	Fernando M 16th	Ashlay-17th	Ben-18th
Madeline-21st	Ka-22nd	Elias-23rd	Ella-24th	Jillian-25th
Lindsey-28th	Fiona-29th	Amarrion-30th

 When sending in snacks, please be sure to include enough for 24 students.  We prefer healthy snacks such as fresh fruit, vanilla wafers, goldfish crackers, etc.  You are more than welcome to send them in ahead of time if you would like to do that.  We try very hard to schedule a child on the closest day to their birthday so that they can bring a special snack if they would like to do that. Please contact me if you have any  questions! :)