Friday Note

Thursday Note: April 29, 2016

NO SCHOOL TOMORROW FOR KINDERGARTNERS!

Events of the Week: This week we continued our author study on Laura Numeroff. 

• Language Workshop: We read more “If You Give” books, including If You Give a Pig a Party, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, and If You Take a Mouse to School.  We continued to discuss story elements, cause and effect, and retelling events in order.  Our class focused on If You Give a Pig a Pancake.  We wrote about the book and did a fun art project.  Be sure to check these out in our hallway! 
• Writing Workshop: We continued our series of events writing.  We wrote about getting ready to come to school each day.  First, the students helped me to write about how I get ready and come to school.  Then, the students each wrote about how they each get ready in the mornings.  We are focusing on putting the events in the correct order and making sure our writing makes sense.  
• Reading Workshop: Students are working daily in Literacy Centers.  While students are working independently, I am having each student read to me independently to determine their end of year reading level. 
• Word Study: This week we focused on suffixes.  We learned about how these can change the meaning of a word.  We added added –s, -ed-, and –ing to the ending of words. 
• Math: We continued our unit on solid figures (cylinder, cone, cube, and sphere).  We were able to analyze, compare, and compose shapes. The students enjoyed experimenting with solid shapes to determine which ones can stack, slide, and roll.    

Important Dates:

o   April 29:  NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS! (K screening)

o   May 4:  Kindergarten Field Trip (J.R. Martin Park in Republic then to the Dickerson Park Zoo) 

o   May 17: Last Day of School (Dismiss at 11:00) 

Book Bags: Thank you so much for reading with your child. I will not be sending book bags home. If your child has any classroom books at home please return them next week. I will be starting my classroom inventory.

Kindergarten Field Trip

The kindergarten field trip will be next Wednesday, May 4^th.  We will travel to J.R. Martin Park in Republic to play and eat lunch before heading to the Dickerson Park Zoo. 

Reading Journey

Our final reading journey will end May 12^th.  Please remember your child must complete fifteen reading activities to “travel” to a summer destination during the read-a-thon on May 13^th.

Summer Activities… Over the next couple of weeks, we have several fun outdoor activities planned for the kindergartners.  It would be a good idea to send your child in tennis shoes each day.     

Sight Words—Keep practicing!

I   is   like   see   my   a   the   be   have   it   he   she   to   can   with   go   we   me   you   and   are   they   in   of   at   do   not   for   am   this   so   no   his  was

*This is the entire list.  We will not be learning any more new words.  We will begin assessing over these words soon.

Awards Assembly

Please join us for our Year End Awards Assemblies on May 16 in the South Gym (5-8 side)!

The Kindergarten & 1^st Grade assembly will be held at 8:30 followed by 2^nd-4^th Grade at 10:00

NOTE:  Secret letters will be mailed out to the parents of award recipients

Next Week:

± We will finish up our author study on Laura Numeroff.

± We will finish up our unit on sequence writing.

± We will review all math concepts previously taught.

± We will practice reading and writing all 34 sight words.

Have a great weekend!!

Mrs. Wenger

Friday Note

Thursday Note: April 21, 2016

No School Tomorrow!

Thank you for coming to our conference this week! I enjoyed visiting with each of you.

Events of the Week: This week we started an Author Study on Laura Numeroff. 

• Language Workshop: We read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie the first part of the week and identified the characters and setting.  We also practiced retelling the story.  We finished off the week reading If You Give a Dog a Donut and If You Give a Moose a Muffin. The students enjoyed comparing the stories.

·          Writing Workshop: We introduced series of events writing.  We spent the week sequencing events in the right order and discussing that in order for our writing to make sense it has to be written in the correct order. 

         

• Reading Workshop: Students are working daily in Literacy Centers.  While students are working independently, I am beginning to call each student up to read with them independently to determine their end of year reading level. 

                                                 

• Word Study: We spent the week building sight words with magnetic letters and writing them.  We are working very hard on making our words easy to read and writing them correctly in the lines. 

                      

• Math: We began a unit on solid figures (cylinder, cone, cube, and sphere).  The students enjoyed learning about these new shapes and finding them in our classroom. 

Important Dates:

o   April 27:  Field Trip Form and Money Due

o   April 29:  NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS! (K screening)

o   May 4:  Kindergarten Field Trip (J.R. Martin Park in Republic then to the Dickerson Park Zoo)

May 17^th: Last Day of School (Dismiss at 11:00)            

Picture Information

Spring Pictures:  If you still have your child’s spring pictures please return them or pay for them by Thursday, April 28^th. 

Reading Journey

Our final reading journey will end May 12^th.  Please remember your child must complete fifteen reading activities to “travel” to a summer destination during the read-a-thon on May 13^th.

Sight Words—Keep practicing!

I   is   like   see   my   a   the   be   have   it   he  

she   to   can   with   go   we   me   you 

 and   are   they   in   of   at   do 

 not   for   am   this   his

We Need Your Help!

Kindergarten screening for next year’s kindergartners will be held on April 28^th and April 29^th.  If you know someone who will have a child in kindergarten next school year, please remind them to call the school to schedule an appointment for Kindergarten Screening (743-4810).  All children will need to have the following documentation:

• Birth Certificate
• Shot Record
• Proof of Residency (if NOT enrolled in Parents as Teachers)

Next Week:

± We will continue our author study on Laura Numeroff.

± In math we will continue learning about solid figures.

± We will continue working on our writing.

± During word study we will learn about suffixes.

± Our sight words will be “no” and “so”.  These are our last sight words for the year! 

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Wenger 

Friday Note

Friday Note: April 15, 2016

Events of the Week: This week our unit was on animals and their babies.  We talked about various animal mommies and their babies and discussed ways in which animal parents care for their young- just like our mommies and daddies care for us!

• Language Workshop: We read several books about animals and their young.  We completed a book Mother, Mother Can you Find Me? to put in our Reading Boxes for independent reading later.
• Writing Workshop: We reviewed opinion writing.  Our writing this week was on our favorite animal. We began by doing a pre-writing activity where each child lists his/her opinion and then gives two reasons for this opinion.  From there, we transferred this writing to another paper for a final draft. 
• Word Study: We introduced antonyms (opposites).  Most kindergarten students have a firm grasp of this concept already, but it was fun to play games with opposites and talk about sets of opposites that we hadn’t thought about before.
• Math: We finished a unit on decomposing numbers 11-19.  Each day we practiced breaking the numbers down into a set of 10 and left over ones.

Important Dates:

o   April 15, 18-21:  Buy 1 Get 1 Free Book Fair

o   April 18-19:  Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences

o   April 22:  NO SCHOOL!

o   April 27:  Field Trip Form and Money Due

o   April 29:  NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS!

o   May 4:  Kindergarten Field Trip

                                  

Kindergarten Field Trip

The kindergarten field trip will be Wednesday, May 4^th.  We will travel to J.R. Martin Park in Republic to play and eat lunch before heading to the Dickerson Park Zoo. 

A permission slip was sent home last week.  Please return these as soon as possible.

Parent Teacher Conferences

Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held next week.  You will find the schedule in your child’s folder.  If you did not sign-up for a time either online or in writing, I chose a time for you.  I hope to see everyone there.

The Character Word for April is:

Self-Control—Behaving appropriately

We Need Your Help!

Kindergarten screening for next year’s kindergartners will be held on April 28^th and 29^th.  If you know someone who will have a child in kindergarten next school year, please remind them to call the school to schedule an appointment for Kindergarten Screening (743-4810).  All children will need to have the following documentation:

• Birth Certificate
• Social Security Card
• Shot Record
• Proof of Residency (if NOT enrolled in Parents as Teachers)

   

Sight Words—Keep practicing!

I   is   like   see   my   a   the   be   have   it   he   she   to   can   with   go   we   me   you   and   are   they   in   of   at   do   not   for  am   this   was

Next Week:

±  We will begin an author study unit on Laura Numeroff.

±  We will review concepts previously taught in math and reassess those areas that your child has not scored proficient.

±  We will be working on building and writing sight words.

±  Our sight words will be “his”.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Wenger

Friday Note

Friday Note: April 8, 2016

Art Night is held in the 5-8 portion of the Elemiddle TONIGHT from 5:30pm-8:30pm! For $10 students can participate in all activities! We will be making African inspired drums, rattles, mask, tie dye ts and even clay!

Events of the Week: Our theme was plants. We planted flowers and vegetables in our classroom garden! 

• Language Workshop: We continued reading books about plants.  We made our own plant artwork and labeled their parts and needs.
• Writing Workshop: We are working on writing complete sentences that describe or tell, instead of “I like…” sentences.  Continue encouraging your child to write at home! 
• Word Study: We did a mini PBL (Project Based Learning) lesson that had to do with building something out of boxes.  We read one book a day that had something to do with constructing, using your imagination, creating ideas, etc.  After each book we would discuss as a class how we could make a self-to-text connection.  Students would work in groups throughout the week brainstorming ideas, making a supply list, and coming up with a plan with their group members.  On Friday I surprised students by informing them we actually get to put all their ideas to the test.  Each group made something out of various boxes by using the plans they had been working on all week.  I am so proud of how hard and well they worked together.  They loved all of the hands on learning and learned so much from one another.   
• Math: We began a unit on decomposing numbers 11-19.  Each day we practiced breaking the numbers down into a set of 10 and left over ones. 

Important Dates:

o   April 8:  Art Night 5:30-8:30

o   April 14:  Cox CARE Mobile

o   April 14:  Strike Out Childhood Cancer at the HS ball fields (Fundraiser for St. Jude’s)

o   April 15, 18-21:  Buy 1 Get 1 Free Book Fair

o   April 18-19:  Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences

o   April 22:  NO SCHOOL!

o   April 27:  Field Trip Form and Money Due (more details coming soon)

o   April 29:  NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS!

o   May 4:  Kindergarten Field Trip

                                  

Kindergarten Field Trip

The kindergarten field trip will be Wednesday, May 4^th.  We will travel to J.R. Martin Park in Republic to play and eat lunch before heading to the Dickerson Park Zoo. 

Parent Teacher Conferences

Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held April 18^th and 19^th from 4-7:30pm.  You may sign up online at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0d4aacae2ba6f58-parentteacher/

The Character Word for April is:

Self-Control—Behaving appropriately

We Need Your Help!

Kindergarten screening for next year’s kindergartners will be held on April 28^th and 29th.  If you know someone who will have a child in kindergarten next school year, please remind them to call the school to schedule an appointment for Kindergarten Screening (743-4810).  All children will need to have the following documentation:

·        Birth Certificate

·        Social Security Card

·        Shot Record

Proof of Residency (if NOT enrolled in Parents as Teachers)

Calling all interested volunteers,

Its nearly Book Fair Time!!! This is our Buy One/Get One event held in the library! The dates are: from set up on Thursday – April 14^th, thru take down on Thursday, April 21^st.  We're using VolunteerSpot, to help us organize our schedule of volunteers.  Please select the Scholastic Book Fair link below to learn more and sign up. Thank you  for your help!

To view the Activity Sign-up(s), please click the link(s) below:
Scholastic Book Fair, Spring 2016

Next Week:

± We will begin a unit over animal mothers and their babies.

± We will continue our unit over decomposing numbers 11-19.

± We will talk about opposites/antonyms.

± Our sight word will be “this.”

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Wenger

Parent Teacher Conferences

If you have not already signed up please click on the link to sign up.
Parent Teacher conferences will be held Monday April 18th and Tuesday April 19th from 4-7:30pm.  

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0d4aacae2ba6f58-parentteacher

I look forward to meeting with you!

Friday Note

Friday Note - April 1, 2016

                                                                                                                                                                                            

Events of the Week: Our theme was plants.

                                                                                                                                        

Language Workshop: We read different books about plants and talked about what plants need to grow. We also discussed the parts of a plant.

Writing Workshop: We practiced writing sentences about spring. I displayed spring pictures for the students to look at. They then practiced writing about different things they saw in the pictures.

                                       

Reading Workshop: Students are working daily in Literacy Centers.  While students are working independently, I am meeting with small groups to focus on different reading skills.  During independent reading time, students are practicing the skills they are learning during small groups and using their reading strategies.  I hope that you are able to see them using these reading strategies when they are reading with you at home.

                                                  

Word Study: Each day we practiced building and spelling simple words.  We practiced changing the beginning, middle, and ending sounds to make new words.  

                            

Math: We finished our unit called Composing Numbers 11 to 19.  For each number, we are putting that many counters in ten frames.  Then we are figuring out the parts that make up each number (such as one set of 10 plus 5 leftover ones equal 15). 

Important Dates:

o   April 4:  Basketball Presentation at the HS gym – 7:00 p.m. – All are welcome!

o   April 5:  Spring Pictures

o   April 8:  Art Night 5:30-8:30

o   April 14:  Cox CARE Mobile

o   April 14:  Strike Out Childhood Cancer at the HS ball fields (Fundraiser for St. Jude’s)

o   April 15, 18-21:  Buy 1 Get 1 Free Book Fair

o   April 18-19:  Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences

o   April 22:  NO SCHOOL!

o   April 27:  Field Trip Form and Money Due (more details coming soon)

o   April 29:  NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS!

o   May 4:  Kindergarten Field Trip

                                  

The kindergarten teachers will be assisting with Kindergarten Screening on Friday, April 29^th.  Therefore, there will be NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS ONLY on that day.  Thank you for your understanding.

               

URGENT! Art Night Volunteers Needed!

If you can volunteer for even an hour please fill out the form or link and let me know. We need VOLUNTEERS for this event. 
https://docs.google.com/…/1BrAfsD_YwU70HsqJndb7M5z…/viewform

Sight Words—Keep practicing!

I   is   like   see   my   a   the   be   have   it   he   she   to

can   with   go   we   me   you   and   are   they   in   of   at   do   not   for   at   was

Spring Parent – Teacher Conferences

Please click the link below to sign up for a time.  Thank you!

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0d4aacae2ba6f58-parentteacher/

                                         

Summer School

    There is still time to sign up for summer school!  We have a lot of exciting changes this year.  Be sure to sign you child up soon!  You can register your child online at http://goo.gl/forms/hRO5EOyjcq or call the office (743-4810). 

We Need Your Help!

Kindergarten screening for next year’s kindergartners will be held on April 28-29.  If you know someone who will have a child in kindergarten next school year, please remind them to call the school to schedule an appointment for Kindergarten Screening (743-4810).  All children will need to have the following documentation:

• Birth Certificate
• Social Security Card
• Shot Record
• Proof of Residency (if NOT enrolled in Parents as Teachers)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Next Week:

± We will continue learning about plants.

± In math, we will start a unit on decomposing numbers 11 to 19.

± Our sight word will be “at”.

± We will continue to practice building and spelling simple words.

Have a great weekend!

                                      Mrs.Wenger