Newsletter: Week 6

Friday, October 2, 2009
Miss Wagenaar
Reminders/Notices:
•Reminder: This upcoming week is Goal Setting Conferences. Please note that each day is early dismissal (1:20). Also, please be punctual for your conference time as most conferences are booked back-to-back and I want to respect everyone’s assigned time.
•Friday will be our first classroom field trip, a walking trip to Full Circle Farms. We need four parent chaperones to join us, and thus far I have only heard from two. I will send a follow-up email this week to ensure we have sufficient help. Also, please remember that the cost for the field trip is $7 per student.
•Picture day is on Tuesday. Please send your photo order envelope (which will be sent home on Monday) with your child on Tuesday if you chose to order a picture package.

This Week:
Our Blue Day award winner was Annette Kim. She has demonstrated our Lifeskill of “Respect” this month. During the assembly, we were recognized for being the Kindergarten class who walked the most laps at the Walk-A-Thon.
In Reader’s Workshop time, we continued practicing taking turns and holding the book with our partner.
In Writer’s Workshop we began using our Sourcebook folder, including our cover and two pockets (one for “All Done” work and another for work with which you are “Still Working”)
We read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Several times and completed an ordering activity as well as a page for our class book “Room 4, Room 4, What Do You See?”
We sorted, tasted, graphed, and labeled the parts of an apple. We also baked and tasted Apple Muffins – they were delicious.
We were introduced to our newest FOSS science animal, snails. Students had an opportunity to handle the snails and then we held a couple of snail races that the children drew afterwards.
In Math, we are concluded our unit focusing on sorting by sorting the same objects in different ways. Students have learned to sort by color, shape, size, and other noticeable attributes.

Next Week:
We will be having Hearing Screening on Tuesday, this routine screening happens in Kindergarten, 2nd and 5th grade
We will be talking about emotions and writing a story about a time that we were sad, in sunsequent weeks we will write about happy and scared stories as well.
We will conclude our unit of study about Snails, by comparing our land snails with aquatic snails.
We will be reading and completing literacy and art activities surrounding Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.


Questions to ask your child
1.Tell me the parts of an apple (stem, leaf, meat, skin, seeds)
2.Ask you child to tell a story about a time that they were sad.
3.Ask your child to sort household items.
4.What are the characters/animals in Brown Bear? (brown bear, red bird, yellow duck, blue horse, green frog, purple cat, black sheep, white dog)