Last Few Weeks of School

5/16/13 Thursday. 9:30-12:00pm. Field trip to Swinging Bridge in American Fork Canyon. All normal half-day Kindergarten students will need to come at 9:30am and be picked up at 12:00. Extended day students will have class from 12:00-3:00pm. All students will also need to pack a sack lunch and wear white shirts navy bottoms (performance dress). If you want to volunteer, AM please contact Jamie Roller and PM please contact Meleana Fonimoana. I am not in charge of volunteers.

5/23/13 Thursday. Graduation. AM 10:00-10:40, PM 2:00-2:40. It is a normal school day, wearing white tops and navy blue performance dress. We invite you to come watch your child perform and receive their Kindergarten Diploma. It will be located in the gym. After our program, we will return to our class for a short video slideshow and cookies and juice. If you would NOT like your child to have their pictures in our slideshow, please contact me as soon as you can so I can remove their pictures. After the cookies and juice you may take your child home.

5/24/13 Dance Festival. 11:00-12:15. ALL kindergartners arrive at 10:30am. Please have your kindergarten student report to Mrs. Anglesey's class at 10:30am wearing Khaki bottoms and white or yellow tops. We will be performing the chicken dance.

5/28/13 Last Day of Chinese. This will be our last day of Chinese. AM will be 10:05-10:25am. PM will be 1:45-2:05pm. We will also be having a "Teddy Bear Picnic" this day. Please send your child to school with a snack and their favorite stuffed animal that can fit in their backpack.

5/29/13 Field Day. All Kindergartners will come at 8:00am-11:00am. There will be extended-day that day. We will need more parent volunteers, please contact my parent coordinators. 

5/30/13 Last day of Kindergarten. ALL Kindergartners will come to school at 8:00-10:15am. We will all come to school this last day together.

April Supplies

Please bring April supplies by March 29th (before spring break)

AM April Supply List

PM April Supply List

Each class will need:

Lima beans	21
Grass or raddish seeds	1 snack bag full
Ziploc Sandwich bags	25 ct
Potting soil	1 bag
White plastic cups	20 cups
Paper towels	1 roll

Pajama Day/ Comfy Clothes Day March 29th

Parents,

Your kids have done it again and earned another class reward. This time they requested a pajama day (they are getting pretty creative). I've got it approved from the front office for March 29th (that's the Friday before spring break). I know some of your kids might not want to wear their jammies to school so they may wear "comfy clothes" like sweat pants or their favorite shirt or something. Just make sure that they are modest and coordinate with the weather, we go outside for recess everyday.

Also a side note, now that the weather is getting warmer, please send shorts/leggings under girl's skirts/dresses. Kindergarten students are still pretty innocent about that stuff but we play on the playground with older kids sometimes. 

Thanks!

Mrs. Anglesey

Plants Week 1

Online Games and Resources Plants Week 1

This Week's Reader

Sight Word Flash Cards

I've updated the links so that you should be able to view them now.

Feb 19- March 8th

For the next three weeks we will begin our Weather Unit. We will be learning the words this, do, and, & what. We will be talking about Ee, Bb, & Ii. The middle e sound and i sound are super tricky for Kindergarten students to hear when sounding out words, please help them recognize the difference as we will be working on it in class. Recognizing the difference between lowercase b and lowercase d also seems to be tricky as well. We will also be talking about different seasons and how weather affects us. We are also starting our 3D shapes unit!

SEPs will be on Feb 28th. Feb 28th is a short day (like a Friday schedule). SEPs will only be 5 minutes long. I will give you a summary sheet and some comments.  If you would like an email with this information instead, please email me and we can have an email conference. If you would like to meet, please sign up for an SEP time on the google doc below.


SEP Schedule

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays to celebrate at school. I wanted to let you know ahead of time what we do in class and some of my thoughts about the holiday.

Each students will get a bag to decorate in class for their valentines. These bags have handles on them and are much easier to carry than a shoe box or lunch bag.  

This may be a student's first experience with Valentine's Day in a school setting and you will learn that every teacher may be different. It's been my experience that all children in this age group love to participate in giving everyone in our class valentines. In order to avoid hurting feelings or create bad experiences, please give each child the same valentine. If your child wants to do something special for a best friend that extends beyond a valentine in class, please make a special time for them to get together outside of school or schedule a play date. I love to facilitate play dates among my students. AM has 23 total and PM has 18 total (includes students and teachers).

In my class, I like to focus more on the act of friendship, giving, and thanking. Our party usually consists of small academic valentine activities while small groups take turns putting their valentines in everyone's bags. At the end of the day, we will sit in a large circle and empty our bags. I ask students to try to read the names and say thank you to those who have given their token of friendship. It is my hope that everyone will get the same amount of Valentines and have an enjoyable experience. 

If you are planning to give a small food treat, they must be store bought. Your child is also welcome to make their own valentine's cards. Please keep them somewhat simple and inexpensive. Here is a website with some fun ideas https://pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=valentines+for+kids if you choose to go that route. The cards from a grocery or craft store are just fine too. 

While researching how to describe Valentine's day from various parenting websites, I found this very enlightening and wanted to share it.

"Remember as parents, we transmit values to our children through our behavior. If we celebrate Valentine's Day by exchanging expensive gifts, its likely that our children will want to do the same. It's never to early to help children express love and friendship in ways that transcend materialism. Because young children are concrete thinkers, it's hard for them to understand a concept that can't be represented by objects. But by watching you give gifts of kindness, time, compassion, respect, and thoughtfulness to the people you love-- not just on holidays but throughout the year-- they will learn that "I love you" means so much more than three words inscribed on a candy heart."--- familyeducation.com 

I am so excited to celebrate Valentine's Day with your children this year. If you have any questions about Valentine's Day, please do not hesitate to email me.

Mrs. Anglesey

February!!!!

February is one of our biggest months!

February 5th we will be celebrating our 100th day of school. As a kindergarten, we think it is fun to dress up like a 100 year old. Your students are welcome to participate by dressing up like a 100 year old person. We will be celebrating throughout the day during our math and reading lessons as well as our centers.

February 7th will be our field trip to the Gateway Children's Museum. Please send your child to school at 8am and pick up at 12:30pm. This is for both morning AND afternoon students. If you are volunteering, make sure you contact my parent coordinators and arrive at school at 8:30am for bus loading. We ask that if you are volunteering, please do not bring little ones. Mrs. Sheldrake's extended day class will still be held that day.

February 14th will be our Valentine's Day celebration. If your child is passing out Valentine's, please only write his/her name on the Valentine in the "FROM" section. Please do not write names of the students in the class on the Valentine's--in the past, this has proven too hard and time consuming when passing out. In the AM we have 20 students and 3 teachers (me and our aides). In the PM we have 16 students and 2 teachers (me and our aide).

Homework

It looks as though the homework was sent back from the copiers wrong. Please finish the worksheets that are there and ignore the one that is not.

Classroom Volunteers

Dear Parents,

Welcome back to our first full week of school. For the rest of the school year we will be doing centers a little bit differently and I need your help. When you come in, you will have a table to work with and an activity. I'll also need help putting papers and books into backpacks. 

Please sign up on this Google doc for classroom volunteers, I know that sometimes schedules change so I want you to have access of when you volunteer. If you want to volunteer more that once a month that is great, once every few months, when you have time, etc. Please sign up! If you'd like a set schedule (i.e. first Monday each month) sign up for all the days. There can be up to 2 volunteers each day. We wont be having any volunteers on Friday, unless we decide to do a project of some kind. We will use this sign up instead of the google calendar.

You will also be required to sign in at the front desk and get a name tag. We've been ask to send you back to the office if you haven't checked in. 

Here is the link,

AM Volunteer Calendar

PM Volunteer Calendar

Michelle

Just a couple of things..

Tomorrow is our Grinch play! We have been working diligently to make this a special treat for you. After our play, we ask that you come back to our class for a brief moment so your child can give them your Christmas gift.

In the PM class, we ask that parents help their child bring back their chair and then get their Christmas gift.

AM class- 8:00-8:30ish
PM class- 1:00- 1:30ish

In response to the even that happened in Connecticut on Friday, I won't be discussing it in class.We do have protocols in place in case something of that nature occurs.  I want you to know how much I care for your children and how much I love them.

 At the beginning of the new year, we will be starting a new volunteer calendar where I will ask everyone to sign up on a new google doc. Each month I'll make sure our parent coordinators email to remind you. I do ask that each of you make sure your background checks are up to date so that we have the safest environment (I think the school has information about this). I'll also be giving parents more responsibility in the classroom (putting away take home library books in their backpacks and teaching a center).

Thank you for all you do!
I'll see you tomorrow!

Grinch Play

AM Grinch Play script

PM Grinch Play script

Our Party will follow our performance. We have parent volunteers that have signed up. Please contact our parent coordinators for more information.

Update On Our Classroom

Dear Parents,

As a kindergarten team, we hope that all students know their letter names and sounds. We also hope that all students can recognize numbers 1-30. All students should also recognize the words: I, can, we, the, like, a, see, & go.

This week we are finishing up learning about our seven continents with Australia & Antarctica. We have been learning our continent song, here are the lyrics:

We have seven continents in our world, seven continents in our world,
North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia,
Don't forget Australia and Antartica too!

Last week we also learned our Bubble Gum song which goes like this,

I put a penny in the gum slot,
I watched the gum roll dooowwwn,
I get the gum and you get the wrapper,
'Cause I put the penny in the gum slot.

Then we choose a letter and replace the beginning sound which each sound, for example: Mi Mut ma menny min ma mum mlot, mi matched ma mum moll mooowwwn. Its a fun song to emphasis phonemic awareness.

This week and next week we will be talking about Thanksgiving and other things we are thankful for.
Next week, we will not have school 21st, 22nd. & 23rd.

We will not be needing classroom Volunteers the month of December because we will be practicing for the annual Grinch play that we will be preforming December 18th during the school day. We will commence classroom volunteers in January.
Thanks!
Michelle Anglesey

Vision Screening This Week

Dear Parents,

This week Nov. 12-16 we are vision screening K-3rd grade.

Please have your child bring their glasses if they wear them.

If you choose not to have your child screened, please send an email tojevans@renacademy.org by Sunday Nov. 11. A form will also need to be signed.

Thanks,

Michelle Anglesey

Report Card Reminder

Dear Parents,

Report cards will be mailed to your house within the next couple of weeks. I would like to take a moment to help you understand your Kindergartners report card. In Kindergarten, our grades our skills based. This means we have a set of skills that we would like each child to master each term and/or for the year. Your child will have either a NH (needs help) P (Progressing) M (Master) or - (not taught). There are several skills that need additional cognitive and physical development before we teach it to the class. Other skills are on going or build on each other. Knowing our alphabet letters/sounds and numbers are skills we expect each child to have mastered by the end of the year. We introduce a certain number of sight words each term. If your child is successful in recognizing these words, your child will get a master and etc.

If your child has received a NH in an area, that means they need additional help from you at home. If your child has received a P, that means your child is progressing and they are almost to a master and they are working hard, they may still need help from you at home. If your child has received a letter M, that means your child has mastered the skill for this term. Your child may received a M one term and the next a P. Each term, our skills in each category may change; we build upon, challenge, and deepen our knowledge. 

If you have any questions or concerns, please email me. Also, we are NOT using One Point this term so your student's grades are NOT reflective of your child's work.

Thanks!

Mrs. Anglesey

Donations, Pictures, Field Trip, Party and More!

This week and next week are a BIG one, I hope all of you had a chance to check your child's backpack for HW last night. If you haven't please look for picture day info (which is TOMORROW) AND our class field trip permission slip. Permission slips MUST be returned this week. I would keep the top half for info for you guys and return the bottom half for me. Those parents who brought the whole paper in, I'll return the top paper back.

Next Week:
10/30- Field Trip to Pumpkinland, come to school at 9:15am pick up at 12:30pm, wear white top and navy blue bottoms, and bring a sack lunch,
10/31- Our class part will be at 10:20am-11:00am for AM class and 2:20pm-3:00pm for PM Class. Below are links to donations for our classes. PLEASE make sure your child knows this is for our party and wont actually be using the items that day, if you have them bring them to class.

AM Donation Supply List

PM Donation Suppy List November

Thanks for everyone who has donated items!

Every Day Hero

Parents,

Since we had some later additions to our classes, please click on the link below to see what date your child will be the everyday hero. If you haven't signed up, please do so. Thanks!

Be on the look out next week for our field trip permission slip AND picture day information
AM Everyday Hero Calendar
PM Everyday Hero Calendar

Week Oct 16-19

Dear Parents,

Our copiers are having problems the past couple of days and we will not be able to get the homework copied for this week. If you have access to a printer, please print the homework out this week. You could even sign first page if you can do some of it on your computer. (Check your email for the hw document)

Also, I'm not sure how many families are aware of the $40 Kindergarten field trip donation that we ask parents to donate at the beginning of the year. Our field trips are only based on how many field trip donations are donated to the front office. If you haven't paid the donation and are able to do so, please see the front office as quickly as possible so we are approved and able to go on field trips this year.

Thanks again,

Mrs. Anglesey

Scholastic Book Club Orders

Hey parents,

This weekend while you are on Fall Break, don't forget to look at our scholastic book clubs and order on-line. The due date for this month's book orders is Oct 25th! You don't need to wait till I send out the catalogs, you are ALWAYS welcome to order on your own each month (I'll still get them out...).

Here is the link, https://orders.scholastic.com/J63NT  , or you can click on the banner to our right. My code is J63NT .

Have a great Fall Break.

Mrs. Anglesey

Extended-day on OCT 30th - YES

Extended-day for our field trip day will still be held. After our field trip, Mrs. Sheldrake will hold her extended-day class as usual and you may pick your child up at 3:00pm.

Field Trip, Fall Break, and This Week!

Parents,

We finally have a day and time for our field trip! Hurray!!! (We are still waiting for principal approval, but its now more than tentative) Thanks for being so patient. We will be going to Pumpkinland down near Lindon at Vineyard Gardens on OCTOBER 30th. We will be meeting here in our classrooms at 9:15am and leaving promptly at 9:30am. As discussed, we will be gone for our school time and will return around 12:30pm. We will need a sack lunch too. There will be some other details on the permission form, look out for the permission slip to come home soon.

Fall Break is Thursday Oct 11- Monday 15th. Have a great weekend and we will see you on Tuesday the 16th!

This week and beginning of next, we are introducing units about farms and friends. We will be making quite the farm on our display board and talking about different animals we might see on a farm as well as fall seasonal things (like falling leaves). We are focusing on the word friend and like. We are blending short a words with the letter s and continuing working on numbers 0-30.

Thanks for all your work!

P>S> I added some stuff on treasures online if you remember how to get on there :) Instructions and screen shots coming soon.