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