September 5, 2008

September 5, 2008

Dear Families,

This week we continued to review the school and classroom rules and procedures. We also continued to read books about the beginning of school. We worked on colors with the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear. We hope your child will share their similar book with you. We read a big book called All About You, and we learned more about each other. We talked about families and body graphed how many people were in our families. Patterning with our bodies was a fun activity we tried this week. An example was standing, sitting, standing, sitting. The students were getting really good at figuring out the patterns. In reading we worked with the letter Oo.

It was nice seeing so many families at the Open House on Thursday. We now have faces to put with names as children tell us about their families. The pictures that were hanging in the hallway will be coming home in the near future.

Breakfast begins at 8:00. Children eating breakfast should not come into the school until 8:00. Other students may come in at 8:10. If your child arrives too early, we will send him/her out to the playground.

We will begin sharing next week with the topic “My favorite _____________.” This item can be a book, food, animal, toy, etc. Each week we will have a specific topic. A list of September topics will be at the end of the newsletter. (Please keep the sharing portion of the newsletter so that you can refer to the sharing list each week.) Your child needs to be able to tell about the sharing item in front of the class. Your child is assigned a sharing day. The kindergartners need to remember to bring their sharing on their assigned day. If a child forgets the sharing item, he/she may not bring it another day. If your kindergartner is gone on their sharing day, then he/she needs to bring their sharing item on the day they come back to school.

During the month of September the entire elementary is working on the characteristics self control and service. We will be demonstrating self control in different situations and praising those that show self control during the day. Perhaps you would like to work on self control at home!

We hope that your child is enjoying school! Have a super weekend!! Mrs. Owens, Ms. Howard, Mrs. Pokorny, Mr. Zabel, Mr. Degner, and Mrs. Herink




__________________________’s sharing day is __________________.

September Sharing
September 8 - 12: “My favorite _____________.” This could be a favorite book, food, animal, toy, etc.

September 15 - 19: Something in a “secret sack” from your favorite season that we have to guess using the child’s clues.

September 22 - 26: An item that begins with the letter Tt

September 29 - October 3: An item that begins with the letter Pp