Scarlet and Gray Newsletter
November 2nd to 6th, 2015
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Volume 19, Issue 11
Monday
We greeted classmates, said the pledge and our class
promise and did calendar. We sang our ‘Days of the Week’
song and ‘Macarena Months’. We did our ABC chart and
‘Action Alphabet’. Our kindergartner of the week shared
his/her poster and we wrote a sentence about him/her using
shared writing. We learned our new popcorn word, ‘me’ and
did rainbow writing of it. We read our poem of the week,
‘ABC Game’. We graphed which book or series by Mo
Willems was our favorite. We read The Witch Grows Up by
our November author, Norman Bridwell. Our focus this week
is on beginning sounds and we practiced that on our ‘H is for
Halloween’ activity where we identified the two out of three
words that began with the same sound. We read a Leaves
and Little Boo! We had recess. We read the first riddle in
Clifford’s Riddles. We identified and wrote the shape words
for our pattern block shapes (square, triangle, diamond,
trapezoid, rhombus and hexagon). We read The Shape of
Things.
Wednesday
We greeted friends, said the pledge and our class
pledge and did calendar. We counted to 100 by 5’s
and 10’s. We did our ABC chart and ‘Action Alphabet’.
Our kindergartner of the week brought a science image
and something for us to estimate and we wrote two
sentences about him/her using shared writing. We read
A Tiny Family by Mo Norman Bridwell. We did a
beginning sounds activity/song. We did speedwriting of
our popcorn word. We graphed whether we had fun on
the field trip and then began a booklet about things we
saw there. The AM class had library. We tried to hear
and record sounds in a dictation sentence in the
cafeteria. We did shared reading and read Look at This
Tree, Evergreens Are Green and From Acorn to Oak
Tree, three short non-fiction books about trees. We had
recess. We chose a shape to create a picture around
for our class version of The Shape of Things.
Tuesday
We greeted each other,
said the pledge and went
to the pumpkin patch.
Thanks to all of our
parent chaperones! It
was a beautiful day!!
Thursday
We greeted one another, said the pledge and our class
promise and did calendar. We subitized ten frames to
5 and counted backwards from 20. We did our ABC
chart and ‘Action Alphabet’. We wrote the beginning
sounds for the illustrations of items we saw at the
pumpkin patch. We also did an activity where we
identified words that began with the same sound. Our
kindergartner of the week shared something for social
studies and we wrote our final sentence about him/her
using shared writing. We each wrote our own
sentence about him/her. We read Clifford, the Big Red
Dog by Norman Bridwell. We did shared reading. We
had recess. The PM class had library. The AM class
read Roots and It Could Still Be a Tree.
Friday
We greeted each another, said the pledge and our class pledge and did calendar. We
counted on from a mystery numbers. We read our popcorn words, did our ABC chart and
‘Action Alphabet’. We had Family Friday. We highlighted our new popcorn word in, read and
did fitness to Look At Me. We read Clilfford, the Small Red Puppy by Norman Bridwell. We
did shared reading and read Leaf Man. We had fitness and recess. We cut and sorted
treats by comparing amounts.
Dear Parents,
Contact Info:
If you are interested in the latest information on redistricting for
the 2016-17 school year, check out this site:
http://www.dublinschools.net/k8redistricting2015.aspx
Upcoming Dates:
Voicemail:
760-6298
E-MAIL:
letostak_vianne@
dublinschools.net
REMINDERS:
MONDAY:
Homework Due
A DAY: Library Books
Due
FRIDAY:
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Wear Tennis
shoes for
Fitness
Book Pockets
Due
(beginning in
November)
PLEASE REMEMBER
TO STORE LIBRARY
BOOKS AND BOOK
POCKETS IN
BOOKBAGS TO
PREVENT LOSS OR
DAMAGE.
We’re on the Web!
See us at:
www.dublinschools.
net/oldesawmill
November 9th, 10th and 11th – Newsminutes- email reminders were emailed.
November 13th – No School – Teacher Work Day
November 19th – Kindergarten Feast – see yellow paper that went home this
week.
November 25th to 27th – No School – Thanksgiving
Thanks to our volunteers this week: Mrs. Bonnette, Mrs. Gilliam, Mrs. Raza, Mrs.
White and Mr Abdi. Thanks to our field trip chaperones: Dr. Passias, Mrs.
Smialek, Mr. Toth, Mrs. Chang, Mrs. Bonnette, Mrs. Cornette, Ms. Buttholph,
Mrs. Murphy and Mr. Snider.
Have an amazing weekend!
Go Bucks! Beat Minnesota!!
Vianne