Scarlet and Gray Newsletter
October 12th to 16th, 2015
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Volume 19, Issue 8
Monday
We greeted classmates, sang ‘God Bless America’, said our class promise and did calendar. We did our ABC chart and ‘Action Alphabet’. The morning class visited the Book Fair. We sang our ‘Days of the Week’ song and ‘Macarena Months’. 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, ‘the’ and did rainbow writing of it. We read our poem of the week, ‘Macarena Months’. We heard our letter ‘n’ presentation, felt how it sounds in our mouth and throat, made our ‘n’ books and practiced writing it in the air, on our hand, on the carpet and on our white boards. We learned that upper and lower case letters make the same sound and that upper case letters are used at the beginning of names and sentences. We read Watch Me Throw the Ball! and Knuffle Bunny both by Mo Willems. We read A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus and we did a craft with the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. We had recess. We were introduced to measurement and measurement vocabulary (long, short, tall, heavy and light). Wednesday
We greeted friends, sang ‘God Bless America’, said our
class pledge and did calendar. We did our ABC chart and
‘Action Alphabet’. We counted to 100 by 5’s and 10’s. Our
kindergartner of the week brought something for us to
estimate and we wrote a sentence about her using shared
writing, being sure to begin our sentences and names with
upper case letters. We read Elephant’s Cannot Dance! by
Mo Willems. We heard our ‘s’ presentation, felt how it
sounds in our mouth and throat and practiced writing it in
the air, on our hand, on the carpet and on our white
boards. We made our one ‘s’ books. We wrote all of the
words we could think of in a Word Spree. We read Knuffle
Bunny Free by Mo Willems. We had recess. We read The
Cow Buzzed and reviewed how to protect others from our
coughs and sneezes and that we need to get a ‘squirt’ of
hand sanitizer when we blow our nose. We learned how to
‘tag’ as we count to make sure that we say one number as
we touch one item. The AM class had a fire drill.
Tuesday
We greeted each other, sang ‘God Bless America’, said our
class promise and did calendar. We counted to 100 by ones.
We did our ABC chart and ‘Action Alphabet’. Our kindergartner
of the week brought in something for science. We wrote a
sentence about him/her and another sentence using our
sense of sight with his/her science image using shared
writing. We did speedwriting of our popcorn word. We read
Pigs Make Me Sneeze! by Mo Willems and learned about how
to prevent the spread of germs. We heard our letter ‘e’
presentation, felt how it sounds in our mouth and throat, made
our ‘e’ books and practiced writing it in the air, on our hand, on
the carpet and on our white boards. We read Knuffle Bunny
Too by Mo Willems. The AM class visited stations matching
and sorting upper and lower case letters and graphed whether
they would want to sail across the ocean on a ship (like
Christopher Columbus). The PM class went to the book fair.
We had recess. We played mingle and count in math.
Thursday
We greeted one another, sang ‘God Bless
America’, said 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’. 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 Can I Play Too? by Mo Willems.
We heard our ‘sh’ presentation felt how it sounds in
our mouth and throat. We made our ‘f’ books. We
read Don’t Let the Pigeon Ride the Bus!! by Mo
Willems. We had recess. The AM class did an M &
M upper and lower case letter matching activity.
We read The Button Box about sorting and then
we practiced sorting at least two different
materials in multiple ways.
Friday
We greeted each another, sang ‘God Bless America’, said our class pledge and did calendar. We
counted on from a mystery numbers. We did our ABC chart and ‘Action Alphabet’. We had Family
Friday. We highlighted our new popcorn word in and read It Is Fall. We read I Am Going! by Mo
Willems. The AM class had library. The PM class did stations matching and sorting upper and lower
case letters. We did fitness/math using positional words (above, behind, etc.) and had recess. We
had Guidance.
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
October 21st – Kindergarten Parent-Teacher Conferences
October 26th and 27th - Newsminutes
October 28th – Kindergarten Field Trip – all AM and PM students attend during
AM times for this one day- PM students see email sent out
earlier today regarding important transportation details.
Permission slips will come home next week. If you are
interested in chaperoning, please indicate this on the
permission slip when it comes home.
REMINDERS:
MONDAY:
Homework Due
K-5 Parent-Teacher Conferences
October 29th – Harvest Parties
October 30th – No School – Conference Comp Day
A DAY: Library Books
Due
November 5th - K-5 Parent-Teacher Conferences
FRIDAY:
November 13th – No School – Teacher Work Day
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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
November 25th to 27th – No School – Thanksgiving
Thanks to our volunteers this week: Mrs. Harden, Mrs. Murphy, Mrs. Smialek,
Mrs. Shiomi, Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Shea. Thanks also to our Book Fair
volunteers: Mrs. Smialek, Mrs. Chang, Mrs. Eskridge, Mr Gilliam, Mrs. Harden,
Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Murphy.
Have a spectacular weekend!
Go Bucks! Beat Penn State!!
Vianne