Scarlet and Gray Newsletter
October 5th to 9th, 2015
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Volume 19, Issue 7
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 had a safety drill (fire drill and reverse evacuation drill). 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, ‘like’ and did rainbow writing of it. We read our poem of the week, ‘Days of the Week’. We heard our letter ‘u’ presentation, felt how it sounds in our mouth and throat, made our ‘u’ books and practiced writing it in the air, on our hand, on the carpet and on our white boards. We learned the difference between a letter, a word and a sentence and then we counted letters and words in our ‘u’ book. We read My Friend Is Sad!, Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct and Time to Say Please all by Mo Willems. We illustrated our class version of A, My Name is Alice, We read Do Unto Otters. We had recess. We read the first chapter of Poppleton. We visited the first of four new math stations. 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
about his/her science image using shared writing. We did
speedwriting of our popcorn word. We read I Am Invited to
a Party! by Mo Willems. We heard our letter ‘b’
presentation, felt how it sounds in our mouth and throat,
made our ‘b’ books and practiced writing it in the air, on our
hand, on the carpet and on our white boards. We counted
how many letters and words in our book. We read Cat the
Cat, What’s That? by Mo Willems. We had recess. We read
a chapter in Poppleton. We went to the second math
workshop station. The AM class went to library. The PM
class matched rhyming words.
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. We read
Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems. We
heard our ‘r’ 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 ‘r’ books. We read Let’s Say Hi to
Friends Who Fly! by Mo Willems. We had recess. We
finished Poppleton. The AM class did our third math
station, wrote an‘I like’ sentence, and did the
matching rhyming words activity. The PM class had
library.
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 her using
shared writing. We each wrote our own sentence about
him/her. We read I Love My New Toy! by Mo Willems. We
heard our ‘f’ presentation felt how it sounds in our mouth
and throat. We made our ‘f’ books and practiced
writing it in the air, on our hand, on the carpet and on
our white boards. We did shared reading, counted
letters and words in our big book and read What’s Your
Sound, Hound the Hound? We had recess. The morning
class sorted letters, words and sentences. The afternoon
class did the third math station.
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 I Like. We read I Will Surprise My Friend! and Leonardo The Terrible
Monster, both by Mo Willems. We got pointers to keep in our book bin to help us point when we read. The
PM class also got pointers to keep in our book boxes to use at home. The AM class will get theirs on Monday.
We did fitness and had recess. We did our final math station. We had Guidance.
Dear Parents,
Contact Info:
IMPORTANT DATE CHANGE!!! There was a conflict with the Boy Scouts for May
4th so our kindergarten program will be Wednesday, May 11th instead. Please
disregard the information that was shared at curriculum night and mark your
calendars for May 11th, 2016 at 7 p.m.
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
October 21st – Kindergarten Parent-Teacher Conferences (all slots taken)
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.
K-5 Parent-Teacher Conferences (times available)
October 29th – Harvest Parties
October 30th – No School – Conference Comp Day
November 5th - K-5 Parent-Teacher Conferences (times available)
November 9th, 10th and 11th – Newsminutes
November 13th – No School – Teacher Work Day
November 25th to 27th – No School – Thanksgiving
Thanks to our volunteers this week: Mrs. Harden, Mrs. Eskridge, Mrs. Murphy,
Mrs. Raza and Mrs. Nosek.
Have a marvelous weekend!
Go Bucks! Beat Maryland!!
Vianne