Scarlet and Gray Newsletter
September 28th to October 2nd, 2015
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Volume 19, Issue 6
Monday
We greeted classmates, said the Pledge of Allegiance, our class promise and did calendar. We did our ABC chart and ‘Action Alphabet’. 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, ‘see’ and did rainbow writing of it. We read our poem of the week, ‘Bubble Gum’. We heard our letter ‘j’ presentation, felt how it sounds in our mouth and throat, made our ‘j’ books and practiced writing it in the air, on our hand, on the carpet and on our white boards. We worked on rhyming words as we read Rhyming Dust Bunnies. We read Jessica, Wemberly Worried, Little White Rabbit and Oh! all by Kevin Henkes. Our clothes pin graph was ‘do you like kindergarten?” We had recess. We read the first chapter of Penny and Her Song by Kevin Henkes. We visited the fifth of five math stations. Wednesday
We greeted friends, said the Pledge of Allegiance,
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 him/her using shared writing. We
completed the sentence “I see…” We sequenced the
lines of our poem. We read “I Can’t”, Said the Ant
and identified more rhyming words. We heard our ‘p’
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 ‘p’ books. We had recess. The morning
class had library. The afternoon class watched two
Kevin Henkes stories on video and graphed our
favorite Kevin Henkes book.
Tuesday
We greeted each other, said the Pledge of Allegiance,
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 Rolie. Polie, Olie and
practiced identifying rhyming words from pictures.
We watched Clifford’s Fun with Rhymes. We heard
our letter ‘k’ presentation, felt how it sounds in our
mouth and throat, made our ‘k’ books and practiced
writing it in the air, on our hand, on the carpet and on
our white boards. We read My Garden and Birds by
Kevin Henkes. We played Schooldays Bingo.
Thursday
We greeted one another, read and 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’. We
read our popcorn word wall. 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 In the Tall, Tall Grass and identified rhyming words.
The morning class watched two Kevin Henkes stories on
video and graphed our favorite Kevin Henkes book. The
afternoon class had library. We finished Penny and Her
Song by Kevin Henkes. We read There’s a Bird On Your
Head! by our October author, Mo Willems. We had
recess. We heard our ‘ch’ presentation, felt how it
sounds in our mouth and throat and made our ‘ch’
books.
Friday
We greeted each another, sang ‘God Bless America’ and attended an assembly/video for the Reada-thon kick-off. We did our ABC chart and ‘Action Alphabet’. We had Family Friday. We
highlighted our new popcorn word in and read I Can See. We read, highlighted popcorn words in and
illustrated our poem. We read Today I Will Fly! and Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willems.
We did fitness and had recess. We identified rhyming pictures. We read Chicka, Chicka, Boom,
Boom and found words beginning with ‘ch’.
Dear Parents,
Contact Info:
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.
As you know, we have begun going to the OSE library. We check out one
book. Our library day is on a four-day rotating schedule. The AM class has
library on ‘A’ day and the PM class goes on ‘B’ day. This is understandably
hard to remember. For this reason, and to protect books from loss or
damage, we have instructed students that the books ‘live’ in their
backpacks. They should absolutely take them out to read them, but then
return them to their backpacks. This way they will always have them on
library day.
IMPORTANT DATE CHANGE!!! Due to a conflict with the Boy Scouts for May 4th,
our kindergarten program will now be Wednesday, May 11th. Please
disregard the information that was shared at curriculum night and mark your
calendars for May 11th, 2016 at 7 p.m.
If you did not sign up for a parent-teacher conference at curriculum night,
please contact me to do so. I have times available on October 28th or
November 5th.
Upcoming Dates:
October 21st – Kindergarten Parent-Teacher Conferences (all slots taken)
October 23rd – Buckeye Day – Wear your scarlet and gray!!
October 26th and 27th - Newsminutes
October 28th – Picture Retakes
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 19th – Kindergarten Charlie Brown Feast
November 25th to 27th – No School – Thanksgiving
Thanks to our volunteers this week: Mrs. Harden, Mrs. Murphy, Mr. Griffith, Mrs.
Smialek and Mrs. Gilliam.
Have a fabulous weekend! Go Bucks! Beat Indiana!!
Vianne
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