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Weekly News

• TOMORROW is picture day! 
• Letter of the Week: M /m/
• Sight Word: the 
• Math: Numbers 1-5 
• Color of the Week: Green
• Alivia is bringing our green snack on Friday. Thank you!
• Wear green on Wednesday this week! 
• Monday, September 5th is NO SCHOOL (Labor Day) 
• Wednesday, September 7th is a HALF DAY for students. We dismiss at 11:10am. There is NO extended day on these days. Please let me know how your child will get home. 

Guest Reader

Today we had a 2nd grader, Audrey, come read to our class! She earned enough Dojo points to be able to read to a kindergarten class. Thanks Audrey! 

We Can Write a Sentence!

Everyone worked so hard this morning writing a sentence using our two sight words we have learned! 

Football Players and Cheerleaders Came to Visit Us!!

Homework Policy for This Year

This year I am going to experiment with a ‘no homework policy.’ Research shows that homework at the elementary school level is not effective in helping students succeed in the classroom. Instead, I encourage you to read with your child every night, spend time with your family, converse with your child about school, eat dinner together, and get a good night’s rest. Research DOES show that reading with your child every night can make a huge difference. This can be anything- the books/readers that I send home weekly, library books, bible stories, articles, magazines, etc.

If you still would like to work on things that we are learning in the classroom, you can find what we are covering each week on my weekly newsletter (in red folder on Monday’s or on classroom blog). Additionally, each nine weeks I will send home a list of standards and skills that will be tested on the report card. Your child will be responsible for knowing everything on that sheet!

Lastly, beginning in September I will be sending home an optional STEM challenge that you can work on with your child at home. This is a great opportunity for you and your child to work collaboratively on a project! Again, this will be optional- you can do it every month, some months, or no months at all. 

Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this new policy. 

This Week Info

• We went to library today. The book that your child checked out today is not due until next Monday. You can keep it at home until then if you would like! If you forgot to send your child's book today, you can send it any day this week and I will let them take it back to the library and get a new book. 
• The News Courier will be coming to photograph every kindergarten class at Creekside THIS FRIDAY! Please fill out and return the permission form/about your child form ASAP. If you do not return this, then your child will not be able to be in the picture. 
• Wear BLUE on Wednesday this week. 
• Jaylyn is bringing our blue snack on Friday this week. Thank you! 
• We are reviewing sight words "I" and "can" this week. Letter recognition S-Z. 
• If you have not returned the handbook forms, please do so ASAP. I have to have them all turned in this Friday! 

Minion Bananas!!!!

Thank you Kaden!!! We loved our yellow snack! 

Yellow Day!

A look into our literacy stations

Calendar Time!

Field Trip

We will be going on our first field trip on Friday, October 21 to the Lyon Family Farms Pumpkin Patch! Parents are invited to join us on this special day! (Details and more info will come in October, but wanted to give everyone plenty of notice!)

Weekly Newsletter August 15-19

·       Sight Words: can

·       Phonics:  letter recognition I-R

·       Math:  Numbers 0-5

·       Writing: Complete a sentence.

·       Essential Question for Reading: Who is in your family?

·       Essential Question for Math:  How can you show, count, and write numbers 0-5?

Color of the Week:

YELLOW

Kaden Tyrie is bringing our red color snack on Friday! Thank you!

Wear YELLOW on WEDNESDAY, August 17^th, this week! 

·          Be sure to check your child’s red folder each night and return the next day!

·         Remember to send tennis shoes for P.E. each day!

·         Remember to send a snack or money for snack each day.  

Red Snack

Thank you to Alivia for the adorable apple cupcakes and ladybug jello! We had a blast! 

Red Day!

August 8-11 Newsletter

·       Sight Words: I

·       Phonics:  letter recognition A-H

·       Math:  Numbers 0-5

·       Writing: All about me. Learning to write a sentence using my name.

·       Essential Question for Reading: How am I special?

·       Essential Question for Math:  How can you show, count, and write numbers 0-5?

*Please work with your child on recognizing and writing letters A-H

*Please work with your child on recognizing and writing numbers 0-5

*Please work with your child on writing their first name

Color of the Week: RED

Alivia Clem is bringing our red color snack on Friday! Thank you!

Wear RED on WEDNESDAY, August 10^th, this week! 

·       If you have not sent a nap mat for your child, you need to do so ASAP.

·       Please fill out and return the school handbook forms ASAP!

·       PLEASE SIGN UP FOR THE REMIND101 TEXT MESSAGES!

·          Be sure to check your child’s red folder each night and return the next day!

·         Remember to send tennis shoes for P.E. each day!

·         Remember to send a snack or money for snack each day.  

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend! A few announcements and reminders:

-Tomorrow EVERYONE will begin coming to school (boys and girls).
-The bell to come to class rings at 7:20am. The tardy bell rings at 7:35am, and this is when your child should be in our classroom.
-Free lunch for everyone in the lunchroom if they want it. The buses get here in plenty of time to go to the lunchroom for breakfast, or you can drop your child off at the lunchroom side carline before 7:30am and they can go by the lunchroom for breakfast.
-Fall DIBELS testing began today. The only part that we administer for the Fall is Letter Naming Fluency. More info to come on this!
-This is the last week that you can walk your child into the building.

I wanted to say a HUGE thank you to all of you parents because I have received 100% of forms and supply money! Thank you for being so great to fill all of those forms out for me! :)

If you ever have any questions concerning your child, please let me know. I want us to work together as a team to ensure that your child has the best kindergarten experience possible and that they are ready and prepared to go to first grade in May!

the boys had a great first day on Friday!

Girls Day!!