Homework, Math, Conferences, Donations, Owl of the Week

It was a busy week in Kindergarten last week! With Constitution Day and picture day and finishing up our social studies unit on American symbols we have been working non stop!

I have talked to lots of parents about how excited their kids are to learn all about the United States! I'm so excited that they love learning about new things! We wore red, white, and blue for Constitution Day, had red, white, and blue popsicles and did lots of crafts including a bald eagle and an American flag!

Please remember to keep reminding your child that is is their responsibility to do their homework! They are learning to take care of their own things and turn their homework in every day! Every morning I remind them to take out their homework folders and anything else they have that they may need to turn in (lunch money, Wednesday folders, or notes for me). It is so great for them to be practicing such great responsibility and they are getting very good at our routines! We are getting ready for our math test at the end of this week, so there isn't much coming home for homework!

Here was a math activity we did where we drew self portraits and made a graph of our classroom!

Just a few things..

• Conferences are October 1st - October 3rd. If you have not sent back the yellow half sheet of paper signed confirming your conference, please remember to do so as soon as possible!
• If anyone would like to come read to our classroom, let me know! We have lots of spots open and would love to see some of you!
• We also could use some more donations for our room if you are up for it! We are quickly running out of lots of items! If you would like, we could use anything from the list below
• Crayons
• Markers
• Colored Pencils
• Clorox Wipes
• Skinny Expo (Whiteboard markers)
• Kleenex
• A lot of you are bringing box tops to school! We do need a first and last name of your child on EVERY box top. I know this takes quite a bit of time, but it does help our school out a lot!
• Those of you that ordered from the book order, THANK YOU! You earned our class ten free books so we get to have a lot more variety in our classroom. We earned quite a few point too that I can use to purchase more books from our classroom as well! 
• Picture Day went great and those should be arriving in a few weeks!
• Flappy the Owl had a great weekend with Jeter this weekend picking apples. Someone new will take Flappy home this Friday, so I hope he has a blast again!
• We are starting an Owl of the Week to get to know more about our students in our class! Ms. Schlegel is the Owl of the Week this week. If it is your turn, you will get a sheet to fill out, and some instructions on what to do! The kids LOVED the picture of Ms. Schlegel in Kindergarten!

We have started Science and are learning about our five senses now! They were so excited to use the word epidermis when they got home to show you how much they have learned!

Thanks for bringing such great kids to school every day! I can't believe it is almost the end of September, it's flying by!

Picture Day, Flappy the Owl, Parent Teacher Conferences

I hope all of you have had a wonderful weekend! We had a great week in Kindergarten and a relaxing weekend was definitely needed!

Just a few reminders I wanted let you know about. This Wednesday, September 18th is picture day! Be sure to send your picture form with your child if you are planning on ordering any pictures. If you are not ordering, your child will still have their picture taken for the school! I can't wait to see all of them on Wednesday morning :)

We have started something new in Kindergarten! We are proud to announce.....Flappy the Owl!

Flappy was donated to our classroom by our para Miss Molly. We brainstormed ideas on what to name our new owl friend and had a class vote to narrow it down! Flappy was the winner and we love him!

Flappy gets to go home with one child in our class every weekend. He will come home in a bag with a notebook. Make sure your child has a lot of fun with Flappy and draws a picture of what they did together over the weekend! (Feel free to add real pictures as well..you don't have to!) Encourage your child to write something about what they did together! Flappy got to spend this weekend with Ms. Schlegel to start us off, and he had a really fun time! If Flappy comes to your house for the weekend, please be sure your child takes great care of him and remembers to bring him, his notebook, and his bag back to school on Monday to share what he did over the weekend with our class!

Great job with encouraging your children to bring their homework back every day! We are in full force with math and I know a lot of them are enjoying doing homework every night! When every child brings their homework back, we get a brownie to add to our pan! We have been at 4 brownies for a few days, so they are very motivated to get our surprise!

We have started our Social Studies unit and have been talking all week about American symbols. Ask your child about things like The White House, The Statue of Liberty, and The Liberty Bell. We are continuing with more American symbols this week and the children have loved learning about their country!

Parent teacher conferences are coming up! Please remember to send back the signed yellow half sheet that came home in Wednesday folders with a reminder of the date and time of your conference!

I hope your weekend was wonderful! I am reading for another week in Kindergarten!

One more week done!

We've been in school for almost 20 days! It's hard to believe since it is moving so fast! I hope all of your kids are loving Kindergarten. I am enjoying all of them so much! Even though we are all tired at the end of every day (including me!) we have a lot of fun during the day!

We have jumped full force into literacy stations and guided reading time! The children are learning how to work independently, with another person, or with a small group. They might have told you a few things they have been working on like syllables, rhyming words, and matching uppercase and lowercase letters.

We have also been working on Brownie Points in our room! Brownie Points are brownies we get on a cookie sheet when the whole class is following directions and listening! When we get to 5 brownies we get a prize!

This morning we wrapped up our Health and Safety unit! We have been learning all about how to stay safe at home, in the classroom, and outside. This morning we finished up with a safety walk around the school to look for some of the signs we had learned about! The kids spotted lots of stop signs and traffic lights and we even got to cross at the crosswalk! Ask your children if they recognize any signs while you're out and about!

We also made a safety snack today and created a traffic light out of graham crackers, frosting, and m and m's. They really loved it!

We had our first parent reader this morning thanks to LaTava! The kids loved it and were talking about it the rest of the day! We have lots of times open if anyone would like to come join us! Just shoot me an email!

I hope you all have a great weekend! I'm excited to jump into another week!

Just a few things...

Hi there!

I sent an email this morning about a book order. If you didn't get it, can you email me back with your currect email address so I can make sure I have it updated! Some of them came back undelivered! Thanks! (The email I sent is below if you are worried about not receiving it!)

Yesterday a book order was sent home with your child! If you have any interest in ordering anything from this book order, you can send it back with the order form filled out and checks made payable to Scholastic Reading Club (Please no cash!) These are due back by September 13th. If you would rather order online, you can go to this link https://orders.scholastic.com/MCN7Q and place your order through our classroom Scholastic website!

Scholastic has so many great offers on not only books, but also on items for our classroom. We get all kinds of special things when certain books are ordered so if there are any you have been searching for, take a look in the book order! Let me know if you have any questions!

Your kindergarteners are adjusting great to school! We have jumped right into every thing and they are loving it! More recently we have started Writers Workshop. This is a time when children have some time to write stories from their lives. If anything happens in the evenings, over the weekend, or with your family, remind your child that that would be a great story to write about in Writers Workshop! This helps them make the connection with things that happen outside of school! Here's some of the children doing their work during writing!

Our first homework assignment also went home today! They should've come home with a red homework folder. Please assist your child with the homework (they need to be the ones to complete it, but will need help with the words and procedures these first few times), and then send back the completed paper in the homework folder! We will not have homework every day, but when their red folder is in their backpack, they need to be sure to return their homework the next day! We have a special prize for returning homework without missing an assignment!

Have a happy weekend! :)