Goodbye!!!

 Hello Families!

Thank you all for your support throughout this school year!  I can't emphasize enough how amazing your kids are!

I appreciate all your support!

Important Dates:

-Monday, November 14 is our field trip to Museum of Nature and Science.  We will be leaving Landmark at 9am and returning at 2pm.  Please pack a disposable lunch for your child and have the lunch and all items in it labeled.

-Friday, November 18 is our Kindergarten Assembly on Gratitude.  All families are welcome to this.  Kindergarten has been working hard on this presentation!

-Friday, November 18 is our Charlie Brown Thanksgiving party.  Please remember to bring in any of the items you volunteered to bring in.  We haven't yet confirmed when the party will be.  We do not need any volunteers for this party.

Enjoy these pictures from this week!

Thank you!

Katie Powell

October 31-Nov. 3

 Hello Families!

We have been working hard this week!  Here is what we have been learning:

 Moral Focus:  This month we are talking about gratitude.  Gratitude means having a thankful heart.  We are talking about the difference between saying "thanks" and really feeling thankful in our hearts.

Reading: We are continuing to work on setting.  We are working more in depth with it by identifying all the settings in the story.

Phonics:  This week we worked on Hh.  We are also starting to work on fluency by using out sight word knowledge and our decoding abilities to read short passages.  We are practicing fluency by reading it smoothly.

Math: We are focused on making tally marks and reading tally marks.  Our goal is to look at tally marks and count by 5s.

Social Studies:  We have been talking a lot about what makes up a community.  The week we are focusing on ourselves and the ways that we make a community better.  We have talked about how important it is that we are all different and bring so many great things to our community.

Reminders: 

-Our field trip is on November 14th at the Museum of Nature and Science.  Please remember to pack a sack lunch for your child on this day.  The bag should be disposable.  Label the bag and all items in the bag.  Your child must ride on the bus to and from the museum.  If you want to check them out when we return, you must do so through the front office of the school.

- This month, Kindergarten is in charge of the Moral Focus assembly for all primary grades.  We are going to be going over gratitude.  This assembly will be held at the end of the month.  More details to come.

October 24-28

Hello Families! 

What a fun week it has been!

We started the week with our field trip to Anderson Farms.  It was a successful blast!  Thank you to everyone!  Your kids are amazing people!

We do have a field trip to the Museum of Nature and Science coming up on November 14.  I will need to have chaperones and permission slips by November 4th.

Moral Focus: We are wrapping up our unit on respect.  Continue to talk with your child about what respect looks like at home and at school.

Reading: We are identifying the setting in a story.  A setting is where and when.  You can continue this at home when you are reading books with your child.

Phonics: This week we worked on the letter Ee.  We talked about how Ee has two sounds-short "e" and long "e".

Math: When have been working on determining how many it takes to make it to 10 from numbers 1-10.  For example: starting at 3, how many until you get to 10? 7

Social Studies: We are continuing talk about what makes a community.  We are talking about our class community, school community, neighborhood community and even extending that out into the world.  We are also talking about how our differences make us unique; our differences make us special.

Here are our current sight words that you can continue to work on at home: a, see, can, the, like, I, go. to, am, on, play, it, is, this. big, little.

We do have our Fall party on Monday.  I wish I could allow everyone one of you to attend, but unfortunately that isn't allowed.  Thank you to those who have contributed to the party and volunteered.  I am SO excited to see costumes on Monday.

Important dates:

-Tonight is Trunk or Treat

-Monday, October 31- school gets out at 1:30.  Our Fall Party is 10:30-11:15

-November 4- Field trip permission slips due.

-November 14- Field trip to the Museum of Nature and Science

Reminders:

-Please remember to pack a snack for your child.  We have snack 2 times a day.  It is helpful to put their snack in a separate bag from their lunch, if they bring lunch from home.

-Remember to have a change of clothes in your child's back pack.

Have a great weekend!

October 17-21

 Hello Kindergarten Families,

Fall is in the air!  And the weather is going to start cooling off any day now.  The weather is predicted to be a bit chilly on Monday, October 24 for our field trip to Anderson Farms.  Please refer to the previous email I sent this week regarding that field trip.  There is some important information in it!

Moral Focus: We are continuing our talk about respect.  We are talking about the different ways to show respect to our friends and our family.

Reading: We are working on identifying main characters and secondary characters in a text.

Phonics: We talked about the letter Dd.  Students told me several different words that start with Dd.  We also practiced writing the letters.

Math: Students are working on counting items one at a time and determining how many.  They are also comparing numbers using <,>,=.

Social Studies: We have started our talk about community.  Students are sharing what makes their family unique.  I am getting lots of "my family is unique because I have to clean my room all the time."  We are also working on comprehending the word unique.

 

Important Information:

-Report Cards sent home today!

-Field Trip, October 24 to Anderson Farms, (please refer to the field trip email that was sent out.

-Fall Party on October 31.  Here is the sign up genius: 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c094dacad29abf5c70-fall1

-Early release: 1:30pm, October 31

October 10-12

 Hello Families,

Happy short week.  I hope your Fall Break is restorative!  

Here is what we have been learning:

Moral Focus: We are working on respecting each other by not spreading germs.  We have been talking about coughing in our arms, covering our sneezes, blowing our nose and then washing our hands.

Reading: We are working on identifying the characters and setting in a story.  We are also practicing explaining what a character is and what a setting is.

Phonics: This week we were introduced to the letter Ff.  We practiced writing it, saying it's sound and coming up with words that start with that sound.

Math: We are still identifying patterns, practicing writing numbers 1-10 and listening to a math word problem and breaking it down by drawing a picture to represent the question and help us solve them.  Example: Kevin has two red cars and 2 green cars.  How many cars does he have all together?

Social Studies: We have been finishing up with our 5 senses work.

Upcoming Events:

-No School October 13, 14 and 17

-October 18-21: Canned Food Drive.  Bring as many canned foods as you would like.  I will collect them in the classroom.

-Field trip to Anderson Farms: October 24

-Trunk or Treat: October 28

-Dress like your favorite book character: October 31

**If you are interested in volunteering for a Fall Party on October 31, please let me know.  I have a couple of spots open.

October 3-7

 Hello Families!

Parent-teacher conferences are underway.  I am so excited to be meeting with you about your child.  If you haven't already signed up, please sign up.  If you need to schedule for a different day or over Zoom, I am happy to accommodate.

This month in reading we are focusing on sequencing stories.  I had planned to read the book There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat with the class.  This story is about an old lady who swallows a bunch of different items.  This book is actually a part of a series.  The book I am planning on reading with the class is about an old lady who swallows a bat, ghost, witch and cat.  Please let me know if you are not comfortable with this story.  If I don't hear from you, I will assume all is well.

October 31 is a half day.  Students can dress up like their favorite book character.

Moral Focus: "I can show respect by taking care of others and my environment."  We are talking about showing respect by saying "please" and "thank you", cleaning up after ourselves, being patient while others are talking, coughing into our sleeves and showing others we care.  You can continue these conversations at home.

Reading: "I can determine if a text is fiction.  I can retell the story."  We are talking about the characteristics of a fiction text, (illustrations, beginning-middle-end, characters, setting, problem, solution, animals that talk, etc.)  You can continue this work at home when you read with your child.

Phonics: "I can identify the letter Ii and say it's sound."  Students have been working on naming things in the world that start with Ii.  They have also started working on reading 3-letter words and writing 3-letter words that have the short Aa and short Ii in the middle of a word.  You can continue this practice at home by having your child write and read words like "cat", "van", "lip", "tin", etc.

Social Studies/Science: We have continued working on our 5 senses.  We are going to be doing more exploring with this as we start "investigation walks" around the school and record our 5 senses while we eat popcorn!

We started book buddies this week with one of the 6th grade classes.  Both classes are absolutely loving it!  This week we paired each student up with an older buddy and they read books together.  This is every Thursday morning after recess.

I am still missing some field trip money/ permission slips.  Please remember to get those to me ASAP, unless you would like to keep your child home that day, or have them stay at school with the office staff or a buddy class.

Thank you all for your support and participation in making this a successful school year.  

Katie Powell

September 26- September 30

 

Hello Families!

    Here is what we have been working on in class.

Moral Focus: "I can show wisdom when I follow the rules." Wisdom- we are continuing to talk about how to show wisdom at school; specifically with following directions and making good choices.

Reading: "I can determine if a story is fictional."  We have started talking about fiction text.  Fiction stories are fake.  We have been saying "fiction is fake".  Some characteristics that make a story fiction is stories about mythical creatures and where animals talk.  The elements of a fictional story are characters, setting, plot, conflict and resolution.

Phonics:  "I can identify the letter Cc and say it's sound."  We have been continuing to review the letters we have learned: Aa, Bb, Ll, Mm, Nn, Pp, Rr, Ss, Tt.  Our newest letter is Cc.  We are working on writing, identifying, saying letter names and sounds.  We are also starting to make words with these letters to read and write them.

Math: "I can recognize the number of objects."  In math we are working on grabbing and counting, looking at a group of objects and saying how many there are without counting them individually.  We are also practicing all the different ways to make 5.

Social Studies/Science: "I can say the 5 senses.  I can explain how we use our 5 senses."  We have been working on the sense of smell and sight.  This is going to be a very important skill to help make our writing even better as well!

Important Information: 

-Parent Teacher Conferences are coming up October 10, 11 and 12.  I will also be scheduling time slots for the week before for anyone who cannot make those dates work.  An email will be coming soon with the slots to sign up for.  If you need to schedule a Zoom conference, just reach out to me and we will make it happen.  Otherwise conferences will be held in person.

-The Book Fair is coming up October 10-12.  It will be during the day for students as well as during conference time.  Flyers were sent home today.

-I am still missing a few permission slips and money for our upcoming field trip.  If you are unsure if you are missing yours, reach out to me and I can verify if I have it or not.

-October Homework packets were sent home today.  Please remember to turn in September Homework Packets.