Week of November 18, 2019

Our new paintings in our art gallery

No Newsletter Next Week

    With a very short week next week, we will not have a classroom newsletter. The kindergartners will have a Kindergarten Craft Day on Monday. All of the kindergarten students from each classroom will be mixed up and put into new groups for the day. Each group will visit all three classrooms and do a different turkey craft with each teacher.

Remember, the children only have school on Monday and Tuesday next week. I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!         

Extra Mittens and Socks

      With snow on the playground comes very wet mittens and sometimes wet socks. Please put an extra pair of mittens and socks in your child’s backpack every day. Riding the bus home with wet mittens and/or socks makes for an uncomfortable trip.

Missing Mitten...if you happen to see the match to this mitten in your child's backpack, please send it back to school.

Self Help Skills

    Snow and rain...with the arrival of winter, going out to recess every day and getting ready to go home, we have a lot of zipping, buttoning and tying going on in kindergarten. Please help your child by having him/her practice zipping/buttoning their own jacket and tying their own shoes. This makes changing into and out of our snow clothes much less frustrating.
Also, if you drop your child off in the morning, I would greatly appreciate your help in encouraging your kindergartner to get themselves ready for the school day independently. They should be taking off their snow clothes and hanging them up independently as well as unpacking their own backpacks. This way they know where things are when they go looking for them and it will help us with dressing and undressing independently for recess. We are working on instilling more independence in all the kindergartners and that starts with being able to take care of their own belongings. By all means please feel free to walk your kindergartner down the hall then please say goodbye and allow them to get themselves ready for the day.

Morning Meeting
GREETING: handshakes

ACTIVITY: Sparkle(a spelling game)

Report Cards

Report cards are coming home today. Thank you to everyone for being so flexible and rescheduling parent conferences from the snow day on Tuesday. If you have any questions that were perhaps not answered at the conference please do not hesitate to reach out to me. Please sign the outside of the envelope and return it to school on Monday. Everything in the envelope is for you to keep.