Kindergarten News October 27

October 28, 2011

Room A News

October 27th, 2011!

 

What we are learning:
We added I and a to the word wall this week. We continued adding animals to our Camp Day decorations. We explored oil pastels and gluing different materials for mask making. We had an amazing Creative Dance class with Laila’s dad, Todd. In reading and writing workshop, we talking about making choices that will help students do their best work (i.e. getting straight to work, picking a writing spot not near friends, taking care of business before or after). We have also been working on pumpkin math—we put the pumpkins in order from biggest to smallest and then made predictions of how many seeds they have. We counted the seeds today.

What we will be learning:
We will do a fun cooking project and continue getting ready for Camp Day. We will paint river rocks, learn about and make fossils, decide what else our room needs to look like a forest, etc. We will continue to learn about reading and writing routines, and wrap up our Emergent Storybook unit. In two weeks, we will begin reading just right books! Stay tuned for information on a meeting for parents regarding reading and writing in kindergarten.

Ways for you to support:
• Story prompt: tell your child a story about a pumpkin.
• Make sure you are reading at least 20 minutes a night. Record your reading on your Read-a-thon form!
• What can you order at home? This can be biggest to smallest, tallest to shortest, etc.

Reminder:
Odyssey does not celebrate Halloween, please make sure your child does not come in costume on Monday.

 

Upcoming events

• Kindergarten Potluck (check the email from our room parents!), Saturday, November 5, 12:30-2:30
• NO SCHOOL, Friday, November 11—Veteran’s Day Holiday
• Stone Soup Day! Tuesday, November 22nd

FYI: Fridays are Odyssey spirit days. Your child can wear an Odyssey shirt or the color red!

 

Volunteering/Classroom Help

• I need a few muffin tins (mini muffins) for our cooking project on Monday. Please bring them if you have (please label them). Thank you!!!
• Please look out for an email from our room parents for supplies and help needed for Camp Day (Monday, November 7th)

I need volunteers to clean the classroom on Friday afternoons. You can sign up here: Please sign-up here to help:
www.SignUpGenius.com/go/classroom559


Annual Campaign Update
10 of our families have donated to the annual campaign, bringing us to 40%.
I know we had many more donations last night, so I will have updated numbers soon! If you have not already contributed, please help us be one of the classes to reach 100% and help Odyssey maintain our wonderful programs.

 

Tags:

Add comment