Kindergarten News November 17

November 17, 2011

Room A News

November 17th, 2011!

What we are learning:
We had a very fun week in kindergarten. On Tuesday, Zero the Hero came to visit us and brought a deck of cards for each student! I hope you’ve been playing Top-It at home! Please teach your child other games that you know (i.e. Go Fish, Crazy 8s)-these games help with number recognition. On Wednesday, Nevin’s mom, Traci, came with Alan (Melody’s dad from Room B) to teach us World Music. We sang songs in a West African language, in Sign Language, played in a drum circle, and sang a lot. It was lots of fun and we look forward to the next Music class! We had Yoga with Ravi’s mom, Susan. Tomorrow is our first time with our Reading Buddies-this is a time for us to get to know some older students at school. It is one of my very favorite things we do at Odyssey.
Kindergarteners got Just Right books! I am teaching how to read pattern books. The first two lessons were getting our minds ready to read: before we read a new book (adults do this, too!), we look at the cover and the title and think “What is this book going to be about?”, then we take a book walk—we look inside the book and just talk about what we notice in the pictures. Next we will talk about paying attention to the pattern, and then using the pictures to figure out tricky words.

What we will be learning:
Stone Soup Day is next week! Please make sure you check the sign-up genius http://www.signupgenius.com/go/room390 for what you need to bring no later than Monday.
Unfortunately, I may be called to jury duty next week, but I’m crossing my fingers I won’t!

Ways for you to support:
• Story prompt: tell your child a story about Thanksgiving.
• Make sure you are reading at least 20 minutes a night.
• Ask your child about kindergarten:
o What did you learn in Music?
o Can you show me a yoga pose?
o What is the story of Stone Soup?
o Tell me about your just right books? How do you get your mind ready to read?
o Tell me one of the stories you have written in Writing Workshop.

 

Upcoming events

• Stone Soup Day! Tuesday, November 22nd This is a great family
event!!! Soup will be served @ 11:30 The whole family is invited. You can sign your child out after lunch to take them home for the long weekend.
• NO SCHOOL Wednesday, November 23-25. Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Volunteering/Classroom Help

• We NEED boxes of tissues. Please bring one or two if you can.

**Reminder: If you are on campus past 8:30, you MUST get a visitor’s pass from the front office. Thanks!

If you didn’t already, click here: http://www.odysseycharterschool.org/campusuite/modules/photo-gallery.cfm?box_id=6088&grp_id=5724&kind=image&preview=yes
For pictures from Camp Day. If you have any you took in the morning or afternoon that you would like to share, please send them my way and I will add them to the page. Thanks!

By the way, we are always putting up new things in the classroom. Make sure to check out our Camp Day stories on the wall. You can also find potatoes that seemed to be the grossest from our germ experiment. Ask your child about it.
Annual Campaign Update

15 of our families have donated to the annual campaign, bringing us to 60%!!! Please donate whatever amount you are able if you have not to help us reach our goal of 100% of families participating and to retain our PE and Computer program.

 

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