Yes, it's true, our year in Kindergarten is up and going! We have started to get into the groove of things too!
I could really use some extra volunteers from 8:45-9:45 each day for our power hour time. It would help immensely if you would be able to come work with students and help students complete activities during this hour.
Thank you to all who have returned the BRIGHT green information sheet. It has made my job MUCH easier.
Also don't forget to wear the "walk tall" shirts on Fridays.
This week we will be jumping headfirst into our math program, since we now should know what the numbers 1-10 look like AND how to write them and count them. Please continue to practice writing numbers and letters at home!
Speaking of practice, we have been using a wonderful app in class called Letter School. The kids love it and it helps them remember where to start when writing the letters and numbers (which is a really hard thing for us right now). You can go check it out here. If you happen to be letting your little ones play on your phone or tablet, this would be a great investment into their education that they can play AND LEARN at the same time. :)
Hope you all have a wonderful week!
Love,
Mrs. Newman
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Help!
I know, I know, you have filled out more than your share of information documents already this year. Unfortunately, I have several discrepancies between the documents I have on file and I need a final, for sure, solid paper with certain information. PLEASE, fill out and return the lime green information sheet AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. This is the document I will use to contact you with any questions or concerns I have during the year. Thank you so much for your understanding and patience with this situation.
This week we begin our Power Hour rotations from 8:45 to 9:45. I am in need of some parent volunteers that would be willing to come in and help with a group during this time on a regular basis. If you would be willing to help with this please let me know quickly.
We are also going to be reviewing the rules and consequences as our class has been having a difficult time with keeping our hands and feet to ourselves and focusing on our own work. These are hard skills to learn and in kindergarten it is of vital importance. I am looking for some donations for our prize box to use as a motivation tool for our class. If you have anything you wouldn't mind donating to that prize box, that would be wonderful. Please know this is NOT something that you have to do, but only if you want to and your child will still be allowed to choose from the prize box even if you do not send in a donation.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your help and support already this year. I appreciate all that you do for your children.
Love,
Mrs. Newman
This week we begin our Power Hour rotations from 8:45 to 9:45. I am in need of some parent volunteers that would be willing to come in and help with a group during this time on a regular basis. If you would be willing to help with this please let me know quickly.
We are also going to be reviewing the rules and consequences as our class has been having a difficult time with keeping our hands and feet to ourselves and focusing on our own work. These are hard skills to learn and in kindergarten it is of vital importance. I am looking for some donations for our prize box to use as a motivation tool for our class. If you have anything you wouldn't mind donating to that prize box, that would be wonderful. Please know this is NOT something that you have to do, but only if you want to and your child will still be allowed to choose from the prize box even if you do not send in a donation.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your help and support already this year. I appreciate all that you do for your children.
Love,
Mrs. Newman
Monday, September 8, 2014
Frog Folders
Attention Parents:
I have noticed that there is a lot of confusion about Frog Folders and homework, and I would like to clarify.
Please keep the homework packet and reading calendar AT HOME until the end of the month. Then, you can return the entire packet at the same time. This makes grading and collecting papers much more efficient for me.
The red folders with a frog sticker is your child's homework folder. It should be coming home DAILY. It also needs to be returned to school DAILY. Since your child loads his/her own folder, many of the papers will often not be placed in the "keep" or "return" pockets properly. This is ok. Please check your child's folder each night and keep any papers that we have done that day at home.
If there is a paper that you need to fill out and return, please place it back in your child's frog folder. If papers that are meant to stay at home are left in the frog folder, it becomes confusing for the students to know which papers are for me, and which ones are for them. This makes loading our backpacks at the end of the day much more difficult and time consuming.
Also, if your child has other activities from daycare or home, please help them to place those activities into a separate pocket on his/her backpack. Many of the students are bringing notebooks from home that they like to draw in and they try to turn them in to me each day. It is very frustrating for them, when I ask them to put the activities back in their bags.
Thank you so much for your help in this. I know there is a lot of information coming home at this point and a lot of it you get several times over again, but I appreciate your patience and support in helping your child learn.
Love,
Mrs. Newman
I have noticed that there is a lot of confusion about Frog Folders and homework, and I would like to clarify.
Please keep the homework packet and reading calendar AT HOME until the end of the month. Then, you can return the entire packet at the same time. This makes grading and collecting papers much more efficient for me.
The red folders with a frog sticker is your child's homework folder. It should be coming home DAILY. It also needs to be returned to school DAILY. Since your child loads his/her own folder, many of the papers will often not be placed in the "keep" or "return" pockets properly. This is ok. Please check your child's folder each night and keep any papers that we have done that day at home.
If there is a paper that you need to fill out and return, please place it back in your child's frog folder. If papers that are meant to stay at home are left in the frog folder, it becomes confusing for the students to know which papers are for me, and which ones are for them. This makes loading our backpacks at the end of the day much more difficult and time consuming.
Also, if your child has other activities from daycare or home, please help them to place those activities into a separate pocket on his/her backpack. Many of the students are bringing notebooks from home that they like to draw in and they try to turn them in to me each day. It is very frustrating for them, when I ask them to put the activities back in their bags.
Thank you so much for your help in this. I know there is a lot of information coming home at this point and a lot of it you get several times over again, but I appreciate your patience and support in helping your child learn.
Love,
Mrs. Newman
Howard B. Wigglebottom
Meet Howard B. Wigglebottom!
He is a friend of ours, both in Kindergarten and soon-to-be preschool as well. You may have heard from your child that we have been struggling in Kindergarten, to remember to use our listening ears, and so we met Howard.
We made listening ears to be just like him and got to wear them home today.
If you would like to learn more about Howard, please come visit him here! Click on the first picture and watch the story for yourself. Talk about why rules are important with your children (to keep them safe) and why we need to follow them at school.
Thanks so much for your help and support!
Love,
Mrs. Newman
P.S. Enjoy Howard's other books too! I sure do!! :D
He is a friend of ours, both in Kindergarten and soon-to-be preschool as well. You may have heard from your child that we have been struggling in Kindergarten, to remember to use our listening ears, and so we met Howard.
We made listening ears to be just like him and got to wear them home today.
If you would like to learn more about Howard, please come visit him here! Click on the first picture and watch the story for yourself. Talk about why rules are important with your children (to keep them safe) and why we need to follow them at school.
Thanks so much for your help and support!
Love,
Mrs. Newman
P.S. Enjoy Howard's other books too! I sure do!! :D
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