Snack schedule:

Week of December 12:

Monday: Jacob

Tuesday:  Breanna

Wednesday:  Hailey

Thursday:    Happy ½ Birthday Evan!!

Friday:  Surprise!

Week of December 19:

Monday: Caeden 

Tuesday: Christmas Party!!

Wednesday: Popcorn & Movie!

Thursday: NO SCHOOL  

Friday:  NO SCHOOL

Reminders:

    Monday, December 12 – Delayed Start.

    Tuesday, December 20 –  Class Christmas Party

    Wednesday, December 21 – Last day of school before Christmas Break.

    Thursday & Friday, December 22 & 23 – No School.

Dear Families,

            Our class Christmas party will be on Tuesday, December 20.  Many of you have signed up to send in supplies or volunteer, and I thank you so very much!  I will send reminder slips home on Monday or Tuesday.  Please have these supplies to school on or before Monday, December 19. For our gift exchange, please send a wrapped $3 - $3.50 girl or boy gift.

A reminder as we enter our winter season and the weather gets much colder, please send weather appropriate clothing to school with your child—gloves or mittens, hat, boots, and snow pants (when there’s snow on the ground). 

            We will be focusing on the letter Cc for this coming week.  We will also continue to work on our reading strategies:  Spinner Spider, Picturing Penguin, and our newest additions: asking questions with Questioning Owl, and looking at the pictures with Eagle Eye for clues to help figure out a word.

            In science and social studies we will begin talking about our families and family traditions to tie into the upcoming holiday seasons.  We will also begin to explore our 5 senses.  And in math we are beginning to identify and count pennies. 

            If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about your child or our classroom, or anything really, please feel free to contact me by email or note anytime. 

Thanks!

Mrs. Rozeveld

Reminders

Snack schedule:

Week of November 28:

Monday: Amaya

Tuesday:  Audrey

Wednesday:  Clayton

Thursday:  Dominick 

Friday:  Starlee

Week of December 5:

Monday:  Lydia S.

Tuesday: Warren

Wednesday:  Left Over Day!!

Thursday: Lydia T.          

Friday:  Lexie

Reminders:

    Thursday& Friday November 24&25 – NO SCHOOL – Thanksgiving

    Saturday November 26 – McBain Craft Market 9am.

November 23, 2011

Dear Families,

        Thank you so much for all of your help with our Thanksgiving festivities.  Today we had our Thanksgiving feast with friends to enjoy our stone soup.  We have talked about what Thanksgiving means and the things in our life that we can be thankful for.  If you get a chance to stop in our classroom, please take a look at our “I am thankful for…” turkey barnyard. 

            A reminder as we enter our winter season and the weather gets much colder, please send weather appropriate clothing to school with your child—gloves or mittens, hat, boots, and snow pants (when there’s snow on the ground). 

            We will be focusing on the letters Tt and Ff and the sounds that they say over the next two weeks.  We will also continue to work on our reading strategies:  making connections with spinner spider and making pictures in our mind with picturing penguin.

            In science and social studies we will begin talking about our families and family traditions to tie into the upcoming holiday seasons.  We will also begin to explore our 5 senses.  And in math we are beginning to identify and count pennies. 

November 11, 2011

Thank you so much for the great turn out we had for Parent/Teacher Conferences!  Almost our whole class was able to attend.  I really appreciate your support for your child and for our classroom.  Please encourage your child to practice their sight words and read their fluency charts to you each night.

            As winter seems to be upon us, please remember to dress your child for the weather. When there is snow on the ground, they need to have snowpants, boots, hat, mittens/gloves, etc.  Also, when you send them to school with their boots on, please remember to send tennis shoes for them to wear in school.  They really shouldn’t wear their boots in the classroom. 

            The students have really enjoyed our new station rotation.  I hope to begin the Read-to-Self part of our reading in December, and we are still in need of a few cereal boxes to make sure that each student has their own book box to read from. 

            In science and social studies we will begin talking about our families and family traditions to tie into the upcoming holiday seasons.  And in math we are continuing to work on finding the missing number, putting the numbers 0-10 in order. 

Also, we are still in need of a CD player or two for our listening station.  The ones we are currently using do not belong to our classroom and will soon have to be given back to the classroom we’re borrowing from. 

Cereal Boxes

If you have any empty cereal boxes at home, please send in 1 or 2 large boxes.  We will be making our book boxes out of them when we begin our Read-to-Self time in a couple weeks.  They need to be large enough to fit at 81/2 x11 sheet of paper up and down, as most of the books that they will be reading at first will be the books that they have made themselves.  Thanks so much for your help in this!!

Also, if you have recently upgraded to an mp3 player or iPod and have an extra CD player just laying around that you would be willing to donate to our classroom (even just for the year), it would be much appreciated.  We use our listening station everyday!!

October 28, 2011

Dear Families,

        What a week!  Thank you so much for all of the milk jugs that we received!  Our milk jug jack-o-lanterns were a success!!

We began our new reading program and stations this week, and the students are doing great!  I am so thankful, every day, for the nice group of students we have in our room!

One of our new stations is the Listening Station.  The students listen to books on CD each day.  I have 2 personal CD players for them to use—one works all the time, and one works when it wants to.  If you have recently upgraded to an ipod, or mp3 player and would be willing to donate a CD player to our classroom, it would be much appreciated and well loved!

            Another piece of our new reading program that we will be starting soon is a Read-to-Self time each day.  Each student will have their own book box of books to read during this time.  For their book box, we are asking for a large size cereal box that we will transform into a customized book box.  If you could send these in as soon as possible, that would be great!

            Also, we would like to thank all of you that have participated in our Mileage Club this fall.  We will be pausing our Mileage Club for the winter, and beginning again in the spring.  The last day for Mileage Club this fall is today, Friday, October 28.

            If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about your child or our classroom, or anything really, please feel free to contact me by email or note anytime. 

Dear Families,

        Wow, this week went by fast!  October is Fire Safety month, and on Wednesday we got to spend some time with a few of the McBain volunteer fire fighters learning about fire safety at home and at school.

          In math, we’re learning how to sort things by shape and color.  We’re also learning how to make patterns.  In social studies, we’re learning the difference between the past, present and future.
          We’ve been working very hard on learning all of our letters and sounds these last few weeks, and the students are having a great time learning the motions that go with them.  Encourage your child to show you the motions that go with the letter sounds. 
          As we begin our October writing journals, we’re writing and drawing the weather, our favorite color, and of course jack-o-lanterns for Halloween.
          If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about your child or our classroom, or anything really, please feel free to contact me by email or note anytime.  I am also available to chat at school before 8am or after 3pm, but please remember that when the students are here my attention needs to be focused on them. 

Things to keep in mind

Dear Families,
This is our first whole week of kindergarten--and today was awesome!  We are settling into our routine quite nicely, and we will be working hard on that this week as this is our first "normal" week--except for the delayed start today. 

A few things to keep in mind to help our day run smoothly:
-If you drop your child off in the morning, please remind them that they get to play outside until the whistle blows.  Even if all the other kids are already lined up, they still need to be outside to get in line.  It's not safe for them to be in the classroom by themselves.
-When you send in lunch money with your child, please, please make sure their name is on it and that it is labeled lunch money.  This ensures that the money gets posted to the correct account.
-When you send in any money, notes, papers to be returned to school, etc., please, please send them in your child's folder.  We are trying to get into the habit of taking our folders into the room, and putting any important information for Mrs. Rozeveld in her tray. 

Thank you, again, for all of your love and support as we begin our Kindergarten year together!  We've had a fabulous first few days, and I'm excited for the rest of the year!!

Thanks!
Mrs. Rozeveld

Gingerbread Day!

Happy Monday!
As many of you have already seen, we had Gingerbread Day on Friday.  We had so much fun!  Be sure to ask you child about the adventure we went on to find the gingerbread man, and where we ended up finding him.  Also, today we made gingerbread man puppets and retold the story while acting it out--they would be more than excited to retell the story for you too, I'm sure!!

Welcome to Kindergarten!

Hello everyone!  Welcome to our Kindergarten classroom!!  It's very exciting to be starting a new school year, and I can't wait to meet and get to know you all!  There are many exciting things that will be happening this year.  To start with, remember, we have our Open House tonight (Thursday, August 31) from 4:00 - 6:00 pm.  I hope to see you all there!!  There will be more exciting news to come!

Mrs. Rozeveld