It's Back to School/Getting to Know You Week 8/14-8/18/18

We had a fabulous first day on Friday!  I am so excited to begin exploring the great outdoors and more with this class!  It's going to be a great year!

This week we will be learning about our new friends in our class and discussing proper classroom behaviors, routines and procedures.  Please return the "All About Me" page no later than Wednesday 8/16.

We will begin letter and number awareness  with introduction to letters Aa and Bb and numbers 1 and 2.  We will discuss objects and names that begin with each letter.  We will begin  introducing/reviewing  colors and shapes.

Our math concept for the week is One-to-one correspondence. We are also exploring AB patterns.

We will always incorporate important character traits into our learning as well. We will work on sharing and taking turns this week.

K4 Explores the Great Outdoors 2017-18

                                                              

Welcome to K4!
It's going to be a great year in our Kindergarten Wing!  We are going to have a fun-filled year of exploring, learning and growing in K4.
I look forward to meeting each of you and your families at the Back to School Bash, and I can't wait to see all of their bright little faces on next Friday morning.
Check back here regularly for updates and also be on the lookout for an invite to our group Facebook page!
And thank you, in advance, for sharing your children with me and allowing me the opportunity to get to know your little ones and love them like my own!  I can't wait to see what this year holds for us all!
Shari Smith

Week of December 5-9, 2016

We only have 6 more full days and 3 half days until Christmas break!
This week we are continuing with Number sense and learning about the Twelve Days of Christmas.
A good number of our K4 friends have learned their phone numbers.  Continue working with your child at home singing the number to the tune of "Frere Jacques".  As we assess for second quarter, we want to see as many stickers on their folders as possible.  Practicing days, months, ABCs, phone number, birthday and seasons will continue to reinforce these at home.

A note about our Christmas Cookie Exchange on Thursday 12/15 went home today.  This will be in lieu of a gift exchange and will allow a fabulous memory making opportunity for you and your child to bake some Christmas cookies.

Half days with 11:15 dismissal are Wednesday 12/14, Thursday 12/15 and Friday 12/16.

Christmas Program is Friday 12/16 at 8:30 a.m in the gym.  Please dress children in their Christmas best and have them in our classroom by 8:00.

Week of November 7-11, 2016

First off, thank you all for the kind words, cards and expressions of sympathy in the sudden loss of my mom last Sunday.  I have missed our little ones this week and am looking forward to all of those sweet hugs tomorrow!  

Join us for the Veteran's Day Program tomorrow (Monday 11/7) night in the gym at 7pm.

This week's theme is Native Americans!  This is an exciting time in Kinderwing as we prepare for our annual Thanksgiving Feast and show off our Native American costumes.  We will be working on decorating our pillowcases (indian dress) this week and will be picking our indian names.  This is done through a random drawing of adjectives and nouns and I always love to see what combination of names they draw.  

We are continuing to practice memorizing our phone numbers and birthdays, as well as days of the week, months of the year and the pledge of allegiance.  Practicing these at home or in the car is always helpful.

Week of 10/17-10/21

We will continue to work on recognizing our letter, days of the week, and months of the year.  We will start counting to 20.

Please make sure you have your 2 liter bottle turned in by Tuesday at the latest.

Recipes will be going home this week.  Please send in yours by Friday at the latest so we can assemble the book before Friday 10/28 Silent Auction.

Upcoming Dates:
Wednesday 10/19 - Field trip to Ridgeland Airport to learn about air safety 9-10:30.  We will be taking the bus.

Friday 10/28 - Homecoming/Silent Auction/Senior Night

Monday 10/31 - Halloween celebration - wear fall/Halloween shirt with jeans or khakis.  more information to follow.

Tuesday 11/1 - KinderClub 6pm in the cafeteria.  Please plan to attend this fun family night!

Week of September 26-30

This week's theme is the Four Seasons.  We will be talking about fall, winter, spring and summer and how they are different.  We will be going on a leaf hunt, making leaf rubbings, talking about parts of a plant and growing our own sprouts and many other hands-on explorations.

Coming Events/ Activities
We will be making a Thanksgiving project and are looking for large (refrigerator size) cardboard boxes.  If you have access to these, please grab them and bring in as available.

We will also be making a project in the future that will involve A LOT of gallon milk jugs.  If you would, please rinse out and start saving milk cartons.  We will be asking for them in December. Thank you!!

SAVE THE DATE!!

Monday, October 10th - NO SCHOOL

October 19th - Field trip to the Ridgeland Airport 9-10:30a.m. - We will be taking the bus for this trip.

Silent auction is October 28th during the football game.  Be on the lookout for more information on this from our room moms as to what items/money we will need donated for our contribution to this event. Thank you again for all of your support in making this year the best yet!

Monday, October 31 - Wear fall/Halloween t-shirt and khaki bottoms.  No masks or costumes.  We will have a celebration in our k-wing.

Tuesday, November 1 - Kinderclub 6pm in Cafeteria - please plan to join us for this family fun night of food and fun

Week of September 12-16

The next two weeks we are discussing shapes and colors.  We will be exploring these things through songs, fun games and crafts and talk about the shapes and colors we see in our everyday lives and world.  We are also working on memorizing the days of the week and months of the year.

All fundraising packets are due this Thursday 9/15.
Progress reports will go home on Thursday 9/15.

On Friday, students may wear white shirts and jeans for a $1.00 donation.  Cheek cheers will also be available.  Check your child's folder for the money envelope.

Kinderclub is Monday, 9/19 - RSVPs are due by Friday, 9/16.

Wednesday, 9/21 will be a half day for parent/teacher conferences.  Please check your child's folder for your signup times.

Silent auction is October 28th.  Please be on the lookout for information about our basket item/donation for this night.

**Field trip date changes - Our trip to Sgt Jasper on 10/7 has been changed to March 31st.
                                Our Airport field trip on Friday 10/21 is now going to be on Wednesday 10/19.**