Our Families are Fabulous!

We have had a great week learning about our different families! Thank you so much for sending in your special items and sharing your family traditions with us!  We also had fun with the letter "I" making our ice cream cones and igloos.

Next week will be filled with the letter "U", pumpkins galore and learning about Fire Safety.

We will be discussing the different parts of the pumpkin as we carve it and then roast the seeds for a
special treat!

We will also make a special thank you for our Fire Department for all they do to protect us and prevent fires!

Tuesday, REPORT CARDS go home.  Please sign and return.  A copy will be sent home for your records as well.

On Friday, we can wear our Jessie's Team t-shirts with jeans.

Fall and "H" Week 9/29 - 10/3

Last week was a great week learning about the letter "E" and Colors of the World.  When you get a moment, check out our rainbow in the hall that we made with our handprints.  

This week we are working on the letter "H" and the learning about the Fall season.  Weather permitting, we will take a nature walk around school to collect leaves, acorns and other signs of fall then create some crafts with our findings.  

This week is a busy one as we celebrate Spirit Week getting ready for Homecoming this Friday.  Students may wear a THA t-shirt with uniform bottoms on Friday.  We will be attending the Pep Rally on Friday in the gym from 12:40 - 1:00 pm.  Cheek cheers will be on sale that morning too!

Also, Friday will be HAT DAY for the kindergarten wing - so you may wear your favorite hat or decorate any hat of your choosing. 

Our class is collecting Box Tops for Education!!!  Please clip these and send them in any time to our class!!

   

This past week we began our Handwriting without Tears curriculum with the letter "L".  In addition to writing our L's, we made lamps, lion masks, tasted limes and filled our "L" collage with "L" words. Friday was especially fun as we learned how to Limbo too!
The next two weeks will feature Colors All Around.  We will work on the letter "F" and focus on purple, orange, pink and brown this week.  We will also be reviewing our shapes and take note of all the different shapes we see in our world every day.

• Thursday, September 18th is the only day that wrapping paper sales may be turned in. Please don't forget!!

• Progress reports will go home on Thursday, September 18th.

• This Friday 9/19, students may wear a neon top with jeans or khakis. Friday is also Lil' Rebel day, so please make sure you have your child in the gym at the appropriate time so that they can attend breakfast!  

WOOHOO!! It was a BANNER day today!!!

YAY! I am sooo happy to report that today was a banner day for K-4!  We did not have the first clothespin moved on our behavior chart!!  So EVERYONE stayed on green and had their choice of a smiley stamp or some "smelly" lotion at the end of the day.  
Just to review for you, we ALL begin every day on GREEN (We are respectful, responsible and ready to learn).  If there is a lack of the above green behavior, a clothespin is moved down to ORANGE (Uh oh - make better choices).  If better choices are exhibited, then the clothespin may be moved back up to orange OR can be moved up to PURPLE ('Owl'-standing behavior).  If things don't improve or if there is a behavior that is not tolerated (ie, biting, hitting, spitting, etc.) then the clothespin moves down to RED (note sent home).   
At the end of our day, we review are chart.  If you are on green, you have your choice of a smiley face stamp on your hand or "smelly" hand lotion (Bath & Body Works lotion).  If you made it to purple for the day, you get BOTH - a stamp and "smelly" lotion.  Unfortunately, orange gets nothing but a gentle reminder to make better choices tomorrow - as it will be a new day!!  
I hope this helps better understand our system and why you've been being asked to "smell my hands!!"  They absolutely LOVE it! And I am so proud of them!
I am loving getting to know each one of them better and am looking forward to what all we are going to learn about each other in the next couple of weeks of "All About Me"!  Thank you for sharing them with me! 
Their little personalities are really beginning to shine!

WELCOME to K-4!!!

   Welcome to the 2014-2015 school year for K-4!
We had a great first day today! We met new friends and began learning the rules of our classroom and school.  We will continue to work on these in the weeks ahead as well.  We also took a tour of the entire school - be sure to ask yours what he/she remembers from the "I SPY" tour.  

And mostly, THANK YOU so much for sharing your precious little ones with me!  They have already stolen a place in my heart, and I look forward to watching them grow. We are going to have a fantastic year!