Thursday, September 09, 2004
September 6 - 10
September 10, 2004
Dear Families,
This week we continued to review the school and classroom rules and procedures. We also continued to read books about the beginning of school. We worked on colors with the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear. We hope your child will share their similar book with you. We read a big book called All About You, and we learned more about each other. We talked about families and body graphed how many people were in our families. Patterning with our bodies was a fun activity we tried this week. An example was standing, sitting, standing, sitting. The students were getting really good at figuring out the patterns.
It was nice seeing so many families at the Open House on Thursday. We now have faces to put with names as children tell us about their families. The first day of school pictures that were hanging in the hallway will be coming home in the near future.
Breakfast begins at 8:00. Children eating breakfast should not come into the school until 8:00. Other students may come in at 8:10. If your child arrives too early, we will send him/her out to the playground.
We will begin sharing next week with the topic “My favorite _____________.” This item can be a book, food, animal, toy, etc. Each week we will have a specific topic. A list of September topics will be at the end of the newsletter. (Please keep the sharing portion of the newsletter so that you can refer to the sharing list each week.) Your child needs to be able to tell about the sharing item in front of the class. Your child is assigned a sharing day. The kindergartners need to remember to bring their sharing on their assigned day. If a child forgets the sharing item, he/she may not bring it another day. If your kindergartner is gone on their sharing day, then he/she needs to bring their sharing item on the day they come back to school.
On Thursday, North Tama students brought home fundraising packets. This year we are working with the Geckler Company selling food and gift items. Families are not required to sell any products. If you do not wish to participate in this fundraiser, then you may send the materials back to school, and we will give them back to the company. Instead of selling items, families may donate money. The money raised will be used to purchase technology software and hardware for the elementary.
The K-1 Family Math Night has been scheduled for Thursday, September 30th. Mark your calendars now! More information will be coming home soon.
During the month of September the entire elementary is working on the characteristics self control and service. We will be demonstrating self control in different situations and praising those that show self control during the day. Perhaps you would like to work on self control at home!
We hope that your child is enjoying school! Have a super weekend!!
Mrs. Owens, Mrs. Howard, Ms. McGowen, Mrs. Herink
__________________________’s sharing day is __________________.
September Sharing
September 13 - 17: “My favorite _____________.” This could be a favorite book, food, animal, toy, etc.
September 20 - 24: Something in a “secret sack” from your favorite season that we have to guess using the child’s clues.
September 27 - October 1: Something that deals with the alphabet such as a book, puzzle, game, educational toy, video.
October 4 - 8: An item that begins with the letter Ll
Dear Families,
This week we continued to review the school and classroom rules and procedures. We also continued to read books about the beginning of school. We worked on colors with the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear. We hope your child will share their similar book with you. We read a big book called All About You, and we learned more about each other. We talked about families and body graphed how many people were in our families. Patterning with our bodies was a fun activity we tried this week. An example was standing, sitting, standing, sitting. The students were getting really good at figuring out the patterns.
It was nice seeing so many families at the Open House on Thursday. We now have faces to put with names as children tell us about their families. The first day of school pictures that were hanging in the hallway will be coming home in the near future.
Breakfast begins at 8:00. Children eating breakfast should not come into the school until 8:00. Other students may come in at 8:10. If your child arrives too early, we will send him/her out to the playground.
We will begin sharing next week with the topic “My favorite _____________.” This item can be a book, food, animal, toy, etc. Each week we will have a specific topic. A list of September topics will be at the end of the newsletter. (Please keep the sharing portion of the newsletter so that you can refer to the sharing list each week.) Your child needs to be able to tell about the sharing item in front of the class. Your child is assigned a sharing day. The kindergartners need to remember to bring their sharing on their assigned day. If a child forgets the sharing item, he/she may not bring it another day. If your kindergartner is gone on their sharing day, then he/she needs to bring their sharing item on the day they come back to school.
On Thursday, North Tama students brought home fundraising packets. This year we are working with the Geckler Company selling food and gift items. Families are not required to sell any products. If you do not wish to participate in this fundraiser, then you may send the materials back to school, and we will give them back to the company. Instead of selling items, families may donate money. The money raised will be used to purchase technology software and hardware for the elementary.
The K-1 Family Math Night has been scheduled for Thursday, September 30th. Mark your calendars now! More information will be coming home soon.
During the month of September the entire elementary is working on the characteristics self control and service. We will be demonstrating self control in different situations and praising those that show self control during the day. Perhaps you would like to work on self control at home!
We hope that your child is enjoying school! Have a super weekend!!
Mrs. Owens, Mrs. Howard, Ms. McGowen, Mrs. Herink
__________________________’s sharing day is __________________.
September Sharing
September 13 - 17: “My favorite _____________.” This could be a favorite book, food, animal, toy, etc.
September 20 - 24: Something in a “secret sack” from your favorite season that we have to guess using the child’s clues.
September 27 - October 1: Something that deals with the alphabet such as a book, puzzle, game, educational toy, video.
October 4 - 8: An item that begins with the letter Ll
