Thursday, January 20, 2005
January 17-21
January 21, 2005
Dear Families,
What a week! We learned about Martin Luther King, Jr. and dictated two facts we learned about him on a paper. We talked about water, where it comes from, and its uses. The kindergartners learned about whales. We did not take our scheduled winter walk because the weather was too winterish and the sidewalks were icy! Brrrrrr! We read the book Weekend With Wendell and laughed at all the wild things Wendell did when he stayed at a friend’s house. Then they told us what they would do with Wendell if he were able to stay overnight. We had centers again this week. During center time, the kindergartners rotated through 7 different activities. The children spent between 10 and 15 minutes at each center and moved when the timer rang. Centers included War the card game, ABC Bingo, the store in the dramatic play center, water in the sensory table, a shapes and color word worksheet, writing in our journals, and a watermelon counting activity.
Next week we will be studying the letter Jj. For sharing, the boys and girls should bring an object that starts with Jj.
Some families are thinking about Valentine’s Day already. Children can choose to have a valentine for each child in their particular group or one for each child in the class. (This means that reds could give a valentine to only the reds, or the reds and the blues. The blues could give a valentine only to the blues, or the the blues and the reds.) Attached to this newsletter is the list of names for each group. We encourage children to start working on them early. Writing their own name 19 to 38 times takes a long time. Families can help write the students’ names that the valentines will be given to.
PLEASE SEND BOOTS, HATS, AND MITTENS EVERYDAY TO SCHOOL!!!!!!
We have had a lot of colds in the classroom. We try to keep germs spreading to a minimum, but that is difficult. We wash hands often, clean the toys, tables, and pencils, and encourage students to cough and sneeze into their elbows instead of their hands. You will be called to pick up your child if we believe that he/she is too sick to be at school. We hope that you understand.
North Tama Elementary will be participating in a fun way to raise money for the tsunami victims. We are going to have a PENNY CHALLENGE. In the PENNY CHALLENGE, each class will gather as many PENNIES as they can. In the PENNY CHALLENGE, quarters, dimes, and nickels are not wanted in OUR jar. Quarters, dimes, and nickels can be taken to another classroom and put in that jar because quarters, dimes, and nickels work against the penny total. For instance, if a jar has 100 pennies in it and a quarter, the penny total would really be 75. If a jar has 100 pennies in it and a dime, the penny total would then be 90. If a jar has 100 pennies in it and a nickel, the penny total would then be 95. All of the money will go to the tsunami victim fund. The fun parts will be collecting the pennies in the kindergarten jar and adding quarters, dimes, and nickels to other classrooms’ jars. The PENNY CHALLENGE game is hard to explain, and if you need further clarification, please give us a call at school. The PENNY CHALLENGE will begin on Monday, January 24 and end on Monday, February 7.
We hope you can keep warm this winter weekend!
Mrs. Howard, Mrs. Owens, and Mrs. Herink
SOME UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER:
February 14th - Valentine’s Day (Parties MAY be on this day.)
February 15th - School dismisses at 12:25
February 18th - NO SCHOOL
February 21 - NO SCHOOL
February 28 - NO SCHOOL
Dear Families,
What a week! We learned about Martin Luther King, Jr. and dictated two facts we learned about him on a paper. We talked about water, where it comes from, and its uses. The kindergartners learned about whales. We did not take our scheduled winter walk because the weather was too winterish and the sidewalks were icy! Brrrrrr! We read the book Weekend With Wendell and laughed at all the wild things Wendell did when he stayed at a friend’s house. Then they told us what they would do with Wendell if he were able to stay overnight. We had centers again this week. During center time, the kindergartners rotated through 7 different activities. The children spent between 10 and 15 minutes at each center and moved when the timer rang. Centers included War the card game, ABC Bingo, the store in the dramatic play center, water in the sensory table, a shapes and color word worksheet, writing in our journals, and a watermelon counting activity.
Next week we will be studying the letter Jj. For sharing, the boys and girls should bring an object that starts with Jj.
Some families are thinking about Valentine’s Day already. Children can choose to have a valentine for each child in their particular group or one for each child in the class. (This means that reds could give a valentine to only the reds, or the reds and the blues. The blues could give a valentine only to the blues, or the the blues and the reds.) Attached to this newsletter is the list of names for each group. We encourage children to start working on them early. Writing their own name 19 to 38 times takes a long time. Families can help write the students’ names that the valentines will be given to.
PLEASE SEND BOOTS, HATS, AND MITTENS EVERYDAY TO SCHOOL!!!!!!
We have had a lot of colds in the classroom. We try to keep germs spreading to a minimum, but that is difficult. We wash hands often, clean the toys, tables, and pencils, and encourage students to cough and sneeze into their elbows instead of their hands. You will be called to pick up your child if we believe that he/she is too sick to be at school. We hope that you understand.
North Tama Elementary will be participating in a fun way to raise money for the tsunami victims. We are going to have a PENNY CHALLENGE. In the PENNY CHALLENGE, each class will gather as many PENNIES as they can. In the PENNY CHALLENGE, quarters, dimes, and nickels are not wanted in OUR jar. Quarters, dimes, and nickels can be taken to another classroom and put in that jar because quarters, dimes, and nickels work against the penny total. For instance, if a jar has 100 pennies in it and a quarter, the penny total would really be 75. If a jar has 100 pennies in it and a dime, the penny total would then be 90. If a jar has 100 pennies in it and a nickel, the penny total would then be 95. All of the money will go to the tsunami victim fund. The fun parts will be collecting the pennies in the kindergarten jar and adding quarters, dimes, and nickels to other classrooms’ jars. The PENNY CHALLENGE game is hard to explain, and if you need further clarification, please give us a call at school. The PENNY CHALLENGE will begin on Monday, January 24 and end on Monday, February 7.
We hope you can keep warm this winter weekend!
Mrs. Howard, Mrs. Owens, and Mrs. Herink
SOME UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER:
February 14th - Valentine’s Day (Parties MAY be on this day.)
February 15th - School dismisses at 12:25
February 18th - NO SCHOOL
February 21 - NO SCHOOL
February 28 - NO SCHOOL
