Friday, May 20, 2005
May 9-13
May 13, 2005
Dear Families,
We read two more booklets this week. Your student should have brought home the following booklets: We Win! and Jen and Yip. We recommend that you read these booklets numerous times during the summer so that your student can remember the words we learned this year. In math we learned about symmetry. We made butterflies with symmetrical designs on the wings. We continued to work on report card evaluations. This was the last week for centers. Centers included numbered ducks, working in journals, decorating a door hanger, war, geoboards, books, and reading books.
On Wednesday we visited the Traer Public Library. Attached to this newsletter is a cool bookmark and a library card. Kindergartners and their families may fill out this card and take it down to the Traer Public Library so that they can be issued a library card. Please do not send this card back to school. If you do we will send it back home with your student.
This week your child brought home a book given to them by First Lady Christie Vilsack. Every kindergartner in the state of Iowa received this book. This year’s books is entitled Family Pictures. Included in the bag with the book are some crayons and informational pamphlets.
Do not forget that on Tuesday, May 31st, we have our annual track and field day. If it is rainy on May 31st, then track and field day will be on June 1st. Our May 31st events are the sack race at 12:30, the 50 yard dash at 12:45, and the tug-of-war at 1:00. When all the events are over, families may pick their child up at the child’s room. They will have backpacks and folders to pick up and take home. Please put sunscreen on the children at home and send some to be put on later. While we are outside participating in track and field day we like to have the children stay with the class instead of walking around with their families. It is easier to keep track of 38 students that way. Since we are not out at the track and field day all day, we DO NOT want beach towels or water bottles sent to school with the kindergartners!
The kindergartners and third graders are hoping to perform at Traer’s nursing home around 1:00 on sometime during the last full week of school. We will let you know the exact date when it is officially scheduled. We hope to walk to the nursing home with the third graders.
On Friday, May 27th we get out of school 1 hour early so that we can start enjoying Memorial Day a little sooner.
Kindergartners have the opportunity to earn three special awards at the close of the school year. One of the awards is called Outstanding Attendance and is given to the children who missed two days or less this school year. Children receiving this must also not have been tardy more than twice. The other two awards were academic awards. An award is given to the children who can correctly count to 100, and one is given to the children who can correctly name all of the letters of the alphabet, both capital and lower case. Children who do not receive any of these three awards WILL receive an award which recognizes their particular strengths. This way all children will receive at least one award. The awards will be handed out on the last day of school (unless track and field day has to be switched!). Watch the Traer Star Clipper for your child’s name! We give the newspaper a list of award winners.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Howard, Mrs. Herink, Mrs. Owens
Dear Families,
We read two more booklets this week. Your student should have brought home the following booklets: We Win! and Jen and Yip. We recommend that you read these booklets numerous times during the summer so that your student can remember the words we learned this year. In math we learned about symmetry. We made butterflies with symmetrical designs on the wings. We continued to work on report card evaluations. This was the last week for centers. Centers included numbered ducks, working in journals, decorating a door hanger, war, geoboards, books, and reading books.
On Wednesday we visited the Traer Public Library. Attached to this newsletter is a cool bookmark and a library card. Kindergartners and their families may fill out this card and take it down to the Traer Public Library so that they can be issued a library card. Please do not send this card back to school. If you do we will send it back home with your student.
This week your child brought home a book given to them by First Lady Christie Vilsack. Every kindergartner in the state of Iowa received this book. This year’s books is entitled Family Pictures. Included in the bag with the book are some crayons and informational pamphlets.
Do not forget that on Tuesday, May 31st, we have our annual track and field day. If it is rainy on May 31st, then track and field day will be on June 1st. Our May 31st events are the sack race at 12:30, the 50 yard dash at 12:45, and the tug-of-war at 1:00. When all the events are over, families may pick their child up at the child’s room. They will have backpacks and folders to pick up and take home. Please put sunscreen on the children at home and send some to be put on later. While we are outside participating in track and field day we like to have the children stay with the class instead of walking around with their families. It is easier to keep track of 38 students that way. Since we are not out at the track and field day all day, we DO NOT want beach towels or water bottles sent to school with the kindergartners!
The kindergartners and third graders are hoping to perform at Traer’s nursing home around 1:00 on sometime during the last full week of school. We will let you know the exact date when it is officially scheduled. We hope to walk to the nursing home with the third graders.
On Friday, May 27th we get out of school 1 hour early so that we can start enjoying Memorial Day a little sooner.
Kindergartners have the opportunity to earn three special awards at the close of the school year. One of the awards is called Outstanding Attendance and is given to the children who missed two days or less this school year. Children receiving this must also not have been tardy more than twice. The other two awards were academic awards. An award is given to the children who can correctly count to 100, and one is given to the children who can correctly name all of the letters of the alphabet, both capital and lower case. Children who do not receive any of these three awards WILL receive an award which recognizes their particular strengths. This way all children will receive at least one award. The awards will be handed out on the last day of school (unless track and field day has to be switched!). Watch the Traer Star Clipper for your child’s name! We give the newspaper a list of award winners.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Howard, Mrs. Herink, Mrs. Owens
