Newsletter 9: 1/6/20

Newsletter 9: January 6, 2020

Important Dates

Monday, January 6 – F Day

Tuesday, January 7 – A Day 

Wednesday, January 8 - B Day  NOT A LATE START

Thursday, January 9 - C Day

Friday, January 10 - D Day

Monday, January 13 E Day  NWEA Winter Testing Begins

School Board Meeting at Upton 6:00pm

Monday, January 20 – No School MLK Day

Daily Routine

 Please make sure that your child is getting lots of sleep with a regular consistent bedtime, good breakfast,  and is getting to school on time.

First week back can be a challenge for children and routine can help with that.

Volunteers Needed

I am in need of some classroom help.  

If you have a day available to help, I have a job for you. I would like to have a volunteer here several times a week.

Please email or text me to set up a time/day to come in and help.

We are still in need of guest readers.  Please sign up for a time to read to the class.  It would be nice for each family to volunteer at least once.

Guest Readers Sign up Here :

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xW1mnuokvFhdSE96Z_xxJPv0lI7-ag5OHyytJ4LkYRw/edit?usp=sharing

Daily Folder - Continue to check daily

Lunch - Children are doing well with their lunch routine and you are welcome to join them for lunch if you would like.

Lunch: 12:05-12:25 Eat 

         12:25- 12:55 Play outside

Snow Gear - Please mark all snow wear with your children name.  It is the season of lost mittens, gloves and hats. You may leave a pair of shoes here at school to put on instead of wearing snow boots all day.

Water bottles - Please send your child with a water bottle to school.

Snacks - We have 24 children in our class right now.  Please make sure your child brings enough snacks on their leader day and that they are free from peanuts and red dye

Cub of the Month

Every month a student from each class is selected that represents the 

Bear Necessities - Be responsible 

               Everyday 

               Always be  

                     Respectful  and 

         Safe

Library

Library books go home every F day. 

Please help your child to remember to return the book to school.

Gym

Please encourage your child to leave a pair of gym shoes at school, 

It is much easier than trying to remember them.

January Calendar

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1izqHL3aOdoXEVORGWNFj8sX9XTUxVwOTrwvftwo4shk/edit?usp=sharing

Newsletter for November 18th

Upcoming Events

*November 27 – Half Day of School

*November 28-29 – No school, Happy Thanksgiving

Lexia Online Access
I have noticed that some families are having trouble accessing Lexia Core 5 online. The easiest way is to go to our Lincoln Symbaloo (I have included the link below) and click on Clever in the top row. You can log into Clever using your child's student ID number that was sent home and the password Bears123. From there they should be able to click on Core 5 and practice their skills!

Lincoln Symbaloo

Thanksgiving Lunch

Our annual Thanksgiving Lunch was on Thursday.  The Kindergarten classes did a terrific job of providing the entertainment for all three lunches! We also had a great time enjoying wonderful food, served by amazing volunteers, with our awesome buddies! I have posted a link to a video of one of the performances below.

Thanksgiving Lunch Performance

Cold Weather Clothing

The weather has started turning colder and will be snowier, especially in the morning.  Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for the conditions. Practice zipping coats, putting on snow pants, hats, and mittens, and tying shoes at home.  The children are required to wear boots and snow pants in order to play in the snow at recess.  Please remember, we expect the children to be able to dress themselves in their outerwear.  When your child wears boots to school, you need to put a pair of inside shoes (that they can get on and off themselves) in their backpack.  They are not allowed to wear their wet boots in the classroom.  If you would like to send in a pair for them to keep in their locker, that would be fine. We will be happy to help with shoe tying and zipping until the winter break.  After that, they are expected to take care of these things on their own.  Of course we will still untie knots and unstick stuck zippers!  Thank you for your help and support at home. Also, please label ALL of your child's belongings. We are finding quite a few things in the lost and found already!

Conferences

Thank you so much to ALL of the parents that made it a priority to come to their child’s conference. I enjoyed meeting with you and discussing your child’s progress in kindergarten.  It is amazing how much they have already learned and will continue to learn this year!

This Cycle

Our 50^th day centers were GREAT!  Thank you to all of the moms that were able to help us practice recognizing, counting, and writing to 50!

Our handwriting focus this past week was uppercase and lower case Dd, and reviewing uppercase and lowercase Oo and Aa.  Please practice writing these letters correctly at home. Our strategy with language arts this week was determining sequence of events and determining text importance.

We worked with many posters about growing plants to sequence the information and determine its importance. We learned about signal words like first, next, then, and last. We have started our new writing unit, Pattern Books. We are practicing writing books that have similar words on each page, are all about one topic, and use sight words and simple words! These are this kind of books we are practicing reading by ourselves too!

Christmas Trees

Coming home this week is our next (and last) take home project this year.  We are decorating Christmas trees to hang in our hallways this holiday season. Please work with your child to decorate your tree and return it to school by December 2nd. 

Thank you and have fun!

Gingerbread Houses

We are going to be decorating our gingerbread houses the week of December 9th. I will email the exact dates and times later this week or early next week.  We will need help getting supplies ready, supervising the decorating process, and cleaning up after.  We would love to have you.  ALSO, we need some help before preparing the houses for decorating.  This involves hot gluing graham crackers to a small milk carton and then onto a plate.  I have a couple of glue guns.  If you would like to help with this important prep work, I would LOVE to have you. Please email me!

School Store

Our student council runs a school store during lunch on some Wednesdays (there will be one this Wednesday the 20th).  They sell pencils, erasers, and other little trinkets.  Most things cost less than a dollar.  Your children are welcome to bring money (only a dollar at most please) and purchase items during their lunch.  I am not sure of specific days, but I will try to let you know when I find out.  These days are usually announced on our morning school news and in Mr. Hubble's blog. 

Guest Reader Sign Up

Please click the link below and add your name to the date that you would like to be guest reader.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xW1mnuokvFhdSE96Z_xxJPv0lI7-ag5OHyytJ4LkYRw/edit?usp=sharing

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