Another Marvelous Monday

I promised the boys and girls that I would tell all the parents how great of a day we had today! We earned 4 compliments and put 4 links in the kindness chain. They are really working to be quiet in line, helpful to each other and listen to the teacher! They adjusted back to our regular day and some were surprised when it was already time to go home!

We started a new way to do lunch count that should go faster and leave us even more learning time. The students who are cold lunch need to put a clip by their name on a list by the door. Then we have the star helper count the hot lunches and we "count on" to get up to our total students for the day! They are lining up alphabetically without name tags, so we will probably only use them on Wednesday's when they can be the nametags for our librarian.

We also started a creative art center choice at the blue table. They can use scraps of paper, scissors, glue and markers to make any sort of creation they want. Look for all sorts of new creative designs and projects!

Thank you all for coming to conferences. We had all but 2 completed last week and those 2 have rescheduled for this week 100% WOW!!! you are AWESOME parents!!!! Thanks for taking time to talk with us about your child's school progress! We know it makes a huge difference when we work together.

Now a quick overview of our week. Our Question of the Week is: What unique thing does a bear do in the Winter? The big book tomorrow is "Bear Snores On" and our amazing words are: blustery,

cave,

sleep,

storm,

winter

and woods.

We are reviewing the high frequency words: we, like, and my.

I also fit in another story about bears getting ready for the winter called "Copy me, Copycub"! Even though we talked about bears the first few weeks of school the student are excited to be learning more about bears.

Show and tell is still one item that starts with the "hard" c sound (like in cat, cup, or carrot) or the k sound as in (kite, koala or kitten). We discovered a lot of words that start with the /k/ sound but have yet to have someone say "KINDERGARTEN".

We got some questions about the homework I put on the November calendar. It will come home this Thursday after we talk a little more about Thanksgiving. I will send home a gold half sheet that says "I am thankful for.... at the top" and by _______________ at the bottom. In between children can draw pictures of things or write a list of things they are thankful for. It can be one thing or many things. You can help them to whatever degree they need help. You can help them sound out the words, spell words for them, or write them on a separate sheet of paper and let them copy the words. Or they can do the pictures and you can label them. Just try to let them do as much as possible that is still readable for other adults. We are going to put the individual sheets into a book that will 'travel' home with each child for a night to read with their parents.

Thanks for everything you do to help your child feel good about school!

Sincerely, Carol Clapper