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Newsletter for the Week of  Sept.  27th – Oct 1st
Monday	Tuesday
Introducing letters & sounds of    Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, and Zz Review words:   the     little   I   am   P.E.  Please wear tennis shoes	Story: Miss Bindergarten Takes a Field Trip Question of the week: “How do people in                   a community cooperate?   Everyone needs a cold lunch or a sack lunch from the school menu! Show-n-Tell:  Maddy, Treyden
Wednesday	Thursday
Library Day – Please remember to return your library book to the gray tub in our room so you can check out another one for this week!   Show-n-Tell:  Emma, Ethyn, Erica	Show-n-Tell: Kaleigh, Kendal, Orion
Friday	Special Announcements
Music     Show-n-Tell: Rikki, Sophia  and                            Remington	Mrs. Clapper is out of town for the birth of her first grandchild!
Reminders
This Saturday the 25th of September is SATURDAY LIVE! Please try to come and support our schools! There is a volunteer sign up sheet in the office if you would like to help at Meadowlark’s stations. Thanks!

 

What a Great Wednesday!

Here we are, the first day of fall. Chilly weather was upon us today. Please remind your child of the importance of  bringing and wearing their jacket during recess when it is cold out. This morning the students shared their show and tell. Please remember which day is your child's and allow them to pick three things to share with the rest of the class at school. The class reviewed shape patterns, reread Plaidipus Lost and had the chance to check out a book at Library. We worked on letter sounds as well today. Here are the Amazing Words that we have been working on this week: AROUND, FOUND, GROCERIES, LOST, MARKET, PLATYPUS. The sight words are: I, AM, THE, LITTLE Please praise your child today for being such a great listener during our fire drill. The alarm was very loud, but the students followed directions well and we all got outside in great time. Thank you for all the love and encouragement you give your child everyday! 

EARLY OUT TOMORROW!!!! NOON!!!

Terrific Tuesday

Wow we had a great day of learning today! The children love to look at pictures and read their colorful Skills Buddy workbooks. We had an informational article about the original 13 star flag and our present flag. We also explored words and pictures with the 'p' sound and rhyming words. Then we had a wonderful story about a plaid Grandma-made platypus who kept getting lost and found!

For Social Studies today we talked about our American Heritage. We learned about Chief Plenty Coup, a great Crow leader, who taught his people how important it is to get a good education. The children enjoyed that he learned to be a strong, agile runner by chasing butterflies when he was young. We also read a beautiful book called Brother Eagle, Sister Sky and talked about taking good care of our earth. Then we ended our day by skipping afternoon centers to get ready early to leave by way of the tipi set up south of the school. We quietly sat in a circle inside the tipi and talked about how it is constructed, and why it could move easily to follow or find buffalo herd, and what it would b like to live, eat and sleep in that kind of home.

Life is Good when I get to read two wonderful stories in one day and have a real tipi for the children to experience!

The rest of the week should be busy with two birthdays, and an early dismissal at 12:00 noon on Thursday. Tickets will be on sale for Saturday Live, and you can also sign up to help our PTA with the Meadowlark blow up slide and selling tiarra's. Saturday Live is a fun family outing that supports our schools! I won't be able to be there this year, but have enjoyed the atmosphere and fundraising in the past.

Your children are a joy to work with! Thank you for reading our communications and letting us know how things are going from your child's point of view! It's going to be a wonderful year!

Sincerely, Carol Clapper

Monday the 20th

We had a marvelous Monday! We started out with math manipulatives and practiced making patterns. Then introduced the new amazing words that include groceries, which everyone is familiar with and market which many of the children were unsure of what it meant. We talked about how it is kind of an old fashion word for a grocery story or place to get food. It was great when all of the children remembered their tennis shoes for P.E. Mrs. Edgmond had a guest teacher named Mr. Hart. The retired kindergarten teacher who used to teach right next door is on call for when my daughter has her baby. Mrs. Mettler came in to meet the children the second week of school. I am sure they will enjoy her while I am gone. Unless the baby comes early, I will leave after school on Wednesday and be gone Sept. 27, 28 and 29th. We also caught quite a few boys and girls being kind, helpful and respectful today! I am sure they will be extra helpful when Mrs. Mettler is our guest teacher.

If you hear your child talking about 2 o'clock, we havent' started studying time, yet but are making lots of o's. To learn how to form the letter "o" properly we looked at the face of a clock and saw where the 2 is. Then we pushed up to the 12 and around counterclock wise back around to the two. We will be practicing that all year as we make o's and g's and a's and d's and even q's!

We also started a new workbook called "My Number Book" and worked on making the numeral one saying "top to bottom, now you're done. One is Fun!"

I hope your child is having as much fun as I am this year!

Sincerely, Mrs. Carol Clapper

Friday!! :-)

Hello! I hope that this finds you well and ready for the weekend! Here's a quick look of what we did today:

Math- can you believe that they are actually starting the foundational concepts of Algebra? We worked on patterns. AABAABAAB and so on. If you would like to work on this at home you can use drawings or actual manipulatives for your child to figure out patterns. This is VERY difficult for some, so practice is always a great idea.

Reading- We were able to retell the story, We are So Proud. The students enjoyed coming up to the computer and moving the pieces into the correct order. You can ask them to retell the story to you. They also came home with a sticker on their shirt that says: Ask me about the word: Cooperate. They should be able to tell you that it means "to work together".

We used white boards today to work on handwriting and their reader/writer notebooks went home today as well. If you have time to work the rest of the sections over with your child that is awesome practice for them. This is just some of what we worked on today. Thank you so much for all the love and encouragement you show your child everyday! We have an amazing class!! ~Mrs. Hansen

P.S. If you have the sheet for a sack lunch on the half day of school the 23rd please be sure to turn it in. Also, please fill out the class address form if you would like to be on the class directory.

Newsletter for the Week of Sept. 20th – 24th Mrs. Hansen & Mrs. Clapper's Kindergarten
Monday	Tuesday
Introducing letters & sounds of Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, and Ss New words: the little P.E. Please wear tennis shoes	Story: “ Platypus Lost” Question: “How do families cooperate? Show-n-Tell: Abe, Austin, Eli PTA Meeting – 7:00 p.m. (Commons)
Wednesday	Thursday
Jaxton’s Birthday! Library Day Show-n-Tell: Ella, Elias	Erica’s Birthday! Show-n-Tell: Jaxton, Gabrielle
	Early Out Day Dismissal for all students at 12:00 Sack lunches may be purchased with lunchmoney and reorder slip.
Friday	Special Announcements
Music Show-n-Tell: Morgan, Reece	Looking ahead, Tuesday, Sept 28th is the ice cream social at 6:30 p.m.
Reminders
This week the 9 children listed bring 3 items in the white STAR bag that tell us more about themselves. Next week the other 11 students will have an opportunity to do the same thing! Starting in October they will bring one item every week starting with the letter of the week! Book Orders due – online or to the teacher by tomorrowFriday, September 17, 2010

A quick Monday update

Today, we had a short line heading into school. We were missing our 4 friends who moved to the new class, 2 students absent, and the bus students got held up for about 5 minutes! But once the bus students got there we had 18 present and everyone remembered tennis shoes for P.E.! Way to go students and parents!!!

We started the second week of Unit 1 in reading. We have Amazing words like proud, preparation, guide,create and cooperate! We talked about times when we have felt proud and ways we can cooperate in school. We worked on writing the capital and lower case Ff and Gg's. We will take a couple letters a day and hopefully get through Mm by Friday!

We will be working on our speaking and listening skills as we talk about the "All About Me" pages your filled out before Open House. We will take the students in order of their show-n-tell days. This will just be a telling time, without bringing anything from home.

We practiced "I am _______ " and filled in the blank first with our name and then a picture of how we are feeling. Most students wanted to put both a happy face for liking to be back at school after the weekend, but sad that some of our friends were not there. By lunch and afternoon recess they connected with Caitlin, Aayla, Kian and Duncan and everyone enjoyed seeing each other! Because of this big change all of the students after #9 will have a number change. I moved the mailbox numbers and the children adjusted well. You will be able to tell when you get Thursday folders what you child's new number is.

Finally, we got to one of Mrs. Clapper's favorite bear stories "Berlouis" and listened to two versions of "Flight of the Bumblebee" on YouTube. See if your child can tell you the connection between the story and the song. We introduced the work 'ENCORE' and they enjoyed requesting an encore of the song!

We're looking forward to a terrific Tuesday tomorrow!

~ Mrs. Carol Clapper