Week of November 5th

Good Afternoon,

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. We have a great month ahead of us, with lots of exciting events going on. Here are some important reminders & information for you:

1) Our ABC Bootcamp Fashion Show will be on Thursday, we will be sharing the fashion show on Class Dojo. The letter vests that went home last week are due back to school tomorrow. Please be sure your child is decorating their vest, they may do both the front and the back. This is a great family involvement project to work on enforcing all the sounds we have learned the past 26 days.

2) Our Disguise a Turkey Projects will be going home today with a detailed letter for explanation. The point of this project is for your child to create a “disguise” or “costume” for the turkey so he/she will not look like a turkey on Thanksgiving. You can look up many ideas online for inspiration, I showed the class the past Kindergarten’s turkeys as well to help get them started. You can use any types of materials you may have at home. Please send them back to school by next Monday November 12^th. We will be displaying their wonderful creations! : )

3) Reading Folders will also be going home today with our November READO boards and reading logs. Students who brought in their work from October received their free frosty coupon, as well as a classroom prize coupon for completing all assignments. Parents- please be sure to initial on the READO boards so we can be sure they children have completed those activities. Many of the activities take less than 5 minutes to accomplish and can be done while driving or during a dinner time discussion with your child. While it is my philosophy not to overwhelm our Kinders with an abundance of homework, the READO boards and other family projects that we send home are a very important part of year together and do have many benefits for your child.

4) There is no school this Friday, November 9^th.

5) Next Friday November 16^th will be our Thanksgiving Show & Feast Celebration beginning at 1:15 pm. All families (including siblings) are welcome (and highly encouraged) to attend. A formal invitation will be going home this week.

6) There are half days on Monday November 19^th and Tuesday November 20^th with after care available, and a half day on Wednesday November 23^rd with no after care. Kindergarten conferences will be taking place in January, as we do not receive report cards until the end of second quarter. We are closed on Thursday November 24^th and Friday November 25^th for Thanksgiving.

Here are our themes/concepts for this week:

1) Reading/Language Arts/ Phonics:

-Letters (Bootcamp)- Z- review all 26 letters

-Sight Words- can, Jesus

-Color Word- Black

-Reading Comprehension- Plot

2) Mathematics:

-Patterning

-Graphs & Data

3) Religion-

-Thankful Blessings

-The Saints

-Daily Prayers

4) Social Studies:

- Election Day

-The First Thanksgiving

Thank you for your time, I hope you all have a fantastic week!

Love & Prayers,

Mrs. Tironi