NEWS—Nov. 11-15 |

It is hard to believe that it is mid-November and we are looking forward to Thanksgiving. We had some fun making some silly looking turkeys to decorate our classroom. They will come home soon.

POPCORN WORDS OR FOR

READING: We continued learning about our Super Reader Powers! We practiced reading using our POINTER POWER, our REREAD POWER, our PARTNER POWER (which we practiced by reading The Itsy Bitsy Spider), our PICTURE POWER and our SNAP WORD POWER! Wow…we have a lot of reading powers! We loved looking for SNAP words (popcorn words) in their books and writing them down! I’m so proud of how hard they are working!

WRITING: The kinders worked on writing a small moment story. We practiced writing a beginning, a middle and an end. The Kinders drew pictures on each page, labeled the pictures and wrote words to go on each page. They even added a speech bubble to tell what someone in their picture was saying! The kinders are taking risks writing and doing a fabulous job!

HANDWRITING: We practiced writing the TAIL FAMILY letters (j,g,q,p,y) We will review all of the lower case letters next week and begin practicing the proper formation of the upper case letters after Thanksgiving. Keep working at home….it is helpful!

MATH: The kinders practiced identifying their shapes and learned about new shape…a hexagon. The Kinders had to find certain shapes and color them the correct color. We also helped Puzzled Penguin write his numbers in the correct order. Good thing we helped him, he gets puzzled sometimes. On Friday, the kinders worked in their own office space to take their Unit #2 math test. I am excited to grade them and share their progress with you..

WANTS AND NEEDS: We read Berenstain’s Bears get the Gimmies to help us learn the difference between wants and needs. Wants are things that we wish we had.(doll, baseball, Xbox games, ipad) Needs are things that we need to have.(food, water, clothes, shelter) Then we sorted pictures of wants and needs. We sorted pictures of things we want and need. We completed a few worksheets to help us in our learning…a coloring paper and a cut and paste activity.

SPLIT LIT: This week we started our new Split Lit. center activities. After getting a chance to assess and re-assess the kinders, I was able to create a group of activities that enables them to work on the skills they need to practice the most. The kinders spend this time with working in small groups either with Mrs.Bynum, myself or working independently on literacy activities such as identifying and writing letters, reading emerging books, rhyming words, beginning sounds and more.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS:

We celebrated Kylie’s birthday on Tuesday.

We celebrated Katelyn’s birthday (a day earlier) on Friday. Happy Birthday girls!

MYSTERY READERS: There are many dates available for you, a grandparent or an older sibling to be a mystery reader. If one of the dates listed do not work for your schedule, please contact me and we can make other arrangements. Here is the link to sign up.

REMINDERS

Now that the snow season has arrived, please remember. When snow is on the ground, please have the following in your kinder’s backpack:

Snow pants
Boots-designed for the snow
A Warm Coat
Mittens/Gloves
A Hat

P.E. C.A.R.E.S food drive will be ending on Thursday, Nov. 21. Please bring in non-perishable food items for Love Inc. in Hudsonville. Food items to consider are canned vegetables and fruits, pasta, rice, baked beans, black beans, kidney beans, peanut butter, tuna fish, etc. (please no ramen noodles)

The class with the most items at the end of the day on Nov. 21 will win a bowling trip to Hudsonville Lanes and a P.E. C.A.R.E.S t-shirt.

UPCOMING DATES

*Monday, Nov 18—GYM; Parent-Teacher Conferences Book Fair Preview Day Allan’s birthday celebration

*Tuesday, Nov 19—ART

*Wednesday, Nov 20—STEAM; Library–Please help your kinder remember their library book. (I think that Mrs. VandenBerg is coming into the classroom so that the kinders can check out a new book.) Homework packet is due Parent-Teacher Conferences Book Fair Purchase Day

*Thursday, Nov 21–-MUSIC

*Friday, Nov 22—GYM

*Nov. 27—Nov. 29—NO SCHOOL, Thanksgiving Vacation

*Dec. 12—Holiday Program… 6:30 p.m. at Fair Haven Church in Jenison. More details coming as date approaches. The kinders are very busy practicing their songs!

Have a great weekend. I am looking forward to meeting with you next week to share your kinder’s progress. You will receive your kinder’s report card at conferences. Mrs. Bohl

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