Parents,

I guess most of your children told you that I went home not feeling well on Friday.  I went straight to the doctor and she said that I didn’t have the flu..but whatever I have wiped me out!  I stayed home again today (Monday) but am feeling much better.  I want to be 100% for the children!

Please refer to the letter you received concerning kindergarten testing for Wednesday and Thursday.  Remember to send your valentine box covered with paper.  The children will decorate these later in the week.  Here’s to another week!

Early Morning                                      

 - Academic tubs                                  

 - Devotion

 - Morning Message                               .

 - Pledge

 Reading

- Review Dd, Zz

- Vocabulary - for, have, go, and, to, here, at, an,

- Short i words - reading, writing, breaking words apart, blending, building

- Reviewing Opposites

- Words for travel

- Rotation Stations

- Journal Writing

- Leveled Readers

 Math

- Addition

- Vocabulary - add, plus sign, equal signs, sum

- Addition Sentences

- Problem Solving

- Smartboard Activities

- Creating story problems

 Bible

-Jesus Chooses His Helpers

LunchBunch

  - Smartboard activities for Math Enrichment

  - Reading centers

  - Science Lab/P.E.

Kindergarten Testing (new students)

Parents,

The Kindergarten teachers along with other staff members will be involved with testing students for the upcoming 2011-2012 school year.  The testing dates are Wednesday, Feb. 2^nd and Thurs. Feb. 3^rd from 9:00-3:00.  In order for us to conduct the testing uninterrupted, we will have our wonderful substitute teachers take the children at 9:00 to the art room, computer room, and music room.  A very detailed schedule for academic, art and computer times as well as P.E. and Library times has been complied. We will have 12:00 carpool and lunchbunch as usual, but please note the following changes for these two days.

**12:00 carpool will take place in front of the new gym lobby .Please turn into the circle at the 2^nd entrance and exit by the playground. 

**Lunchbunchers will eat their lunch in the new gym lobby..send lunches as usual.

***3:00 carpool will take place as usual in the front of the school.  The children will be brought back to the Kindergarten building at that time for carpool.

Also, we would like for you to send a shoebox to school by Monday for the children to decorate for their valentine party.  Please cover the box with paper and cut a large/wide lid in the top.  Make sure your child’s name is on the box. They can finish decorating it here at school.  We understand this is a lot of information so please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.  We know that the children will really enjoy the two days full of many fun activities.

 Thank you,

Kindergarten Teachers

100th day pics

Hi All,
I just downloaded pictures from our 100th day party.  I really don't know what I am doing so some of the pictures are big, and some are small!!  Anyway we had a great time!
Mrs. Harrison

100th Day Party

Wow!  We had so much fun this morning.  Thank you to all the moms who were able to help with activities.  I couldn't do it without you.  A special thank you to Emily Taylor for all of her hard work at putting everything together.  I hope to have some pictures posted soon!
Mrs. Harrison

Jan. 24th - 28th

We will be celebrating the 100th Day of School on Tuesday 25th.  We have planned many special activities.  We will start the day with 100th day centers so come ready to do things the "100th" way!

Early Morning                                      

 - Academic tubs                                  

 - Devotion                                             

 - Zelda Zebra                                     

 - Morning Message                               .

 -Pledge

Reading

-Zz - writing and dictionary page

-Vocabulary - for, have

-Short i words - reading, writing, breaking words apart

-Rotation Stations

-Journal Writing

-Leveled Readers

Math

-Addition

-Vocabulary - add, plus sign, equal signs, sum

-Problem Solving

-Creating story problems

Bible

-Jesus Grows up

-Target Truths - Jesus Loved God and others

                        - Jesus obeyed His parent

 LunchBunch

  - Smartboard activities for Math Enrichment

  -Snowball Addition

  -Reading centers

  - Science Lab/P.E.s

We are ready for a busy week!

Mrs. Harrison

100th Day Party

Hi Everyone,
We are getting excited about our 100th day party on Tuesday.  I can't believe we have been in school that long.  I don't have to remind you that we will be on the downhill for Kindergarten (sad).  Anyway you will be contacted by Mrs. Taylor in order to help with the party.  Thank you in advance for your help.  It will be a fun hour full of many "learning stations" and of course CAKE!  Hope you can make it Tuesday, if only for a little while.  We will get started at 8:00.
Hope to see you then.
Mrs. Harrison

We had a great week full of many fun activities.  I hope everyone is feeling better though.  We had three friends out each day!  Max went home sick on Friday so I hope he is feeling better.  I hope everyone enjoyed having Monday off again.  Two weeks in a row, we can get used to that! 

This is what we will be doing this week! 

Theme:  Winter

EARLY MORNING

Academic tubs

Phonemic Awareness Activities

Devotional Story

Morning Announcements

Pledge

READING

*Letters- Dd-words and sentences

*Vocabulary review (here, is) *New word : For

*Reading and Writing Sentences using High *Frequency Words

*Action Words

*Describing Words

*an, at, it, ig word families. 

*Phonemic Awareness-Stories: “ The Big Dig”

*Readers-“computer stories”

MATH

*Begin unit on addition

BIBLE

Jonah and the Big Fish

*Fruits of the Spirit (we adopt one each month for our room, this month is Kindness)

LUNCHBUNCH

Smartboard reading and math activities

Pizza Fun

We had a great time today making our pizzas and eating them.  We put the toppings on ourselves and waited patiently while they cooked.  We then had a lesson on fractions and cutting the pizza into equal parts.  What a yummy way to learn math!

Welcome Back

Parents,

I hope everyone had a very restful holiday!  I sure did enjoy having the time with my family and friends.  I was so happy to see the children today and I think they were glad to be back at school.  We will be starting 2011 off with a bang!  We will start sending our reading bags home again next week.  They will go home on Tuesday and need to be returned by Friday.  We are also going to send report cards home this week.  Our next big event will be our 100^th Day Party..more details will follow!

Happy New Year!

Mrs. Harrison

This week in kindergarten...

Theme:  Winter

EARLY MORNING

Academic tubs

Phonemic Awareness Activities

Devotional Story

Morning Announcements

Pledge

READING

*Letters- Qu-words and sentences

*Vocabulary review (here, is)

*Reading and Writing Sentences using High *Frequency Words

*Action Words

*an, at, it, ig word families

*Phonemic Awareness-Stories: “Here, Kit”, “Fan”

*Readers-The Mitten, The Snowman

MATH

*Comparing and Ordering Numbers

*New math vocabulary:  first, second, third, fourth, fifth, equal parts, half/halves

*Introduce concept of fractions using “pizza cooking snack”

BIBLE

Daniel and His Friends—Deuteronomy 31:6

LUNCHBUNCH

Snowmen graphing

Winter Art

Smartboard reading and math activities