I hope everyone had a great long weekend. I hope Friday went well with Mrs. Caplener. I am still getting over a cold but I will be back tomorrow! This is just a gentle reminder to please keep your child at home if they are ill. This is already the second round of illness that has gone through our classroom this year. Hoping we can all stay well into the New Year!
We are attending a play on Friday at the Newmark Theatre. I still need one parent chaperone to attend. Please let me know ASAP if you would like to join us. Students need to bring a lunch to school that day as we will miss our normal lunch time. We will leave school around 9 and return around 11:30.
This Friday, November 14th and Saturday, November 15th is Llewellyn's Holiday Market and Kindergarten Bake Sale. I will resend the parent helper schedule to you tomorrow with the time/date that you are signed up to help out. If you signed up to donate baked goodies, please individually wrap them and bring them in on Friday morning or Friday, at 1:30. If you are signed up to help on Saturday and would like to bring your baked goodies on Saturday instead that should be fine as well. Market begins at 2:30 on Friday and 10 a.m. on Saturday. Stacey has generously offered to collect goodies on Friday morning (in the Kinder hallway, we'll prop back doors open at 7:45) and a few parent helpers will be collecting goodies beginning at 1:30 on Friday afternoon in the main hallway.
This week, we will be learning about American Indians of the Pacific Northwest. We will be reading and talking about food, shelter, culture, and customs of American Indians. This unit is meant to be an introduction and will hopefully lead to good conversations!
In reading, students are reading books at their level (some students are still working on letter names and sounds). Some of the strategies that we have been working on when we get to words we don't know include: looking at beginning and ending sounds, looking for picture clues, and cross checking (does it look right, sound right, make sense?).
I will be attending a few trainings and workshops this month and next month, so I will be out of the classroom a few times. In regard to my maternity leave, I am in conversation with a substitute teacher who comes highly recommended. Hopefully, I will be able to let you know who she/he is soon and get her/him in for me to sub as much as possible before March.
We are attending a play on Friday at the Newmark Theatre. I still need one parent chaperone to attend. Please let me know ASAP if you would like to join us. Students need to bring a lunch to school that day as we will miss our normal lunch time. We will leave school around 9 and return around 11:30.
This Friday, November 14th and Saturday, November 15th is Llewellyn's Holiday Market and Kindergarten Bake Sale. I will resend the parent helper schedule to you tomorrow with the time/date that you are signed up to help out. If you signed up to donate baked goodies, please individually wrap them and bring them in on Friday morning or Friday, at 1:30. If you are signed up to help on Saturday and would like to bring your baked goodies on Saturday instead that should be fine as well. Market begins at 2:30 on Friday and 10 a.m. on Saturday. Stacey has generously offered to collect goodies on Friday morning (in the Kinder hallway, we'll prop back doors open at 7:45) and a few parent helpers will be collecting goodies beginning at 1:30 on Friday afternoon in the main hallway.
This week, we will be learning about American Indians of the Pacific Northwest. We will be reading and talking about food, shelter, culture, and customs of American Indians. This unit is meant to be an introduction and will hopefully lead to good conversations!
In reading, students are reading books at their level (some students are still working on letter names and sounds). Some of the strategies that we have been working on when we get to words we don't know include: looking at beginning and ending sounds, looking for picture clues, and cross checking (does it look right, sound right, make sense?).
I will be attending a few trainings and workshops this month and next month, so I will be out of the classroom a few times. In regard to my maternity leave, I am in conversation with a substitute teacher who comes highly recommended. Hopefully, I will be able to let you know who she/he is soon and get her/him in for me to sub as much as possible before March.