Sunday, August 20, 2017

August 21-25

Hi Kindergarten Families!

Our first three days of Kindergarten have been a huge success! I am SO impressed with the easy transitions your children have made.  As parents, you have all done an amazing job at raising confident, independent, and respectful children and you should all be very proud of them!

We are using a new school wide program called "PBIS" Positive behavior interventions and supports.  This is a framework for teachers and students to use to create a safe environment from the beginning of the year.  Our whole school is using this approach to teach positive behaviors. We are all using the same guidelines in classrooms, hallways, on playgrounds, bathrooms, cafeteria, etc.  You will see these signs posted around the school.  This is intended to decrease the negative behaviors and less bullying behaviors by implementing what is the appropriate behaviors.  I will talk more about this at Back To School Night.

On Monday, we will live stream the eclipse.  We will be in the classroom most of the day because it is not safe for children to look up into the sun during this time.  Please remind your student how unsafe it is to look at the sun during an eclipse.  

Next week we will continue to focus on building a caring classroom community by learning each other's names, singing songs, playing games, doing fun art projects and most importantly learning and reviewing our classroom rules and procedures.

We will begin our "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" theme which focuses on the letters and sounds of the alphabet through themed books and art activities. We will begin daily practice of our Zoophonics program which also focuses on letter names/sounds. Lastly, we will begin a short unit of familiar Nursery Rhymes to practice rhyming and segmenting of simple words. We will do some fun Nursery Rhyme art projects and practice that tricky skill of cutting with scissors. :)

REMINDER: Beginning on Thursday, August 24th, the morning drop-off routine will be changing. All kindergarteners will go directly to the upper playground (the primary yard) before school begins instead of to their classrooms. We will continue to practice this routine with the students so they fully understand the playground safety rules and know where to line up. Our yard duties and teachers will be supervising every morning beginning at 7:40. If you arrive earlier between 7:30- 7:40, please walk your child to the lower playground (the intermediate yard) where the yard duty will be, and she will walk all students to the upper playground at 7:40.

Each week we will send you an email to update you on all of the fun and exciting things going on in our class.  This same information will be posted on our class blog which can be found through our school's website.  If you prefer to NOT be on this weekly email list, please let us know and we will remove you from it. If you prefer a different email address please let us know that as well.

Please remember to send your child's "Homework Folder" (the plastic folder that was provided on the first day of school) EVERY day to school in your child's backpack. We use this every day to send school work and important information home to you.  Also, if your child is going home differently than their regular routine, please send a written note in their homework folder so we can make sure everyone gets home safely.

Thank you for all of the wonderful supplies that were donated this week! I am thrilled to have such a supportive group of families this year! 

Have a great week!
Mrs. Sandman

Important dates: 
Back to School night   Thursday, September 7 at 6:30 (No children event)
No school (Teacher work day) Friday October 6th

1 comment:

  1. Thank you so much for posting! Love this blog, I didnt receive an email but was able to find This! Thank you again for taking time out of your day to keep us in the know!

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