Curriculum Night: This Wednesday, August 30th is Curriculum Night. Please plan to attend one of the three sessions listed below. The session will run about 30-35 minutes. This night is very important to attend! I will explain many important things about kindergarten at CSD including a broad overview of curriculum, field trips and performances, expectations of students, student/parent/teacher communication, parent roles, and more! If you cannot attend, I will send home the packet of information with your child.
6:00-6:40 Session 1
6:40-7:20 Session 2
7:20-8:00 Session 3
Please see the information below from the CSD Admin Team regarding curriculum night:
*Encourage parents with multiple children to “divide and conquer.” Do not worry if you cannot get to all of your child’s sessions. Teachers will send home all information shared at Curriculum Night after the event.
*Due to space limitations, we ask that students not attend Curriculum Night. This is intended to be a parent-only event. Thank you for understanding.
Tardies: The school day officially begins at 8:15 AM. If you arrive later than 8:15, you will need to check-in at the front desk and get a tardy slip. Your child will bring the tardy slip to us when they come to our classroom. Thank you for abiding by this!
Morning routine: As some of you know, we have been working really hard with each child on their routine when they walk in our door each morning. They know that they have 4 things to unpack (lunch box, snack, water bottle, and blue folder). We really want the children to do this instead of the parents so that they become independent in these activities. They are very capable to do this on their own when we show them our expectation for this. It would be great to say your goodbye to your child at the classroom door and allow them to walk in and begin their morning routine. Thank you for helping us and your child with this!
Blue Communication Folders: Please empty these folders out every single night. There may be something important that we send home that needs to be seen. The children also have a hard time when packing up papers if the folder is already full.
Change of clothes: If you have not already, please send in a change of clothes (shirt, shorts/pants, and underwear) in case of an accident. Please label the ziplock bag with their name.
Wish List: We have had some parents ask us about a "wish list" for our classroom. Here are some items we could use. :) Thank you!!!
-Recess equipment (soccer balls, footballs, kickballs, jump ropes, etc.)
-Magic Erasers
-Glade Plug-Ins (vanilla, cinnamon, or lavender scents)
-Tacky Glue bottles
-Stickers (any age appropriate ones that we can put out at the art center)
Book box: You should have seen a few nursery rhyme "mini-books" come home this week in your child's blue folder. These are great books for your child to read at home because we have already read them multiple times at school! We have encouraged the children to make a "book box" to keep all of these books in over the course of kindergarten. They can use a shoe box, cereal box, amazon box, etc. to make this and can decorate it to make it fun! That way they can easily go and pull these books to read to you at night.
Math: This week in math we began our math workshop! I will explain more about math workshop at curriculum night. We spent all this week exploring our math manipulatives such as unifix cubes, C-rods, pattern blocks, and colored teddy bears. The students learned two math games called Roll & Cover and Roll & Record.
Reader's Workshop/Thematic: This week we combined reader's workshop and thematic centers since we are learning about nursery rhymes! So far we have learned Itsy Bitsy Spider, Baa Baa Black Sheep, and Old Mother Hubbard! We read and colored mini-books for each and also added the poem into our daybooks.
Science: We had our first "Sci-Fri" experiment today! We did an experiment called "Sink or Float?" and we predicted and tested 10 different items to see if they sunk or floated! We made a graphing chart to record all of our information. We will talk about the steps of the scientific method each week when we do science!
Have a great weekend and see you all next Wednesday night!
Love,
Mrs. James
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