Kindergarten Newsletter for April 18th-22nd

Happy early Earth Week everyone! Here’s what’s coming up for the next week…   

***** ALL Kindergarteners will attend school from 8:15-11:35 a.m next Thursday, April 21^st.*****

·        Next week’s theme is Earth Day!  Our new word wall word is “would.”  We now know the following words:  I, like, see, a, is, the, can, my, you, and, have, go, to, has, am, look, are, saw, went, with, up, we, they, do, but, said, will, were, come & was.

·        Sharing- Next week’s letter/sound is “ch”. Practice reading clues independently!

·        Vacaville Performing Arts Fieldtrip is next Thursday, April 21^st. We will be watching Jack and the Beanstalk. Tickets were reserved way in advance, therefore priority for adult tickets will be given to those parents who chaperone and drive a group of students. Please remember you must be fingerprinted by the district and have all appropriate district forms on file ahead of time.

Parents who drive only their own child, can contact the theater at (800) 606-0424 to purchase a ticket if they are still available. No siblings are allowed on fieldtrips. This is a school and district policy.

ALL Kindergarteners will attend school from 8:15-11:35 a.m. for the fieldtrip. Students must go to their classroom in the morning for attendance or they will be marked absent. Students must bring a booster seat clearly labeled with their name on Thursday.

·        Spring Book Fair- Stop by the Scholastic Book Fair next week in our library. The book fair will be from April 20^th-22^nd. It’s “buy 1, get 1 free.” Kindergarteners need to be accompanied by a parent/adult.

·        Writing—This month’s writing topic is how things feel when you touch them.  Please have your child practice for writing daily. By now students should be writing at least THREE sentences about how something feels when they touch it.  Our goal is to have the kids choose one topic and elaborate on it, and really describing the experience.  We are encouraging LOTS of writing that all goes together!   THIS is how you will get to that exclusive Rubric 3!!!!!

·        Important dates to remember—There are many upcoming dates to remember.  May comes quickly and is JAM- PACKED full of activities and dates to remember--(some of which do not pertain to Kinder, but we thought you might like to see them anyway)

• May 2^nd-6th: 6th Grade Science Camp 

• May 4^th: Kindergarten Fieldtrip to Cordelia Public Library

• May 4^th: Incoming Kindergarten Orientation

• May 5^th:  Kindergarten Fieldtrip to Loma Vista Farm

• May 6^th: Mother’s Day Spa in Kindergarten
  
  
• May 9^th-13^th: Teacher Appreciation Week 

• Tuesday, May 24^th: Field Day 

• Friday, May 27^th/Monday, May 30^th: No School for Memorial Day
  
  
• Wednesday, May 18^th: Safety Day
  
  
• Friday, May 20^th: Jog-a-Thon

• May 31^st: Father’s Day in Kindergarten

• Tuesday, May 31^st: Perfect Attendance Assembly/Honor Roll Assembly

• Wednesday, June 1^st: Kindergarten Hawaiian Day

• Thursday, June 2^nd: Kindergarten Slideshows

• Thursday, June 2nd: 5th grade Promotion

• Friday, June 3rd: Last Day of School/Minimum Day 

·        Reading Eggs!!!  Once your child enters the First Grade, you will no longer have this program.  Please continue to log onto Reading Eggs and use it to help reinforce our standards.

·        Typing FUN!  Dance Mat Typing is a very child friendly, FREE, colorful, FUN typing tutor program available online that we have used.    Here is the link to cut & paste…  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/levels/level1.shtml

Thank you again for all that you do at home to support your child’s learning.  We appreciate all that you do!  Please feel free to email with any concerns or questions!  Thank you!!

The Kindergarten Team

Mrs. Barnes:  sarahba@fsusd.org

Mrs. Barron:  erinba@fsusd.org

Mrs. Ron:  kimr@fsusd.org

Ms. Davila:  theresad@fsusd.org