K is for Kindergarten: December 2016

Friday, December 9, 2016

Kindergarten Newsletter December 12th - 16th

Thank you to all those who joined us for the Holiday Fair last Saturday! The kids were wonderful and adorable! Here’s what’s coming up for this week…

BINDERS—We have been collecting all of your child’s special art projects and we are putting them into BINDERS. If you have not sent one in yet, please send in a 2in. Binder, LABELED with your child’s NAME on the inside, as soon as possible. The ones with a clear sleeve on the front are the BEST, as we would like to put a special cover page in it. Thank you!!!!

We have sent home information regarding Kids’ Korner, the gift shop set up in our music room for students to purchase little gifts for their family members. Teachers do NOT take the kids. The parent volunteers will be able to help your child while there, but they must be accompanied by an adult, in order to visit.
Spirit Day Alert!!! Please mark your calendars with the dates below so your child can enjoy participating in the FUN!
Wednesday the 14^th is Festive Wear Fun Day. Wear your fancy holiday clothes, or ugly sweaters, or Christmas T-shirts. Wear red & green or anything you'd like to show your festive spirit.
Thursday the 15^th, is Crazy Hair Day! Try out a new and crazy hairdo and show it off at school!

The Friday before break, Dec. 16^th is Pajama Day! Please come to school in your cozy jammies or comfiest clothes!

With this cold weather, please make sure that your child’s coat is LABELED!!!!

Our theme for next week is Holidays Around the World, and we are reviewing our new word wall words. We know the following High Frequency Words: I, a, like, the, see, is, can, my, and, have, go, to, has, you, feel & we. Please encourage your child to use these words in their writing every day!
Our Writing Job for the month of December is using words that describe how you feel inside, such as happy, sad, nervous, excited...Please encourage these kinds of words in your child's every day writing practice! We don't have many days in which to practice before our show off writing this month, so the more you practice at home, the better and more confident your child will be when doing show off writing!

Holidays Around the World—We are talking about our family’s special Holiday traditions this month. If you would like to come in to share your family’s special traditions, please let us know.

Have an amazing winter break. Enjoy the holidays with your families. We look forward to seeing you back at school on Tuesday January 3, 2017. Happy New Year!

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

Friday, December 2, 2016

Kindergarten Newsletter December 5th– 9th

December will go by fast! Two weeks until our next break...WOW!

Here’s what’s coming up for this week…

· Holiday Fair—Be sure to come and check out the Holiday Fair this Saturday, December 3rd^th from 10am-2pm. There will be cool stuff to buy and sweet songs to hear! Our Kindergarten tree will be raffled off, along with all the other grade levels. The Book Fair will also be open in our library, be sure to stop by. Hope to see you all there!

Singing at the Holiday Fair - Every grade level is invited to perform a few short songs. Participation is completely voluntary. Kindergarten is scheduled to perform at 10:30am. If you would like to bring your child to sing tomorrow, please have them wear festive holiday colors. Please bring them to the stone steps by our library at 10:15. We will walk the students into the MPR and place them on the stage to sing at 10:30.

· Toys for Tots--Student council has begun collecting new, unopened toys. We have received very few toys this year. Please consider donating!

· Our theme for this week is The Grinch and Christmas, and our new word wall word is “we”. We now know the following High Frequency Words: I, a, like, the, see, is, can, my, and, have, go, to, has, you, feel and we. Please encourage your child to use these words in their writing every day!

· Get ready for GRINCH DAY: Tuesday December 6^th will be Grinch Day in Kindergarten. Our class will be having lots of Grinchy fun with math & literacy activities centered around the Grinch. Your child is welcome to dress up for this fun day. Ideas include WEARING GREEN, trying out some Who inspired hairdos, wearing antlers like the Grinch’s dog Max…. Have FUN with it!

· Our Writing Jobs have changed again! We are now writing about how we feel. Happy, mad, excited, sad, silly, thankful, tired, nervous, surprised… Please encourage your child to use these words in their writing practice each day. At this point of the year our goal is for your child to be able to write one complete sentence with proper conventions. We encourage your child to remember 5 things when they write.

1. Start with a capital 2. Finger Spaces between words

3. Word Wall Words are spelled correctly 4. Monthly Job (feeling words) 5. Period at the end of your sentence.

· We will begin talking about the different Holiday traditions in December. If your family celebrates a special December/January holiday, we would love to invite you to come in and share it with our class. Please talk to your teacher if you’d be willing to come in for a bit and share your family’s holiday traditions!

· Please make sure your child is writing their name on their Homework Packets. Many come in each week without names.

· Upcoming Dates to remember—

o Winter break is Dec. 19^th through the 2nd of January. School resumes again on Tuesday January 3^rd

o No School January 16^th for Martin Luther King Day.