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Kindergarten Newsletter

January 26^th – 30^th    

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

·        Wednesday is our 100^th Day of School!!!  If you can, please try to wear something 100 related!  Maybe….100 bows in your hair, 100 eyeballs glued to your shirt, 100 beads on a necklace, 100 stickers stuck to a hat, whatever you can dream up!  We’d love to see your creativity if you are up for a challenge!  No pressure, but it’s always fun to see the kids show off 100 of something!

·        Thank you to those who are willing to bring in a bag or box of snacks to sort for Thursday and Friday’s centers.  We are still in need of more snacks.  Please ask your teacher if you can donate something.  Thank you!!!

·        Our Great Kindness Challenge is ON!!!!  The Student Council has challenged us all to be as kind as you can this week.  There is a sheet coming home today to help us with ideas if you might need them.  If you fill out the sheet with things that you do for others, and bring it to school, you will earn a pride card for the office!! 

·        Our theme for this week is 100^th Day of School, and our new word wall word is “went.”  We know the following High Frequency Words: I, a, like, the, see, is, can, my, and, have, go, to, has, you, feel, we, look, are & went.  Please encourage your child to use these words in their writing every day!!!!

·        Kindergarten provides their own prizes for our Pride Card Drawings every Friday.  If you are willing and/or able to donate some little $1 prizes for our prize box, we would greatly appreciate it!!!!  THANK YOU!

·        WEEKLY HOMEWORK—Please have your child complete 1-2 pages per day.  Please help and encourage your child to USE THE LINES when writing words and to write 2-3 sentences on only one topic.  Have your child complete their work in their very best handwriting, USING CORRECT LETTER FORMAITON, as this is a very important skill for Kindergarten.

·        Writing—Our writing job is the same all month.  We are STILL writing about the way people look.  Please have your child write at least two sentences about the way someone in your family looks.  For example, “My mom has short blond hair and big blue eyes.  She is tall.  Her smile is beutifl.”  (in Kindergarten writing of course)  We will be having our Show Off Writing at the end of the week, so please help your child practice at home the next few days. 

·        REMINDER Please be sure that your child returns their book bag in their folder everyday.  We cannot send a new book home with them to practice reading if they do not bring their book bag to reading group.  Thank you!!

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

Newsletter Jan 20 - 23rd

Kindergarten Newsletter

January   20^th - 23^rd 

We hope you enjoyed a relaxing three days.  Here’s what’s coming up for this week…    

·        Progress Reports are coming home this week.  If your child received a progress report, please sign the HIGHLIGHTED copy, and return it to school.  If you are receiving an “at-risk of retention” letter, please SIGN it and RETURN it to school.  Please do not hesitate if you have questions to email.  Thank you.

·        If your child does NOT receive a Progress Report, this means that s/he is performing ON or ABOVE grade level at this time. 

·        If you have not yet turned in a 2in. binder with your child’s name labeled inside, please do so ASAP.  We have already begun to put your child’s collection of Kindergarten art into a keepsake binder!  We are still missing MANY!!!

·        Valentine’s Day is coming up!  We will be celebrating on the 13^th with a fun party!  Please be on the lookout for a sign-up genius, showing which items we will need for our parties! 

·        Speaking of Valentine’s Day…please send your child to school that day with 33 valentines.  PLEASE have your child write “From (name)” on each valentine.  Please do NOT address Valentines to individual students in our classes.  We cannot help your child deliver valentines to specific friends. 

·        Please have your child bring his/her valentines ON the day of our party, not before. We cannot store all of them in our classrooms!! Thank you!

·        WEEKLY HOMEWORK—Please have your child complete 1-2 pages per day, in their best handwriting, with proper spacing!!!!  Please help and encourage your child to USE THE LINES when writing words.  Complete the work in your very best handwriting, as this is a very important skill for Kindergarten.

·        EXTRA WORK—Please be sure to check your child’s folder each day to review their center work for the day.  If you see anything UNfinished, please have your child take the time to sit and complete the job.  It does NOT need to be returned to school.  Thank you!  

·        Writing—Our writing job is the same all month!!!  We are STILL writing about the way people look.  Please have your child write at least two sentences about the way someone in your family looks.

·        This week, we are learning about the very important Martin Luther King Jr.  We are also talking about rhyming words, listening to the ENDING sounds of words and our new word wall word is “saw.”  We know the following High Frequency Words: I, a, like, the, see, is, can, my, and, have, go, to, has, you, feel, we, look, are, & saw.  Please encourage your child to use these words in their writing every day!!!!

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

Kindergarten Newsletter

January   12^th – 16^th  

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

·        Next Monday, the 19^th, is a holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. observance.  Enjoy your three-day weekend!

·        Mitten Homework— These are due as soon as you can finish them.  We’d like to hang them up as soon as possible.  Please have your child decorate them fancily, CUT them out, and attach them together with yarn, string or ribbon.  We will be hanging them up, so please spend some time making them look special and fun!  (NO food please)

·        Writing—Our writing job is the same all month!!!  For the month of January, we are writing about the way people look.  Please have your child write at least two sentences about the way someone in your family looks.  For example, “My mom lives with me in my house.  She has brown, curly hair, brown eyes, and big red lips.”  (in Kindergarten writing of course)

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

·        College Week is NEXT WEEK!! 

o      Tuesday—Sports Day

o      Wednesday—80’s/Neon day

o      Thursday—Superhero Day

o      Friday—Pajama/Cozy clothes Day

·        Kindergarten could use some fun and colorful PONY beads (the fat ones with the big hole in the center) to use for beading on Fun Fridays!  If you would like to donate some, our kids would greatly appreciate it! 

·        SCHOLASTIC Book Orders—We send the book orders home so that you can preview the books, but please do ALL ordering online.  It’s much easier for us!  Thanks!

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

January 5th-9th Newsletter

Hello and welcome back to the grind!  We’re happy to be back and ready to start out a new year with excitement!  Here’s what’s coming up for this week…    

·        Thank you so very much for all the wonderful, amazing and generous Christmas gifts that you graced us all with!  They were greatly appreciated!  You are toooooo kind!!!

• We are so thankful to have had Mrs. Tang and are sad to see her go.  She was such a wonderful addition to our Kindergarten family, but was unable to stay for the remainder of the year.  FORTUNATELY though…..

·        We get to welcome Mrs. Pravin, our new, long-term substitute for Mrs. Ron.  She will be with us until the end of the school year while Mrs. Ron is recovering! 

 

·        SNACKS—Please send WATER ONLY and please understand that we rarely have extra snacks to hand out for those who do not bring a snack.  Please remember to send your child to school with a snack every day.

·        Writing—Our writing job has changed again for the month of Jan.  Our focus is now writing about the way people look.  Please have your child write at least two sentences about the way someone in your family looks.  For example, “My mom lives with me in my house.  She has brown, curly hair, brown eyes, and big red lips.”  (in Kindergarten writing of course)

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

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

Kindergarten News

December 15-19^th

            Who’s ready for a break???  Well, we’ve practically made it to the New Year already!  Can you believe it?  It goes by WAY too fast around here.  So, here’s what’s coming up for this last week in December…

v     Nelda Mundy’s policy is that we have 3 parties per year, Halloween, Valentine’s Day & End of the Year.  Therefore, we will NOT be having a party on Friday.  However, we will be enjoying our day by doing fun holiday activities.  We will be rotating classrooms and learning about different holidays celebrated around the world.  

v     Our theme for this week is Christmas and our new word wall word is “am”.

v     Just a quick note about vacation break…when you can, PLEASE, PLEASE encourage writing practice!  Our writing is about to step it up!  When we return, we will be beginning to prepare our kids for the first grade.  So…NO MORE uppercase letters scattered throughout the sentence or in your name, there MUST be spaces between words and your sentences MUST make sense!!  Two weeks is a very long time in the World of Kindergarten.  Please help us to keep up the writing practice over this long winter break.  Thank you!

v     Our Winter Break begins Dec. 22nd , and we return to school on Jan. 5^th.  We wish you the merriest of holiday seasons and a relaxing break with your families.  Be safe and sleep in!

v     Finally, we would to thank all of our parent volunteers who have come in week after week, without fail, to help with centers, make endless copies or help us to prepare for our Kindergarten days.  Thank you to all of those who have helped OUTSIDE the classroom as well, cutting, gluing or assembling our many projects…and thank you to all of those who have just been supportive and always ready with a kind word or email.  We truly couldn’t run such a great Kindergarten program without your support.  Nelda Mundy is great because of you!  Thank you for ALL that you do to support our kids and our school.  Have a great vacation!

Feel free to contact us via notes, e-mails, or phone calls to school (not when we’re teaching please!) at any time, and we will do our best to answer your questions and concerns as quickly as possible.  Again, we’re so glad that your child is a part of our lives for this year!

Kindergarten Newsletter

December 8^th – 12^th

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 ready to start putting them into BINDERS.  Please send your child to school in the next week or so with a 2in. BINDER LABELED with your child’s NAME on the inside.  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.  The parent volunteers will be able to help your child while there, but they must be accompanied by an adult, in order to visit.   

·        Holiday Fair—Thank you to all who came out and participated in the raffles and silent auction!  The school was able to raise a LOT of money!  Thank you!

·        Toys for Tots—We are in need of MORE TOYS!!!  If you are able, please consider donating a new, unopened toy to a child in need. 

·        Our last Friday before break, Dec. 19^th is Pajama Day!  Please come to school in your cozy jimmies or comfiest clothes!

·        Six Flags Read to Succeed reading logs—Your child can earn a free admission ticket to Six Flags for logging six hours of reading.  You should have received a reading log.  Completed reading logs are due to school by February 13^th. 

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

·        Our theme for this week is Christmas & the Grinch, and our new word wall word is “we”.   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!

·        Grinch Day!!!  We will be celebrating all things Grinch this Friday!  Feel free to dress like the Grinch, or wear green!  We will be doing fun Grinch projects and centers that day!

·        Holidays Around the World—We have been 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.

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

Kindergarten Newsletter

December 1st – 5^th

Welcome to December!  It will go fast!  Three weeks until our next break...wow!

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

·        We’d like to say a HUGE THANK YOU to Mrs. Tang, who has come in and taken the kids from Mrs. Ron’s class under her wing and treated them with such kindness and dedication, while Mrs. Ron is recovering.  We appreciate you!!!

·        Holiday Fair—Be sure to come and check out the Holiday Fair this Sat., the 6^th from 9-2.  There will be fun crafts for the kids, cool stuff to buy and food trucks for lunch!  Our Game Night Kindergarten tree will be raffled off, along with all the other grade levels.  Hope to see you all there!

·        Toys for Tots--Student council has begun collecting new and unopened toys!!  Please consider donating! 

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

·        Our Writing Jobs have changed again!  We are now writing about how things feel when you touch them, soft, cold, squishy, bumpy, etc.  Please encourage your child to use these words in their writing practice each day.

·        We will begin talking about the different Holiday traditions in December.  If your family celebrates a special December/January holiday, we would like 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 his/her name on Homework Packets!  Many are coming in each week without names!!!! 

·        Upcoming Dates to remember—

o      Winter break begins on Sat., Dec. 20^th and goes through the 5^th of Jan.  School resumes again on Monday, Jan. 5^th.

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