Kindergarten Newsletter: January 9th-13th

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

·   Sharing Can- Please have your child write three clues about their share item. Students should practice reading their clues aloud, so they will be prepared to do so in front of their class the following day.

·   Snack- Please send your child to school each day with a       snack. We do not provide snacks. Students may only bring water to drink. Due to nut allergies, please do not send any nuts or nut by-products.

·        Reminder that there is NO SCHOOL on Monday, January 16^th in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.  Enjoy your three-day weekend!

·        Mitten Homework— These were due on January 6^th. If you haven’t turned yours in, please do so.  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.  They are on display in our classrooms, so please spend some time making them look special!  (NO food please)

·        College Day- is back. Wear your favorite college tshirt/sweatshirt EVERY Wednesday.  Mundy spirit wear is EVERY Friday. Show your school spirit!

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

·        Important Upcoming Dates-

January 16^th: NO SCHOOL- Martin Luther King Jr. holiday

February 10^th: Jelly Belly Fieldtrip- ALL Kindergarteners        will attend school from 8:15am-11:35am (more info to come later)

February 13^th: NO SCHOOL- President Lincoln holiday

February 15^th: Six Flags Read to Succeed Reading Logs due

February 20^th: NO SCHOOL- President Washington holiday

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 2nd-6th

Hello and welcome back to the grind. We’re happy to be back and ready to start out the new year with excitement!!!  Here’s what’s happening 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 too kind!

·        Mitten/Rhyming Word Homework- Please be sure to read the directions regarding this special homework assignment that was handed out before winter break. Be creative, colorful, and include your name on the back. The mittens need to be CUT out and attached together with string. Mittens are due by Friday, January 6^th.

 

·        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 January.  Our focus is now writing about the way people look.  Please have your child write at least two complete 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, am, feel, we, & look.  Please encourage your child to use these words in their writing every day!!!!

·        Label- Please make sure all of your child’s things are clearly labeled with his/her name- coats, lunch pails, water bottles, etc.

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 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

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.

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 November 28-December 2 2016

Kindergarten Newsletter

November 28th - December 2nd

Welcome back!  We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving break. The next month will go fast!  Three weeks until our next break...wow!

Here’s what’s coming up……    

·        Sharing can - Please have your child stretch out the sounds of all their words in their 3 written clues. Please do NOT tell them how to spell the words.  They will benefit much more from stretching out and writing the sounds they hear.  It will also help them to be able to read their writing.  Thank you for your support!

·        Holiday Fair—Be sure to stop by  our Holiday Fair on Saturday, December 3rd from 10:00a.m-2:00p.m.  There will be fun crafts for the kids, cool stuff to buy plus our Holiday Kindergarten tree will be raffled off, along with all the other grade levels. All Kindergarteners are invited to come and sing on the stage for everyone at 10:30 a.m.  Santa will be there. Hope to see you all there!

·        Toys for Tots--Student council has begun collecting new and unopened toys!!  Please consider donating between now-December 8^th.  

·        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. 17th and goes through the 2nd of Jan.  School resumes again on Tuesday, Jan. 3rd.

 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: November 14th-18th

 Because of our WACKY days NEXT week, we will need parent volunteers for only one hour: Volunteers for Mrs. Barron’s & Mrs. Ron’s class are welcome from 9:00-10:00a.m. Volunteers for Mrs. Barnes’ and Ms. Davila’s class are welcome from 10:30-11:30a.m. Thank you in advance.

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

 

·        Every day next week is a minimum day for the WHOLE school in order to accommodate parent conferences.  *ALL Kinder kids come to school together from 8:15-11:35a.m all week long. Dismissal every day will be crazy….please stay in your car if you are in the yellow loading zone. If you need to get out of your car, you need to park in the parking lot or on a neighboring street and walk in. Mrs. Barron and Mrs. Ron will dismiss students from the Kinder Playground Gate. Mrs. Barnes and Ms. Davila will dismiss from the front Kinder Classroom Door.

·        We look forward to meeting you all next week for your parent/teacher conference.  Your child IS encouraged to attend their student-led conference.  This is a great way to involve your child in his/her own education. 

·        PLEASE make sure that you are signed up for a parent conference time through your teacher’s SignUp Genius.  This is our ONLY sign up, so please make sure you are on it! Please be on time, conferences are only 15 minutes.

·        The Lion King Fieldtrip- is next Friday, November 18^th.  ALL kinder classes will attend from 8:15-12:15a.m. If you haven’t turned in your child’s permission slip yet, please do so immediately.

Please send your child to school with his/her labeled booster seat on that day.

·        Toys for Tots will start on November 28^th-December 9^th (right after we return from Thanksgiving Break).  Student Council will be collecting new, unwrapped toys for kids of all ages.  These toys will be donated to families in need in the Fairfield community.    

·        “A can a kid that’s all we ask.” Please donate canned or boxed food towards our food drive. It ends next week on November 16^th. The food collected will be used to help families and kids in our community (David Weir Elementary/Mission Solano).

·        Please help your child be successful in school by attending regularly and on time.

·        Holiday Tree Donations—Thank you for all of your classroom donations!  We hope to raise lots of money for our kiddos at the Holiday Fair on Saturday, December 3^rd from 10am-2pm.  Kindergarteners are encouraged to come and perform on stage the holiday songs they learned at 10:30a.m. Santa will be there!

·        Our theme next week is , and our new word wall word is “am.”   We know the following High Frequency Words: I, a, like, the, see, is, can, my, and, have, go, to, has, you & am.  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 November 7th-11th

Happy SHORT week everyone…No School tomorrow the 4^th for teacher work day or on Friday, November 11^th for Veteran’s Day. 

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

·        Fieldtrip- Our next fieldtrip will be on Friday, November 18^th to see The Lion King at the Vacaville Performing Arts Theater. ***ALL kindergarten students will attend school from 8:15am – 12:15pm ***. Please turn in your child’s completed permission slip (front and back) as soon as possible.

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·        Family STEAM Night- will be on Thursday, November 10^th from 5:00-7:00pm in the MPR. Come enjoy the hands-on science, math, technology, engineering, and art activities and learn at the same time. Fun for all!

·  The Cordelia Public Library would love to have our students  take advantage of some of their wonderful programs, such as Paws for Reading, Book Club, etc.  They offer a variety of free children’s activities and crafts. Please visit their website: www.solanocountypubliclibrary for days and times.

 

·        November 14^th – 18^th  are minimum days for the WHOLE school in order to accommodate parent/teacher conferences.  ***ALL Kinder kids come to school together from 8:15-11:35am all week long ***.  Please be sure to stay in your car and wait in the loading zone line with everyone…  It’s going to be a long wait.  If you can, please park and walk in. DO NOT get out of your car if you are in the loading zone….it holds up everyone.

·        Your child IS encouraged to attend their student-led conference.  This is a great way to involve your child in his/her own education. 

·        PLEASE make sure that you are signed up for a Parent/Teacher Conference date and time through Sign-up Genius.  This is our ONLY sign up, so please make sure you are on it!

·        Read to Succeed- Six Flags Read to Succeed reading logs and cover letter were sent home this week. This is a great and fun way to encourage your child to read daily. S/he can earn a free one day ticket to Six Flags by completing the reading log and turning it in to his/her teacher by February 15^th.

·        Holiday Tree Donations—Thank you for all of your classroom donations so far!  Please check out the Signup Genius to donate needed items. We hope to raise lots of money for our kiddos at the Holiday Fair on Saturday, December 3^rd from 10:00am-2:00pm in the MPR.  Santa will be there!!!

·        Canned Food Drive—Student council is collecting canned and boxed foods from November 3^rd-16^th for local families who are less fortunate.  Please consider donating!  Donations can be delivered to the MPR or your child’s teacher. Thank you!!!

·        This week’s theme is TURKEYS, and our new word wall word is “you”.   We know the following High Frequency Words: I, a, like, the, see, is, can, my, and, have, go, to, has & you.  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