Wooohoo we found out last week that our class took 3rd place in the Walk-a-Thon Fundraiser!
This means that we will be earning an EXTRA RECESS!!! Thanks for all your support and help with this fundraiser we earned a lot of money for our school!
I apologize for this post coming so late, I’ve been fighting a rough cold! Please try your best to keep everyone healthy! Sick season is already upon us 🙁
Here is a look at what your Kindergartener has been learning:
Hope everyone has a great week and stays healthy!
~Ms. Yankee
We had a great week learning and having fun together! I love getting to know your child a little better everyday! Each has a very special, unique personality that compliments our CLASS TEAM!!!
Here are some highlights of our week:
Our First Mystery Readers: Mrs. Stutz’s Kindergarten class! We had so much fun sharing the book, Press Here by Herve Tullet with their class! I will be contacting those of you that showed interest on the parent survey of being our mystery reader this month or next. I am trying to get a mystery reader each week on a Friday afternoon to come read and surprise our class. If you have an open Friday afternoon in the next few months feel free to e-mail me! The children love to have their special parents, grandparents, aunt, or uncles surprise us!
Happy Fall!!! Hope everyone is having a fall filled weekend!
Georgetown Elementary will be holding our primary fundraiser on Thursday, September 26. Your child came home last week with information on this event. Our class will be walking together on this day during a designated time. Our goal as always is to have fun and try to raise money for our wonderful school. Donation forms are in the packet that was sent home today. Please check out the details and be sure to ask if you have any questions!
Theme of the Week: Brown Bear– This book has a great rhythm and beat, the illustrations are fun and predictable, our color popcorn sight words are throughout the text, as well as many other popcorn words learned thus far, such as “I,” “a,” “see.” and “dog.” On Friday we created our own special book that will join our classroom library and our own book retell bracelet. They were super excited to read their bracelets to you!We also had our first BIG GROUP on Friday with Mrs. Iwema’s class, we taught her class the “Cool Bear Hunt” song and dance and shared some gummy bear treats together. I was the mystery reader for their room, we had a super fun afternoon meeting one another! Hoping for more BIG GROUP times to come!
Popcorn Words this week: “green”, “the” and “dog”
Next weeks words: “blue”, “is”, “this” , and “his”
Special Event: Walk-a-Thon- Thanks for all your wonderful donations to our school! This event was a HUGE success, and what a beautiful morning to walk! We even got to practice our soccer kicks, shoot some hoops and jump through hoops as we made our way around the track! We had so much fun!
Math: The children have been learning and reinforcing their knowledge of groups and sets of numbers, graphing (more, fewer, longer, shorter), as well as differentiating shapes that are circles and not circles (squares, rectangles, etc.). Homework was sent home this week with your child. They were VERY excited to bring this home and get started. Thank you for your help with administering this homework and encouraging them on this new task and experience. The children are looking forward to receiving their homework once a week on Thursdays.
Our number writing practice and poems for this week were: 6= “A stick and a hoop do the tricks, that’s the way to make a six.” 7=”Across the sky and down from heaven, that’s the way to make a seven.”
In our Writing Workshop this week, we read the book “What a Treasure!” by Jane and Will Hillenbrand, and discussed how a treasure is more than just money or a treasure chest of gold. A treasure is different to everyone, and usually it touches our hearts, like our families and friends. Thank you for assisting your child this week in selecting a treasure for their treasure bags to share with our class. I loved hearing and learning about all the many things that are so dear and important to our class. These items helped to be a springboard for our writing this week on our special writer’s workshop paper. We learned about the parts of the paper and what and where to include each. The children did a FANTASTIC job for their first time! We will continue to practice this skill of writing and most of all brainstorming our ideas for topics to write about.
Our first class visit to our school library occurred this past Tuesday. We had the opportunity to meet Mrs. VandenBerg, our librarian, have her read a story, and check out our first book! The children did a great job with their first library check out and are very proud for the opportunity to independently check out a book each Tuesday. Thank you for reading with your child and enjoy this special time together.
The Explorers for next week will be: Madeline, Dylan, Kendra, Faith, and Nathan!
Important Information and Reminders:
The annual PE Turkey Trot will take place on Tuesday, October 23, at Eagle Stadium. If interested in participating, please return your registration with your child by October 8. I will be there to cheer our class on, hoping for a great class turnout, I know we have some fast runners!
Book Orders are due this Tuesday, October 2, I will be submitting the order that afternoon! Make your final order today!
Math Homework is due Thursday
Library books are due Tuesday
Information coming soon on Friday parent volunteers, mystery readers, and Fall party planning/helpers and Fall field trip!
Enjoy this beautiful final weekend of September!
We would like to announce the classes who are leading the race to the WALK-A-THON LIMO RIDE at the end of each day. To do so, we will need you to enter your earnings once per day. Only enter once per day so we can get an fairly accurate indication of the predicted amount per class.
To enter your donation amount each day, go to this link: LIMO RIDE DONATIONS Shortened link: bit.ly/limo-ride
Walk-A-Thon: September 26. Money Due September 28, 2012.
Why is the walk-a-thon donation so important? This money helps to provide to pay for:
We would like to raise enough money to continue the events above and provide affordable tech learning tools to each grade level to assist with student learning. Please help us support learning through technology by donating to the school PTC.
For our walk-a-thon days, we want everyone to wear BLUE and GOLD…EAGLE Colors. Parents and grandparents are invited to join us. The more the merrier!
What are the prizes?
Friday, September 28: Completed donation forms and money due back to school. You do not need to send the money this week. You have until September 28.
PARENTS STILL NEEDED AS VOLUNTEERS!
To access the walkathon flier and donation forms, go to the school blog and scroll to the bottom of the post about the walkathon.
On Monday the children learned what Constitution Day by connecting it our classroom created promises/rules and had a discussion about how the United States have a set of rules too. We recited the Pledge of Allegiance and our class pledge, leaned about some famous American landmarks and people (George Washington, Ben Franklin, the White House, the American Flag, etc) and created American Flag hats! It was dun to celebrate our country!
During Math time we have been reading Anno’s Counting Book which helped us learn number relationships by counting groups of objects. The children have applied this concept by drawing their own scenes to show groups of 2-5. I hope that you have asked your child to explain their scene drawings to you as they arrive home. We also used our math trays, mini square tiles and number tiles to build concepts of numbers 1-5 and to begin to add and subtract totals of 2 and 3. The children are reciting number poems to help them learn the proper formation of writing their numbers. We are having fun saying these poems while we use mini chalkboards, mini whiteboards and create rainbow writings of our numbers. So far we have learned poems for the numbers 0-5. This week we will learn the poems for numbers 6 & 7. Please ask your child to recite these number poems for you as they practice writing their numbers at home.
We have begun our Writer’s Workshop by having the children tell stories about themselves and things that they know and can do. The children are learning to use their storytelling voice (loud enough for the listener to hear) and to look at their audience. They are also learning to listen when others are telling stories. At home, you can support your child’s oral storytelling by telling stories yourself about things you know and can do (everyday events your child can relate to) and by asking your child to tell you the story they told at school. Help your child remember stories by practicing telling stories at home and encourage them to tell these stories at school. Have fun telling stories!
In our Reading Workshop time we explored concept books, books with things we know and can read, abc’s, numbers, shapes, colors, store and restaurant signs, food labels, etc. We also worked on looking at a books cover to learn what a book might be about. We continued to read and love our books!
We also had fun this week learning the Gummy Bear song, Who Stole the Cookies? and continued enjoyment singing the Cool Bear Hunt!
Special Reminders and Things to Note:
Explorers of the Jungle next week- Isabel (Mon.), Anna (Tues.), Micah (Wed.), Jackson (Thur.), and Levi (Fri.)
”YELLOW” was our color word along with our popcorn words “I, a, see”.
*Our first day of Library will begin this week Tuesday! Your child will be checking out their first book of the year then!
*Walk-a-thon—Wednesday, Sept. 26. We will be walking from 9:45-10:00am. You are welcome to come and cheer us on as we have fun walking! Please send in donations in the envelope labeled with your childs name and Yankee-Kindergarten. Thank you for supporting your child and Georgetown school! Refer to the earlier posting for exact details about class and individual prizes.
*In honor of our Walk-a-Thon, be sure to wear blue and yellow to show your Hudsonville spirit. 🙂
*A reminder that the HEF Family Fundraiser is rescheduled for this Friday, September 28. It will begin at Eagle Stadium at 4:30pm with a Mrs. Burdis, Mr. Kooiker, and Mr. Jurewicz, Georgetown teachers, at the dunk tank!
*Don’t forget to send your child in a coat or sweatshirt as the weather is being to feel like fall. We go outside to play unless it is raining.
*The October Lunch Menu is available for viewing by going to the Hudsonville Food Service link on the side of our blog page or by clicking on lunch menu.
Thanks so much for all your continued support! I hope you enjoy our first weekend of fall!
Ms. Yankee