February 24, 2012
Dear Families,
During Ww week the kindergartners learned that w says “woo” like the wind. The boys and girls learned about George Washington. He was our first president of the United States. George was a farmer and a surveyor, and he led our country in the Revolutionary War. If he were still alive George Washington would be 280 years old. We believe that George Washington died because he had a horrible case of strep throat. On Thursday the kindergartners got to ride a bus to Waterloo to see “Jack and the Beanstalk” at the Blackhawk Children’s Theater. We enjoyed the play and eating lunches in the classroom.
The kindergartners started Daily 5 this week. We learned how to read to ourselves. We want to learn how to read to ourselves so that we can become more independent and better readers. During Daily 5 the students will be quiet and read the pictures or the words in the books. They stay in ones spot and do their own work. The students start reading right away and raise hands for help. We talked about being responsible and respectful to others. During Daily 5 the teachers walk around the room and watch the children. We may listen to children read in groups or by themselves. The kindergartners started out reading to themselves for 3 minutes. We increased the time a minute a day, and now we are up to 6 minutes!
Our chair pockets are an exciting addition to our classroom. Children may now bring their own cool pencils from home to use at school. The pencils stay in the chair pockets so only your child will use them. Please send pencils with erasers on them so that if your student makes a mistake he/she can easily erase it.
Next week we will be learning about the letter Qq. Since there are not many things that start with Qq, the students may bring any item for sharing. Kindergartners that normally share on Friday may bring it any day since we do NOT have school on Friday, March 2nd because of a comp day.
North Tama Elementary is using a math practice website called IXL. Kindergarten families are welcome to go online and use this website. The address is www.ixl.com/signin/northtama. Your child’s user name is their first initial followed by their last name. All of these letters are lowercase. You child’s password is your child’s initials typed in lowercase letters. For example, if your child’s name is John Smith, his username would be jsmith, and his password would be js. This is a great tool and easy to use!!! At each questions there is an option to have the computer speak to you. You also get prizes when you reach the goals!!! Try it, it’s great! Another great website for literacy is www.starfall.com. This website gives students many different ways to learn and read!
This week the kindergartners continued working with the green, yellow, red system. Lately the class as a whole has been talking a lot and not listening to directions. We start every day on green. (Green is great!) If the class is loud or isn’t following directions as a group, the green will turn to yellow. (Yellow is a warning.) If the boys and girls work hard and begin listening and following directions we can move back to a green. If they do not, we move to red. (Red is BAD!) If the kindergartners get to red, they eat snack silently. If they get two in a day, they eat snack silently AND put their heads down on their tables for a few minutes. Our new goal is to have 7 days in a row without any reds. Check with your child to see where we are on this goal!
Please send hats or earbands and mittens or gloves to school everyday. When it is cold outside we make them wear them. If they do not have hats/earbands (or hoods) and mittens/gloves the boys and girls have to borrow from us, and they do not like our selection. Please send snowpants to school, too. Kindergartners have a really hard time staying out of the snow, and we do not want them coming back in the building with wet pants. The rule is no snowpants – no snow. Please put extra socks in your student’s backpack. Socks tend to get wet at recess or after recess when they walk to put their boots away.
Keep sending the snowpants and boots everyday until further notice. The North Tama playground has big snowpiles on it that take a LONG time to melt away.
Conferences WERE scheduled for Monday, February 27th from 4:00 – 8:00. Monday’s conferences will now be held on Monday, March 5th. Conferences WILL still be held on Thursday, March 1st from 4:30 – 8:00. Students will be dismissed one hour early on Monday, March 5th for conferences. There will be no school on Friday, March 2nd. Please mark your calendars! If you find that your conference time does not work, please let us know so that we can reschedule it. Mrs. Turner will have her conferences in the kindergarten classroom. Mrs. Daugherty will have her conferences in the media center.
School will be dismissed at 12:50 for elementary students on Monday, February, 27th so that families may travel to Des Moines for the Girls State Basketball game. North Tama plays against North Mahaska at 5:00. Go Big Red!
Keep reading at home this weekend so that the kindergartners may reach their goal and get prizes and surprises! Do not forget to keep track of how many minutes your child read this week and cut this week off of the blue February calendar we sent home. Write your child’s name on the strip so that we may give him/her credit for reading!! Right now we are not very close to our class goal. We want each child to read AT LEAST 10 minutes a day!
Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Daugherty
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
February 17, 2012
Dear Families,
During Xx week the kindergartners learned that x says “ks” at the end of words like fox and box. The boys and girls made x-ray books and had fun putting x’s on ten silly items in a picture. They voted for their favorite extra activity. The choices were bowling, playing mini golf, going to a movie, going to Chuck E. Cheese, or going on a picnic. The kindergartners practiced their listening skills on a worksheet. We learned about Abraham Lincoln. Hopefully the children could tell you several facts about him.
Our chair pockets are an exciting addition to our classroom. Children may now bring their own cool pencils from home to use at school. The pencils stay in the chair pockets so only your child will use them. Please send pencils with erasers on them so that if your student makes a mistake he/she can easily erase it.
Next week we will be learning about the letter Ww. Your student should bring something that starts with the letter Ww. Kindergartners that normally share on Monday may bring it any day since we do NOT have school on Monday, February 20th due to Presidents’ Day.
The kindergartners will be going on a winter walk next week on Friday afternoon.
North Tama Elementary is using a math practice website called IXL. Kindergarten families are welcome to go online and use this website. The address is www.ixl.com/signin/northtama. Your child’s user name is their first initial followed by their last name. All of these letters are lowercase. You child’s password is your child’s initials typed in lowercase letters. For example, if your child’s name is John Smith, his username would be jsmith, and his password would be js. This is a great tool and easy to use!!! At each questions there is an option to have the computer speak to you. You also get prizes when you reach the goals!!! Try it, it’s great!
This week the kindergartners continued working with the green, yellow, red system. Lately the class as a whole has been talking a lot and not listening to directions. We start every day on green. (Green is great!) If the class is loud or isn’t following directions as a group, the green will turn to yellow. (Yellow is a warning.) If the boys and girls work hard and begin listening and following directions we can move back to a green. If they do not, we move to red. (Red is BAD!) If the kindergartners get to red, they eat snack silently. If they get two in a day, they eat snack silently AND put their heads down on their tables for a few minutes. Our new goal is to have 7 days in a row without any reds.
Please send hats or earbands and mittens or gloves to school everyday. When it is cold outside we make them wear them. If they do not have hats/earbands (or hoods) and mittens/gloves the boys and girls have to borrow from us, and they do not like our selection. Please send snowpants to school, too. Kindergartners have a really hard time staying out of the snow, and we do not want them coming back in the building with wet pants. The rule is no snowpants – no snow. Please put extra socks in your student’s backpack. Socks tend to get wet at recess or after recess when they walk to put their boots away.
Keep sending the snowpants and boots everyday until further notice. The North Tama playground has big snowpiles on it that take a LONG time to melt away.
There is NO SCHOOL on Monday, February 20th so that families can celebrate Presidents’ Day. Conferences are scheduled for Monday, February 27th from 4:00 – 8:00 and Thursday, March 1st from 4:30 – 8:00. Students will be dismissed one hour early on Monday, February 27th. There will be no school on Friday, March 2nd. Please mark your calendars! If you find that your conference time does not work, please let us know so that we can reschedule it.
On Thursday, February 23rd the kindergartners will be attending a play at the Blackhawk Children’s Theater in Waterloo. The performance is at 9:45, and it usually lasts about an hour. The kindergartners will not be back to school in time to eat the hot lunch in the lunchroom. When we return to school we will be eating lunch in our classroom. Remember that we do NOT have refrigerator space for 33 lunches, and pop is not allowed as a drink.
Keep reading at home this weekend so that the kindergartners may reach their goal and get prizes and surprises! Do not forget to keep track of how many minutes your child read this week and cut this week off of the blue February calendar we sent home. Write your child’s name on the strip so that we may give him/her credit for reading!!
Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Daugherty
During Xx week the kindergartners learned that x says “ks” at the end of words like fox and box. The boys and girls made x-ray books and had fun putting x’s on ten silly items in a picture. They voted for their favorite extra activity. The choices were bowling, playing mini golf, going to a movie, going to Chuck E. Cheese, or going on a picnic. The kindergartners practiced their listening skills on a worksheet. We learned about Abraham Lincoln. Hopefully the children could tell you several facts about him.
Our chair pockets are an exciting addition to our classroom. Children may now bring their own cool pencils from home to use at school. The pencils stay in the chair pockets so only your child will use them. Please send pencils with erasers on them so that if your student makes a mistake he/she can easily erase it.
Next week we will be learning about the letter Ww. Your student should bring something that starts with the letter Ww. Kindergartners that normally share on Monday may bring it any day since we do NOT have school on Monday, February 20th due to Presidents’ Day.
The kindergartners will be going on a winter walk next week on Friday afternoon.
North Tama Elementary is using a math practice website called IXL. Kindergarten families are welcome to go online and use this website. The address is www.ixl.com/signin/northtama. Your child’s user name is their first initial followed by their last name. All of these letters are lowercase. You child’s password is your child’s initials typed in lowercase letters. For example, if your child’s name is John Smith, his username would be jsmith, and his password would be js. This is a great tool and easy to use!!! At each questions there is an option to have the computer speak to you. You also get prizes when you reach the goals!!! Try it, it’s great!
This week the kindergartners continued working with the green, yellow, red system. Lately the class as a whole has been talking a lot and not listening to directions. We start every day on green. (Green is great!) If the class is loud or isn’t following directions as a group, the green will turn to yellow. (Yellow is a warning.) If the boys and girls work hard and begin listening and following directions we can move back to a green. If they do not, we move to red. (Red is BAD!) If the kindergartners get to red, they eat snack silently. If they get two in a day, they eat snack silently AND put their heads down on their tables for a few minutes. Our new goal is to have 7 days in a row without any reds.
Please send hats or earbands and mittens or gloves to school everyday. When it is cold outside we make them wear them. If they do not have hats/earbands (or hoods) and mittens/gloves the boys and girls have to borrow from us, and they do not like our selection. Please send snowpants to school, too. Kindergartners have a really hard time staying out of the snow, and we do not want them coming back in the building with wet pants. The rule is no snowpants – no snow. Please put extra socks in your student’s backpack. Socks tend to get wet at recess or after recess when they walk to put their boots away.
Keep sending the snowpants and boots everyday until further notice. The North Tama playground has big snowpiles on it that take a LONG time to melt away.
There is NO SCHOOL on Monday, February 20th so that families can celebrate Presidents’ Day. Conferences are scheduled for Monday, February 27th from 4:00 – 8:00 and Thursday, March 1st from 4:30 – 8:00. Students will be dismissed one hour early on Monday, February 27th. There will be no school on Friday, March 2nd. Please mark your calendars! If you find that your conference time does not work, please let us know so that we can reschedule it.
On Thursday, February 23rd the kindergartners will be attending a play at the Blackhawk Children’s Theater in Waterloo. The performance is at 9:45, and it usually lasts about an hour. The kindergartners will not be back to school in time to eat the hot lunch in the lunchroom. When we return to school we will be eating lunch in our classroom. Remember that we do NOT have refrigerator space for 33 lunches, and pop is not allowed as a drink.
Keep reading at home this weekend so that the kindergartners may reach their goal and get prizes and surprises! Do not forget to keep track of how many minutes your child read this week and cut this week off of the blue February calendar we sent home. Write your child’s name on the strip so that we may give him/her credit for reading!!
Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Daugherty
February 9, 2012
Dear Families,
During Jj week we read the book I am Not Jenny. The boys and girls enjoyed thinking of a job they would love to be instead of being a kindergarten student. The students started working on writing their last names. They will need to know how to write their last names for the third quarter report card. The kindergartners were given baggies of jelly beans that they graphed according to color. The jelly beans were the crazy Jelly Belly brand of jelly beans so some of the flavors were very interesting. Some children did not like some of the flavors. On Tuesday the red team made rice krispie treats with Mrs. Johnson’s fourth grade class. The blue team made chocolate dipped peanut butter ritz cracker sandwiches with Mrs. Andvick’s fourth grade students. We sold those treats at the bake sale on Wednesday.
Our bake sale on Wednesday was a huge success! Thank you for sending in those delicious treats. The boys and girls loved shopping at the bake sale, too.Our chair pockets are an exciting addition to our classroom. Children may now bring their own cool pencils from home to use at school. The pencils stay in the chair pockets so only your child will use them. Please send pencils with erasers on them so that if your student makes a mistake he/she can easily erase it.
Next week we will be learning about the letter Xx. Sharing will be free choice next week because there are not many things that start with the letter Xx.
This week the kindergartners continued working with the green, yellow, red system. Lately the class as a whole has been talking a lot and not listening to directions. We start every day on green. (Green is great!) If the class is loud or isn’t following directions as a group, the green will turn to yellow. (Yellow is a warning.) If the boys and girls work hard and begin listening and following directions we can move back to a green. If they do not, we move to red. (Red is BAD!) If the kindergartners get to red, they eat snack silently. If they get two in a day, they eat snack silently AND put their heads down on their tables for a few minutes. Our goal is to have 5 days in a row without any reds. As we write this newsletter, we are close to making that goal! Check with your student to see if we made it.
Please send hats or earbands and mittens or gloves to school everyday. When it is cold outside we make them wear them. If they do not have hats/earbands (or hoods) and mittens/gloves the boys and girls have to borrow from us, and they do not like our selection. Please send snowpants to school, too. Kindergartners have a really hard time staying out of the snow, and we do not want them coming back in the building with wet pants. The rule is no snowpants – no snow. Please put extra socks in your student’s backpack. Socks tend to get wet at recess or after recess when they walk to put their boots away.
Keep sending the snowpants and boots everyday until further notice. Even though the snow may be almost gone at your house, we still have a lot of snow at school. The North Tama playground has big snowpiles on it that take a LONG time to melt away.
There is NO SCHOOL on Monday, February 20th so that families can celebrate Presidents’ Day. Conferences are scheduled for Monday, February 27th from 4:00 – 8:00 and Thursday, March 1st from 4:30 – 8:00. Students will be dismissed one hour early on Monday, February 27th. There will be no school on Friday, March 2nd. Please mark your calendars!
On Thursday, February 23rd the kindergartners will be attending a play at the Blackhawk Children’s Theater in Waterloo. The performance is at 9:45, and it usually lasts about an hour. The kindergartners will not be back to school in time to eat the hot lunch in the lunchroom. Families will need to decide if they want their student to bring his/her own lunch or purchase a sack lunch from the cooks. We will be eating lunch in our classroom that day. Forms were sent home last week. Please return those forms! Remember that we do NOT have refrigerator space for 33 lunches, and pop is not allowed as a drink.
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner! Attached to a January newsletter was an up to date class list. Kindergartners may make valentines for every boy and girl in the whole class, or they may make valentines for just the “red team” or just the “blue team”. We recommend that families start writing names early! Families may help write the students’ names on the cards/envelopes. Your student should be able to write his/her own name on each valentine. The kindergarten party will be on Tuesday, February 14th.
Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Daugherty
During Jj week we read the book I am Not Jenny. The boys and girls enjoyed thinking of a job they would love to be instead of being a kindergarten student. The students started working on writing their last names. They will need to know how to write their last names for the third quarter report card. The kindergartners were given baggies of jelly beans that they graphed according to color. The jelly beans were the crazy Jelly Belly brand of jelly beans so some of the flavors were very interesting. Some children did not like some of the flavors. On Tuesday the red team made rice krispie treats with Mrs. Johnson’s fourth grade class. The blue team made chocolate dipped peanut butter ritz cracker sandwiches with Mrs. Andvick’s fourth grade students. We sold those treats at the bake sale on Wednesday.
Our bake sale on Wednesday was a huge success! Thank you for sending in those delicious treats. The boys and girls loved shopping at the bake sale, too.Our chair pockets are an exciting addition to our classroom. Children may now bring their own cool pencils from home to use at school. The pencils stay in the chair pockets so only your child will use them. Please send pencils with erasers on them so that if your student makes a mistake he/she can easily erase it.
Next week we will be learning about the letter Xx. Sharing will be free choice next week because there are not many things that start with the letter Xx.
This week the kindergartners continued working with the green, yellow, red system. Lately the class as a whole has been talking a lot and not listening to directions. We start every day on green. (Green is great!) If the class is loud or isn’t following directions as a group, the green will turn to yellow. (Yellow is a warning.) If the boys and girls work hard and begin listening and following directions we can move back to a green. If they do not, we move to red. (Red is BAD!) If the kindergartners get to red, they eat snack silently. If they get two in a day, they eat snack silently AND put their heads down on their tables for a few minutes. Our goal is to have 5 days in a row without any reds. As we write this newsletter, we are close to making that goal! Check with your student to see if we made it.
Please send hats or earbands and mittens or gloves to school everyday. When it is cold outside we make them wear them. If they do not have hats/earbands (or hoods) and mittens/gloves the boys and girls have to borrow from us, and they do not like our selection. Please send snowpants to school, too. Kindergartners have a really hard time staying out of the snow, and we do not want them coming back in the building with wet pants. The rule is no snowpants – no snow. Please put extra socks in your student’s backpack. Socks tend to get wet at recess or after recess when they walk to put their boots away.
Keep sending the snowpants and boots everyday until further notice. Even though the snow may be almost gone at your house, we still have a lot of snow at school. The North Tama playground has big snowpiles on it that take a LONG time to melt away.
There is NO SCHOOL on Monday, February 20th so that families can celebrate Presidents’ Day. Conferences are scheduled for Monday, February 27th from 4:00 – 8:00 and Thursday, March 1st from 4:30 – 8:00. Students will be dismissed one hour early on Monday, February 27th. There will be no school on Friday, March 2nd. Please mark your calendars!
On Thursday, February 23rd the kindergartners will be attending a play at the Blackhawk Children’s Theater in Waterloo. The performance is at 9:45, and it usually lasts about an hour. The kindergartners will not be back to school in time to eat the hot lunch in the lunchroom. Families will need to decide if they want their student to bring his/her own lunch or purchase a sack lunch from the cooks. We will be eating lunch in our classroom that day. Forms were sent home last week. Please return those forms! Remember that we do NOT have refrigerator space for 33 lunches, and pop is not allowed as a drink.
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner! Attached to a January newsletter was an up to date class list. Kindergartners may make valentines for every boy and girl in the whole class, or they may make valentines for just the “red team” or just the “blue team”. We recommend that families start writing names early! Families may help write the students’ names on the cards/envelopes. Your student should be able to write his/her own name on each valentine. The kindergarten party will be on Tuesday, February 14th.
Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Daugherty
Thursday, February 2, 2012
February 3, 2012
Dear Families,
During Vv week the boys and girls enjoyed riding a bus down to the North Tama Veterinarian Clinic. Dr. Boerm and his staff taught us about taking care of pets, and they showed us some really interesting (and sometimes gross) x-rays, bugs, worms, etc. The kindergartners learned about the different jobs in a veterinarian clinic. They journaled about the vet clinic visit in their journals. For report cards the kindergartners colored and cut out different hearts and turned them into a dog. These projects were kept by the teachers so that we can use them for report cards. We practiced counting by fives and working with nickels. We watched a Ground Hog’s Day filmstrip on Thursday. Throughout the week we did different Valentine’s Day activities.
Next week we will be learning about the letter Jj. Kindergartners may bring an item that starts with the letter Jj.
This week the kindergartners started something new. Lately the class as a whole has been talking a lot and not listening to directions. We start every day on green. (Green is great!) If the class is loud or isn’t following directions as a group, the green will turn to yellow. (Yellow is a warning.) If the boys and girls work hard and begin listening and following directions we can move back to a green. If they do not, we move to red. (Red is BAD!) If the kindergartners get to red, they eat snack silently. If they get two in a day, they eat snack silently AND put their heads down on their tables for a few minutes.
Please send hats or earbands and mittens or gloves to school everyday. When it is cold outside we make them wear them. If they do not have hats/earbands (or hoods) and mittens/gloves the boys and girls have to borrow from us, and they do not like our selection. Please send snowpants to school, too. Kindergartners have a really hard time staying out of the snow, and we do not want them coming back in the building with wet pants. The rule is no snowpants – no snow. Please put extra socks in your student’s backpack. Socks tend to get wet at recess or after recess when they walk to put their boots away.
Keep sending the snowpants and boots everyday until further notice. Even though the snow may be almost gone at your house, we still have a lot of snow at school. The North Tama playground has big snowpiles on it that take a LONG time to melt away.
There is no school for the students on Friday, February 10th so that teachers can attend professional meetings. There is NO SCHOOL on Monday, February 20th so that families can celebrate Presidents’ Day. Conferences are scheduled for Monday, February 27th from 4:00 – 8:00 and Thursday, March 1st from 4:30 – 8:00. Students will be dismissed one hour early on Monday, February 27th. There will be no school on Friday, March 2nd. Please mark your calendars!
In kindergarten we would like to start something called Daily 5. Daily 5 activities concentrate on reading (and possibly math or science). The students will rotate through 5 different Daily 5 centers. The teachers want to raise money for some supplies for Daily 5. We want to buy each child a chair pocket. We are planning on having a bake sale on Wednesday, February 8th. We would like to have each child bring AT LEAST 6 individually wrapped bake sale items for this fundraiser. (Of course families may send more!) Each item will be sold for 25¢. The kindergartners will get to purchase items first. More information will come home about the bake sale.
On Thursday, February 23rd the kindergartners will be attending a play at the Blackhawk Children’s Theater in Waterloo. The performance is at 9:45, and it usually lasts about an hour. The kindergartners will not be back to school in time to eat the hot lunch in the lunchroom. Families will need to decide if they want their student to bring his/her own lunch or purchase a sack lunch from the cooks. We will be eating lunch in our classroom that day. Forms were sent home last week. Please return those forms! Remember that we do NOT have refrigerator space for 33 lunches, and pop is not allowed as a drink.
On Monday, February 6th North Tama is hosting an AR Family Reading night from 6:00 – 7:30. Families may go to their students’ classrooms and participate in different reading activities. In the kindergarten room students have the opportunity to make foam books. Each page of the foam book is a different theme. Each book costs $3. We sent home an order form for families to fill out a couple of weeks ago so that we know how many will be making books. (Other family members are welcome to purchase and make a book!) You are welcome to pay now or that night! ALSO, Mrs. Ehlers will have the book fair open during media time next week. If your family is not able to make it during the special Monday night AR festivities, then fill out the book order we sent home this week and return it to school. Mrs. Ehlers will help fill the orders during media time.
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner! Attached to a January newsletter was an up to date class list. Kindergartners may make valentines for every boy and girl in the whole class, or they may make valentines for just the “red team” or just the “blue team”. We recommend that families start writing names early! Families may help write the students’ names on the cards/envelopes. Your student should be able to write his/her own name on each valentine.
In the elementary newsletter it stated that Valentine’s Day parties are on Thursday, February 9th. NOT ANY MORE!!! THE BOYS AND GIRLS IN KINDERGARTEN, FIRST, AND SECOND GRADES WILL HAVE THEIR PARTIES ON VALENTINE’S DAY, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14TH!!!!!!!!
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Daugherty
During Vv week the boys and girls enjoyed riding a bus down to the North Tama Veterinarian Clinic. Dr. Boerm and his staff taught us about taking care of pets, and they showed us some really interesting (and sometimes gross) x-rays, bugs, worms, etc. The kindergartners learned about the different jobs in a veterinarian clinic. They journaled about the vet clinic visit in their journals. For report cards the kindergartners colored and cut out different hearts and turned them into a dog. These projects were kept by the teachers so that we can use them for report cards. We practiced counting by fives and working with nickels. We watched a Ground Hog’s Day filmstrip on Thursday. Throughout the week we did different Valentine’s Day activities.
Next week we will be learning about the letter Jj. Kindergartners may bring an item that starts with the letter Jj.
This week the kindergartners started something new. Lately the class as a whole has been talking a lot and not listening to directions. We start every day on green. (Green is great!) If the class is loud or isn’t following directions as a group, the green will turn to yellow. (Yellow is a warning.) If the boys and girls work hard and begin listening and following directions we can move back to a green. If they do not, we move to red. (Red is BAD!) If the kindergartners get to red, they eat snack silently. If they get two in a day, they eat snack silently AND put their heads down on their tables for a few minutes.
Please send hats or earbands and mittens or gloves to school everyday. When it is cold outside we make them wear them. If they do not have hats/earbands (or hoods) and mittens/gloves the boys and girls have to borrow from us, and they do not like our selection. Please send snowpants to school, too. Kindergartners have a really hard time staying out of the snow, and we do not want them coming back in the building with wet pants. The rule is no snowpants – no snow. Please put extra socks in your student’s backpack. Socks tend to get wet at recess or after recess when they walk to put their boots away.
Keep sending the snowpants and boots everyday until further notice. Even though the snow may be almost gone at your house, we still have a lot of snow at school. The North Tama playground has big snowpiles on it that take a LONG time to melt away.
There is no school for the students on Friday, February 10th so that teachers can attend professional meetings. There is NO SCHOOL on Monday, February 20th so that families can celebrate Presidents’ Day. Conferences are scheduled for Monday, February 27th from 4:00 – 8:00 and Thursday, March 1st from 4:30 – 8:00. Students will be dismissed one hour early on Monday, February 27th. There will be no school on Friday, March 2nd. Please mark your calendars!
In kindergarten we would like to start something called Daily 5. Daily 5 activities concentrate on reading (and possibly math or science). The students will rotate through 5 different Daily 5 centers. The teachers want to raise money for some supplies for Daily 5. We want to buy each child a chair pocket. We are planning on having a bake sale on Wednesday, February 8th. We would like to have each child bring AT LEAST 6 individually wrapped bake sale items for this fundraiser. (Of course families may send more!) Each item will be sold for 25¢. The kindergartners will get to purchase items first. More information will come home about the bake sale.
On Thursday, February 23rd the kindergartners will be attending a play at the Blackhawk Children’s Theater in Waterloo. The performance is at 9:45, and it usually lasts about an hour. The kindergartners will not be back to school in time to eat the hot lunch in the lunchroom. Families will need to decide if they want their student to bring his/her own lunch or purchase a sack lunch from the cooks. We will be eating lunch in our classroom that day. Forms were sent home last week. Please return those forms! Remember that we do NOT have refrigerator space for 33 lunches, and pop is not allowed as a drink.
On Monday, February 6th North Tama is hosting an AR Family Reading night from 6:00 – 7:30. Families may go to their students’ classrooms and participate in different reading activities. In the kindergarten room students have the opportunity to make foam books. Each page of the foam book is a different theme. Each book costs $3. We sent home an order form for families to fill out a couple of weeks ago so that we know how many will be making books. (Other family members are welcome to purchase and make a book!) You are welcome to pay now or that night! ALSO, Mrs. Ehlers will have the book fair open during media time next week. If your family is not able to make it during the special Monday night AR festivities, then fill out the book order we sent home this week and return it to school. Mrs. Ehlers will help fill the orders during media time.
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner! Attached to a January newsletter was an up to date class list. Kindergartners may make valentines for every boy and girl in the whole class, or they may make valentines for just the “red team” or just the “blue team”. We recommend that families start writing names early! Families may help write the students’ names on the cards/envelopes. Your student should be able to write his/her own name on each valentine.
In the elementary newsletter it stated that Valentine’s Day parties are on Thursday, February 9th. NOT ANY MORE!!! THE BOYS AND GIRLS IN KINDERGARTEN, FIRST, AND SECOND GRADES WILL HAVE THEIR PARTIES ON VALENTINE’S DAY, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14TH!!!!!!!!
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Daugherty
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