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
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