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
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