K-C News
September 9, 2016
What you really need to know
Welcome To K-C! We are having a great time getting to know each other. You may think your job is the best but, sorry, mine is. Thank you for helping to make your child's initiation into Eliot School so seamless. They are all Eliot Eagles now!
Here are a few practical items to remember. You are already doing really well at these:
- Arrive on time. Please deliver your child to the building as early at 8:05, but always before 8:15 so they are in the classroom, ready to learn by 8:20.
- Send in your yellow take-home folder EVERY DAY!
- Yay, you for sending in small, manageable snacks :) For the health and safety of everyone, please NO NUTS for snack time. That includes peanut butter sandwich crackers, granola bars with nuts, and PB&J sandwiches.
- This is a hard one: KASE has a separate classroom, their own take-home folders, different curriculum, and different teachers. Communications about KASE dismissal and lunch, or other questions about KASE, should go in your blue KASE folder or via email to Mrs. Murphy.
- Sneakers on Thursdays for PE.
- Please return borrowed library books in your child's backpack each week on or before Friday.
- Send in an extra set of "JUST IN CASE" clothes in a ziplock bag.
- Read with your child every day. I mean it. Thank me later.
On The Horizon
September Online Book Orders Due: (go to https://clubs.scholastic.com. You will need our class code HVXFH, to create an account for your first order)
Order by Monday, September 12
Photo Day:
Tuesday, September 20
"Early" Release at 12:15 (AM Kindergarten stays and extra hour!)
Thursday, September 22
Back to School Night for K-2 (adults only, please)
Tuesday, September 27 at 7:00-8:30
"Early" Release at 12:15 (AM Kindergarten stays and extra hour!)
Friday, September 30
What we've been up to.
- Learning each other's names and touring the school to learn our way around.
- Practicing Daily routines and agreeing upon rules to guide our success at school.
- Getting our certification in the use of markers and crayons! Certification in playdo, glue and scissors to come soon. Our fingers have been working overtime.
- We went to PE (Mrs. Swartz), Media/Library (with Mrs. Mullin) and have been learning how to do MUST DO and CENTERS in the classroom. Centers we've already enjoyed include puzzles, blocks, drama, math, drawing, reading in our classroom library, play dough, the sand table, and painting at the easel!
- We celebrated Simon's Birthday!
- We are working on our first collaborative book. It's based on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do you See and it has all of our names in it! The K-C Players also retold the Brown Bear story with puppets! We read No David and did some pretty fantastic guided drawings of David on the second day of school. Mrs. Cohen was duly impressed. And we learned not to give up from The Little Engine That Could.
- We are beginning to practice writing numbers and letters. We worked on making long vertical lines on posters in the hall! Our first focus letters are lower case t and b. Because kindergartners are terrific and beautiful.
Links of the week.
Upper Case Letter Recognition: Find the letter blocks to match the first letter in each row.
https://www.turtlediary.com/game/letter-identification.html
We learned a movement song this week, because sometimes you just need a brain break from all that hard work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr9ge4XGUYs
Try this shoe-tying tutorial:
http://www.scarymommy.com/shoe-tying-tutorial-video-unstoppable-mother/?utm_source=FB
The things kids say. For real.
Mrs. Cohen: Let's think of some words that begin with b. Who has an idea?
Student 1: Bee!
Student 2: Bear!
Student 3: Bat!
Student 4: Butt!
That was my own fault. Nothing surprises me anymore.