K-C News
September 7, 2018
Welcome to K-C!
What you really need to know
We are having a great time getting to know each other :) Thank you for helping to make your child's initiation into Eliot School so positive. 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 black take-home folder EVERY DAY!
- Send in an extra set of "JUST IN CASE" clothes in a ziplock bag. Please include socks.
- Yay, you for sending in small snacks. Please limit foods to one or two options, tops. We just don't have time for more than that, and kids really only need a small snack to tide them over until lunch an hour later. It is super-helpful if your child knows the difference between their small snack supply and their intended lunch items, So PLEASE TELL THEM which container holds lunch and which holds snack. Sometimes we have friends digging into their four course lunch with gusto at 10AM. And if your child would rather have a longer choice time and skip their snack entirely, that's A-OKAY with me!
- This is a hard one: KASE has a separate classroom, their own take-home folders, different curriculum, and different teachers. Notes about KASE dismissal and lunch, or other questions, incidents, forms or instructions regarding KASE, should go in your child's red KASE folder or via email to Mrs. Demirjian. Same goes for after school programs at NCC, Carter, and TBS. Just alert me to any occasion when your child WON'T be attending their after school program or if there's ever any issue I can support your child with to keep them confident and happy. I will gladly and regularly communicate with KASE teachers to support our kids as an informed team.
- Wear sneakers on Thursdays for PE.
- Please return borrowed library books in your child's backpack each week on or before Monday. Borrowing will begin next week!
- Read with your child every day. I mean it. I will only tell you 247 more times.
Happy Birthday to Henry and Reid!
Welcome to Omar, our newest classmate!
See you on Thursday, September 13 at 6:00 for our Curriculum Night, where you will learn more about our daily program and goals.
Coming Attractions
No School: Rosh Hashanah
Monday, September 10
Book Fair in School Lobby (info in your child's folder today!)
September 11-13
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 Wednesday, September 12
Curriculum Night (adults only, please)
Thursday, September 13. Good luck parking. Walk to school if you can. K-2 presentations start at 6:00!
Photo Day (order forms to come soon)
Tuesday, September 18
No School: Yom Kippur
Wednesday, September 19
"Early" Release at 12:15 (AM Kindergarten stays an extra hour!)
Tuesday, September 25
All in a days work...
- We are learning our classroom routines, how to get in and out of the bathroom (the door is heavy!) and how to be kind and cooperative listeners and teammates.
- We discussed "Green GO choices" and "Red STOP choices" we can make at school and read the story No David to aid our discussion about making good, kind, safe and responsible choices throughout each day. We also learned to draw David. You're going to love our art work!
- We had our first fire drill and building tour. We also went to PE and Music for the first time.
- We've had our introduction to some letter shapes and sounds (Ll first, then Bb) we "wrote on the walls" in the hallway to practice making vertical lines, and we are learning to sign our names on virtually EVERYTHING.
- We are learning the names of all 20 of our classmates and doing whole group introductory activities to procedures and materials in preparation for more independent work in the coming weeks. We are already well versed in glue stick schmearing, minimalist twisting of twistable crayons, and efficient marker capping :)
- Most asked questions this week: When is (fill in the blank)? When can we play (fill in the blank)? And Who is (fill in the blank)?
Links of the week.
First Day Welcome Video from Mrs. Martelll, Technology specialist
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=om#trash/165a57705d5cea8d?projector=1
We learned this fun movement song this week, because sometimes you just need a brain break from all that hard work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr9ge4XGUYs
Upper Case Letter Recognition: Find the letter blocks to match the first letter in each row
https://www.turtlediary.com/game/letter-identification.html
Try this shoe-tying tutorial:
http://www.scarymommy.com/shoe-tying-tutorial-video-unstoppable-mother/?utm_source=FB
Wish List Alert
Every storage spot in our classroom is filled to capacity. We will put everything to good use.
If you haven't sent stuff in, no worries. We are done!! We'll ask for what we need when we need it.
HOWEVER, if you haven't sent in a family photo, there's still time for that. Bring it on.
The things kids say. For real.
We use a Mr. Potato Head model to remind us to be good listeners by observing his big ears, his big eyes and his hands down by his sides.
Mrs. Cohen: Do you remember how you can tell Mr. Potato Head is listening? He is using his eyes to look and his ears to listen. What are his hands doing?
Student 1: They're just stuck there. They're plastic.
I can't get away with anything with these guys. Seriously.