K-C Weekly News
October 16, 2015
What you really need to know
When your child is absent, please remember to call the school office (781) 455-0452, so we know they are home safe with you!! I often do not receive your emails until the morning session is already over :(
Last chance to order books online for the month of October is tonight!
Go to clubs2.scholastic.com
For first time users, our class activation code is HVXFH
Our Halloween helper signup is up!
www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0D4BADA82BA02-halloween
We are requesting pumpkins and other party supplies and need volunteers to help with crafts All volunteers must submit CORI and SORi forms to the office. See this link for details and forms.
Mark your calendar.
10/22 - Kindergarten Conferences - No Kindergarten in session
10/30 - Kindergarten Halloween celebration. Students may wear costumes (and pack a change of clothes). Remember no weapons or scary stuff!
11/11 - Veteran's Day - No School
11/12 - Kindergarten conferences - No AM Kindergarten in Session
11/25 - Early Release at 12:15 for Thanksgiving Break
11/26-27 - Thanksgiving - No School
12/9 - Kindergarten Conferences - No Kindergarten in session.
What we've been up to.
- We've been working a lot with numbers in sequence, telling one more, one less and equal.
- We Read about Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day, which was (shockingly) a book long before it was a Jennifer Garner movie. And the two have pretty much nothing to do with each other. Except it's a good story and it teaches us about feelings.
- We're getting pretty good at comparing numbers and visual clusters (groups of objects to represent a number) to find out which ones are the same value and which ones are different. We are also learning to interpret tally marks!
- Mrs. Conrad was a visiting reader this week! She read us a story about a student who can write her name in Japanese and then taught us how to write our names in Japanese too!
- We added a poem about fall colors to our poetry notebooks.
- Our sensory table has a color search activity with lots of very appealing shredded paper in there to make it challenging. Don't let your children tell you they don't know how to use a brush and dust pan. Because they do.
- Students are now required to write their name "the school way" every time (with just one upper case letter and the rest lower case).
Links of the week.
Color Word reading practice!
http://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/high-frequency-words-colors.html
Make your own jack o'lantern two ways!
http://www.abcya.com/make_a_pumpkin.htm
http://www.abcya.com/pumpkin_carving.htm
Spelling Challenge: spell 3 letter words to get the bus over the bridge!
http://www.education.com/games/school-bus-spelling-game/
Fun for the whole family: Go see Alice In Wonderland on Veteran's day!
http://www.bostonjcc.org/Cultural-and-Performing-Arts/Magic-Ark.aspx
The things kids say. For real.
Mrs. Cohen: Can I help you find something yellow? How about this crayon?
Student: But that has black on it.
Mrs. Cohen: How about this writing book?
Student: But that has white and black on it.
Mrs. Cohen: How about this pencil?
Student: But that has pink and green on it.
Mrs. Cohen: How about this post-it paper? (Gotcha!)
Student: But that has sticky on it.