Mrs. Thompson's News
November 17, 2023
IMPORTANT NEWS-MARK YOUR CALENDAR
Wednesday's are SPIRIT DAY at SOE!! Wear our school colors (blue/orange)
or any SOE spirit shirt!!
Monday, November 20th- Friday, November 24th- THANKSGIVING BREAK
- Monday, November 27th – All About Me Projects are due
- Thursday, December 6th & 7th – Holiday Market
- Thursday, December 7th – Kinder Musical, 6:30 pm
- Friday, December 15th – Holiday Party 11:00 am -11:45 am--Early Dismissal – 12:10 pm
- Monday, December 18th – Wednesday, January 3rd – WINTER BREAK
- Wednesday, January 4th- First day back
UPCOMING LEARNING TOPICS
Science: Rocks
Social Studies: Holidays Around The World
Math: 3D Shapes
Reading: Informational Text and Features
Phonemic Awareness: Ending Sounds/S Blends (st, sc, sm)
Writing: I Can Write About Things I Know – Holidays
TURKEY FUN!
We have enjoyed reading a variety of fiction and non fiction turkey books this week, and doing all the turkey craftivities! We changed out the bulletin board outside our classroom with a non-fiction "Turkeys can/have/are" piece, and added our homemade, coffee filter turkeys on top! We also got to read the book Turkey Trouble and helped make signs to "save the turkeys" by telling others to eat more of something else! Finally, we made our turkey hats and ran around in those for the day after reading the book Run, Turkey, Run!
AT HOME IDEAS...
Please see below for some SUGGESTIONS on things you can be working on at home. This "homework" is optional and not graded.
Monday: Listen to a story read by someone at home and retell the story in sequential order.
Tuesday: Find objects around your house that are in the shape of a cube, cone, cylinder and sphere.
Wednesday: Practice reading the kinder word wall words that have been introduced thus far.
Thursday: Write a story using your kinder word wall words.
Friday: Have a great weekend!
WORD WALL WORDS
Each week we will learn new words. Please practice these words at home by making flashcards, finding them in books you read, finding them when driving in the car on signs or at restaurants. Reading and writing these words should be practiced daily.
Our new words will be: we, me, he, she
Old words: the, a, I, to, do, an, and, for, you, is, of, was, at, ran, am, on, up, but, did, had, get, yes, not, by, my, as, has
WORD WALL GAME IDEAS
“My Pile, Your Pile”: write each word on an index card and place in a pile, face down between the players. Each player takes turns turning over one card and reading it to their partner. If they read it correctly, they put it in their pile, if they misread or don’t know it, they put it back at the bottom of the draw pile. The player with the most cards is the winner.
Bingo: Choose nine words at a time and lay them out in a square, face up, three cards to each row. Call out a word and the child turns over or puts a penny on that word.
Build a Word: Use magnet letters or any manipulative letters and call out one word at a time for the child to build with the letters. You can make this easier or harder:
Easier- have them identify the word on the word card first and either copy/build the word or turn it over and try to build it from memory.
Harder-Start with a simple word and add to it to make new words. For example: start with “the” and then tell your child to add one letter to make “the” into “them”, then take away one letter and add one new letter to make “them” into “they”…
Thank you for being a MAGNIFICENT star student, Max!
STAR STUDENT
Our star student when we return will be:
NOVA H.!!
We are looking forward to you sharing your poster with the class. Please feel free to be creative in decorating your poster! All the students are looking forward to learning details about their classmates and their lives outside of school. Please return the poster to school on Monday. *Don't forget: you can bring a small show and tell on Friday!*
POETRY JOURNALS
We have a main focus on literature in Kindergarten. Literature, in Kindergarten, is meant to be meaningful to our children, like through poems and songs. Each week, I introduce a new poem/song to the class. We read/sing it every morning and do a different activity with that poem/song each day during our reading block.
Every Friday, your child will be bringing home their poetry journal to share the poem/song we have been working on that week. I encourage you to take time to read/sing this poem with your child. Please return the poetry journal on Monday so we can continue to add to it!
THIS WEEK OUR POEM WAS: "Gobble, Gobble." I have included a link below of the tune.
OUR SCHEDULES
Outclass-Week of 11/27-12/1
Tuesday- Music 1
Wednesday - PE 1
Thursday- Art
Friday - Library **DON'T FORGET YOUR LIBRARY BOOKS**
Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for PE--tennis shoes and shorts under dresses.
FRIENDLY SNACK REMINDERS
Please remember to send a labeled snack with your child every day. We eat lunch at 10:30 am and the kiddos are hungry by the afternoon.
Please kindly find the snack guidelines for Kindergarten below.
Snacks should NOT be:
*gooey, drippy, messy
*require any sort of utensil
*require cleaning of the desk/floor
*need adult assistance in order to open/peel
Here are some examples of simple, quick, nutritious snacks:
-animal crackers
-graham crackers
-raisins
-apples or other self-managed fresh fruits
-dry cereal in a Ziploc bag
-flavored rice cakes
-fig newtons
-pretzels
-carrots, broccoli, cauliflower
-cheese
-fruit or grain bars
-trail mixes
-crackers
WATER BOTTLES
You may send an easy to open and reusable non-spilling water bottle (separate from the lunch kit) for your child to drink from during the day. If you don’t send one, he or she can drink from the water fountain.