K-C News
September 23, 2016
What you really need to know
Bad News! We have to do it again next Friday :(
Please look for another early release dismissal form in your yellow folder and return it next week so we can get our ducks in a row for whole school dismissal at 12:15 on Friday 9/30. Kindergarten is lined up and ready to dismiss at their exits by 12:05.
I hope to see you at our Back to School Night on Tuesday at 7:00. We will meet in the performance center. Also plan to visit the book fair in the lobby!
Look for an alert from Bloomz today to sign up for your fall parent/teacher conference appointment. Conference dates are 10/26, 11/10 and 12/8. there will be no AM Kindergarten in session on each of these days.
Please tell me I'm not the only one old enough to recognize this...
On The Horizon. Pay Attention. October is complicated.
K-C visits the book fair in the lobby to make wish lists for book purchases.
Monday, 9/26 at 10:00
Back to School Night for K-2 (adults only, please). Meet in Performance Center.
Tuesday, 9/27 at 7:00-8:30
"Early" Release at 12:15 (AM Kindergarten stays and extra hour)
Friday, September 30
Rosh Hashanah - No School
Monday, 10/3
Columbus Day - No School
Monday, 10/10
Please send your child to school so I am not all by myself
Tuesday, 10/11
Yom Kippur - No School
Wednesday, 10/12
No AM Kindergarten & No PM KASE - K conferences by appointment
Wednesday, 10/26
What we've been up to.
- We visited the technology lab and explored drawing tools on Kid Pix. Using a mouse is a new skill for many track-pad-since-birth users!
- We met our third grade reading buddies from Mrs. Badger's Class and took them on a color scavenger hunt in our classroom.
- We got some new class pets from the science center. Ask your child about them.
- We have started work in our Drawing and Writing Books as part of our Writer's Workshop. Our first drawing task was to make a picture of mom! We will begin telling our stories out loud and learning to represent them with detailed pictures.
- We learned about perseverance when Mrs. Cohen got a mysterious gift box. It was really several boxes nested inside each other and it took a lot of perseverance to get to the end of the task. I would have given up if not for the encouragement of the K-C kids. Ask your child what was inside the last box.
- We Read about Pete the Cat, who is an easygoing feline. Even when things don't go right, his motto is, "It's all good."
- We've been learning several cooperative math games with our math partners.
Links of the week.
Pete The Cat I Love My White Shoes with Author Eric Litwin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUubMSfIs-U
Count the Candles
The things kids say. For real.
Mrs. Cohen: Not yet, we'll all vote on names and decide together.
Student: It has a name. It's called Goldie.
Mrs. Cohen: How do you know? Did he tell you his name was Goldie?
Student: (thinks) Yes.
Sarcasm never gets me very far in this job, but I keep trying.