K-C News
November 17, 2017
What you really need to know
Thank you to our room parents Stacey Nathanson and Julie Levine for organizing, and to our many parent volunteers for staffing, a really great Fall themed celebration for our class. Students enjoyed art projects, games, comparing gourds using balance scales, and a scavenger hunt for mini pumpkins!
Thank you for helping your children choose an item or story and prepare to speak to our class for their special sharing day each month(-ish). Please look in your child's folder for sharing calendars for December and January and help them get ready for their next turn.
Look for December book order flyers to come home in your child's backpack on Monday! Orders are due on or before December 1 so you will receive your books before Winter Break for gift giving.
Thank you to Leslie Benson, Dan Levine, and Benjamin's brother Jacob Nicholson for coming in to be our Mystery Readers!
November has been a big birthday month for our class, which reminds me to remind you that you don't have to do anything or send anything in for your child's birthday. Sorry, we can't serve yummy birthday treats at school :(
However, if you do want to send in one cupcake for a teacher because you just have too many and you don't know what to do, there are no rules against that :) Kidding.
We will celebrate everyone's birthday in school this year, even if they were born in the summer. Summer babies are honored in June before school lets out.
Coming Attractions
No School, Professional Development
November 22
No School, Thanksgiving
November 23-24
Book orders due
December 1
No Morning Kindergarten (Delayed opening)
December 6
No Morning Kindergarten, Conferences
PM KASE in session
December 13
No School, December Break
December 23 - January 1 (school resumes January 2, 2018)
All in a days work...
- Eliot's Understanding our Different Abilities parent-teachers visited kindergarten to share the story, Extraordinary Friends. We learned that we don't all do things the same way and that's GOOD! Our visitors also gifted a variety of unique flowers to the students to demonstrate that, though the flowers weren't all alike, they still had some traits in common, and were even more beautiful when they were all collaged together.
- In science, after spending a few weeks wondering if we were just unlucky as mealworm farmers, we finally observed what mealworms turn into when their metamorphosis is complete. Do you know? Ask your kindergartner! We also investigated a pumpkin up close and learned that pumpkins float when placed in water.
- Mrs. Slotnick, our literacy specialist, visited to teach us more about Writer's Workshop. She helped us to focus upon our illustrations and labels to support our stories clearly. And Mrs. Adu visited to teach us an Eliot Eagle's Nest lesson on acceptance. She read the picture book We are all Wonders based on the tween novel Wonder. Wonder is also a recently released PG movie that may be of interest to you for family viewing on the themes of the individuality and acceptance.
- Our question of the day focus has been writing beginning and/or ending sounds from a picture cue using LOWER CASE letters.
- In math, we have learned to print numbers to 8. We will wrap up with 9 soon and are moving on to explore shapes and number lines to help us count on from any number and to learn about number sequences.
Links of the week.
we enjoyed learning and retelling the story of The Little Old Lady...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRDFgSZKkjg
practice matching upper case and lower case letters or letters to sounds.
http://www.abcya.com/letter_match_uppercase_lowercase.htm
find the teen numbers
https://www.education.com/game/number-demolition-11-20/
Practice blending sounds to make a three letter word.
The things kids say. For real.
Student 1: How old are you going to be?
Mrs. Cohen: Six
* collective chorus of "No!" from the crowd*
Mrs. Cohen: OK, not six, but I'll be very, very old. I was born when dinosaurs still roamed the earth.
*collective sympathetic gasp from the crowd*
Mrs. Cohen: *sigh*