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Reflections Contest

"Diversity means..."

Unleash your artistic talents through the 2011-­2012 PTA Reflections program! The National PTA believes all children deserve a quality arts education and encourages students to pursue artistic expression through participation in its annual arts Reflections program.

The program offers students the opportunity to create works of art for fun and recognition.

The Reflections deadline for this year is October 7th! Entry forms and Reflections rules are available here or you can download the general rules here. 

Specific Category rules can be downloaded at the following link:  http://ptareflections.org/cs/rules_and_documents

Make sure you complete the Student Entry Form & include it with your entry!  Download 2011_Student Entry Form

For questions or more information, please contact the
Sope Creek PTA Reflections Committee: 
Deb Papenhagen (papenhagendeb@yahoo.com) or
Wendy Walden,(wendywalden@hotmail.com).

Weekly News

Another week is here:) This week we will be learning about community helpers. We will have a guest fireman on Monday to talk to us about fire safety! We will also cover other members of the community including bakers, policeman, teachers, doctors etc. We are going to make fire trucks out of food and we are going to bake a cake when we learn about bakers/chefs.

We will be working on numbers 0-5. We will work on matching sets, writing the numbers, counting etc. We will continue to work on letter writing as well. Please practice these letters: t,f,n,m,a,c,b and sight words: me,my,am,I,can,is,like. HW- will come home tomorrow and is due Friday!

By the end of October all students need to be able to identify all upper and lowercase letters along with their sounds.

Please be sure to send back picture money and permission slips for our field trip asap.

A big thank you to the Moyal family for designing our class pumpkin for Octoberfest! They created a very cute penguin and baby penguin!

weekly news

Wow! Our class had the most logged hours in ixlmath.com this week in kindergarten! Way to go hummingbirds! Keep up the good work! I hope by Friday everyone has logged on and works for 5 or more minutes! I check the log in every Friday and reward kids for working hard.

We will continue to work on letter writing- please practice t,f,n,m,b and work on sight words- I,see,am,like,my,me. We will learn this week a our families and friends. In math we will study patterns. We will continue to do daily calendar as a part of our math series.

I hope you enjoyed your child's writing piece last week! They worked very hard and I hope they were proud of themselves. We are teaching them how to use a writing map to guide them in their writing. This week we will write about our families as a group. By working together we can focus on letter formation, using the lines, spaces, capitals and punctuation.

Family project is due by Friday! I hope you are enjoying it and being creative!

*** please remember healthy snack and no liquids.

Octoberfest

2 Weeks Until Octoberfest!

Want to help by providing something delicious for our bake sale?  Please download the following form to find out how to help with the bake sale!  Download Octoberfest Bake Sale

Watch for armband order forms to come home with students on September 23rd!  Prices: 

• Students:  $10
• Preschoolers/Alumni/High Schoolers:  $5
• Adults and Children under 2:  FREE!
• Family Maximum:  $25

Questions?

• Bake Sale:  Stacy Baca {stacycarl@comcast.net}
• Armbands:  TongSuk Vignone {tvignone@gmail.com}
• General Questions:  Sandy Sweeney {sandyhsweeney@comcast.net}

Thank you

Thank you so much for all of the birthday wishes and presents! Your kindness was overwhelming! I felt so loved and appreciated by all the hummingbirds! Thank you again!

 

weekly news

This week we will be talking about our emotions and feelings! Their homework this week will be to decorate "elmer the Elephant" so that he is unique... just  like them! The project will come home Monday!  Continue to practice number writing and name writing if needed! This week we will learn two new letters; n and m... we will also review t,f,b. So far we have learned me,my,am,I. Please review these words and work on letters and sounds. In Math we will review sorting and shapes. We will also introduce positional words.

We did a great job getting our boosterthon money in! We also enjoyed our pizza outside last Friday!

Center parent starts this week! Please review the procedures that I sent home Friday and that I emailed to you! It is going to be great!

 

OCTOBERFEST – 3 weeks to go!

You don’t want to miss this year’s awesome inflatables and rides at Octoberfest!! New this year is the Blazing Mechanical Bull! Come try your hand at hanging on! Back again is the Terrific Titanic Slide, Mutiny on the Bouncer, the Ultimate Obstacle Challenge, Pirate 5-in-1 and the Justice League Double Challenge! Enjoy the train ride, lots of games and an all-time favorite, the Spider Jump!

Parents! We are ready to schedule volunteers to help make Octoberfest a great day! We need your help! Please see the link below to view all activities and times where volunteers are needed. We hope to sign up all volunteers via this website without having the Room Reps recruit you from each class. Please find your favorite activity and preferred time to sign up and help us fill these positions ASAP. Octoberfest is a great success because of you! Thank you for your support!

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/octoberfest8
 
Questions? Contact Sandy Sweeney at sandyhsweeney@comcast.net.
 
Don’t miss this great family fun event! 
Saturday, October 1st from 2pm – 6pm

Word Club

The letter explaining word club came home today! Below you will find an attachment with uppercase, lowercase and sound picture cards. Please print these and cut apart. Use the kids to drill sounds and letters. They can match, name the letter and sound etc!

Download Lettersandsounds

Fun Run

Weekly News

Wow, what a wonderful turn out we had for the fun run!!! Thank you so much for coming out to support your child and our class!!! Our class raised a lot of money for the school and hopefully they all had fun doing it! Class incentive- If 100% of the money is turned in by Friday we will have lunch outside! As a class we get 10% of what is turned in on time!

 This week we are going to be working on nursery rhymes and shapes. We will use the nursery rhymes to introduce rhyming. We will also continue to work on our handwriting and letters/sounds

 Homework- A Rhyming packet is coming home and is due Friday! Please be sure to use pencil on all homework! Remember if your excited to do HW and see how smart they are, they will be excited too! All Homework that is given is meaningful, not just busy work!

 Picture day is tomorrow! Tuesday the 6th! Dress to impress and bring your best smile :)