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Halloween Centers

Weekly News

Halloween is Monday! Although the kids may not dress up, we will still have some fun! We will do spooky centers and watch the first grade book parade! We also will meet with our 5th grade buddies! Thank you to the parents who volunteered to come in for centers tomorrow. Please arrive a little early to set up and plan for centers to last a little longer!

The rest of the week we will be learning about nutrition and making healthy food choices! November word club will also begin this week, please review the words daily and I will test them at the end of the month... which is only 3 weeks away due to turkey day! In math we will be working on shapes: 3-dimensional. Please work either nightly on ixlmath.com for 5 minutes or a few times a week totalling at least 25 minutes!

Raz-kids.com  will begin this week! A letter and your child's password will come home tomorrow. I would like for each child to do at least 2-3 stories a week if not more! I will check ixl and raz on Friday's!

 

Turkey feathers are due Friday! Thanks to all the parents for coming to meet with me this week!

Reminders

This week is conference week! School will let out at 12:20 each day. Please be on time for your conference, as we only have 20 minutes.

This week we will continue to talk about the seasons and we will add in some spooky fun! Continue to work on letters and sighgt words. Enjoy the early release days and encourage your child to play outside!

No centers this week. We will still have story parent on Friday! Our lunch time for the week is 9:58 due to the early release...

 

Please join us for our monthly Chick-fil-A Spirit Night on Tuesday, 10/18, any time between 5pm and 8pm!

While we dine and socialize, we will also be working on writing letters to service men and women as a part of The Bert Show's Big Thank You!  We will have paper and pencils available, and you will leave the letters with us.  We will make sure the letters get delivered.  More information on The Big Thank You, click here. 

Our goal is to have Sope Creek submit at least 1,100 letters!!!  If you would like to write letters at home, you are welcome to have your child bring them to the front office before October 26th.  They must be hand-written on 8.5 x 11'' paper and contain no political messages.

Thank you for supporting our school (a percentage of all proceeds help to fund field trips and staff development) and for supporting our troops!

Kindergarten Clinic Drive

 

Hey Kindergartners!

 

Get Ready for the Upcoming Kindergarten Service Project - Clinic Supplies Drive 

 

October 17th-21st, 2011

 

Start collecting those clinic supplies for the upcoming Kindergarten Service Project.  We will be learning about safety while collecting supplies for our own school nurse, Shannon Pierce.  We will also be donating some of the supplies to Brumby Elementary School and several shelters in the area.  We will be collecting band-aids, cotton balls, facial tissue, Lysol Spray & wipes, peroxide, ginger ale, and snack size zip lock bags for ice packs so start saving now.  

 

Thanks in advance for your support and teaching our kids about helping others!

 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Carie Buchanan at thebuchananfamily@comcast.net.

 

Any parents who want to help collect and organize the supplies on Friday, October 21st from 8-9am, please e-mail Carie Buchanan at thebuchananfamily@comcast.net

fun at school

Weekly News

This week will be very exciting as we will be going to the pumpkin patch! We will continue to make our main focus letters and letter sounds. We have been working very hard on our handwriting and sounds. My goal is for all students to be ready to start November word club at the end of the month! This means knowing their sounds, letters and how to write each letter.

In math we will work on money this week. For this 9 weeks they need to know name and value of a penny and nickel and that 5 pennies can be traded for a nickel.

Homework this week: 5 minutes a night on ixlmath.com, and small handwriting practice packet will come home. They also need to know the following sight words- me,my,I, See, can, is, and, like, in

Pumpkin patchis Friday! Rumor has it that our class t-shirts will be in this week! To the pumpkin patch they will wear they class shirt and tennis shoes are needed! I will send a reminder later in the week!

News!

This week we will be very busy! We are heading into week 8 and we are learning a lot. We will continue to work on handwriting- t,m,n,c,a,f,b,i,r... now that we are learning how to write vowels we will also be learning how to make words. This month work hard to master all letter sounds, as word club will start in November. Words we have learned-me,my,I,can,like,is,am We will begin our fall unit- We will discuss the seasons and changes that happen in the fall---pumpkins, apples,leaves etc. these will be our themes but they are mainly used to help us tie a theme to our reading and writing units.

In math we will continue to work on numbers- this week we will work on 6-10, 0-5 will be review from last week. We will also work on money values and names in the next few weeks.

Conferences will be the week on October 24th. I Can't wait to meet with you all.

Homework- NO homework this week since the load has been heavy.... please just work on letter and number handwriting and work on ixlmath.com for at least 5 minutes a night. I check weekly access on Friday's.

Our fiels trip is October 14th! I hope our class shirts come in by then:)

 

This week is apple week! Try to send in an apple for snack!!