September 24th-28th

Kindergarten News In the upcoming week, we will be learning Tt as in tent, tail, and tie. Take some time to find items at home that begin with the letter Tt sound! Also, boys and girls are asked to learn their telephone numbers. Please practice at home! Our theme for the upcoming weeks and October will be Fire Safety. We have many activities planned to teach the students about fire safety such as; videos, stories, and art projects. Don’t forget to ask your child what he/she has learned! In reading we will be starting the story Plaidypus Lost. Our focus skills for unit one are story setting, characters, sequence, and comparing and contrasting the story elements. The genre is animal fantasy and fiction. We will soon begin our writing program titled Kid writing. Several times during the week we work in small groups writing stories. Once we complete several pieces I will send home your child’s writing for you to keep and enjoy. It is very exciting to watch the children grow into writers! In Math we will be working on ordering numbers 1-5, naming shapes by color, shape and size, describing the relative position of objects, and matching numbers to sets. The Kindergarten Fall Festival will be held at the school on Thursday, Oct. 11th. There will be a fall festival meeting on Thursday, Sept. 27thh, at 6:00 at the pavilion at NSE Elementary. . Parent and grandparent volunteers are welcome and needed to help the homeroom parents with this fun-filled day! Please send your $3.00 dollar donation ASAP. If you cannot help at the festival, there are many small things that we need donated to defray the cost of the larger items. If you would be willing to donate something let me know and I will send a list of needed items to pick from. School store will begin on Monday, September 24th. Monday is the only day that kindergarten students are permitted to shop at the school store. Each grade has a designated day .The store is run by the PTO and the students must shop before school begins at 8:45. Parents are encouraged to check out your teacher’s BLOG for homework and important information for the week. You can access each teacher’s blog by going to the NS website at www.northschuylkill.net and clicking on Elementary School; then drop down to Homework Helpline and click on the teacher’s name. This should take you directly to each teacher’s blog. (The blogs will be updated at least once a week) There has been a change in the lunch menu for next Wednesday the 26th, it will be toasted cheese and tomato soup, and Friday September 28th will be pierogie casserole. Please make sure their children have their names on their homework. If you did not get a corrected homework paper returned, it is because there was no name on it and the children could not identify it. We began our unit on trees, and we examined seeds (chestnuts, acorns, and maple seeds), and we did leaf and bark rubbings. Monday, September 24th will be Day 5 on our special classes’ schedule. Wear your gym sneakers!!!