Sept. 30th - October 3rd

This is the newsletter that was suppose to go home today but our homemade applesauce took my attention and I forgot to give it out!!!!!Look for it on Monday! Sooooo sorry!!!!!! 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 Julius. Our focus skills for unit one are story setting, characters, sequence, and comparing and contrasting the story elements. The genre is animal fantasy. 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 reading and writing zero and continuing with as many, more and fewer. Most of the students are doing a good job with this!!! The Kindergarten Fall Festival will be held at the school on Thursday, Oct. 17th. There will be a fall festival meeting on Sunday, Sept. 27thh, at 5:30 at the Mineshaft in Ashland. Parent and grandparent volunteers are welcome and needed to help the homeroom parents with this fun-filled day! Please send your $4.00 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. If you signed up to be a homeroom helper please attend the meeting or get in touch with our homeroom coordinator Tiffany Urbanowicz. 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) Please make sure their children have their names on their homework. If you did not get a corrected homework paper returned, it could be because there was no name on it and the children could not identify it. Some of the homework I don’t return so do not panic if you don’t get it back. November 1st is picture retakes. If you are unhappy with your child’s picture for any reason the package can be returned to school on retake day . Wednesday October 2nd is day # 1 on the school rotation and we have art class. Mrs. Zink will be painting with in class and she suggests that you send an old shirt to school to be used as a painting smock. It will be kept in school all year to use in art class. Monday, September 30th will be Day 4 on our special classes’ schedule. Our class has library class and I am hoping that we can begin borrowing books!!!! Hip, Hip, Hooray it’s the weekend!