September 23rd- 27th, 2013

Kindergarten News ~In the upcoming week we will be learning the letter Hh as in hat, hippo, and horse. Letter Hh is a consonant. As part of our study with the letter Hh we will have a “Hat Day” on Friday, September 27th. Students are asked to wear a favorite hat, a funny hat, or even a homemade hat. You can be creative with this if you want! Students will be able to wear the hat all day—we do just ask that students do not share hats. Show and Tell will be with items that begin with the /h/ sound. Check your schedule and start hunting! ~ Our theme for next week will be apples... We are asking that each student bring in an apple on Monday, Sept.23rd. The apple can be any color, size, or kind. Each day of the week we will use the apples for sorting, graphing, and/or tasting! We will celebrate Johnny Appleseed’s birthday, and we will have all kinds of apple activities planned. It should be a sweet week!!!! ~In Math we are learning about more, fewer, and as many. We also will be learning about the order of numbers using the term ordinal numbers. ~In reading, we will begin the story Miss Bindergarten Takes a field Trip. This book will teach about classifying and categorizing, and the genre is “animal fantasy”. ~We have been practicing writing our first names. Please watch your child as he/she is writing. Be sure to check if letters are beginning at the top, not the bottom and also guide him/her to use the lines when forming the letters. Thank you! ~Box tops for education, Turkey Hill Moo lids and Campbell’s labels will be collected at the end of each month. If you have any at your home, then please send them to school with your child. The box tops, lids and labels help our school to earn extra money and the homeroom with the most collected each month will receive a treat from PTO! There will be a fall festival meeting on Sunday, Sept. 22th @ 5:30pm at the “Mine Shaft” in Ashland. Any interested parent that would like to help with the fall festival is welcome to attend. You must have clearances but do not need to be a member of PTO. The school will begin the “citizen of the month” program in September. Any child that shows good citizenship characteristics will be eligible to get this award. We pick one a month so not all children will get this award. An Elementary Newsletter will come home every month with information about the happenings in each grade level for the month, and the children that earned this award. The children are encouraged to bring a pencil box to school with some supplies like crayons, scissors, and glue sticks to keep in their desk at school. They are beginning to want their own things to use every day. Thanks!!! Everyone did a great job returning the word cards. We will be adding to these each week. Monday will be day # 4 on the school rotation and we have Library class.