October 23, 2009
Dear Families,
During this week we worked with the letter Mm. We sorted and graphed M & M’s. We read the big book The Mitten and acted it out. The kindergartners also worked with opposites with The Mitten, practiced retelling the story using the proper sequence, and did some fun math problems using the characters from the story. Mercer Mayer books were read throughout the week. The kindergartners practiced some Halloween songs that we will sing at the Traer Nursing Home.
Next week we will enjoy our first classroom “party” on Friday, October 30th. Students should BRING their costumes to school. After the big recess we will put them on. At 1:00 on Friday we will go to the Traer nursing home. When we return we will eat snack in the lunchroom. At approximately 2:30 we lead the costume parade through the elementary classrooms, going into each and every classroom.
Next week we are studying the letter Ii. Sharing for next week will be free choice.
A great place to stop while trick-or-treating is the Traer Nursing home. Boys and girls can receive a lot of goodies and enjoy walking around without coats. Check out the Traer Star Clipper for the times to visit the nursing home. (We think that children can trick-or-treat from 6:30 - 7:30 at the nursing home.)
Mrs. Owens will be gone on the night of trick-or-treating. Please do not stop by her house since no one will be home!
Please write your child’s name on coats, snowpants, boots, hats and mittens. With over 30 children in this room, winter items can get mixed up and having names on the clothing is extremely helpful.
Kindergartners may now bring a new box of crayons to school. The new box of crayons may contain 16 or 24 crayons. A few students need new glue sticks also.
Report cards are going home today. We will not have conferences until February. If you have a question or concern about the information on your child’s report card, please let us know.
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he North Tama Redhawk football team has qualified for the playoffs, and they play on Wednesday, October 28th.
Keep practicing those flashcards and reading at home! Every bit of practice at home really helps!
Mrs. Owens
Mrs. Daugherty
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November Sharing
October 26 - 30: Free choice item (Ii week)
November 2 - 6: Something that starts with an Ss in a secret sack with clues (Friday kids may bring their sharing any day this week.)
November 16 - 20: Something that starts with Ff.
November 17 - 21: Something that starts with Rr
November 23 - November 25: No Sharing due to the short Thanksgiving Day week (Kk week)
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
October 16, 2009
October 16, 2009
Dear Families,
During Nn week we practiced our numbers and made Number Booklets. Phone numbers were practiced. (Boys and girls will need to know their phone numbers for the second report card.) Some North Tama football players came in and talked about football. They brought in some of their cool equipment for the kindergartners to see and touch. We worked really hard on evaluations for the first quarter report card. Report cards go home next Friday, October 23rd.
Attached to the newsletter are 3 new flashcards! Cut them apart and add them to last week’s report cards. Reviewing the flashcards with the kindergartners is very beneficial! The more practice, the better readers they become!
Next week we will be studying the letter Mm. Kindergartners need to bring something that begins with the letter Mm. The Monday students may bring their sharing items any other day next week.
Please remember that our Halloween party is on Friday, October 30th. The kindergartners may BRING their costumes to school that day. After the big recess we get dressed up and then travel to the nursing home by bus. When we return we will do some Halloween activities in the room, parade through the classrooms, and enjoy Halloween snacks.
The weather is getting cooler outside, and we try to go outside at LEAST 1 time a day for recess if it is not raining. Please make sure that your child is dressed appropriately for the weather because he/she will go outside whether or not they have the necessary clothing. Remember that if there is measurable snow on the ground, the boys and girls need boots.
We are now warning our families that the school is keeping our thermostats at 68 degrees this winter. Some students may find this temperature a little chilly. We recommend that you send a sweatshirt or sweater to school with your child everyday. They can keep it in their backpacks or cubbies and wear it when they feel cold. Because of the construction, the students may be feeling more drafts, causing them to become cold.
Please make sure that your child has an extra set of clothing in their school bag. Kindergartners have bathroom accidents, lunch tray spills, illnesses that soil clothing, and dirty recess catastrophes every now and then, and they feel more comfortable in their own clothing, especially underwear. We do have some extra clothing here, but it is a lot easier to get extra clothing out of school bags than it is to dig out clothing they will wear out of our supply.
Some children are beginning to arrive to school before 8:10. If the children are not eating breakfast, then they need to wait on the playground for the 8:10 bell unless your family has talked to the teachers. Teachers are not always in the classrooms because we are making final arrangements for the day, and we do not like to leave the kindergartners unsupervised. We realize that clocks at home are set at different times, and that occasionally children get here early. If you bring your kindergartner and you discover that you are a couple of minutes early, you can wait in our little entryway for the 8:10 bell.
Please remember that the students do not have school on Monday, October 19th. The teachers get to spend the day in important meetings.
We hope you have an absolutely great weekend!
Mrs. Daugherty and Mrs. Owens
Dear Families,
During Nn week we practiced our numbers and made Number Booklets. Phone numbers were practiced. (Boys and girls will need to know their phone numbers for the second report card.) Some North Tama football players came in and talked about football. They brought in some of their cool equipment for the kindergartners to see and touch. We worked really hard on evaluations for the first quarter report card. Report cards go home next Friday, October 23rd.
Attached to the newsletter are 3 new flashcards! Cut them apart and add them to last week’s report cards. Reviewing the flashcards with the kindergartners is very beneficial! The more practice, the better readers they become!
Next week we will be studying the letter Mm. Kindergartners need to bring something that begins with the letter Mm. The Monday students may bring their sharing items any other day next week.
Please remember that our Halloween party is on Friday, October 30th. The kindergartners may BRING their costumes to school that day. After the big recess we get dressed up and then travel to the nursing home by bus. When we return we will do some Halloween activities in the room, parade through the classrooms, and enjoy Halloween snacks.
The weather is getting cooler outside, and we try to go outside at LEAST 1 time a day for recess if it is not raining. Please make sure that your child is dressed appropriately for the weather because he/she will go outside whether or not they have the necessary clothing. Remember that if there is measurable snow on the ground, the boys and girls need boots.
We are now warning our families that the school is keeping our thermostats at 68 degrees this winter. Some students may find this temperature a little chilly. We recommend that you send a sweatshirt or sweater to school with your child everyday. They can keep it in their backpacks or cubbies and wear it when they feel cold. Because of the construction, the students may be feeling more drafts, causing them to become cold.
Please make sure that your child has an extra set of clothing in their school bag. Kindergartners have bathroom accidents, lunch tray spills, illnesses that soil clothing, and dirty recess catastrophes every now and then, and they feel more comfortable in their own clothing, especially underwear. We do have some extra clothing here, but it is a lot easier to get extra clothing out of school bags than it is to dig out clothing they will wear out of our supply.
Some children are beginning to arrive to school before 8:10. If the children are not eating breakfast, then they need to wait on the playground for the 8:10 bell unless your family has talked to the teachers. Teachers are not always in the classrooms because we are making final arrangements for the day, and we do not like to leave the kindergartners unsupervised. We realize that clocks at home are set at different times, and that occasionally children get here early. If you bring your kindergartner and you discover that you are a couple of minutes early, you can wait in our little entryway for the 8:10 bell.
Please remember that the students do not have school on Monday, October 19th. The teachers get to spend the day in important meetings.
We hope you have an absolutely great weekend!
Mrs. Daugherty and Mrs. Owens
Monday, October 12, 2009
October 9, 2009
October 9, 2009
Dear Families,
What an active week we have had! We had fun talking fire safety and we all practiced stop, drop, and roll and earned a certificate. (Many of the children expressed interest in practicing fire drills at home.) On Tuesday, Martin Herker, Jay Owens, and Matt Schlichting brought the Traer ambulance up to the school so that the children could see it. They told them about their jobs and informed them about the equipment they would use if someone were sick or hurt. The apples brought from home were compared, and the different colors of apples were tasted. The boys and girls made a big graph while voting for their favorite kind of apple (red, green, or yellow). The graph is hanging in the hallway.
This week the kindergartners brought home a little booklet about fire safety. For homework families can read these booklets and do the activity pages at the end of these booklets. Kindergartners that bring the finished booklets back will get to pick out a sticker.
The boys and girls really enjoyed going to the play in Waterloo. They were well behaved on the bus and in the theater. We believe that their favorite part was eating their lunches in the classroom!
Next week we will be studying the letter Nn. Sharing should be an item that starts with Nn.
Don’t forget about picture day on Tuesday, October 13th! Kindergartners have traditionally been the first group to be photographed. Being at school by 8:20 that day is very important! Bus children do not need to worry. The buses get them to school in plenty of time. If you have special instructions about hair, smiles, shirts, etc., please send us a note. Children may also change out of their special picture clothes after pictures are taken. Let us know if your child should change.
There will be no school for students on Monday, October 19th. The teachers get to attend many important meetings that day.
We will be having our Halloween party on Friday, October 30th at 2:15. We will probably be going to Sunrise Hill Care Center for a costume parade around 1:00 that same day. Children should BRING their costume to school that day, NOT wear it to school. The less help they need from adults the better. (i.e. makeup) We have already sent notes to those volunteers that will need to send treats, napkins, or help at the party.
Please check with your kindergartner about the condition of the glue stick in his/her crayon baggy. Because we have been using them a lot lately, some students need to have new glue sticks in their crayon baggie.
We have already been evaluating the children for their report cards. We will be checking the students on knowing their addresses, colors, shapes, left/right, days of the week, birthdays, and identifying the numbers 0 - 10. The children will also be expected to correctly count objects up to 10.
Please continue sending coats, jackets, and sweatshirts to school everyday. The weather is getting colder, and the recesses have been chillier. We’d rather have the children get a little warm than shiver through the recesses. We would also like to remind you to send extra clothes with your child to school. The children feel more comfortable in their own clothes if they would happen to need to change them. We would greatly appreciate if borrowed clothes from the kindergarten room would be returned.
Have a fantastic fall-type weekend!
Mrs. Owens and Mrs Daugherty
Dear Families,
What an active week we have had! We had fun talking fire safety and we all practiced stop, drop, and roll and earned a certificate. (Many of the children expressed interest in practicing fire drills at home.) On Tuesday, Martin Herker, Jay Owens, and Matt Schlichting brought the Traer ambulance up to the school so that the children could see it. They told them about their jobs and informed them about the equipment they would use if someone were sick or hurt. The apples brought from home were compared, and the different colors of apples were tasted. The boys and girls made a big graph while voting for their favorite kind of apple (red, green, or yellow). The graph is hanging in the hallway.
This week the kindergartners brought home a little booklet about fire safety. For homework families can read these booklets and do the activity pages at the end of these booklets. Kindergartners that bring the finished booklets back will get to pick out a sticker.
The boys and girls really enjoyed going to the play in Waterloo. They were well behaved on the bus and in the theater. We believe that their favorite part was eating their lunches in the classroom!
Next week we will be studying the letter Nn. Sharing should be an item that starts with Nn.
Don’t forget about picture day on Tuesday, October 13th! Kindergartners have traditionally been the first group to be photographed. Being at school by 8:20 that day is very important! Bus children do not need to worry. The buses get them to school in plenty of time. If you have special instructions about hair, smiles, shirts, etc., please send us a note. Children may also change out of their special picture clothes after pictures are taken. Let us know if your child should change.
There will be no school for students on Monday, October 19th. The teachers get to attend many important meetings that day.
We will be having our Halloween party on Friday, October 30th at 2:15. We will probably be going to Sunrise Hill Care Center for a costume parade around 1:00 that same day. Children should BRING their costume to school that day, NOT wear it to school. The less help they need from adults the better. (i.e. makeup) We have already sent notes to those volunteers that will need to send treats, napkins, or help at the party.
Please check with your kindergartner about the condition of the glue stick in his/her crayon baggy. Because we have been using them a lot lately, some students need to have new glue sticks in their crayon baggie.
We have already been evaluating the children for their report cards. We will be checking the students on knowing their addresses, colors, shapes, left/right, days of the week, birthdays, and identifying the numbers 0 - 10. The children will also be expected to correctly count objects up to 10.
Please continue sending coats, jackets, and sweatshirts to school everyday. The weather is getting colder, and the recesses have been chillier. We’d rather have the children get a little warm than shiver through the recesses. We would also like to remind you to send extra clothes with your child to school. The children feel more comfortable in their own clothes if they would happen to need to change them. We would greatly appreciate if borrowed clothes from the kindergarten room would be returned.
Have a fantastic fall-type weekend!
Mrs. Owens and Mrs Daugherty
Thursday, October 1, 2009
October 1, 2009
October 1, 2009
Dear Families,
During Pp the boys and girls liked hearing Mr. Foster read The Principal’s New Clothes and The Principal from the Black Lagoon. We learned about the Presidents. We graphed our favorite pet. The children could choose one of the following pets: dog, cat, fish, rabbit, or hamster/gerbil/guinea pig. On Wednesday the Strength Team visited North Tama and shared a drug free message with the students.
It was great seeing and talking with our families this week. Please remember that there is NO SCHOOL, tomorrow, Friday, October 2nd!
Next week we will be learning about the letter Aa. Next week’s sharing will be free choice since there aren’t many items that begin with the letter Aa. During Aa week we talk about apples.. Each kindergartner needs to bring in one apple for some different apple activities. We need these apples by Wednesday, October 7th!
Remember that picture day is Tuesday, October 13th. Kindergartners are normally scheduled to get their pictures taken at 8:20 SO PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR CHILD IS AT SCHOOL ON TIME! (Bus students will not have a problem with this.) If you have special instructions concerning hair or smiles, write us a note, and we will do our best to help your student take a great picture. Children are welcome to change out of special picture outfits when pictures are finished.
Around this time of year the weather gets cooler. We try to go outside for recess everyday, and the boys and girls need to be dressed appropriately. (Some of the children don’t want to wear their coats outside on a chilly day. On chilly days we make them wear coats or sweatshirts.) We have them wear whatever the family sends them in. By the way, one rule our school has is if there is any measurable snow on the ground, the students need to wear boots outside. We know that the thought of snow is depressing, but we wanted you to be aware and prepared.
The flu and cold season is coming soon (if it is not already here)! According to our elementary handbook, children need to stay home if they have the following: an earache, severe headache, a fever of 99.6 or above, an acute cold, a communicable disease, mattering or an inflammation of the eyes, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or untreated head lice. In the handbook there are also guidelines that will help families determine if a child may return to school. Please refer to this so that children do not come back to school too early.
Remember that on Friday, October 30th, the boys and girls are currently scheduled to have the Halloween parties.
On Tuesday, October 6th the kindergartners will be attending a play in Waterloo. We get on the bus between 8:30 and 8:45 to go to the play. THE KINDERGARTNERS THAT SIGNED UP TO BRING THEIR OWN LUNCHES NEED TO DO THAT ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6TH! MILK CAN BE PURCHASED FROM THE COOKS WITH THE COST DELETED FROM HIS/HER LUNCH ACCOUNT.
Have a great 3 day weekend!
Mrs. Daugherty and Mrs. Owens
Keep for future reference!
October Sharing Schedule
October 5 - 9: Free choice (Aa week)
October 12 - 16: Something that begins with the letter Nn
October 19 - 23: Something that begins with Mm (The Monday kids may bring their sharing any day since there is no school on Monday, October 19th.)
October 26 - 30: Free choice (Ii week)
Dear Families,
During Pp the boys and girls liked hearing Mr. Foster read The Principal’s New Clothes and The Principal from the Black Lagoon. We learned about the Presidents. We graphed our favorite pet. The children could choose one of the following pets: dog, cat, fish, rabbit, or hamster/gerbil/guinea pig. On Wednesday the Strength Team visited North Tama and shared a drug free message with the students.
It was great seeing and talking with our families this week. Please remember that there is NO SCHOOL, tomorrow, Friday, October 2nd!
Next week we will be learning about the letter Aa. Next week’s sharing will be free choice since there aren’t many items that begin with the letter Aa. During Aa week we talk about apples.. Each kindergartner needs to bring in one apple for some different apple activities. We need these apples by Wednesday, October 7th!
Remember that picture day is Tuesday, October 13th. Kindergartners are normally scheduled to get their pictures taken at 8:20 SO PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR CHILD IS AT SCHOOL ON TIME! (Bus students will not have a problem with this.) If you have special instructions concerning hair or smiles, write us a note, and we will do our best to help your student take a great picture. Children are welcome to change out of special picture outfits when pictures are finished.
Around this time of year the weather gets cooler. We try to go outside for recess everyday, and the boys and girls need to be dressed appropriately. (Some of the children don’t want to wear their coats outside on a chilly day. On chilly days we make them wear coats or sweatshirts.) We have them wear whatever the family sends them in. By the way, one rule our school has is if there is any measurable snow on the ground, the students need to wear boots outside. We know that the thought of snow is depressing, but we wanted you to be aware and prepared.
The flu and cold season is coming soon (if it is not already here)! According to our elementary handbook, children need to stay home if they have the following: an earache, severe headache, a fever of 99.6 or above, an acute cold, a communicable disease, mattering or an inflammation of the eyes, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or untreated head lice. In the handbook there are also guidelines that will help families determine if a child may return to school. Please refer to this so that children do not come back to school too early.
Remember that on Friday, October 30th, the boys and girls are currently scheduled to have the Halloween parties.
On Tuesday, October 6th the kindergartners will be attending a play in Waterloo. We get on the bus between 8:30 and 8:45 to go to the play. THE KINDERGARTNERS THAT SIGNED UP TO BRING THEIR OWN LUNCHES NEED TO DO THAT ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6TH! MILK CAN BE PURCHASED FROM THE COOKS WITH THE COST DELETED FROM HIS/HER LUNCH ACCOUNT.
Have a great 3 day weekend!
Mrs. Daugherty and Mrs. Owens
Keep for future reference!
October Sharing Schedule
October 5 - 9: Free choice (Aa week)
October 12 - 16: Something that begins with the letter Nn
October 19 - 23: Something that begins with Mm (The Monday kids may bring their sharing any day since there is no school on Monday, October 19th.)
October 26 - 30: Free choice (Ii week)
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