12/29/2016

 

Wow, our break is coming to an end! It has been quite long with the extra 3 days! I am excited to get back in the swing of things, as I am sure many of you are! Next week we will be practicing all of our routines again and slowly get back into the routine of things.

We are planning to hold our belated Christmas Party on Friday afternoon. Parents are still welcome to come, the performance will begin at 11:30, then lunch in the classroom and party will follow! I know many parents volunteered to cook food from around the world for us. If you would still like to that would be great, if you are unable to I completely understand! I would still like to have a little party after our singing if anyone would like to come and help=) I’m hoping for 2 volunteers. 

There will be a few adjustments to our new year at school too. One, is that after our winter break, we drop our rest time. I have found mid-year most kids do not need it any more. We will replace rest with more social studies and science=) I will send how towels and blankets Tuesday.

Another fun addition is we are adding "read to someone" during our daily 5. This class is just amazing and I am excited how well they are reading. I think they will really enjoy this!

Things to look forward to



Monday Jan. 2nd- no school

Begining Jan. 9th- MAP, DIBELS, Fountas and Pinnell testing

Monday Jan. 16th- no school

Tuesday Jan. 24th- OMSI

Thursday Jan. 26th- Open house for current students 6:30/ half day at school

Friday Jan. 27th- No school, teacher work day, end of 2nd quarter

Monday Feb. 13th- Mrs. Lee's Class chapel- Parents invited

Thurs.-Fri. Feb. 16th and 17th- Sonshine's Accreditation observation. Parents will also be given a time that they can come be interviewed and see the results of the observations (optional).

I have to say I am so proud of our school for going through this process, as only being open for 5 years. We are so dedicated to doing our best for your children and continually growing. Thanks for choosing to be apart of our school!

Here are a few articles I found that parents may be interested about handwriting, and the Common Core and why we use it.

Handwriting
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/case-handwriting


common core
http://s3.amazonaws.com/rdcms-pta/files/production/public/K%20June20.pdf

Have a great, safe, happy New Year everyone!

Mrs. Lee

12/11/2016

I hope everyone has enjoyed their weekend, I apologize for the late post! Last week was quite short with our 2 snow days, and I was also gone on Wednesday. Our substitute said the students did amazing. I hope everyone got the news well about our snow days. If you do not know already, there is a way on VSD website to sign up for notifications. I will also try my best to text out any schedule changes.
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Looking Forward

                                                December 12th-16th: Christmas Spirit Week!!! 

Monday: Christmas Socks Day

Tuesday: Holiday Sweater/Shirt Day

Wednesday: Christmas Headwear Day

Thursday: Christmas Colors (red/green)

Friday: Christmas PJ Day/ We will also be having our Christmas Ornament exchange. Again anything under $5 or handmade

Friday, December 16th: Half-Day/ Christmas Sing-a-Long (families invited!) and

 Christmas-Around-the-World (International Food Sampling) (12:00 dismissal).

10:45: Christmas Carol Singing and Classroom Parties (International Food Sampling)

 ***We need food from different countries to showcase at our Christmas-Around-the-World festivities on Friday the 12th. Food may be purchased or made. Please let me know if you have a food item you can donate, its country of origin, and any known allergens in the ingredients. (We especially need to be mindful of nut-containing products).***

Thank you!!!

Here is a website link that will give you kid-friendly recipes from around-the-world that you may want to bring on Friday the 12th. What a fun project to do at home with your kiddo!:

http://www.easy-kids-recipes.com/international-recipes.html

December 24th, 6:30 pm.: Christmas Eve Candlelight Service.
Students are practicing songs to sing for this service. Hope to see you there!

Monday, December 19th- Monday, January 2nd: Christmas Break.
Students return to school on Tuesday, January 3rd

Tuesday, January 24th: OMSI Field Trip (mark your calendars now, details to come)! 

Next week we will be finishing up our unit 2 tests in reading, and continue to work on our How-To writing. We will also continue to work on our -ap spelling word and then test on Friday. 

In Bible, we will finish up our story of Jesus's birth and our Jesse Tree. The Jesse tree tells about all of the stories leading up to Jesus's birth starting at creation. It's fun to listen to the students retell all of the stories we have learned so far! 

Bible verse for next week

K

Keep the Sabbath holy.

Exodus 20:8

Well I hope everything goes as planned this next week, I did see chances of snow in the forecast so we will see. Have a great night!

Mrs. Lee

12/3/16

Happy Sunday Parents and families! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend.

Last week, it really started to feel like Christmas as our church put up all the trees and lights, the kids were so excited! In class we had fun learning about Christmas in America and Germany. Next Tuesday, we are putting our shoes out to see if St. Nicholas will fill them with anything;) We also had our writers celebration. Look for your child's writing to come home next week with a letter attached, and a rubric saying how they did during writing time.There is a number at the top with their average, between 3-4 is where they should be.Here are some events coming up.

Saturday, Dec. 10th: Lularoe Clothing Fundraiser for Sonshine christian 10Am-1PM at Faith Baptist.

December 12th-16th: Christmas Spirit Week!

Monday: Christmas Socks Day

Tuesday: Holiday Sweater/Shirt Day

Wednesday: Christmas Headwear Day

Thursday: Christmas Colors

Friday: Christmas PJ Day

Friday, Dec. 16th: Half Day/ Christams Sing-A-Long (Families Invited) and Christmas Around The World International Food Sampling) (12:00 dismissal)

                10:45: Christmas Carol Singing and Classroom Parites following.

                 *Let me know if you can volunteer for our Party, or if you can send in a baked or store                          bought international Christmas Food. Here is a website Mrs. Bates found for a fun project                    you could do at home with your children for baking!!!

http://www.easy-kids-recipes.com/international-recipes.html

December th, 6:30: Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Tuesday, January 24th: OMSI field trip is planned from 9:30-2:30. I wanted to give a heads up in case you would like to chaperone.

Christmas break will be from Monday, Dec. 19th- Monday, Jan. 2nd. School starts back Tuesday the 3rd.

Reading-

In reading we are continuing to work on blending sounds, and we will work on ending sounds. For our comprehension, we are focusing on making connections between texts, and learning more about characters. In grammar we are talking about adjectives. The word adjectives are just beginning to be introduced, we mainly talk about describing words.

Next Friday we will be taking our unit tests.

Writing-

Last week we finished up our All About Me Unit, and on Friday we had a celebration for all of our hard work!

Next week we will begin our How-to writing. Students will be writing about things they know how to do.

Social Studies

Each year, our Kindergarten class learns about Christmas around the World. It's a fun time to explore different countries and talk about our own traditions.

Bible-

In Bible of course we will be talking about the birth of Jesus. A fun way we do that is each day the kids get to see a new picture. Each picture represents a story leading up to Jesus's birth. I love being in a christian school were we get to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas.

Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Lee

11/17/2016

Today we counted our 50th day in school! We are about a third of the way done, I can not believe it. And then on the other hand I can! The kids have grown so much in 50 days, they are reading, writing, and starting to add numbers! It is so fun to watch them grow.


Coming Up:

Sunday, November 20th, 11 am: Harvest Dinner at Faith Baptist Church

Thank you!

I appreciate everyone who was able to donate to such a wonderful cause, Operation Christmas Child. My heart was warmed as students happily filled the boxes and prayed over them. 

This week will be a light week, we will have fun making graphs, completing out Thanksgiving day book, making crafts, and writing about turkey's. Tuesday afternoon we are going to do a craft and have some treats. If you would like to donate any treats let me know! I'm thinking of having pie and whip cream in the spirit of Thanksgiving!

This week we got a lot accomplished!

Literacy-

We continued to work on breaking sounds up and putting sounds together. We will continue to work on this all year. We also had our first spelling test! They did great, thank you for all the hard work you do at home with them. In writing and reading we have been focusing on how sentences begin with a capital and end with a period and how periods tell us to stop!

Math

In math, we have been talking a lot about how numbers beyond 10 are made up of 10 and some more. For example, 11 is 10 and 1 more. This is a foundational step later on as they begin to add and subtract.

Writing

Kids will begin to finish up their all about me books after Thanksgiving and we will have our Writers Celebration! During our handwriting without tears we finished our capital letters! Now on to lowercase.

Bible

Next week in Bible we will continue to talk about Thanksgiving. This is the first time many of the students are hearing about the first Thanksgiving, so it is fun to talk to them about it. I love that we get to talk about how the pilgrims left England because they couldn't worship God as they wanted, and how they brought their Bibles and prayed on the Mayflower.

Extra Notes:

I know Thanksgiving isn't even done yet, but I thought I should get a head start on Christmas. For our half day Dec. 16th before break, we will be having a party. If you would like to come help please let me know! Thank you!

Our OMSI field trip is scheduled for Tuesday, January 24th. If you would like to volunteer I wanted to get out information early.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Lee

Music time with Mrs. Warner

A few got to get on stage and sing during Chapel!

11/10/16

Happy Thursday Parents!

Today we had a wonderful Veteran's Day Assembly to celebrate our Veteran's and to remember why we are taking a day off tomorrow.

I am so sorry for the lack of pictures this week! Time must have gotten away from me!
Notes

Next Monday is the last day to donate hygiene items for Operation Christmas child. The items should be small enough to fit in a shoe box. They do not need to be expensive. We will be putting many gifts together.

Literacy

In literacy, we are working on breaking up words into sounds and then putting them back together. This is an easy thing to practice in the car to help your child. You can ask "what word is /c/ /at/?" OR "can you break up the word cat into sounds?" So far they are catching on quickly but the more practice the better! This will really help with their writing!

We have also started our spelling words! We are doing them for 2 weeks at first so it is not too stressful. I don't want this to be too time consuming, once they can spell the word, no need to keep practicing. We will also practice in class and during daily 5.

Bible

This week we learned about Samuel. Samuel prayed to God for a child, and promised if she had a son she would give him to the Lord so he could serve.  We talked about how we can serve others, and how we should do so with a good attitude. Another thing we talked about was how slow obedience is just like disobedience. This is a great lesson to extend at home.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs. Lee

11/4/16

Friday, November 4th

Good evening, fabulous Kinder parents! We have had such a fun busy week! I can not beleive November is here! 

NO SCHOOL NEXT FRIDAY: This is just a reminder that there will be no school, next Friday, November 11^th due to Veteran’s Day. Our daycare will be open, so if you need childcare be please respond to this blog or let Brooke know at the daycare. 

VETERAN’S DAY ASSEMBLY: Sonshine Elementary School will have a Veteran’s Day Assembly on Thursday, November 10^th at 10 AM. If you would like to attend you are more than welcome! Also, if you have any friends or relatives who are or were in the military, please invite them as we will be honoring our Veterans!

Also, please send any photos (scanning them and sending via email would be best) of any family members in the military now or who have served in the past. We would like to collect these for a slide-show. 

Saturday, November 20th, 11 am: Harvest Dinner at Faith Baptist Church

Please keep the hygiene items for Operation Christmas Child coming in! We are asking that each child in our class bring in 3 small toys to help fill our shoeboxes! Thank you to those of you who have done this already, so exciting!

Here is a link to a video from the website:
http://video.samaritanspurse.org/a-simple-prayer-a-simple-gift/

Our first spelling list came out today! I am easing students into spelling by practicing a set of words for 2 weeks. After we get a hang of it, we will have one list a week.

Here are some pictures of our week!