Friday Update and Pumpkin Patch Fun!

Happy Friday,
Welcome to another fun week at Sonshine Christian Kindergarten.   Here you will find adorable pictures of our students and valuable information for our room.

Our Week at A Glance:
Math-  We are learning about the numbers 6-9.  How to count objects, write, and use with a ten frame.

Reading:  This week's theme was about Going To School and our responsibilities at school and at home.  Our re-aloud book was called "How do Dinosaurs Go to School".  We focused on retelling stories, reviewing our sight words, and reading books in small groups.

Bible:  Our story this week was about Isaac.  The kids were very fascinated that Abraham was 99 and Sarah was 89 when Isaac was born.  Look in your child's Owl Folder for next week's memory verse.

Bizi Farms Pumpkin Patch:
A huge Thank you to all parents who came and helped us with this field trip.  It was a ton of fun for both the parents and the students!  This is always a popular field trip and we can't wait for next year.

Classroom Reminders:
Water bottles are always welcome and encouraged in our classroom.  Please make sure you are ONLY sending your student water and not Gatorade, Powerade, or juice.  We try very hard to keep our carpet clean.  Red , blue and green juice is extremely hard to get out of carpet.  Also, water has a lot less sugar!  They are welcome to drink other beverages at lunchtime.

Parent/Teacher conferences  are scheduled for Thursday, October 29 and Friday, October 30.  Please email us three times that would fit with your schedule to accommodate everyone.  Thanks so much!

Reading Logs will be sent home on Friday with the sight words (see your child's OWL Folder).  The weekend is a great time to review sight words and spend time reading books together!

Reading Bags will be changed out and sent home again on Monday.

Fun Fest is Saturday, October 24th.  A flyer will be going out to all parents.  If you are interested in helping to run a booth, or even helping with set-up/take down please let Mrs. Warner know asap.  We would love to have some helping hands.

Pumpkins Needed!:  Next week Kindergarten will be starting our Pumpkin Science.  We will be doing investigations and learning with their personal pumpkins.  The pumpkin needs to be small and can be purchased at any grocery store (or pumpkin patch!!)

Grandparents Day is Next Friday, October 16 from 9am-12Noon.  Your child's grandparent is welcome to join us for this special day.  Please let us know if you have someone coming.  It is totally ok for the "grandparent" to be an uncle, friend, or older adult in your student's life who would like to join us.

  Makenna's Mom handing out food for the goats.

I don't think this tractor is going very far today!

Pyramid Maze and great picture spot.

Kindergarten "cuties!"

So Sweet!

Feeding the Goats

Picking the "perfect pumpkin!"

Decorating Pom Pom Cups

 Gavin sharing his writing

 Writer's Workshop Celebration

 More celebration pictures with cookies and punch

 Lara sharing her work

 Chapel

One last A-mazing photo to wrap up a totally fun week!

10/2/15

We had a great week in kindergarten!

Important Notes

·       Wednesday is our Pumpkin Patch Field Trip! Please remember to fill our permission slip and send in $5 if you have not already.

·       October 16^th is Grandparent’s Day. We will be making invitations soon, but you may want to give them a heads up before hand.

·       Next Tuesday we will be having a writer’s celebration!! We buy cookies and juice and the students “read” their stories to each other. It is a time for them to feel proud of all their hard work. As the year progresses, they will have many more words to go with their pictures. We invite parents to come and read what students have written! It will be Tuesday at 2:15.

Homework started last week. I sent home a reading log with sight words attached. Today I sent home our new reading log. Please fill in the days you read and practice sight words nightly. Then return these forms every Friday. Students will get credit for turning these back in.

Book bags- next week I will start sending book bags home. They are different from library books. There will be paper books that we read in class that they keep and, books from our classroom library that should be returned each Friday. As students begin to read more, having books at their own level will be helpful.

A note was sent home today about our Fun Fest coming up. If you are able to help please fill the form out and send it back. You can help with the booths, buying or making cakes, or with setting up.  

Reading- This week we started our small groups. We read books together and practiced our sight words. In reading we have been working on letters, rhyming, and learning the difference between letters and numbers.

Math- In math we finished up our unit of numbers 1-5. Students also have been learning about greater than, less than, and one more. These are terms that would be great to work on in the car or other spare times!

Bible- last week we learned about Abraham and Sarah, and how God asked them to move far away. We have been learning what it means to obey God, our parents, and our teachers.

In September we learned about Self-Control for our fruit of the spirit. Each month every teacher recognizes two students who showed that trait. On Monday, those students received awards. Next month we will be focusing on Patience!

 Next week’s Bible verse

 

Writing- We are finishing up our unit on drawing to tell. Our next unit is “stories about me”. They will start making little books=)

Social studies- we are finishing up our Community helper unit and beginning our Pumpkin unit! Wednesday will help us kick off our unit!

Clipchart- you may have been hearing about this from your students. This is a behavior chart for individual behavior. When students are doing good or going above whats expected they are asked to clip up,but if they are having trouble they are asked to clip down.

Fun in Music

Happy Birthday Addison!

 

 Have a great weekend!

Homework

Homework starts this week! Reading logs will be sent home each Friday before the next week, with student's sight words to practice. Reading logs should be returned each Friday. Students should spend about 15 minutes each night reading and practicing sight words. Weekends are also a great time to practice sight words. If your family  is like ours, I have found that is when our family has the most time to work on them. Students will be graded on their sight words, they will be tested each week. Some sight words will be repeated throughout the weeks. Here are some ideas to help with sight words.

• Flash cards.
• Write them down 5 times each. 
• While reading you can stop and have them read the sight words.
• Magnets.
• They can practice spelling them in the car. 

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask us.

Thank you, 

Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Palmer

Week 4 and Going Strong!

Happy Friday!

It was a wonderful week to be in our Kindergarten Class!

Our Week at a Glance

-Tuesday was Picture Day.  I have never seen so many smiling faces all in one place.  Fingers crossed that everyone's picture comes out amazing.

-Wednesday we had our first Fire Drill!!  There were a few tears, but overall everyone did Fantastic!  They all lined up and headed outside immediately.  I was one proud teacher :)

-Thursday was our very first Field Trip to the Felida Fire Station.  The kids (and teachers) had an absolute blast.  The students had a tour of the station (including where they eat and sleep!)  They were able to climb inside the fire truck, and lastly they were privileged to have a real ride on an old-fashioned fire truck.

Academics

Math- we studied writing our numbers 1-5 and learned the concept of Greater than...

Reading- We are finishing up our intro. section of Journeys Reading and should be ready to begin our first topic which is Our Community and Families.

Daily 5- We are increasing our reading Stamina to 10 minutes a day.  We are getting stronger every day!  We have added Listen to Books, Word Work, Read to Self and Read to Someone.  We also have two ipads the students can use for Reading.

Social Studies-  We are studying about Community Helpers.  Do you have a job that you would like to tell the class about.  We would love to have you.  Please talk with Mrs. Palmer or Mrs. Lee if you are interested in presenting something to the students.

Bible-  The story of Noah.

Reminders

Our next field trip will be on Wednesday, October 7 from 1:00-2:30pm.  The cost is $5.00 per student and chaperones are free. I will be sending home the permission slips today in the OWL folders.

Friday, October 16th is Grandparent's Day at Sonshine Christian.  Please remind Grandparents about this special event.  It is from 9:00am-12:00pm.  More details coming soon!!

Your Child's O.W.L. Folder comes home each day, and it needs to be returned the next day.  Please remember to take out your child's completed work to make room for more awesome assignments coming your way.

Our Class starts promptly at 8:30am.  Please make every attempt to be at school on time.  When students come in late, it is disruptive to our young learners already at school.  Thanks!! :)

Welcome

WE are thrilled to announce two new students to our classroom!  They are Lara and Raneem.  We are so glad to have you become a part of our classroom family!!

As always if you have any questions or concerns, please do NOT hesitate to contact us.

Mrs. Palmer and Mrs. Lee

Week 3

It was our first full week back to school and I think the kids were a little more tired by the end!

Last week in reading we continued to work on our stamina in Daily 5, they are doing great! On Monday we got to read with the 2nd and 3rd graders. There are some cute pictures below. Next week we will introduce the I-Pads and then our whole Daily 5 will be up and running. After this we will be able to start working with students in small groups which will be a lot fun. Some things to work on in reading are Letters, sounds, rhyming, and beginning sounds.

In math we started our curriculum and our stations. The first day was a little rocky but it’s getting better=) You have to take everything slowly in Kindergarten. Some things you can work on at home in math are counting to 50, or if they can do that 100, and writing their numbers to 10.

We finished up our all about me unit this week and will be starting our community helpers group next week, the fire station will help us kick it off!

Next week in Bible we will be learning about Noah. Our Bible verse will be “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.” Ephesians 6:1

Notes

• ·         Next Tuesday is Picture Day!
• ·         Next Thursday is our Fire Station field trip, please remember to fill out our T-shirt form if you have not already.
• ·         Grandparents Day will be October 16^th from 9-12. I wanted to give a heads up for the Grandparents who need to take a day off. We will have some fun things planned for this day!
• ·         October 7^th is our Field trip to the Bi-Zi Pumpkin Patch from 1-2:15. Permission slips will be going out soon, but if you would like to volunteer please let Mrs. Lee or Mrs. Palmer know.

We hope everyone has a great weekend!

Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Palmer

Sharing writing

Chapel

Reading with Mrs. Jones Class

week 2

We had a great second week!

In reading we have been practicing our daily 5 and building our stamina! The first day students were able to read to self for about 30 seconds lol... we are now at 10 minutes! We have also begun reading to someone, and next week we will start our word work and listen to reading.

In math we are learning the routine for math stations.They have been exploring different manipulatives and next week we will begin our math curriculum.

In Bible we have been learning about the 7 days of creation. We learned our first ABC Bible verse this week "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" Romans 3:23. Next week I will begin sending home their bible verse to be practiced at home, which we will test on Fridays.

Also, just a heads up, we will not be starting any homework until October. Then our homework will be to practice sight words, and read every night with books that are sent home=)

Notes:

• Our first field trip will be Thursday the 24th to the Felida Fire station! This will go along with our Community Unit. The students are very excited=)
• Students will need a Sonshine shirt for field trips. Order forms will be sent home next week.
• This Sunday is our teacher dedication. Your families are welcome to come, we will be having a continental breakfast at 10:30 and service afterwards.
•  Curriculum Night is next Tuesday the 15th at 6:30 for the School and 6:00 for the daycare. We encourage everyone to come!
• Basketball begins next Monday. If you would like your child to participate, you can sign up at Mrs. Warner's desk. It costs $110.00.
• Club 66 starts next Wednesday at 6:30.
• We have started our Payback book Fundraiser, the class that sells the most gets a pizza party and the student who sells the most gets to go out to lunch with Mrs. Warner! Let's go Mrs. Lee's and Palmer's class!!!

Fun pictures of our week=)

Practicing using math manipulitives

Practicing Read to Self

Awesome First Week

We had such a great first week! We can tell it is going to be a great year. All of your kiddos are very sweet, and eager to learn (our favorite!) This week we mostly practiced our rules, learned our routines, and began teaching how to use the supplies in the class for example glue!;) They all did great.

Notes

·         We do heat up lunches if needed. If your child needs a spoon or fork will please provide one. We do have emergency ones if needed.

·         Our take home folders are taken home each night to be checked and can be brought back each morning.

·         Next week students can begin to bring their own snacks. In the mornings they will take them out of their lunch box to save for later. We do have backup on any days they forget.

·         The “all about me” bags are due on Tuesday. Students can put anything inside about themselves.

·         Tuesday the 15^th is our Curriculum night. We encourage everyone to come so we can give you more information on what we are teaching, any homework, field trips, and after school opportunities. This will be a great time to ask any questions as well.


And our favorite, pictures!

Students exploring our Math Manipulatives

Chicka Chicka Book Boom Craft 

Students coloring Pete The Cat shoes after trying to find Pete The Cat around school(School Tour=))