Welcome to Ff week!

Morning Meeting: greeting, Power Name
P.E. with Mrs. Trollope
Reading: "Fifi and Fido", student's book
Letter Learning: Ff, letter sound
New Centers: Pocket Place (rebuild/read pocket chart poems and songs), Names Nook (build names with different letters), Play Dough center (stamp letters to make names, build sight words, ABC's, build letters)
Math: pre-assessing for counting and number writing

The weather is changing quickly. Please make sure your child has enough warm clothes for recess. We go outside every recess unless it is raining or below zero degrees, so please send a warm jacket, hats, gloves, and snowboots and pants if needed.

Stay warm tonight!
Miss Kimpton

Report Cards Today!

In your child's folder, you will find the first Kindergarten report card envelope. In it will be the report card, blue and yellow sheets explaining what I evaluate, and two certificates for a free kids meal from Texas Roadhouse. Please keep all of the enclosed papers and sign and return the report card envelope. If you have any questions, we can talk about them during conferences. I also sent home a conference questionnaire to help organize thoughts about what you'd like to discuss. We have twenty minutes to meet, and the time usually flies by quickly, so the notes can help us focus on the most important topics.

Morning Meeting: Greeting, ABC letter/sound song, Morning Message
Letter Learning: draw pictures that start with "a" and label
Math: "1" poster, counting and writing 2, sing "The Pumpkin Patch"
Library with Mrs. Mayhall
Centers

Book Fair Week is this week Monday-Thursday. The students filled out wish lists today during Library, and they are in their white folders! See you all in conferences!

Miss Kimpton

A A A A A!

Morning Meeting: greeting, morning song, alphabet song, brainstorm "a" words
Reading: "Rat at Bat", "Five Funny A's"
Math: Counting, writing 1
Centers
P.E. with Mrs. Trollops

Have a great evening!
Miss Kimpton

Happy Halloween!

Morning Meeting: Greeting, new morning song, new ABC song
Math: counting, identifying numbers
Centers
Brain Booster: Halloween maze
Decorating Halloween cookies!

I hope everyone has a very special Halloween weekend, and stay safe!
Miss Kimpton

P.S. Don't forget that next week is Parent-Teacher Conference week. You should have recieved notification of your conference time in your child's folder. If you did not, please call the school. Your appointment time will also be on your child's report card.

Morning Meeting: Greeting, Letter Sounds, Message (circle words in the message)
Handwriting: write see, is, capital B
Reading: Bambi, The Pumpkin Patch, Pumpkin, Pumpkin, What Do You See?
Math: counting, write number 1 and 2
Centers

A note for tomorrow: Students may not wear costumes to school tomorrow during the day, but they are welcome to wear costumes to the Monster Mash in the evening.

Have a nice night,
Miss Kimpton

The Great Pumpkin Float!

We collected so many pumpkins yesterday, and we have many activities planned with them. Today, with our Reading Buddies, we turned into scientists and completed an experiment to see if pumpkins float. First, the students predicted whether the pumpkins woud sink or float, and then we put each pumpkin into the water. Many students began to see that all of the pumpkins were floating and changed their intitial predictions. Lastly, we put a pebble into the water. The class concluded that the material that something is made of affects whether or not it will sink or float, and they determined that one of the factors of the pumpkins floating is the hollowness of the pumpkin.

Morning Meeting: Greeting, Writing Activity (students tell a story by drawing a picture and attempting to write)
Centers
Reading Buddies: Pumpkin Float
Math: Read The Pumpkin Patch, matching

Have a great evening!
Miss Kimpton

Dress for the weather!

The pumpkin patch field trip is tomorrow, and you will find a letter in your backpack about things you need to discuss with your child before the field trip. We will be guests tomorrow at J and K farms, and the students will need to act accordingly. We talked today about what it means to be a guest, and the students brainstormed ways to be respectful (say hello, ask permission, stay off of farm equipment, do not kick/hurt things that are not yours). Please talk with your child tonight about all of these things so we have a successful day tomorrow.

It will be cold and rainy tomorrow, so please send your child prepared for the weather. Your child will need a coat, hat, gloves, jeans, and tennis shoes in order to be warm. We do have a greenhouse where the students can get out of the weather and eat lunch, but we will be outside for the rest of the afternoon!

Morning Meeting: greet 3 students of the opposite gender, Morning Message
P.E. with Mrs. Trollope
Math: counting, "Which pumpkin is the ghost under?" game (learning number names)
Centers
Handwriting: write the word "see"

What can my child do at home to reinforce the day? Write "is" and "see". Our verbage for writing the letters are: "i"- down, dot,
"s" - little magic c, turn down, curve around, "e" - hit the ball, run the bases 1-2-3, stop. If your student has these letters in their name, help him/her practice writing his/her name with these lower-case letters.