Mrs. Wells' KinderLION News October 1-5, 2012

Dear Parents, This week we are working on the Reading Street, Unit 1, week 4, “Miss Bindergarten Takes a Field Trip”, We are reviewing the sight words, “the” “little”, “I”, and “am”. Please work with your child on recognizing these words and the letters, sounds of the alphabet. Reminder: Go Math! We are starting Unit 2 this week which will focus on Compare Numbers to 5. Students will use one to one correspondence to identify sets with the same number, more, or fewer. We will work on math vocabulary: compare, greater than, the same, and less than. October Homework Packets: Homework Folders came home on Monday for Group A, and Tuesday for Group B. Each month we will send home a new homework packet and calendar in your child’s homework folder. This homework is for you to do a little each day and to NOT turn in until the end of the month. You will not need the internet for this homework packet. The Math part of the homework will be pages that are in the Go Math Student workbook we sent home at the beginning of the year. The Reading Street Homework, will have copies of all the pages you need in the folder. At the end of the month, students will bring their homework folder and their homework calendar back for a sticker. We will then refill with the next month’s homework packet. There will be NO school on Friday, October 13th for our Teacher In-service Day. Picture Day! Wednesday, October 10th is Group A’s Picture Day. If you want to purchase school pictures you must send in the picture money order form no later than Wednesday, Oct. 10th. If you are in group B, your picture day is not until November. I will send home your picture envelopes closer to your picture day. Reminder: Peanut Allergy: ALERT: We have a child with a Peanut allergy. My classroom has to be Peanut and Peanut oil free. For the safety of that child, please do NOT send any item that contains peanuts or peanut oil. Thanks for your help in keeping all students safe. Don’t forget to send a peanut free snack with your child EVERY day. I have at least 7 children in each group that come without snacks every day. Lunch Money: Please do not send lose change or dollar bills for lunch money. If you are going to send in money please put it in a Ziploc baggie or a sealed envelope with your child’s first and last name on it. Children are bringing in loose change and dollar bills, and then putting it down somewhere and then everyone tries to claim the money. Dates to Remember: Friday, October 5th: Group A (Monday-Wednesday Children will attend) Wednesday, October 10th: Group A (Monday-Wednesday) Picture Day! Wear your Smile! Friday, Oct. 12th NO SCHOOL for Teacher In-service Day. Friday, October 19th: Group A (Monday-Wednesday Children will attend) Friday, October 26th: Group B (Tuesday -Thursday Children will attend) Thursday October 30th & Friday, October 31st: COSI on Wheels Assembly!