Mrs. Wells' KinderLION News October 22-26, 2012

Dear Parents, This week we are working on the Reading Street, Unit 2, week 1, “Flowers!” Our new Big Idea concept for Unit 2 is “How are animals and plants unique?” We introduced two new sight words, “have”, and “is”. Please continue to review the sight words ”to” “a” “the” “little”, “I”, and “am”. Please also work with your child on recognizing these words and the letters, sounds of the alphabet. Red Ribbon Week…. Thanks for helping us make Red Ribbon Week so wonderful! We have had children dress in Red on Monday, in their PJ’s on Tuesday, wear hats on Wednesday! Thursday students are to wear boots to stamp out drugs, and on Friday, we are all to wear our blue and white spirit wear! On Tuesday we had a very special treat. We had Officer Patton come to our school with a special Police Dog. We talked about stranger danger. They also talked about being safe and wearing seat belts, and saying “No” to drugs. On Wednesday, we had celebrities at our school. Author, Nancy Orlando and Illustrator, Debbi Kern(former Art Teacher from Amelia Elementary), came to read their new book, “Good Grief It’s Winter”. Debbi and Nancy read their new book to our students, and acted out scenes. They gave each child a mask to decorate and a color sheet from their book! Reminder Market Day Pie Fundraiser: For a limited time this month, we will be participating in a PIE fundraiser with Market Day. Our goal this year is 350 pies. The fundraiser is from Oct. 17th – November 1st. Participation prizes!! Every student who sells at least ONE item will earn an 8 pack of Wiki Stix just for helping us get closer to our goal. Bonus Day Prizes are back! Every student who sells at least TEN items will earn our Bonus Days Prize pack that includes several fun prizes. Prizes are awarded based on the total number of units sold on the order form. It is time to start testing Kindergarten on the report cards skills. We will be checking identifying upper case letters, lower case letter, letter sounds, rhyming words, counting to 100 by 1’s, and writing numbers 0-10. The weather is supposed to turn cold next week. PLEASE make sure to send coats, gloves, etc.. on cold days. We go outside every day that it is dry and over 32 degrees. Dates to Remember: Friday, October 26th: Group B (Tuesday -Thursday Children will attend) Tuesday October 30th & Wednesday, October 31st : COSI on Wheels Assembly! Friday, November 2nd: Group A (Monday-Wednesday Children will attend) Monday, November 5th: PTA Skating Party 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 6th: NO SCHOOL : Teacher In-Service Day Friday, November 9th: Report Cards Sent Home: Group B (Tuesday-Thursday Children will attend).