Greetings from the Kindergarten!
Thanks to all of you for attending conferences on Friday. I appreciate your time, questions and input regarding our work in the Kindergarten and your children. As always, I am available any time if you need to check in or have questions.
As you probably know from the Wednesday Notice, this coming Thursday is the Library's 50th birthday. We will have a school-wide celebration on that day with games and cupcakes. If you would like to give a book from your family, please refer to the wish list sent home several weeks ago for ideas. Among the games at the event will be the Kindergarten class acting out nursery rhymes for the rest of the school to guess.
On February 14, our class will celebrate Valentine's Day by exchanging cards in our classroom and then joining the Pre-school for a small celebration with poems, songs, activities and a treat. Please have your child bring in a Valentine for each Kindergartner. I ask that candy not be a part of the card giving. Here is a list of the students: Kemp, Ibby, Hannah, Olivia, Tea, Phoebe. Please contact me if you have any questions.
We have been doing lots of estimating and measuring in class over the last week. Students estimated their own heights and then measured themselves to see how close their estimates were. Then they made "life-size" snowmen using their actual height measurements. Today they will estimate and then measure Steve's height. We will make a "Steve-man" and then figure out how many Kindergartners equal a Steve.
In thirteen school days we will celebrate the 100th day of school. Watch the family notes for details of our celebration. Students will have a small home project to bring in for sharing on that day.
Enjoy this beautiful, crisp day!
Sowing the Seeds of Spring
Monday, January 31, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Parent Letter
Greetings from the Kindergarten!
As I write, the frigid temperatures have kept us inside today. It has been a busy day. Thanks to all of you our indoor time has been filled with the excitement of sharing about our family artifacts. I appreciate the time each of you took to find these items and to help your kindergarten student to learn the stories that each one tells. Students danced to Ibby's Great Dad's classical oboe sonatas, listened attentively to Olivia's Dadda's childhood book, Anatole; learned about the Liberty Bell after seeing Kemp's dad's bicentennial coin, learned about the tse tse fly while looking at Tea's grandfather's (morfar's) African statue, commented on the beauty of Phoebe's Great Grammie's cut crystal bowl, and enjoyed hearing Hannah's story about her Great Nana Maxine's stuffed bear, Henry.
We have created a special table in the classroom to display our items and will do an art and writing project with them later in the week. If for some reason you would prefer to have these items back soon, please let me know and I will photograph them and send them home. Otherwise, I'd like to keep them until Thursday.
A reminder that there is no school on Friday and conferences run from 11 - 7. If you have not already signed up for a conference, please do so at your earliest convenience with Tammy.
On another note, I'd like to suggest that you label any clothes that are coming to school. We have had some confusion, particularly with snow pants and boots that look alike. Names would help me keep things sorted. Thanks in advance for any help with this.
As always, please contact me with any questions or concerns.
Best regards,
Libby
Greetings from the Kindergarten!
As I write, the frigid temperatures have kept us inside today. It has been a busy day. Thanks to all of you our indoor time has been filled with the excitement of sharing about our family artifacts. I appreciate the time each of you took to find these items and to help your kindergarten student to learn the stories that each one tells. Students danced to Ibby's Great Dad's classical oboe sonatas, listened attentively to Olivia's Dadda's childhood book, Anatole; learned about the Liberty Bell after seeing Kemp's dad's bicentennial coin, learned about the tse tse fly while looking at Tea's grandfather's (morfar's) African statue, commented on the beauty of Phoebe's Great Grammie's cut crystal bowl, and enjoyed hearing Hannah's story about her Great Nana Maxine's stuffed bear, Henry.
We have created a special table in the classroom to display our items and will do an art and writing project with them later in the week. If for some reason you would prefer to have these items back soon, please let me know and I will photograph them and send them home. Otherwise, I'd like to keep them until Thursday.
A reminder that there is no school on Friday and conferences run from 11 - 7. If you have not already signed up for a conference, please do so at your earliest convenience with Tammy.
On another note, I'd like to suggest that you label any clothes that are coming to school. We have had some confusion, particularly with snow pants and boots that look alike. Names would help me keep things sorted. Thanks in advance for any help with this.
As always, please contact me with any questions or concerns.
Best regards,
Libby
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Parent Letter
Dear Kindergarten Parents:
Happy New Year to you all and welcome back to school! It has been wonderful to be back with the children after a restful vacation. We had our first ski day at Grafton Ponds yesterday. All of the Kindergarten children did a super job on our first excursion. The trail was quite limited due to lack of snow. With luck, the weekend will bring some snow our way and next week will be even better. Thank you for getting all of your child's equipment and clothing here and ready for the day.
We have started several units of study. Snow will be the subject of various science and math projects over the coming weeks. We will examine snow flakes and symmetry, explore melting and freezing, estimate how much water a cup of snow produces, and construct paper snowmen that are equal to each child's height. Our social studies unit on family begins with an exploration of a family artifact. Look for a note at the start of next week explaining this project. In language arts we continue to learn lower case letters and the letter sounds. Next week we will also start our writer's workshop, which is based on Lucy Calkins' Primary Writing Program. The balance of our math work will include measuring, exploring extended patterns and learning about coins and their values.
Here are a few important upcoming items. Next Wednesday, January 12, we will travel to the Weston Playhouse to see "The Magic Flute." Please be advised that there will be no pizza that day and children should have lunches that are easy to eat on the bus such as sandwiches. On January 28 there is no school and there are parent/teacher conferences from 11 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. Please sign up for a conference with Tammy in the office.
As always, please contact me with any questions or concerns. Thank you for sharing your wonderful children with me each day.
Best,
Libby
Happy New Year to you all and welcome back to school! It has been wonderful to be back with the children after a restful vacation. We had our first ski day at Grafton Ponds yesterday. All of the Kindergarten children did a super job on our first excursion. The trail was quite limited due to lack of snow. With luck, the weekend will bring some snow our way and next week will be even better. Thank you for getting all of your child's equipment and clothing here and ready for the day.
We have started several units of study. Snow will be the subject of various science and math projects over the coming weeks. We will examine snow flakes and symmetry, explore melting and freezing, estimate how much water a cup of snow produces, and construct paper snowmen that are equal to each child's height. Our social studies unit on family begins with an exploration of a family artifact. Look for a note at the start of next week explaining this project. In language arts we continue to learn lower case letters and the letter sounds. Next week we will also start our writer's workshop, which is based on Lucy Calkins' Primary Writing Program. The balance of our math work will include measuring, exploring extended patterns and learning about coins and their values.
Here are a few important upcoming items. Next Wednesday, January 12, we will travel to the Weston Playhouse to see "The Magic Flute." Please be advised that there will be no pizza that day and children should have lunches that are easy to eat on the bus such as sandwiches. On January 28 there is no school and there are parent/teacher conferences from 11 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. Please sign up for a conference with Tammy in the office.
As always, please contact me with any questions or concerns. Thank you for sharing your wonderful children with me each day.
Best,
Libby
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