9.27.13 What a fun week we have had!

If you havent heard, we got to meet and spend time with our Third Grade buddies on Thursday. Our class will be buddies with Sarah Bryas class from Scott Elementary. Each child from our class has been paired with one or two Third Graders. Thursday, we went outside with our Buddies and did a nature scavenger hunt. We are hoping to see our buddies about once a month as the children from both rooms loved every minute! This week we read all about David breaking rules, in our No, David books and how not to be a friend in the book How to Lose All Your Friends. We talked about the value of being a good friend and working nicely in the classroom. The whole class became the authors and illustrators to make a class Yes, David book of all things we should be doing in the classroom to be friendly. We have started to explore our ideas about writing and how to be a writer. We are very excited to be writing fun and exciting stories every day. You may have heard the children talking about ways they can be super writers. Super writers know what needs to be done during writing time and also know how to problem solve during writing time. We also started handwriting in our day. To help our writing we have been working on our Frog Jump letters, F, E, D, P, B R, N, M. We have continued to do star student and we will do this until every student has a day (few more weeks). We have also started our weekly VIP and Carson Soltis enjoyed sharing all about his favorites! In Math, we continued to explore attributes, this week we looked at all the attributes of our face. We made self-portraits and learned that every student has different attributes such as: hair color, eyes, glasses, skin color etc. These portraits will be coming home sometime in the next few weeks with a fundraising note. The PTA runs a fundraiser called Original Works where parents can buy the student artwork and have it put on various things: water bottles, pillow cases, etc. These self portraits turned out adorable and Lindsey took them to Staples to have color copies made so that we can also hang them in the hallway!! Our school Occupational Therapist came in this week to help me look at how the children are holding their pencils. Several children in our classroom were recommended to have a gripper on their pencil. Please keep working on proper pencil grip with your children. This week I have also included a curriculum corner about handwriting (in Friday Folder).

Notes from the office: FECC RECESS VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Your help is needed! Please sign up to volunteer as a recess helper. As a recess helper, you will help to manage the children (2 classrooms at a time) while they are on the playground. At all times, there will be a teacher present on the playground as well, you will only be assisting that teacher. We have created a sign up form on the website signupgenius.com. Please note that there are two sign up forms, one for morning recess times and one for afternoon recess times. The recess schedule is as follows: Volkers and Fitzpatrick Sermak and Herrmann Flegel and Davis (Grabemeyer) Lennemann and Vandecar 9:45 10:15 Monday Thursday

10:15 10:45 Monday - Thursday 1:45 2:15 Monday Wednesday & Friday

2:15 2:45 Monday Wednesday & Friday

Please feel free to sign up for any open recess time that you are available for. Please ensure that you have been approved through the district's I-CHAT volunteer approval process before signing up for a time slot. Thank you for your help, your support is greatly appreciated! To sign up for a morning recess time slot, please go to: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D45A4AF2EA3FD0-recess To sign up for an afternoon recess time slot, please go to:

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D45A4AF2EA3FD0-afternoon

Upcoming events:
*October 4th (next Friday) I will be out all day for a building leadership meeting. Miss Delpiere will be subbing for the entire day, so if anything arises, please call the office or let her know. *October 16th & 17th Fall Conferences: More information will be coming out soon from our office about how to sign up! *October 18th Field Trip to Andy Ts Pumpkin Patch Farm. All the information went home last week in th Friday Folders. If you have not sent money for your child it needs to be in by Oct 11 the cost is $7.50 per student and $2.00 per parent. All classes will be eating lunch at Andy Ts this day. Chaperones are welcome, but need to prepay and will need to meet us at Andy Ts. If you are planning on volunteering, please make sure that you have had your background check on the DPS website. *October 21st- October Scholastic order due. October flyers were sent home last week in the Travel Folders. Books make great Holiday gifts for your young reader. Let me know if you would like some recommendations! *October 24th Pumpkin Carving: We will be doing some weighing, measuring, counting and carving pumpkins. Our Third Grade buddies will be visiting to assist with this activity, but we could definitely use some adult help. If you would like to help, please let me know ASAP so I can plan this day. Each child st will also need to bring in one pumpkin to be carved the week of October 21 . *October 31st Halloween Parade and Party: More details coming soon!

Reminders:
Tennis shoes are needed on Friday! Library books are due on Wednesday good job to everyone who returned their book this week!

Homework games were sent home today. Please be sure to play the game and return by next Wednesday. Please make sure that you have a safe spot for the learning game that is coming home each week. If you have not signed up to do homework games and would like to, please email me and I can send home another permission slip. If you would like to join our Facebook page, just search Kindergarten is a Hoot and ask to join! Please continue to read for 15-20 minutes every night with your child! Please see the reading log on ways you can help your child develop their reading skills!