Friday News Flash!

Can you believe it is November already? I can't believe your children have been Kindergarten for almost 2 months! Our big push for the rest of November and December will be teaching almost all the rest of the letters, their sounds and of course more sight words. Your children are working so hard and are up for and even hungry for the challenge. In math we will be working at break apart numbers, writing numbers up to 10 and then making story problems within 10. Here are a couple highlights from our week:

Writing

This week I introduced your children to their very own writing folders for them to keep their writing and their alphabet chart in. They were so excited, they asked me if they could take them home to keep writing! When we did free writing where I let them pick their own topic, they went crazy over the writing! Some wrote fictional stories, others wrote about stories from their lives, but they were all wonderful. I really pushed them to use the sight words that they knew allowing them to get up and grab them from our wall so they could have help spelling them but I also encouraged them to just try. Even if the letters weren't right, they were enjoying themselves and telling their stories which is a victory if I've ever seen one. Here are a couple student examples:

I can see the deer.

The Frankenstein and me.

Jog-a-thon

I have some very exciting news about jog-a-thon. Drum Roll please ........ our class raised the most money in the entire school!!! We raised over $2000 as a class! I was absolutely blown away and at our all school assembly our class was recognized with the certificated below indicating that we would be receiving a popcorn party for our hard work! As a school we raised almost $15,000! It is quite the victory and I want to thank all of you for supporting our classroom and our school!

Our mantra in our classroom is "the more you practice, the better you get" and this is most certainly true of your children. Everyday I see them growing and maturing into very strong Kindergartners. I can't wait to see their growth over the rest of this month and this year!

Smiles,

Miss Adams