Friday, November 6, 2015

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We did Grab, Count, and Compare. (Lyrik)

We did P.E. (Jayden)

We did our Dance Party. (Andrew) We celebrated earning 100 Cougar Compliments!

At lunch we did a game before we left called Cats and Mice. (Ginger)

We did Fundations. We did the magnet boards. We did the big cards and the little cards. Some of the kids led the class in Fundations. (JR, Sophia, and Malai)

We did our calendar. (Evan)

We did Morning Buzz. We got to share about what we are going to do over the weekend. (Kate)

This morning we did math workstations. We did new numbers. (Sylus)

For snack time we read Knuffle Bunny Too. In the first book she was little baby and in the 2nd book she was a preschooler and there were 2 knuffle bunnies. In the end Trixie made a friend. (Sophia)

We wrote in our writing folders. (Layla)

We looked at the Book Fair today. We looked at books. (Dylan) This will be open next week! The hours are on the November calendar I sent home last week.

We got to play Hang Mouse. The mouse is trying to get the cheese before the cat wake up. We were trying to guess word wall words. (Ginger) This is a game to practice word wall words! You can find it on my classroom website. Here is a link! http://www.spellingcity.com/hangmouse-kids-hangman-online.html?listId=7617082

Announcements

Parent Teacher Conferences are next week! I am attaching a copy of the schedule. Please let me know ASAP if you cannot make your day and time so we can reschedule. I will not be sending home behavior updates because report cards will come home on Wednesday. There is no school on Friday the 13th because of conferences.

I will be leaving early on Monday November 9th for a doctors appt. If there is a change in transportation please let me know by noon on Monday! Thank you!

Next week we are going to begin a “nutrition unit” and I need your help!  I am asking each family to find one picture for each of the following food groups:
•           Bread/Grain Group
•           Fruit Group
•           Vegetable Group
•           Meat/Protein Group
•           Dairy Group
You may look through magazines, grocery ads, etc. with your child to find the pictures.  Please cut them out and send to school by Monday, Nov. 9th. 

On Tuesday, Nov. 10 we will feature the fruit group and will make “Friendship Fruit Salad”.  I would like for each child to bring a piece of fruit to put in our salad.  If you would go ahead and have the fruit ready for the kids to cut up, that would be great.  Here are some guidelines:
•It would be alright to leave bananas or oranges in the peel but if your child prefers the peel off of apples or other fruits then peel and slice it before sending. 
•Obviously grapes are fine to leave whole. 
•Put your name on any containers you want returned.

I will let the kids use plastic knives to cut the fruit into bite-size pieces before adding it to the salad.  We will wash our hands before preparing and eating our food, I promise!

Let me know if you have any questions!

Have a great weekend!