Hello Families,
Our first field trip was a success! Thank you to all of our parent chaperones for helping our day go smoothly. We loved having all of you.
If you have photos from the day please email them to me at carrie.relles@gmail.com
Here is what we have coming up:
Important Dates
Saturday, 10/27: PH harvest festival, 3-6:30 pm. I hope to see all of you there!
Wednesday, 10/31: Halloween. This is an orange and black spirit day. Kids can wear orange and black or uniforms. No costumes! We will celebrate Halloween with snacks and crafts at 11:35 when the kids come back from lunch. Thanks again to Kate Alves for organizing this. If you'd like to help, please come to room 4 at about 11:20.
Monday, 11/12: Veterans' Day Holiday; NO SCHOOL
Friday, 11/16 and the week of 11/26-30: Parent/teacher conferences; minimum days. Please see the attachment from my homework email to give me your top 3 dates and times. On minimum days I walk the kids to the cafeteria at 11:40 am. You can pick them up then or they can eat lunch until 12 and then be picked up. Kids who go to 4th R get picked up at 12. There are no after school classes that week.
11/18-11/23: Thanksgiving Holiday; NO SCHOOL
Language Arts
This week we work on the letter n and the /n/ sound.
Our new sight word is the
We will wrap up our unit on characters this week. We have had some really good work with identifying realistic fiction vs fantasy, retelling important events from stories, and making inferences about characters based on clues from the text.
Math
This week we will work on identifying one less in numbers up to 10. We will finish unit 1 on Wednesday and take the chapter test on Friday. There is no math homework on Thursday.
This week we have our first student of the week, Holden. The student of the week will take home a poster to decorate before their week, and share the poster on Monday morning. During the week the class writes letters to our student of the week. These will be displayed in the classroom with the poster.
Thanks for reading, everyone! Please don't hesitate to contact me with questions or concerns.
Friday, October 26, 2018
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Week of October 22-26, 2018
The Jog-a-Thon is here! We are all very excited in room 4 for the kindergarteners’ first of many Phoebe Jog-a-Thon days. In case you missed the emails, we will run at 8:30 out on the back fields. All 96 kinders (and their teachers!) will run together. Please come cheer us on! Don’t worry if you can’t make it; our 5th grade buddy classroom will be out to give us lots of support.
Kids can wear athletic free dress clothing tomorrow, and they are encouraged to wear the new pink shirts they took home today! Because our class had 100% participation in Jog-a-Thon pledges, we earned a special free dress day of our choice. I will be in touch with a date.
As if the Jog-a-Thon isn’t exciting enough, we are heading into ANOTHER very exciting week with our first class field trip on Wednesday!
This is a uniform day, and kids must bring a bag lunch from home. We will eat together at the pumpkin patch before we head back to school.
Chaperones, please meet at room 4 on Wednesday morning no later than 9 am. I will have instructions and groupings for all of the chaperones then. We will take the bus together and return by 12:30.
PLEASE NOTE WE WILL NOT HAVE CENTERS ON WEDNESDAY MORNING.
After our trip on Wednesday we will get to look forward to Saturday’s harvest festival! Thanks to everyone who signed up to run our class booth. If you’d like to help please get in touch with Kate Alves, Ryker’s mom. Her email address is Kate.e.alves@gmail.com
Come in costume and ready for fun!
Lastly, we will celebrate Halloween on Wednesday the 31st with some snacks and crafts at 11:35 when the kids come back from lunch. Kate is organizing this, and we’d love lots of parents to help, so if you’re available, please let Kate know.
In between all of this jogging, celebrating and field-tripping we will also be getting some work done! The kids are amazing me with how independent they are becoming with letter sounds and writing. We will continue our unit on characters in stories this week, and focus on finding and ordering the main events in stories.
In math we will work on finding “one more than” a given number to 10. We will not use math equations yet, but rather focus on looking at quantities of objects and becoming fluent in naming the number that is one more. Watch for this in this week’s homework packet.
Thanks for reading, everyone! Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or concerns.
Kids can wear athletic free dress clothing tomorrow, and they are encouraged to wear the new pink shirts they took home today! Because our class had 100% participation in Jog-a-Thon pledges, we earned a special free dress day of our choice. I will be in touch with a date.
As if the Jog-a-Thon isn’t exciting enough, we are heading into ANOTHER very exciting week with our first class field trip on Wednesday!
This is a uniform day, and kids must bring a bag lunch from home. We will eat together at the pumpkin patch before we head back to school.
Chaperones, please meet at room 4 on Wednesday morning no later than 9 am. I will have instructions and groupings for all of the chaperones then. We will take the bus together and return by 12:30.
PLEASE NOTE WE WILL NOT HAVE CENTERS ON WEDNESDAY MORNING.
After our trip on Wednesday we will get to look forward to Saturday’s harvest festival! Thanks to everyone who signed up to run our class booth. If you’d like to help please get in touch with Kate Alves, Ryker’s mom. Her email address is Kate.e.alves@gmail.com
Come in costume and ready for fun!
Lastly, we will celebrate Halloween on Wednesday the 31st with some snacks and crafts at 11:35 when the kids come back from lunch. Kate is organizing this, and we’d love lots of parents to help, so if you’re available, please let Kate know.
In between all of this jogging, celebrating and field-tripping we will also be getting some work done! The kids are amazing me with how independent they are becoming with letter sounds and writing. We will continue our unit on characters in stories this week, and focus on finding and ordering the main events in stories.
In math we will work on finding “one more than” a given number to 10. We will not use math equations yet, but rather focus on looking at quantities of objects and becoming fluent in naming the number that is one more. Watch for this in this week’s homework packet.
Thanks for reading, everyone! Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or concerns.
Friday, October 5, 2018
Week of October 8-12, 2018
We had such a great week in Room 4!
For those of you who missed the school announcements this morning, our Jog-a-Thon totals are in, and together we raised $94,000 to support the arts at Phoebe Hearst. For those who are new to our school, this is $15,000 more than last year, and nearly $50,000 more than 5 years ago. I am so lucky to teach and send my children to a school where we work so hard to give our kids enrichment programs. THANK YOU to all of the Room 4 families for your donations. We have 100% participation this year.
Congrats to our classroom's first Golden Dragon winner, Dylan!
Here is what we have coming up:
Important Dates
Thursday, 10/18 Jog-a-Thon prizes will go home with kids. Everyone is encouraged to wear their gear on Friday for run day!
Friday, 10/19: Jog-a-Thon day! Please come cheer us on as we run. I will send out the schedule as soon as I recieve it.
Wednesday, 10/24, 9:00-12:30 pumpkin patch field trip. Thanks to all our parent chaperones!
They are:
Lindsey Murawski
Abby Jaske
Nattana Lindsey
Theresa Barajas
Nate McGill
Rebecca Frazee
Julia O'Brien
Shayla Khan
Luana Cook
Janelle Reali
Panorea Avdis
Milt Apostolidis
Kate Alves
Cate Williams
Paula Turner
Please be in room 4 at 9:00 am to get your group and hop on the bus with us. We will eat lunch at the pumpkin patch, so parents please send all kids to school with a lunch from home that day.
Saturday, 10/27: PH Harvest Festival. Thanks to Kate Alves for organizing our class booth and to everyone who signed up to help that day!
Wednesday, 10/31: Free dress/wear orange and black. We do NOT wear costumes to school. We will have a small celebration that day 11:35-12:30. If you'd like to come in and help please let me or Kate Alves know.
Language Arts
This week we will wrap up our first comprehension unit on rules at school and at home. We will read a story this week and compare it to last week's informational text.
We will continue to work on letter sounds and shapes. Our focus will be Aa (short and long sounds)
Our new sight word is like.
Math
This week we continue working on numbers to 10. Kids will work on finding pairs that are "hiding" within larger numbers, like 5 and 3 making 8.
Science
This week we focus on the parts and lifecycle of pumpkins as we prepare for our field trip at the end of the month.
Today we had our first music lesson with Mrs. Toone. Photo below :)
For those of you who missed the school announcements this morning, our Jog-a-Thon totals are in, and together we raised $94,000 to support the arts at Phoebe Hearst. For those who are new to our school, this is $15,000 more than last year, and nearly $50,000 more than 5 years ago. I am so lucky to teach and send my children to a school where we work so hard to give our kids enrichment programs. THANK YOU to all of the Room 4 families for your donations. We have 100% participation this year.
Congrats to our classroom's first Golden Dragon winner, Dylan!
Important Dates
Thursday, 10/18 Jog-a-Thon prizes will go home with kids. Everyone is encouraged to wear their gear on Friday for run day!
Friday, 10/19: Jog-a-Thon day! Please come cheer us on as we run. I will send out the schedule as soon as I recieve it.
Wednesday, 10/24, 9:00-12:30 pumpkin patch field trip. Thanks to all our parent chaperones!
They are:
Lindsey Murawski
Abby Jaske
Nattana Lindsey
Theresa Barajas
Nate McGill
Rebecca Frazee
Julia O'Brien
Shayla Khan
Luana Cook
Janelle Reali
Panorea Avdis
Milt Apostolidis
Kate Alves
Cate Williams
Paula Turner
Please be in room 4 at 9:00 am to get your group and hop on the bus with us. We will eat lunch at the pumpkin patch, so parents please send all kids to school with a lunch from home that day.
Saturday, 10/27: PH Harvest Festival. Thanks to Kate Alves for organizing our class booth and to everyone who signed up to help that day!
Wednesday, 10/31: Free dress/wear orange and black. We do NOT wear costumes to school. We will have a small celebration that day 11:35-12:30. If you'd like to come in and help please let me or Kate Alves know.
Language Arts
This week we will wrap up our first comprehension unit on rules at school and at home. We will read a story this week and compare it to last week's informational text.
We will continue to work on letter sounds and shapes. Our focus will be Aa (short and long sounds)
Our new sight word is like.
Math
This week we continue working on numbers to 10. Kids will work on finding pairs that are "hiding" within larger numbers, like 5 and 3 making 8.
Science
This week we focus on the parts and lifecycle of pumpkins as we prepare for our field trip at the end of the month.
Today we had our first music lesson with Mrs. Toone. Photo below :)
Thanks for reading! Have a great weekend!
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