A Fun Monday!

Our little elves wrapping up gifts!

Making the wrapping paper for our Wrapping Shop!

Making ornaments for our tree!

Gavyn, Artist of the Week!

Shhh... don't ask what we're making - it's a secret!!

Upcoming Events and School Review

Our Open House at Stoney Creek has been rescheduled for Monday, January 7th - from 5-7 pm.  Unfortunately - our new classroom doesn't have carpet or ceiling lights yet - hopefully these things will get done soon and I will be able to work on setting up the room over Holiday Break.  

Remember, no school for our class on Monday the 7th, but there will be an open house to come tour the building that evening from 5-7pm.  We will begin our school days at Stoney Creek starting Tuesday, Jan. 8th. 

Upcoming Events  
12/19 - Field Trip to Stoney Creek

12/20 - Holiday Party, 9:15-10:45am 

12/22 - 1/6 - No School, Holiday Break
1/7 - No School for Readiness Kindergarten and Kindergarten Only

1/7 – Open House at Stoney Creek, 5-7pm

1/8 - School Resumes for us at Stoney Creek 

School Review – these are the things we’ve done so far this year!  

Letters

So far, we have spent a week learning these letters:  B, M, R, S, O , T, G, A, and N.

 

Handwriting

We have learned these letters in handwriting so far:  L, F, E, H, I, T, U, C, G, O and Q.

Math

We all have mastered ABAB patterning.  We are working on more complex patterns, along with counting to 20 (or higher!) and number recognition.

Holiday Party

Thursday, December 20^th

9:00-9:15 – Holiday Singing

9:15 – 9:40 - Special Holiday Breakfast for Students

9:40 – 10:40 – Holiday Centers and Games

Gavyn, our King of the Jungle, doing his show and share

JaMichael and Mason work on their snowy scenes for our project

Eventful Friday - 12/7/12

Upcoming Events  

12/18 - Open House at Stoney Creek, 6-7pm

12/19 - Field Trip to Stoney Creek

12/20 - Holiday Party, 9:15-10:45am 

12/22 - 1/6 - No School, Holiday Break
1/7 - No School for Readiness Kindergarten and Kindergarten Only

1/8 - School Resumes for us at Stoney Creek 

Holiday Party

Thursday, December 20^th

 9:00-9:15 – Holiday Singing  

 9:15 – 9:40 - Special Holiday Breakfast for Students

 9:40 – 10:40 – Holiday Centers and Games

 

Please send in your food donations by next week if you're able to, so I know what I need to get for our party. 

Our Holiday Singing is not a big concert, it's just our class singing a few songs that we've been practicing.  If you'd like to come to the party for just that part, or even have a grandparent that'd like to attend - that's great!  However, depending on how many try to stay for the "party" part - we may have to ask extra guests to leave if we don't have enough room in here (especially if all my big boxes haven't been moved yet!!) 

 

Have a great weekend!!    

Holiday Party

Holiday Party

Thursday, December 20^th

v  9:00-9:15 – Holiday Singing 
v  9:15 – 9:40 - Special Holiday Breakfast for Students 
v  9:40 – 10:40 – Holiday Centers and Games

Eventful Friday 11/30/12

Upcoming Events  

12/1 - Pancake Breakfast at Pine Island Elementary (PTO Facebook Page) 

12/18 - Open House at Stoney Creek, 6-7pm

12/19 - Field Trip to Stoney Creek

12/20 - Holiday Party, 9:15-10:45am 

12/22 - 1/6 - No School, Holiday Break
1/7 - No School for Readiness Kindergarten and Kindergarten Only 

1/8 - School Resumes at Stoney Creek 


Things we did this week: 

Letters

This week was all about the letter G - gorillas, glitter, and gingerbread! 
 

Handwriting

The Letter O - (big curve, big curve) 

Math

We are still practicing starting at the number 10 and continuing to count on to 20.  Good news - we have all mastered ABAB patterning!! 

Science

We did a lot of work with magnets - try to do some magnetic experiments at home! 

Story Time

We have learned the word Author - and are learning a lot about how we are all authors during our Writer's Workshop time! 

REMINDERS 

Our communication folders come home on Mondays only.  Please return them by Friday. 

It's getting cold outside!  Students will continue to go outside for recess through the winter.  Please remember hats and gloves for them - and remind your student to leave these things on and take care of them when they come inside.  We already have a big pile of gloves that no one seems to think is their own!  

We even go outside in the snow - so be prepared!  The only time we stay inside is if it's raining or if the wind chill is below zero. 

Have a great weekend!!    

Moving to Stoney Creek

Dear Families, 

I would like to help explain some of the things that are going to be happening these next three weeks as our classroom gets packed up and ready to move over to Stoney Creek.  There have been several questions and concerns regarding the green letter that came home in backpacks yesterday. 

Yes - this move does apply to our Readiness Kindergarten room along with the Kindergarten classrooms.  Our classroom at Stoney Creek is not one of the 6 newly built rooms - but we will still have access to the break out area and new media center that were described in the letter home.  Even though our room is not one of the special new rooms, it will be new to us and we will make it our own! 

I ask for your patience and understanding as you visit our Greenridge classroom from here to the end of December.  In efforts to be able to spend as much time with my family as possible during the holiday season, I am already beginning to pack up and hope to have as much of our classroom as I can moved over by the end of the month.  I am sure that we will be so wrapped up in Holiday activities during the day that our kiddos will barely notice! 

I hope you can all plan on attending the Open House planned for us on Tuesday, December 18th from 6-7pm at Stoney Creek.  This is a great opportunity to tour the building and see where your child will be attending school in January.   

Also - I'm in desperate need for packing boxes!!  If anyone has any empty boxes big enough for packing, (diaper boxes work great!!) I'd love to have them! 

Eventful Friday and Weekly Review

THANK YOU!! 

Thank you to every family that came out for Parent Teacher Conferences this past week.  I honestly have never had so many families schedule and keep their conference appointments! You guys rock!! 

Upcoming Events  

11/13 - PTO Meeting at 7pm, Pine Island Elementary - all parents are welcome! I will be there!

11/15 - Chuck E. Cheese Night

11/20 - Book Orders Due - click HERE to find out more info on ordering online!
11/21, 11/22, 11/23 - No School, Thanksgiving Break
11/28 - Powerful Preschool Parenting Night  

12/1 - Pancake Breakfast at Pine Island Elementary

Things we did this week: 

Letters

So far, we have spent a week learning these letters:  B, M, R, S, O - this upcoming week is T week. 
 

Handwriting

The Letter U - (big line down, curve, big line up) 

We have learned these letters in handwriting so far:  L, F, E, H, I, T, and U.  Next week we will start the big curve, C.

Math

We are practicing starting at the number 10 and continuing to count on to 20

Science

This week we were shape hunters and walked around different hallways and classrooms at school looking for shapes.  Check out some pics of it on our Facebook page!  

Story Time

While reading stories, we are working on concepts of print.  Ask your child which part of the book is the front cover, the back cover, and the title page. 

Lunch for Tardy Students

I need to turn our classroom lunch counts in by 9:10am.  If you know your student is going to be late, please get their lunch choice to me early in the morning by phone or email.  Otherwise, please plan on bringing a lunch to school for your child.  Thank you! 

Friendship Snack 

Next week to celebrate Thanksgiving, we will be talking a lot about friendship.  On Tuesday, we're going to make "Friendship Snack" bags.  I'm asking each kiddo to bring in something to contribute to our mix.  Ideas to donate:

• Assorted dried fruits: raisins, banana chips, dried apricot bits, dried cherries
• Assorted mini-candies: M & Ms, gummy bears, chocolate chips, marshmallows
• Assorted crackers and cereals: pretzels, Goldfish, Cheerios, Rice Chex etc.

As always - check out our Facebook Page for fun photos!!! 

Photos!

Lots of photos uploaded to our Facebook Page today!!

Click here to see them!

Technology!

Mr. Molnar has been using technology to capture pictures of our kiddos in his classroom.

Check out his website for more info and to see the pics!!

http://www.tonymolnar.com/http___www.tonymolnar.com/Tech_It_Out.html

(straight to the pics:  http://www.tonymolnar.com/http___www.tonymolnar.com/Class_Pics-_Greenridge/Class_Pics-_Greenridge.html  )

Eventful Friday (only 2 days late!! oops!)

11/5 - Half Day - Dismissal at 12:15pm, P/T Conferences in the afternoon and evening

11/4 - Oo Week

11/8 - P/T Conferences 

11/15 - Chuck E. Cheese Night

11/21, 11/22, 11/23 - No School, Thanksgiving Break

11/28 - Powerful Preschool Parenting Night

Things we did this week: 

Handwriting

The Letter I - (big line down, little line over at the top, little line over at the bottom - I is a center starter!) 

Math This week we did a lot of work on recognizing and naming letters 1-5

Science

We talked a lot about creepy crawly spiders!  How many legs does a spider have?!?

Lunch for Tardy Students

I need to turn our classroom lunch counts in by 9:10am.  If you know your student is going to be late, please get their lunch choice to me early in the morning by phone or email.  Otherwise, please plan on bringing a lunch to school for your child.  Thank you!

Cookies for Conferences

We need cookie donations for our parent/teacher conference nights.  We ask that for this fall conference, students with the last names between A-L please send in a package of cookies by November 5th. 

As always - check out our Facebook Page for fun photos!!! 

Halloween!

Eventful Friday

Happy Friday!!

Thank you so much to all the families that brought in pumpkins for us!  We had enough to carve pumpkins, cook pumpkin seeds, make glitter pumpkins, and paint with pumkins!! It was all so much fun!

10/27/12 - Halloween Carnival @ Greenridge Elementary, 3-6pm  

10/29/12 - Ss Week

10/31/12 - Halloween Party! 

11/5 - Half Day - Dismissal at 12:15pm, P/T Conferences in the afternoon and evening

11/8 - P/T Conferences 

11/15 - Chuck E. Cheese Night

11/28 - Powerful Preschool Parenting Night

Things we did this week: 

Handwriting

The Letter T - (big line down, little line at the top - T is a center starter!) 

Math

This week we did a lot of work on counting and number matching.

Science

More pumpkins!  We carved our pumpkins, and made observations about the inside and outside of a pumpkin!  

Letters

We have 8 letters that we have worked on either in centers or handwriting.  We all should be able to tell you the names of these letters:  M, B, R, L, F, E, H, and T.  Help us practice these letters at home pretty please! 

King/Queen of the Jungle: 

Due to our lunch schedule this year, I had to change our Thursday King/Queen of the Jungle Schedule.  Now on Thursdays, the student will get to pick out what we have for snack out of our cupboard.  Not quite as fun as having lunch with me, but it still works! 

Cookies for Conferences

We need cookie donations for our parent/teacher conference nights.  We ask that for this fall conference, students with the last names between A-L please send in a package of cookies by November 5th. 

Wordless Wednesday!