Reminders for the week:- Picture day is on Thursday! In the past, kindergarteners have been scheduled to get their picture taken first thing in the morning. Please arrive on time in order for your student to participate. - Absences: If your student is going to be absent, please e-mail me and our office assistant Jacki. ( [email protected] ) This will make ensure that everyone is informed of the absence and it can be properly recorded. If your student is more than 10 minutes late to school, please stop by the office before coming to class to get a late slip. - Don't forget to pack your student a snack everyday. Some students are getting a little confused with what is their lunch and what is their snack. The Jog-a-thonThe Jog-a-thon is coming up on October 9th! This is a great community event where students get outside, get some exercise, raise money for our school, and have a GREAT time. Families are more than welcome to attend, run with us, or cheer us on! Kindergarteners usually run sometime after lunch. More details to come. To get yourself excited, watch the video of last year's jog-a-thon :) | Parent Homework:Every once in a while, I will send homework home for you to do with your student. Please do not feel stressed by this - it will not come often and should be enjoyable. I know how hard it is as a parent to get to everything. These homework assignments how I communicate to you what the most important things I want you to experience are. The first assignment will will ask you to:
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Kindergarten Agreements
Kind, Safe, and FairWe spent time the first day talking about what we need from each other in order to learn and grow in our classroom this year. We all agreed that it is important that we are kind, safe and fair at school. We created this class agreement together, committing to each other that we will always try our hardest to be kind, safe and fair. Our brainstorm: A working document Kind: say things that are nice and do things that are nice, treat others how you would want to be treated, be respectful, use your words to solve problems Safe: walk away, when there is a fire walk outside Fair: sharing | Whole Body ListeningWe also talked about how effective listening helps our learning and spent some time thinking about what good listening looks like. I introduced this Listening rubric that we use in kindergarten to remember to listen with our bodies still, our voices off and our brains engaged. We will use this rubric and our thumbs to assess our listening each day. Thumbs up means we are all listening with a still body, a voice that is off and a brain that is engaged. Thumbs to the side means that we are listening with some of these three things, but not all. A thumbs down means we are not using our body, voice or brain to listen well. We use our thumb assessment to earn marbles to put in our class marble jar. When the marble jar is full, we will work together as a class to decide how to celebrate our listening expertise. |
Classroom Jobs
Each student has been assigned their first job this week! They will have this first job for two weeks, getting to know how to do it well. They will be drawing/writing a job description for the job and then will use their iPads to create an Educreations video showing others how to do their job. Both of these products will be used as learning resources to teach others how to do their job in the future. After the initial two weeks, jobs will be rotated every week on Monday. Students will have an opportunity to do every job at least one time during the year. The point of kindergarten jobs is to build community and ensure that the students know that they have an important role in our classroom community. |