Spotlight on Kindergarten

The Spotlight Music program will be on Thursday, December 18th at 6:30.  We will be having a dress rehearsal on the same day Thursday, Dec. 18th at 1:30 in the afternoon.  All morning kindergarten students are welcome to come back and practice in front of the school.   Mark this day on your calendar!  This music program is a great time for the students to share what they have been learning in class. After the program, you are invited to stop by and look around the classroom.

We will be watching the movie, The Polar Express on Friday, December 19th.  The students will be able to wear their pajamas that day!!  We will be serving hot chocolate and the students will get a special gift from the North Pole at the end of the movie:)

Happy Thanksgiving

Thank you so much for the wonderful turkey's.

Cute Video

M-O-M Spells mom

D-A-D spells dad  

Y-O-U  spells you and

M-E spells me:)

Conferences

I am looking forward to meeting you at your scheduled conferences time :)  Be sure to stop by the Scholastic Book Fair in the Library this week.  Our library will earn money for each book purchased.

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

What great weather we had for our trip to the pumpkin patch!   I will be posting pictures soon!

Family Fun Night

Friday, October 17, is Ridgview's Fall Family night.  It starts at 5:00--The movie is FREE!
There will be a chili dinner $3.00 for adults and $2.00 per child.  The tickets for the concessions are .25 cents.

Hope to see you there!

Pumpkin Patch

 We have scheduled our first field trip to Herrick's Farm on Thursday, October 16th.  Morning class will leave around 8:55 and the afternoon class will leave around 12:30.  The field trip will last about one hour.  The students will enjoy a hay ride, picking our a pumpkin, eating a fresh apples and have fun watching the animals.  We are so excited!!

Reading Groups

Your child is making progress in reading groups.  Please help your child learn the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make.  We have studied the letters: A,E,H, and K.  Next week we will study the letter letter M.  We are learning about tracking from left to right, listening to the sounds in words and beginning blending.

Awesome Video

We have been learning sign language for the letters of the alphabet.  I thought you would enjoy this video.  They are amazing little learners!

Happy Monday

We had a wonderful day in Room 2.  The students were busy learning about the letter H.  They practiced writing the capital letter and the lowercase.  They brainstormed a great list of words that began with the sound and were great detective circling all the h's in the words. 
Today was also library.  What a busy fun-filled day!  Please remember to help your child with their homework each night! 

Young Authors

We have been very busy writing in Room 2.  The students have written several stories about something they know a lot about.  We have had stories about:  Ninja Turtles, Animals, Monster Trucks, Apple Trees and lots more creative stories ;))  It is amazing to see the progress they have made in just 16 days!  Please encourage your child to write at home and retell their  stories to you.  It is such a fun time to watch kids this age learn to grasp new ideas and concepts.

School Pictures

School Pictures are on Thursday, September 25th

Name Writing Practice

Thank you for your support at home with the Name Writing.  It can be difficult at first but they are already showing great progress.  I will be sending this sheet home for several weeks, so they will get plenty of practice. 

I hope you are enjoying your child's poetry folder.  I sent the poem "Acorn Brown" and the Number 2 poem this week.  Please return your child's poetry folder on Monday of each week. 

Homework Folders

      We are making a great transition into a new school year.  Thank you for helping your child decorate their apple.  They look great hanging from our apple tree in our classroom.

       I will send homework folders home with your child next week.  It is very important to return homework daily:)  Homework folders will not be sent home on Friday's.  Thank you for reinforcing at home what they are learning in class.  Your child will be earning rewards for returning their homework folders daily.

Happy Friday

                   We are off to a Great Start!
It was very beneficial having half of the class one day and the other the next..  Each child got a chance to tour the school and learn about our classroom.  Every child in the class is so special and I am fortunate to be their teacher this year.

We began our Kindergarten year discussing the rules and routines for the day.  We discussed our classroom rules:
1.  Use Kind Words
2.  Raise you hand before you talk.
3.  Try your very best

We then read the story, The Gingerbread Man.  After our story we had fun going on a Gingerbread Hunt to find our snack!  The kids were so excited to find the gingerbread cookies:)

Every month I will be sending home a shape of the month.  This month's shape is an apple.  Have fun decorate this shape and please send it back to school with your child's name on the back as soon as possible.

                It's Going to be a Great Year!

Welcome to Kindergarten

Meet the Teacher Night!  4:30-6:00

Tonight is “Meet the Teacher “night and I am excited to meet all my new students and their families.  Please bring in your school supplies so we can get them sorted and put away.  

This year we are having half the kindergarten students attend on Wednesday and the other half on Thursday.   Those students that start on Wednesday will stay home on Thursday and then return to school again on Friday.  This gives the students a “first day” with fewer students.

Staggered Start

Please check the list outside the doors to see if your child’s first day is on Wednesday or Thursday!!

On Friday we will all return together 

See you tonight!!! 

Mrs. Thompson