Happy 100's Day

We had a Wonderful time Celebrating the 100th Day of KIndergarten

Ridgeview's S.T.E.M. Night Reminder

STEM night is Thursday, March 3, 2016 from 5:30-7:30!!  See flyer below for more information.  I sent this flyer home in your child's backpack today:)

Book Character Dress Up Day!

Wednesday, March 2nd

In honor of Dr. Seuss 's birthday and Read Across America, we are holding a favorite Book Character Dress Up Day.  We hope that this day will be a huge success, with the children enjoying themselves immensely and taking away some ideas for their next good read!!

The rules are simple:
      Outfits must be school appropriate and follow school dress code policies
      No violet toys are allowed
      Masks may not be worn during class
      Student should be able to go about their regular school activities and go outside
      Have Fun!!

Read-A-Thon Update

 We are making progress toward our goal.  Please READ,READ,READ THIS WEEKEND.  Our goal by the end of the month is 6,440 minutes.  All logs must be turned in no later than the morning of Monday, February 29th, 

Next Wednesday, is our 100th day of school.  Thank you so much for the great 100 collections!  We have a lot of fun things planned for the 100th day of kindergarten!!

Thanks for all the hard work with Homework!!  They are really working hard learning their heart words.  Have a Great Weekend!

Book Exchange

Ridgeview PTO is holding a book exchange each week for students. On each Wednesday in February students may bring books from home they would like to exchange for other books. The book exchange takes place outside the library during morning recess.

Kindergarten Highlights

Read-A-Thon

Today we are kicking off our annual Ridgeview Read-A-Thon!!  The theme this year is "Wild About Reading."  This is how it works.  Over the next month we will be tracking the number of minutes students read or are read to.  Each classroom has been assigned a wild animal (our room is the LION)  The more minutes a classroom reads, the farther their animal moves through the Jungle (aka: the school hallways)  Each student will receive a reading log.  Please cut out and fill out each day's reading slip, sign it, and return it to school.  Please remind your student to turn in their signed reading slips each day.  The most important thing to remember is to read to your child every night.  Please remind your child to turn in their reading log EVERY day.  A volunteer will track  how many minutes are read to each student  and record the minutes.  They will then move our lion down the hallway.  Please feel free to stop by after school and check out the  Read-A-Thon event.  It is one of my favorite activities.  Kids get very excited about reading!!!  I will keep you posted on our classrooms goal.

Valentine’s Day Information

Our Valentine’s Party is Friday, February 12^th, from 1:30-2:00.  Parents are invited to come to our classroom party and help celebrate.  We will be having snack and opening our valentine cards.  This is a great time to celebrate friendship.  We have some cute valentine pockets that I displayed in the hallway.  They wrote about something that they loved.  I also look pictures of them showing I love you in sign language.  They look so adorable.

Aquaponics

Our lettuce is growing fast and our little fish friends; Bella, Chloe, Thunder Bolt, Goldie, and Baby Angel are swimming around happy as can be.  Please check out our blog post for pictures of our aquaponics.  Also check out the Springfield Education Foundation website.  The students’ in our class is pictured with a nice little write up about the science of aquaponics.  Please remember to check our blog regularly.  I post pictures and update events happening in our classroom.

Reading  We will continue to work on sounding out CVC words and learning our heart words (words we know by heart)  We will also be learning the blends:  sh, ch, wh, th and ph.  Thank you for supporting your child’s progress by practicing reading every day!  I am sending home a progress note regarding your child’s performance on last month Easy CBM reading assessment.

Math  We have begun unit Number 4.  It focuses on addition and subtraction to 10.  Please continue to review number writing 1-20.  If your child is having difficultly writing number 1-20, please continue to practice daily at home.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Thompson

Lettuce Growing

Our Aquaponics Kit Update:

Our lettuce is growing fast.  What an amazing process to watch the Eco-Cycle.  The kids are fascinated with the process.  We now have 5 little fish friends.  Bella, Chloe, Baby Angel, Goldie, and Thunder Bolt!!  The very special person of the day is responsible for feeding the fish.  They take this responsibility very serious:)
We had a guest today to learn about our science project.  Thanks to all the great students that explained the process in so much detail.  I am sooo proud of them.