Room 4

Mrs. Flanagan's Kindergarten    

GIRAFFE NEWS

Oct. 22, 2007

A Peek at the Week

Color word "black"
Numeral 2 (counting, writing, making sets)

Letter Nn and its sound
New vocabulary words
"go" & "at"

Bats
Overview of numbers 0-5

Word family _at (bat, cat, mat, pat)

New Words

black

go

at

Poems or Songs

Black
(Jingle Bells tune)
Black, black, black,
Black, black, black.
B   L   A   C   K.

A witch's hat,

Her cat and bat.

Shades of black today.

Number Formation Poems

 

TWO:  Around and back

on the railroad track.

Two, two.

Two, two!

Alphabet Sound Chant for Letter N

 

Noisy noise, noisy noise, n-n-n.

(Move hand like it's a car zooming down a race track)

From the

Teacher's Desk

This week's important happenings:

MONDAY: Snack provided by Dougie. I will be absent from school; Mrs. Klein is subbing.

TUESDAY: Snack provided by Courtney. We'll begin assembling the haunted houses from 1:00-2:00. Please help if you can!

WEDNESDAY: Snack provided by Josie. We'll be painting haunted houses from 8:30-9:30. The children NEED A PAINT SHIRT but please wear old clothes on your child because the black paint may not come out. We still more parents to help. Homework will be sent home.

THURSDAY:   Snack provided by Abby. We'll be decorating haunted houses from 8:30-9:30. Come and help if you can. Show and Tell and Black Day. Homework is due.

FRIDAY:  NO SCHOOL for students.

*Report card pick-up will be Wednesday and Thursday, November 7 and 8, from 2:30-4:30. Mark your calendars and keep practicing those skills!

*Pumpkin Farm Thanks! Thanks to the parents/grandparents of Isabel, Moira, Kevin, Dougie and Jazlyn  who helped as chaperones on our field trip to the pumpkin farm! It was fun and educational.

*Harvest Day Fun. Don't forget to send in the $1.00 to the PTA for Halloween candy and let us know if your child will be going home at lunch to change into their costume or staying at school.

Book of

the Week

The Napping House

 

 

Don't forget to send in the Pizza Hut calendar after your child has read 120 minutes.

Special

Thanks

Thanks to the families of Jazlyn, Camryn, Lamont and Moira who sent in snacks last week! We appreciated Isabel's Mom and Mrs. Pettit  helping with Apple Fun Day!