Volunteers/Harvest Party

THANK YOU SO MUCH for volunteering in the classroom!

The wonderful parents and grandparents of our Vomvokids are doing such a great job helping me with our literacy centers every Monday, Thursday, and Friday!!  In addition, we have not one, not two, but THREE Room Moms: Amelia, Jennifer, and Nicole.  These moms will be in charge of our class parties and special events.  They will also keep us up to date with Home and School Club happenings. 

Speaking of class parties, we will have our Harvest Party at the end of this month.  Look for an email from our Room Moms in the next couple weeks to see how you can help (Room Moms, I will send you a separate email within the next few days).  I have it tentatively scheduled for Thursday, October 31st from 1:30-3pm.  Halloween costumes are not permitted at TLCS, but Kinders are encouraged to dress up as farmers or farm animals for our Harvest Day party.  Thank you!       

Weekly News and Homework

Here’s a small taste of what we will do this week:

Language Arts: We will learn about and practice writing P words, sing songs and read books about pie, pumpkins, picnics, penguins, Pinkalicious, and pirates, recite our poem about Polly the Penguin, stamp our sight words (see, two) and practice spelling them every day, write upper and lower case letters, write in our journals, sing about letter sounds, make P books, and continue our literacy center rotations.

 

Math: This week we will continue Chapter 2: Patterns.  We will identify, copy, and extend rhythm, movement, color, and shape patterns.  We will also count by 1s, 5s, and10s (to 100!), work with tally marks, and graph the weather.

 

Bible: This week we will read the story of Noah.  We will read the Bible, sing Who Built the Ark?, review the verses we have learned so far this year (Genesis 1:1, Psalm 23:1,  1 John 1:9a, and Ephesians 6:1), and pray together every day. 

Science, Social Studies, Art, and Misc: We will learn about how ways people are alike and different, talk about positive character traits, learn about national symbols, continue class jobs, attend art class, music class, library, computer lab, and PE, explore the classroom during choice time, celebrate the rainbow, and more!!!

Sharing:  We have a sharing time every Friday during our afternoon meeting.

 

This Week’s Homework:

 

Please help your child complete a little homework each night until it is complete. 

The following assignments should be completed by Friday:

1.     Phonics page for the letter of the week- Pp

2.     Handwriting page for the letter of the week- Pp

3.     2-3 choices from our monthly family activity calendar (October).  Please turn in your September calendar of activities by Friday.  Thanks!

4.     Ten minutes (or more!) of reading every night with a parent, guardian, or older sibling, etc.  Reading together every night is VERY important.  Let’s work together to develop a love of books and reading in our children!

Also:

1.    School library books are due every Wednesday (earlier is fine).

2.    This is rainbow week!  If you would like, please dress your child in his or her favorite color (or in a colorful rainbow outfit!) this Friday.  J

3.    If you would like to practice sight words at home with your child, the words we have learned in class so far are: I, big, red, can, in, it, like, up, a, and find.  This week’s words are see and two.

 

Thank you for checking your child’s take-home/homework folder every night and making sure they get back to school every day.  Please remember to keep the papers in the right-hand pocket at home.

 

Upcoming Events:

 

Monday, October 7^th: Chapel 2:25-2:55, parents are welcome to join us in Monschke Hall!  

 

Thursday, October 10^th: Dessert at TLCS at 7pm in the main lobby to discuss the 2020 vision for Twin Lakes Church.  Childcare will be provided.  All TLCS staff and parents are strongly encouraged to attend.  I hope to see you all there!

Fun Fact:  Mia’s birthday is also 10/10.  She’ll be 5. (Mia is my daughter J)

Monday, October 16^th: Home and School Club Meeting, 6pm

Thursday, October 17^th: Minimum Day

Friday, October 18^th: No school

 

Vomvokids’ Sight Words: October

We learn two new sight words every week in Kindergarten.  We practice reading, spelling, and writing these words every day.  Here are the sight words we have learned so far:

 

I

 

big

 

can

 

in

 

it

 

like

 

up

 

a

 

find

 

see

 

two

 

we

 

Please practice these words with your child at home until he or she can read them fluently.  Then, send the list back to class so your child can read the list to me and get a prize from the prize box!  I will send a new list home every month.  Thank you!

 

 

I	big	can
in	it	like
up	a	find
see	two	we

 

 

Sight Word Flash Cards

 

DRIVE FOR SCHOOLS

Buy your tickets in the school office for a chance to win a NEW Toyota Prius or Subaru Outback or $25,000 CASH. Plus, there is a chance to win over 100 other exciting prizes! The drawing will be held Sunday, October 27, 2013 @ 1:00pm at the Boardwalk. You do not have to be present to win.
$5/each or 6 for $25
The TLCS student that sells the most tickets will win a $100 bill!
For every pack of 6 tickets sold, your name will be entered into a prize drawing for various gift cards.
**If every student sells one pack of 6 tickets, our school earns over $6000!! Go TLCS!


"Borrowed" from:
http://missrickabaugh.blogspot.com/2013/09/drive-for-schools.html  Thanks, Miss Rickabaugh :)

Fantastic Friday

Hello Families, 

We have had a wonderful week learning about the letter Ss,  reading about snakes, spiders, and Silly Sally, reciting poems about stars, celebrating the color blue, writing our Hungry Caterpillar books, singing Oh Be Careful and Whisper a Prayer, learning about Cain and Abel, practicing our sight words (find, a), working with math patterns, and much, much more!

A few reminders about tomorrow (Friday):

1. School will be out at 12:00.  We will have lunch at 11:30 as usual, but hot lunches will not be available at that time.  If you plan on having lunch with your child after pick-up time, please send him or her to school with a snack or two.  If your child is going to Crosswalk at noon, you may order a hot lunch and it will be served there.

2. Tomorrow is BLUE day!  Please dress your child in blue.  We are going to skip dressing in indigo and violet and move right on to RAINBOWS next week.  I look forward to seeing the wacky/colorful outfits on rainbow day next Friday!

3. Tomorrow night is Outdoor Movie Night at TLCS!  Join us at 7:00pm on the baseball field for a movie under the stars. Bring your picnic dinner, lawn chair, and blanket. We will provide the popcorn, movie, and fun!!

Volunteers

The following spots are still open if you are interested in volunteering in the classroom:

Monday 10:20-11:30 (Centers)*

Friday 10:20-11:30 (Centers)*

Monday 1-2 (Art)

Wednesday 10-11 (Library and/or Computer Lab)

If the above times do not work with your schedule, please contact me with the times you are available and we'll work something out.  Thank you so much!!!


*Pretty please? :)

Weekly News and Homework

Here’s a small taste of what we will do this week:

Language Arts: We will learn about and practice writing S words, sing songs and read books about snakes, spiders, and Silly Sally, recite our Star Light poem, stamp our sight words (find, a) and practice spelling them every day, write upper and lower case letters, write in our journals, sing about letter sounds, make S books, and continue our literacy center rotations.

Math: This week we will begin Chapter 2: Patterns.  We will identify, copy, and extend rhythm, movement, color, and shape patterns.  We will also count by 1s, 5s, and10s (to 100!), work with tally marks, and graph the weather.

Bible: This week we will learn about Cain and Abel.  We will read the Bible, sing Oh, Be Careful and Whisper a Prayer, recite Ephesians 6:1, and pray together every day.  We will attend Chapel Monday, September 23^rd from 2:25 to 2:55.  Parents are welcome to join us in Monschke Hall!  

Science, Social Studies, Art, and Misc: We will learn about symbols, continue to learn about the parts of our bodies (and sing Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes) and how people grow and change, talk about positive character traits, continue class jobs, attend art class, music class, library, computer lab, and PE, explore the classroom during choice time, celebrate the color blue, and more!!!

Sharing:  We have a sharing time every Friday during our afternoon meeting.

 

This Week’s Homework:

Please help your child complete a little homework each night until it is complete. 

 The following assignments should be completed by Friday:

1.     Phonics page for the letter of the week- Ss

2.     Handwriting page for the letter of the week- Ss

3.     2-3 choices from our monthly family activity calendar

4.     Ten minutes (or more!) of reading every night with a parent, guardian, or older sibling, etc.  Reading together every night is VERY important.  Let’s work together to develop a love of books and reading in our children!

Also:

1.    School library books are due every Wednesday (earlier is fine).

2.    This week’s color is BLUE!  If you would like, please dress your child in blue this Friday.  We had a blast celebrating green last Friday. J

3.    If you would like to practice sight words at home with your child, the words we have learned in class so far are: I, big, red, can, in, it, like, and up.  This week’s words are a and find.

 

Thank you for checking your child’s take-home/homework folder every night and making sure they get back to school every day.  Please remember to keep the papers in the right-hand pocket at home.

 

Upcoming Events:

Monday, September 23^rd: Chapel 2:25-2:55, parents are welcome to join us in Monschke Hall!  

Friday, September 27^th: Minimum Day (teacher in-service day) Students are dismissed at 12.

Friday, September 27^th: All School Movie Night 7-9pm

Monday, October 7^th: Chapel 2:25-2:55, parents are welcome to join us in Monschke Hall!  

 

 

 

Minimum Day Info

Next Friday, September 27th is a minimum day.  School is out at noon.  We will have lunch as usual at 11:30, but your child does not have to eat at that time if you have other lunch plans that day.  Today I found out that hot lunches will NOT will be served at 11:30 as usual, but they will serve lunch at Crosswalk after school is out (if you order a hot lunch and your child attends Crosswalk).  I hope this helps.  Let me know if you have any questions!   

Next Friday is also outdoor movie night at TLCS.  See you all there!!

Kindergarten Rocks!

The Vomvokids got to enjoy apple juice, apple muffins, mini caramel apples, and apple pie today as a reward for filling the "Kindergarten Rocks" jar.  After their treats, they got to run it all off outside. :)

We had a great time celebrating apples, the letter A, and the color green this week.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!  We're going camping; I can't wait.

See you all on Monday!

Green Day Reminder

We had so much fun making apple sauce and doing apple prints today!

Reminder: Tomorrow is GREEN day!  If you'd like, please dress your child in green tomorrow.  Thanks!!

The Vomvokids will also get some tasty apple treats for filling the "Kindergarten Rocks!" jar.  It's going to be a fantastic Friday! :)

Apple Fun!

The Vomvokids loved sampling the red, yellow, and green apples yesterday!

 

When a student brings in a bucketful of hand-picked apples, it's time to make applesauce!!

Afternoon Snacks

Thank you to all the families who brought in extra snacks this week!  We now have Goldfish crackers and Cuties to feed our little ones who either forget to pack an extra afternoon snack or eat everything in their lunch boxes at morning snack and lunch time.  Today we also had red, yellow, and green apples to sample as well.  Thank you all so much!!

Apple Request

Hello!  I am looking for someone to help me out with some treats for our Vomvokids this week.  Our "Kindergarten Rocks" jar is almost full, which means the kiddos have earned a treat!  Our theme this week is APPLES (which works nicely with our letter of the week- Aa).  I thought it would be fun to have apple pie, apple juice, and/or these cute mini caramel apples: http://christyrobbins.blogspot.com/2010/09/apple-mini-caramel-apples.html on Friday at choice time.  Also, we will taste yellow, green, and red apples on Wednesday and do apple prints on Thursday.  Please leave a comment here if you are interested in preparing treats for our class on Friday or sending red, green, and yellow whole apples to class by Wednesday (we'll need 5 of each color).  Thank you so much!!!    

Wee Sing Bible Songs

Here is a link to the CD we listen to every day at rest time.  We also learn all the words and hand motions to 1-2 new songs from this CD each week.  The Vomvokids love it!: 

http://www.amazon.com/Sing-Bible-Songs-Book-Edition/dp/0843113006

Weekly News and Homework

Weekly News and Homework

 

Here’s a small taste of what we will do this week:

Language Arts: We will learn about and practice writing A words, sing songs and read books about apples, recite our apple poem, stamp our sight words (like, up) and practice spelling them every day, match upper and lower case letters, write in our journals, practice letter formation, sing about letter sounds, write “Me” books, and start our literacy center rotations thanks to our wonderful parent volunteers!

Math: We will explore math manipulatives and review Chapter 1: Sorting and Classifying.  Our first math test will be on Friday!  It will cover everything we have learned so far: top/middle/bottom, in front/behind, over/under/on, left/right, inside/outside, same/different, and sorting by color, size, and shape.  We will also count by 1s, 5s, and10s (to 100!), and graph the weather.

Bible: This week we will continue to learn about Adam and Eve.  We will read the Bible, sing The B-I-B-L-E and Kum Ba Yah, recite 1 John 1:9, and pray together every day. 

Science, Social Studies, Art, and Misc: We will continue to learn about daytime and nighttime, learn about the parts of our bodies (and sing Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes), taste and compare yellow, green, and red apples, make apple art, talk about positive character traits and what it means to be a good citizen, continue class jobs, attend art class, music class, library, computer lab, and PE, explore the classroom during choice time, celebrate the color green, and more!!!

Sharing:  We have a sharing time every Friday during our afternoon meeting.

 

This Week’s Homework:

Please help your child complete a little homework each night until it is complete. 

The following assignments should be completed by Friday:

1.     Phonics page for the letter of the week- A

2.     Handwriting page for the letter of the week- A

3.     2-3 choices from our monthly family activity calendar

4.     Ten minutes (or more!) of reading every night with a parent, guardian, or older sibling, etc.  Reading together every night is VERY important.  Let’s work together to develop a love of books and reading in our children!

Also:

1.    School library books are due every Wednesday (earlier is fine).

2.    This week’s color is GREEN!  If you would like, please dress your child in green this Friday.  We had a blast celebrating yellow last Friday. J

3.    If you would like to practice sight words at home with your child, the words we have learned in class so far are: I, big, red, can, in, it, and we.  This week’s words are like and up.

 

Thank you for checking your child’s take-home/homework folder every night and making sure they get back to school every day.  Please remember to keep the papers in the right-hand pocket at home.

 

Upcoming Events:

Monday, September 23^rd: Chapel 2:25-2:55, parents are welcome to join us in Monschke Hall!  

Friday, September 27^th: Minimum Day (teacher in-service day) Students are dismissed at 12.

Friday, September 27^th: All School Movie Night 7-9pm

 

Vomvokids' Year-at-a-Glance Calendar

 I hope you are all having a great weekend!  Here's a little something I put together for you today.  See you all on Monday (or at TLC tomorrow morning :))!
 
 

August/ September Themes: Welcome to Kindergarten, All About Me, Family, Colors, Apples Phonics: ABC, Mm, Aa, Ss Sight Words: I, big, can, in, we, it, like, up, a, find Math: Sorting  & Classifying, Patterns SS: Rules, Citizenship, Symbols Science: Earth, Growth Bible: Creation, God Cares for His Creation, Adam & Eve, Cain & Abel	October Themes: Family, Friends, Getting Along, Harvest, Pumpkins Phonics: Pp, Tt, Ii, Nn, Sight Words: see, two, go, not, to, red, have, it Math: Patterns, Numbers to 5 SS: Symbols, Work Science: Growth, Health Bible: Noah, Tower of Babel, Abraham &Isaac, Jacob & Esau, Joseph & His Coat	November Themes: Family, Food, Fall Leaves, Turkeys Phonics: Oo, Ff, Hh Sight Words: play, two, are, run, for, blue Math: Numbers to 5, Shapes SS: Ohlone, Thanksgiving   Science: Senses Bible: Joseph in Egypt, Moses & the Princess, God Speaks to Moses, Israel in the Desert
December Themes: Traditions, Animals, Christmas Phonics: Dd, Rr, Ee Sight Words: you, jump, this, do, and, one Math: Shapes, Numbers to 10 SS: Christmas Science: Animals Bible: Birth of Jesus, The Shepherds and Wise Men	January Themes: Winter Animals, Seasons & Weather, Snowflakes Phonics: Bb, Ll, Kk, Uu Sight Words: what, help, soon, little, down, too, here, was, ran, she, three, are Math: Measurement SS: New Year, MLK Jr., Calendars Science: Animals Babies, Seasons & Weather Bible: Joshua & Jerico, Samson, King Solomon, Elisha the Prophet	February Themes: Community, Hearts Phonics: Gg, Ww, Xx, Vv Sight Words: he, away, new, has, funny, who, look, yellow, four, with, come, say Math: Time, Money, Greater Numbers SS: Valentine’s Day, Presidents Science: Movement, Float or Sink, Magnets Bible: Daniel & His Friends, Daniel and the Lion’s Den, Jonah & the Great Fish, Jesus Grows Up
March Themes: Spring, Plants, Shamrocks Phonics: Jj, Qq, Yy, Zz Sight Words: my, all, am, me, yes, but, where, did, so, please Math: Greater Numbers, Addition SS: Times Past, Geography & Oceans Science: Plants, Insects, Oceans Bible: Jesus Chooses Helpers, Jesus & the Children, Zacchaeus & Nicodemus, Jesus Heals the Sick	April Themes: Conservation, Oceans, Easter, Phonics: ABC Celebration, Sh, Ch, Th Sight Words: pretty, ate, out, at, must, well, white, on, went, no, that, came Math: Addition, Subtraction SS: Geography & Oceans, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter, Earth Day Science: Natural Resources, Conservation, Recycling Bible: The Good Shepherd, Jesus Dies on the Cross, Jesus Lives Again, The House on the Rock	May/June Themes: Friendship, Community, Summer Phonics: Wh Sight Words: ride, want, be, under, into, black, good, will, they, get, eat, there, saw, now, brown Math: Cumulative Review, 1st Grade Prep SS: Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Community Science: Sound, Hot & Cold, Light, Weight Bible: Jesus Begins His Church, Paul- The First Missionary, Paul Spreads the Gospel, Learning from God’s Word

Kindergarten Rocks!

The Vomvokids earn rocks for being good!  I can also take rocks out of the jar when the entire class acts up, but that hasn't happened yet :).  Every time I put a rock in the jar, the entire class says, "Kindergarten Rocks!"  When the jar is full, we will have a little treat or extra play time the next Friday afternoon.  These kids are so good at earning rocks; it looks like the jar will be full by next Friday! 

Have a fantastic weekend!!

Back-to-School Night

It was so great talking to you all at BTSN.  What a great turnout!  I hope I was able to provide all the information you needed and answer all of your questions.  If you think of anything, please don't hesitate to ask.

Also, I forgot to mention that I tested out the email subscription gadget on this blog, and it notified me about 24 hours after I post something.  So, it might not be the most efficient way of receiving classroom updates.  Please be sure to check this blog every Monday for Weekly News and Homework.  Thanks!!

Back-to-School Night!

Tomorrow night is BTSN!  There will be two sessions: 6:30-7 and 7:15-7:45.  Please choose one to attend.  If you are unable to attend, I will send home all of the information discussed at BTSN in your child's folder on Friday.  Also, please know that you are all welcome to visit our classroom and/or chat with me any day before or after school.  I love talking about our Vomvokids. :)

Bonus Reminders:
Homework is due on Friday.
Friday is YELLOW day.
Friday is also our new sharing day. :)

It's going to be a great year!!

Check out our art display at the SC County Fair!

The Vomvokids made the baby chicks in art class :)