Newsletter: October 13

Next Week is Color Week in Kindergarten:

All three Bauer Kindergarten classes will be participating in a color themed week for the week of October 16-20.  Please have your child dress according to the schedule below...

Monday, October 16 - Red

Tuesday, October 17 - Yellow

Wednesday, October 18 - Green

Thursday, October 19 - Orange

Friday, October 20 - Blue

Next Week's Specials:

Monday - Music

Tuesday - Art

Wednesday - PE, Library

Thursday - STEAM

Friday - Music

Coming Up...

• Marco's Pizza Night and Parent Connection Night: Tuesday, October 17 (Don't forget to mention Bauer and my name when ordering.)
• Turkey Trot: Tuesday, October 24
• All For Books Coin War: October 24-26
• Picture Retake Day/BPC Skating Party: Thursday, October 26
• Classroom Halloween Party: Tuesday, October 31 @ 1:30pm
• Early Release Day: Friday, November 3 - 12:15pm dismissal (School Families - wear Bauer T-shirt)
• Breakfast with Books: November 7 from 8:15-8:45am
• Parent Teacher Conferences: November 8 and 10
• Book Fair: November 10, 13, & 14
• Bauer Parent Club Meeting: Tuesday, November 14 @ 7pm
• Jet's Pizza Night: Tuesday, November 14 (Don't forget to mention Bauer and my name when ordering.)
• Hat Day/Popcorn Day: Friday, November 17
• Thanksgiving Break: November 22-24
• Bauer Holiday Program: Tuesday, November 28

Parent/Teacher Conferences:

We will be setting our conference schedules next week Thursday.  If you have not returned your conference request form, please do so before Thursday!  I will send home appointment slips next week Friday.

School Families:
We had another School Families session on Friday. In our groups we focused on Habit #1- Be Proactive. We learned what it means to be proactive and discussed examples of how we might use this in our daily lives! We also learned the difference between proactive and reactive. Be sure to ask your child one way they are planning to be proactive at home. 

Walk-a-thon Assembly:

LOTS of prizes were given out today at the Walk-a-thon assembly.  Thank you again for all of your support of our great school!

This Week in Kindergarten...

Writing Workshop:

In Writing Workshop, we continue to draw and write stories together on whiteboards. We use whiteboards because it allows for easy error correction.  Plus, it's fun!!  We have been focusing on using a capital letter at the beginning, a 2-finger space between words, and a period at the end of our sentences.  On Wednesday after PE, we wrote the sentence "We played a pin game."

Shared Writing:

We are also writing sentences together on chart paper.  It is called Shared Writing because the kids share the pen with me and take turns adding a letter or two.  Here is a photo of a message that we wrote together this week. 

Morning Message:

Each morning we "dot and dash" the morning message.  If the sound is represented by one letter, it gets a dot underneath.  If the sound is represented by two or more letters, it gets a dash underneath.  This helps us listen for all the sounds in the words.  The swooping lines show the syllables in the word. 

Reading Workshop:

We are reading short, predictable booklets and taking turns reading them to a partner.  

Math: 

We wrapped up Unit 1 this week!  We spent the beginning of the week reviewing counting objects, writing numbers 1-5, and 2-D shapes.  We took the Unit 1 test on Thursday.  They did great!