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3/5/2010

K-Connection

Week of: March 8-12

Theme for Literature: Weather- “Oak Trees”

Letter of the week: Kk /k/

High Frequency Word: little, said

Math: Time

Science: Plants

Activity schedule: (Monday, March 8 will be day 4)

Red group: Day 1 Music Day 2 Art Day 3 Media Day 4 Computer Day 5 PE Day 6 Science

Blue group: Day 1 PE Day 2 Science Day 3 Music Day 4 Art Day 5 Media Day 6 Computer

Orange group: Day 1 Computer Day 2 PE Day 3 Science Day 4 Music Day 5 Art Day 6 Media

Purple group: Day 1 Science Day 2 Music Day 3 Art Day 4 Media Day 5 computer Day 6 PE

Green group: Day 1 Media Day 2 Computer Day 3 PE Day 4 Science Day 5 Music Day 6 Art

Yellow group: Day 1 Art Day 2 Media Day 3 computer Day 4 PE Day 5 Science Day 6 Music

Dr.Seuss Day

Tuesday’s Dr. Suess day was a great success. The students had a wonderful time hearing their favorite Dr. Suess stories, playing games, and reading their own books (most of the students voted that reading their books was their favorite part of the whole day!!) “Thing 5” and “Thing 8” loved seeing them so excited about reading J

Chick-Fil-A night

Chick Fil-A night was a huge success!! We raised a LOT of money for the school! Thank you to all who came out to support us!!!

FCAT Testing

FCAT Testing will be taking place over the next two weeks. While this does not involve Kindergarten directly, please be sure to have your child at school on time to minimize disruptions in the morning.

Writer Wall of Fame

We will not be celebrating the Writer Wall of Fame for the next two weeks due to FCAT testing.

Snack: Please remember that we have snack time every day and your child is responsible for bringing in their own daily snack. Please make this a part of your morning routine or have it as part of your nighttime routine to put it in the backpack the night before.

“Welcome to the Jungle”

Kindergarten Performance…Mark your calendars!!!

Practice continues to take place on a daily basis. We are still learning parts, placement and motions to our jungle songs. If your child has a speaking part, please work with them on memorizing the part along with saying it loud and slow. Our kindergarten class will be performing the musical “Welcome to the Jungle” with two other kindergarten classes on Thursday, March 25th @ 5:30. The program will begin at 5:30 but the students will need to arrive to the classroom at 5:00. Since we have 7 kindergarten classes, 3 classes will perform at 5:30 and the other 4 classes will perform at 6:30. The show will last approximately 30 min. which will give us time to exit before the next group of eager parents arrive. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

NEW KINDERGARTEN ORIENTATION

Kindergarten Orientation for new kindergarteners for next year will be held on Thursday, April 20^th at 6:00 p.m. If you have a child who will be starting Kindergarten in August, please call the school office to confirm that you are coming to the meeting. You can also call the office if you are not sure of what school your child will attend due to redistricting.

Keep clipping, saving and sending in the following items:

Box Tops, Campbell Soup Labels, Capri Sun Pouches & Pop Tops

Manatee will continue to collect General Mills box tops and the UPC from Campbell soup labels all year long as well as Capri Sun pouches. This is a great, easy way that you can help our PTO fund requests for classroom materials and manipulative request from teachers. Clipping these items will only cost you minimal time and effort. We are also collecting pop top tabs as we support the Ronald McDonald house through tab donations.

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2/26/2010

K-Connection

“The Kindergarten link between classroom and home”

Week of: March 1-5

Theme for Literature: Weather- “Bear Snores On”

Letter of the week: Review: Bb /b/ Ll /l/ Ee /e/

High Frequency Word: Review: and, what, this,do

Math: fraction, symmetry, 10 frames - numbers 10-15

Science: Simple machines

Activity schedule: (Monday, March 1 will be day 4)

Red group: Day 1 Music Day 2 Art Day 3 Media Day 4 Computer Day 5 PE Day 6 Science

Blue group: Day 1 PE Day 2 Science Day 3 Music Day 4 Art Day 5 Media Day 6 Computer

Orange group: Day 1 Computer Day 2 PE Day 3 Science Day 4 Music Day 5 Art Day 6 Media

Purple group: Day 1 Science Day 2 Music Day 3 Art Day 4 Media Day 5 computer Day 6 PE

Green group: Day 1 Media Day 2 Computer Day 3 PE Day 4 Science Day 5 Music Day 6 Art

Yellow group: Day 1 Art Day 2 Media Day 3 computer Day 4 PE Day 5 Science Day 6 Music

Tonight’s BINGO NIGHT has been cancelled

Pizza Gallery Field trip

What a great adventure we had discovering the art of pizza making at our recent field trip to the Pizza Gallery. The students were able to tour the “behind the scenes” area as well as create their own pizza art. In today’s Friday folder, the students pizza artist certificates are included as well as a coupon for a discounted kids meal. Congratulations to all of our jr. Pizza chef artists. Thank-you to Mrs. Freeman for chaperoning our field trip to pizza gallery.

Scholastic Book and software order

The online ordering for the March Scholastic book and software orders ends today. If you sent in a paper order, it will be added to the online orders. The books should arrive within the next 2 weeks.

Writer Wall of Fame

Congratulations to Taylor who was selected to represent our class on the Writer Wall of Fame for this week. Her writing was posted on the cafeteria “Writing Wall of Fame” area. She appeared on TV Wednesday and received her second “Writing Wall of Fame” pencil. This broadcast can be viewed by logging onto our website and clicking on the CCTV icon.

Snack: Please remember that we have snack time every day and your child is responsible for bringing in their own daily snack. Please make this a part of your morning routine or have it as part of your nighttime routine to put it in the backpack the night before.

Dr.Seuss Day

Tuesday, March 2^nd is Dr. Seuss’ birthday and we will be honoring the late Dr. Seuss by celebrating with a morning full of “seussful” activities. If you would like to volunteer and be a part of the activitess, please contact Mrs. Kuhblank, media specialist, who is heading up all of the fun events. She could still use a few extra hands to help out on this special day.

"Welcome to the Jungle”

Kindergarten Performance…Mark your calendars!!!

Practice continues to take place on a daily basis. We are still learning parts, placement and motions to our jungle songs. If your child has a speaking part, please work with them on memorizing the part along with saying it loud and slow. Our kindergarten class will be performing the musical “Welcome to the Jungle” with two other kindergarten classes on Thursday, March 25th @ 5:30. The program will begin at 5:30 but the students will need to arrive to the classroom at 5:00. Since we have 7 kindergarten classes, 3 classes will perform at 5:30 and the other 4 classes will perform at 6:30. The show will last approximately 30 min. which will give us time to exit before the next group of eager parents arrive. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Chick-Fil-A night

It’s almost here……Manatee’s Chick-fil-a night is on Thursday, March 4^th from 5-8 pm at the Viera restaurant on Wickham road. The Kindergarten classes will be receiving a percentage of the sales to use within the grade level for future activities. Come out and support Manatee on March 4^th and have dinner while you watch your teacher work!!! I will be busy greeting, passing out goodies/prizes, making milkshakes and a little bit of everything. Due to another commitment from 5:30-6:30, I will be working the shift from 6:45-8:00 at Chick-fil-A. I look forward to seeing you there.

For those interested…

The following is a contest that your child is invited to participate in. It is optional and will be left up to you if you would like for them to participate in it. Please read the info. below and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask….

Doodle 4 Google Contest

· Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to work their artistic will upon our homepage logo. At Google we believe in thinking big and dreaming big, so this year we're inviting U.S. kids to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, "If I Could Do Anything, I Would …"

· We're looking forward to the kids' answers too. Gather those art supplies and some 8.5" x 11"paper and encourage your students to enrich us all with their creative visions for what they would do in the world, if they could do anything.

· Entries are due to your classroom teacher by March 4^th and Manatee teachers will help select the top 6 entries for our school.

That’s it, simple, easy, students can do it at home. IF you would like further information, here is the link http://www.google.com/doodle4google/index.html

NEW KINDERGARTEN ORIENTATION

Kindergarten Orientation for new kindergarteners for next year will be held on Thursday, April 20^th at 6:00 p.m. If you have a child who will be starting Kindergarten in August, please call the school office to confirm that you are coming to the meeting. You can also call the office if you are not sure of what school your child will attend due to redistricting.

Keep clipping, saving and sending in the following items:

Box Tops, Campbell Soup Labels, Capri Sun Pouches & Pop Tops

Manatee will continue to collect General Mills box tops and the UPC from Campbell soup labels all year long as well as Capri Sun pouches. This is a great, easy way that you can help our PTO fund requests for classroom materials and manipulative request from teachers. Clipping these items will only cost you minimal time and effort. We are also collecting pop top tabs as we support the Ronald McDonald house through tab donations.

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2/19/2010

K-Connection

“The Kindergarten link between classroom and home”

Week of: Feb. 22-26

Theme for Literature: Weather- “In The Yard”

Letter of the week: Bb /b/ Ll /l/

High Frequency Word: and, what

Math: fraction, symmetry

Science: Simple machines

Activity schedule: (Tuesday, Feb. 22^nd will be day 6)

Red group: Day 1 Music Day 2 Art Day 3 Media Day 4 Computer Day 5 PE Day 6 Science

Blue group: Day 1 PE Day 2 Science Day 3 Music Day 4 Art Day 5 Media Day 6 Computer

Orange group: Day 1 Computer Day 2 PE Day 3 Science Day 4 Music Day 5 Art Day 6 Media

Purple group: Day 1 Science Day 2 Music Day 3 Art Day 4 Media Day 5 computer Day 6 PE

Green group: Day 1 Media Day 2 Computer Day 3 PE Day 4 Science Day 5 Music Day 6 Art

Yellow group: Day 1 Art Day 2 Media Day 3 computer Day 4 PE Day 5 Science Day 6 Music

Writer Wall of Fame

Congratulations to Raina who was selected to represent our class on the Writer Wall of Fame for this week. Her writing is posted on the cafeteria “Writing Wall of Fame” area. She appeared on TV Tuesday and received her second “Writing Wall of Fame” pencil. This broadcast can be viewed by logging onto our website and clicking on the CCTV icon. We only have three more writing wall of fame opportunities left this year. I wonder who will be represent our class next on the writing wall of fame?

Ms. Kroger takes over J

Ms. Kroger has successfully completed her first week of teaching full time in our classroom. The students are learning about weather, simple machines, symmetry, the letter Ee and things that begin with the sound of /e/. Just as a reminder, I will be in and out of the classroom but she will be in charge for the next few weeks. We will both be checking emails so if you have a question or concern, please do not hesitate to ask. I am excited about this new adventure. We are still planning lessons together and she has been directed as to what areas and standards need to be covered. She has done a fabulous job so far and I look forward to mentoring her and observing her creative teaching.

Pizza Gallery Field trip

This is a reminder of our field trip on Tuesday, Feb. 23^rd to the Pizza Gallery. We will leave by bus at 9:30 and return by approximately 11:30-12ish. Do not send a lunch with your child on Tuesday as we will be having a pizza lunch! Also, please send your child wearing their blue class shirt. If your child has any allergies to any possible pizza ingredient, please let me know in a reminder email. (pizza dough ingredients, sauce, cheese and pepperoni) Our Room Mom will be chaperoning this trip as a special thank-you for taking on such a huge role this year and serving as our room mom. This is a special bonus trip for her. We ask again that you respect our request that you may not show up at the door that day. The restaurant is closed to the public during our visit and only chaperones approved for the trip as well as students will be allowed inside. This is a great community connection for our class since the Pizza Gallery is one of Manatee’s business partners. If you have any questions please let me know.

Scholastic Book and software order

The online ordering for the March Scholastic book and software orders is available until next Friday, Feb. 26^th. The order forms went home in last week’s Friday folder. You can either send in payment to me (but made payable to Scholastic) with your paper order or you can access the order form online and pay by credit card using the ID and password from last weeks scholastic letter that was put in the Friday folder. Once again, the ordering deadline is Friday. Feb. 26th at which time, the ordering window automatically closes online.

“Welcome to the Jungle”

Kindergarten Performance…Mark your calendars!!!

We have started practicing on the stage for our Jungle play. Assignment parts and costumes were sent home last week in your child’s Friday folder. If your child has a speaking part, please work with them on memorizing the part along with saying it loud and slow. Our kindergarten class will be performing the musical “Welcome to the Jungle” with two other kindergarten classes on Thursday, March 25th @ 5:30. The program will begin at 5:30 but the students will need to arrive to the classroom at 5:00. Since we have 7 kindergarten classes, 3 classes will perform at 5:30 and the other 4 classes will perform at 6:30. The show will last approximately 30 min. which will give us time to exit before the next group of eager parents arrive. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Chick-Fil-A night

Don’t forget that on Thursday, March 4^th from 5-8 pm, the kindergarten teachers will be at chick-fil-a for manatee night. We are hosting the Chick-Fil-A night at the Viera restaurant on Wickham road. The Kindergarten classes will be receiving a percentage of the sales to use within the grade level for future activities. Come out and support Manatee on March 4^th and have dinner while you watch your teacher work!!! I will be busy greeting, passing out goodies/prizes, making milkshakes and a little bit of everything. I look forward to seeing you there.

Snack: Please remember that we have snack time every day and your child is responsible for bringing in their own daily snack. Please make this a part of your morning routine or have it as part of your nighttime routine to put it in the backpack the night before.

NEW KINDERGARTEN ORIENTATION

Kindergarten Orientation for new kindergarteners for next year will be held on Thursday, April 20^th at 6:00 p.m. If you have a child who will be starting Kindergarten in August, please call the school office to confirm that you are coming to the meeting. You can also call the office if you are not sure of what school your child will attend due to redistricting.

BINGO NIGHT

Don’t forget Friday, February 26^th is Bingo Night at Manatee, 5:30-7:30 p.m.! Bingo is free; a Pizza Meal Deal (2 slices of pizza, cookie and soft drink) can be purchased for $3.50 per person.

Keep clipping, saving and sending in the following items:

Box Tops, Campbell Soup Labels, Capri Sun Pouches & Pop Tops

Manatee will continue to collect General Mills box tops and the UPC from Campbell soup labels all year long as well as Capri Sun pouches. This is a great, easy way that you can help our PTO fund requests for classroom materials and manipulative request from teachers. Clipping these items will only cost you minimal time and effort. We are also collecting pop top tabs as we support the Ronald McDonald house through tab donations.

For those interested…

The following is a contest that your child is invited to participate in. It is optional and will be left up to you if you would like for them to participate in it. Please read the info. below and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask….

Doodle 4 Google Contest

· Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to work their artistic will upon our homepage logo. At Google we believe in thinking big and dreaming big, so this year we're inviting U.S. kids to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, "If I Could Do Anything, I Would …"

· We're looking forward to the kids' answers too. Gather those art supplies and some 8.5" x 11"paper and encourage your students to enrich us all with their creative visions for what they would do in the world, if they could do anything.

· Entries are due to your classroom teacher by March 4^th and Manatee teachers will help select the top 6 entries for our school.

That’s it, simple, easy, students can do it at home. IF you would like further information, here is the link http://www.google.com/doodle4google/index.html

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2/12/2010

K-Connection

“The Kindergarten link between classroom and home”

Week of: Feb. (15^th student holiday) 16-19

Theme for Literature: Weather- “A Rainy Day”

Letter of the week: Ee /e/

High Frequency Word: this, do

Math: fraction

Science: Simple machines

Activity schedule: (Tuesday, Feb. 16th will be day 2)

Red group: Day 1 Music Day 2 Art Day 3 Media Day 4 Computer Day 5 PE Day 6 Science

Blue group: Day 1 PE Day 2 Science Day 3 Music Day 4 Art Day 5 Media Day 6 Computer

Orange group: Day 1 Computer Day 2 PE Day 3 Science Day 4 Music Day 5 Art Day 6 Media

Purple group: Day 1 Science Day 2 Music Day 3 Art Day 4 Media Day 5 computer Day 6 PE

Green group: Day 1 Media Day 2 Computer Day 3 PE Day 4 Science Day 5 Music Day 6 Art

Yellow group: Day 1 Art Day 2 Media Day 3 computer Day 4 PE Day 5 Science Day 6 Music

Reminder:

Monday is a Student Holiday in honor of President’s Day. Please make a note of this change in next weeks schedule. Teachers will be working on Monday as it is a professional development day but the students have it off. I look forward to having everyone return on Tuesday. Enjoy your 3-day weekend!!!

Writer Wall of Fame

Our next Writing Wall of Fame recipient was announced today due to the Florida Writes Assessment on Tuesday. Congratulations to Robbie for being selected as this week’s writing wall of Fame winner. His writing will be posted on the cafeteria “Writing Wall of Fame” for one week and he will appear on Manatee TV as well as receive a special “Writing Wall of Fame” pencil. This broadcast can be viewed by logging onto our website and clicking on the CCTV icon. We only have four more writing wall of fame opportunities left this year. I wonder who will be recognized next?

Ms. Kroger takes over J

Starting on Tuesday, Ms. Kroger, our senior intern from UCF will be taking over the reins as she begins her full time teaching internship. I will be in and out of the classroom but she will be in charge for the next few weeks. We will both be checking emails so if you have a question or concern, please do not hesitate to ask. I am excited about this new adventure. She has already been taking over and teaching different subjects throughout the last couple of weeks. We are still planning lessons together and she has been directed as to what areas and standards need to be covered. She has done a fabulous job so far and I look forward to mentoring her and observing her creative teaching.

Scholastic Book and software order

I have opened the online ordering for the March Scholastic book and software orders. The order forms are in today's Friday folder. You may either send in payment to me (but made payable to Scholastic) with your order or you can access the order form online and pay by credit card. The ordering deadline will be open until Friday. Feb. 26th at which time the ordering window will automatically close online.

Friendship day

What a fabulous celebration of Friendship we had today. Thank you for all of the “treats” that you gave Ms. Kroger and I. The students enjoyed listening to stories about Friends as well as passing out their special Friendship cards. Please ask your child to retell you one of the stories that they heard today about friendship. As our theme today focused on “friends´ and “friendship”, some of the activities that we participated in was graphing friendship hearts, making friendship bears to go along with one of our Friendship day stories, and we also created friendship day heart card holders. We ended our celebration day with a special cookie and punch celebration with all of our friends before writing in our daily journals about our favorite part of friendship day. It has been a very fun day celebrating Friendship.

"Welcome to the Jungle”

Kindergarten Performance…Mark your calendars!!!

Jungle fever is running rampant in our room. I see monkeys, tigers, parrots, giraffes, hippos, a little mouse and storytellers everywhere. The reason for this is that your child’s kindergarten play assignment was distributed today in the Friday folders. We went through the list of speakers so that everyone would have a chance to say their part at least one time. Please mark your calendars for Thursday, March 25th @ 5:30. Our kindergarten class will be performing the musical “Welcome to the Jungle” with two other kindergarten classes and you will not want to miss this. The program will begin at 5:30 but the students will need to arrive to the classroom at 5:00. Since we have 7 kindergarten classes, 3 classes will perform at 5:30 and the other 4 classes will perform at 6:30. The show will last approximately 30 min. which will give us time to exit before the next group of eager parents arrive. Along with the part assignment, there is also a letter describing what you will need to provide as far as clothing/costume for your child/animal. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Chick-Fil-A night

Mark your calendars for Thursday, March 4^th from 5-8 pm to come out and have dinner while you support our kindergarten at the same time. Manatee will be hosting a Chick-Fil-A night at the local Chick-Fil-a store in Viera on Wickham road. The Kindergarten classes will be receiving a percentage of the sales to use within the grade level. Come out and support Manatee on March 4^th and have dinner while you watch your teacher work!!! I will be busy greeting, passing out goodies/prizes, making milkshakes and a little bit of everything. I hope to see you there.

Snack: Please remember that we have snack time every day and your child is responsible for bringing in their own daily snack. Please make this a part of your morning routine or have it as part of your nighttime routine to put it in the backpack the night before.

Don’t forget to keep clipping saving and sending in the following items:

Box Tops, Campbell Soup Labels, Capri Sun Pouches & Pop Tops

Manatee will continue to collect General Mills box tops and the UPC from Campbell soup labels all year long as well as Capri Sun pouches. This is a great, easy way that you can help our PTO fund requests for classroom materials and manipulative request from teachers. Clipping these items will only cost you minimal time and effort. We are also collecting pop top tabs as we support the Ronald McDonald house through tab donations.

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2/5/2010

K-Connection

Week of: Feb. 8-12

Theme for Literature: Neighborhood - “Alicia’s Happy Day”

Letter of the week: review: Hh /h/ Dd /d/ Rr /r/

High Frequency Word: review: are, for,you

Math: placement value

Science: Space & Technology: night/day, sun/moon

Activity schedule: (Monday, Feb. 8th will be day 3 )

Red group: Day 1 Music Day 2 Art Day 3 Media Day 4 Computer Day 5 PE Day 6 Science

Blue group: Day 1 PE Day 2 Science Day 3 Music Day 4 Art Day 5 Media Day 6 Computer

Orange group: Day 1 Computer Day 2 PE Day 3 Science Day 4 Music Day 5 Art Day 6 Media

Purple group: Day 1 Science Day 2 Music Day 3 Art Day 4 Media Day 5 computer Day 6 PE

Green group: Day 1 Media Day 2 Computer Day 3 PE Day 4 Science Day 5 Music Day 6 Art

Yellow group: Day 1 Art Day 2 Media Day 3 computer Day 4 PE Day 5 Science Day 6 Music

Writer Wall of Fame

Our next Writing Wall of Fame recipient that will be announced on Tuesday is Robbie. His writing will be posted on the cafeteria “Writing Wall of Fame” for one week and he will appear on Manatee TV as well as receive a special “Writing Wall of Fame” pencil. This broadcast can be viewed by logging onto our website and clicking on the CCTV icon. Congratulations to Liam, I wonder who will be next?????

VERY IMPORTANT>>>Field Trip

The permission slip and payment for our field trip to the pizza gallery was due today, Feb. 5^th. There are still some students who have not returned their information. Please send this in when returning the Friday folder on Monday. If there is a situation where you are unable to pay at this time, please contact me and we can look at some options but this needs to be asap. We will be going to Pizza Gallery on Feb. 23^rd. The cost of the trip will be $7 and that includes pizza, drink, tip and transportation fee. Chaperones have already been contacted for this trip. Since we will be going to a public business during non-business hours, only students and chaperones assigned to the trip will be permitted inside. Thank you in advance for your cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Friendship day

On Friday February 12th, we will celebrate “friends and friendship”. Our day will focus on the theme around “friends´ and “friendship”. We will be reading several stories about friendship as well as participating in activities with our friends. Each student will be given the opportunity to pass out friendship cards if they want to. There are two rules for giving out friendship cards: 1) if you plan on passing out cards, then everyone will need to receive a card. 2) Please do NOT address the cards, only put who they are from on the outside. We will celebrate our special day with a very low key “cookies and punch” snack sometime during our special day. Your child may begin bringing in their friendship cards on Monday.

Volunteer Tea

If you have volunteered in the classroom, completed projects at home, chaperoned a field trip, volunteered at a school event, or have helped in any way, then mark your calendar for this Friday, Feb. 12^th at 8:15. A special tea is being held in your honor for all of the work that you have done. Please plan on attending this event being held especially for Manatee volunteers.

Chick-Fil-A night

Mark your calendars for Thursday, March 4^th from 5-8 pm to come out and have dinner while you support our kindergarten at the same time. Manatee will be hosting a Chick-Fil-A night at the local Chick-Fil-a store in Viera on Wickham road. The Kindergarten classes will be receiving a percentage of the sales to use within the grade level. Come out and support Manatee on March 4^th and have dinner while you watch your teacher work!!! I will be busy greeting, passing out goodies/prizes, making milkshakes and a little bit of everything. I hope to see you there.

Kindergarten Performance…Mark your calendars!!!

Do you feel like you have “Jungle Fever”? Well there is a reason for that, I have breaking news: Please mark your calendars for Thursday, March 25th @ 5:30. The kindergarten will be performing the musical “Welcome to the Jungle” and you will not want to miss this. The program will begin at 5:30 but the students will need to arrive to the classroom at 5:00. Since we have 7 kindergarten classes, 3 classes will perform at 5:30 and the other 4 classes will perform at 6:30. The show will last approximately 30 min. which will give us time to exit before the next group of eager parents arrive. I am beginning the process of assigning parts and costumes. I will let you know which jungle animal your child will be. We have the hats that go along with the play so you will only need to provide clothing of a specific color to reflect your child’s animal. More news to come soon so stay tuned!

Snack

Please remember that we have snack time every day and your child is responsible for bringing in their own daily snack. Please make this a part of your morning routine or have it as part of your nighttime routine to put it in the backpack the night before.

Don’t forget to keep clipping saving and sending in the following items:

Box Tops, Campbell Soup Labels, Capri Sun Pouches & Pop Tops

Manatee will continue to collect General Mills box tops and the UPC from Campbell soup labels all year long as well as Capri Sun pouches. This is a great, easy way that you can help our PTO fund requests for classroom materials and manipulative request from teachers. Clipping these items will only cost you minimal time and effort. We are also collecting pop top tabs as we support the Ronald McDonald house through tab donations.

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1/22/2010

K-Connection

Week of: Jan. 25-29

Theme for Literature: Animals: “Russ and the Firehouse”

Letter of the week: Hh /h/

High Frequency Word: are

Math: Geometry – solid figures

Science: Earth Science: Our land, water, and air

Activity schedule: (Monday, Jan. 25th will be day 5)

Red group: Day 1 Music Day 2 Art Day 3 Media Day 4 Computer Day 5 PE Day 6 Science

Blue group: Day 1 PE Day 2 Science Day 3 Music Day 4 Art Day 5 Media Day 6 Computer

Orange group: Day 1 Computer Day 2 PE Day 3 Science Day 4 Music Day 5 Art Day 6 Media

Purple group: Day 1 Science Day 2 Music Day 3 Art Day 4 Media Day 5 computer Day 6 PE

Green group: Day 1 Media Day 2 Computer Day 3 PE Day 4 Science Day 5 Music Day 6 Art

Yellow group: Day 1 Art Day 2 Media Day 3 computer Day 4 PE Day 5 Science Day 6 Music

Writer Wall of Fame

On Tuesday, our next Writing Wall of Fame recipient will be announced and it will be Vincent. The “writer wall of fame” wall is in the cafeteria and all recipients will have their writing posted for one week. Vincent will also be spotlighted on our morning Manatee news program where he will receive a special writing pencil as well as being able to wave to his TV audience. This broadcast can be viewed by logging onto our website and clicking on the CCTV icon.

Haiti Relief

Thank you so much for all of the donations and money that was sent in for the Haiti Relief collection. I was amazed at the pile of items that have been given to help out those who are din desperate need of basic supplies. Those students who wore hats today were also donating towards this special event as well. Thanks for all of your participation and support for such a worthy cause.

Field Trip

In today’s Friday folder, a letter and field trip permission slip was sent home with information about our next field trip. We will be going to Pizza Gallery on Feb. 23^rd. The cost of the trip will be $7 and that includes pizza, drink, tip and transportation fee. The permission slip and payment will need to be made before Friday, Feb. 5^th. Chaperones have already been contacted for this trip. Since we will be going to a public business during non-business hours, only students and chaperones assigned to the trip will be permitted inside. Thank you in advance for your cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Walk-A-Thon

In today’s Friday folder, your child’s lap card from the walk-a-thin was included. If you pledged to support them per lap, then use the lap card to figure out how many laps that they completed. Please return the money collected in the white envelope that was provided to your child last week. This money needs to be in turned in no later than Thursday, Jan. 29^th.

100^th Day Celebration

On Tuesday, Jan. 26^th, the Kindergarten classes will be celebrating the 100^th day of school!!! It is going to be a fun-filled day and everyone is welcome to come out and join us. There are 2 events scheduled where you can watch the excitement or join in. The first will be a 100 day assembly in the cafeteria at 8:20-8:50 where the k students will sing, count, and we will have a special visitor come and present our 100 day perfect attendance recipients. This will be followed by their normal activity time 8:55-9:35. At 10:00, we will be going outside for about 1 ½ hours to participate in 7 stations that are related to the theme of Zero the Hero and 100 days. Lunch for our 100^th day will be the same schedule and our afternoon will consist of activities in the classroom pertaining to 100. If you would like to come out to watch the 100^th day Assembly at 8:20 or the 100^th day stations at 10, please feel free to join us for these 2 activities during the 8:20-12:30 time frame. If you were assigned an item to bring in, please send this in no later than Monday. I will be purchasing any item that is not here by Monday. Also, I need one volunteer to donate 20 water bottles, any brand will do. We will be taking these outside and the students will have their names on them so that they have access to water while we are having fun. Please let me know if you are interested in making this donation.

Thank you for all of the items that have been brought in for our 100 item challenge. With all of the other activities going on, I really appreciate you giving just one more time to help support another organization in need. The humane society will be very grateful for all of the items that Manatee Elem. has collected. We only have 2 more days to reach 100 items. Donations can be dry and canned dog/cat food, toys, snacks, blankets, old towels, (many of the dogs are sleeping on cold concrete floors) etc. anything that an animal shelter could use. If you would like to participate in this opportunity of giving, please send the animal donations for our class challenge by Tuesday, our 100^th day of school. Please have your child bring their donated item(s) to our classroom where we will keep count until we hit 100 items. Thanks again for helping out a local organization in need, the animals will greatly benefit from any donation given.

Parent Teacher Conference Night

Tuesday, Jan. 26^th is parent teacher conference night. Parent conferences are by appointment only. If you would like to schedule a conference, please let me know so that I can assign a specific time. I also have times during the weekdays that we can meet, 7:30am, 9:00am and after school. If you are interested in scheduling a conference, please contact me and we can discuss a day and time that would be convenient for you.

Friendship day

Looking ahead……On Friday February 12th, we will celebrate “friends and friendship”. Our day will focus on the theme around “friends´ and we will be reading several stories about friendship. Each student will be given the opportunity to pass out friendship cards if they want to. There are two rules for giving out friendship cards: 1) if you plan on passing out cards, then everyone will need to receive a card. 2) Please do NOT address the cards, only put who they are from on the outside. Additional information will be given closer to the date. We will celebrate our special day with a very low key “cookies and punch” snack sometime during our special day.

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1/19/2010

K-Connection

K – Connection

“The Kindergarten link between classroom and home”

Week of: Jan. (18) 19-22

Theme for Literature: Animals: “Mole and the Baby Bird”

Letter of the week: review Oo /o/ Ff /f/

High Frequency Word: review is, play

Math: Geometry – solid figures

Science: Earth Science: Our land, water, and air

Activity schedule: (Monday, Jan. 19th will be day 1)

Red group: Day 1 Music Day 2 Art Day 3 Media Day 4 Computer Day 5 PE Day 6 Science

Blue group: Day 1 PE Day 2 Science Day 3 Music Day 4 Art Day 5 Media Day 6 Computer

Orange group: Day 1 Computer Day 2 PE Day 3 Science Day 4 Music Day 5 Art Day 6 Media

Purple group: Day 1 Science Day 2 Music Day 3 Art Day 4 Media Day 5 computer Day 6 PE

Green group: Day 1 Media Day 2 Computer Day 3 PE Day 4 Science Day 5 Music Day 6 Art

Yellow group: Day 1 Art Day 2 Media Day 3 computer Day 4 PE Day 5 Science Day 6 Music

Please join me in welcoming Ms. Kroger to our classroom. She is a UCF senior intern that will be with us through April. We are looking forward to many great opportunities of teaching and learning while she is here. I will begin phasing her in as she teaches specific subject areas starting next week and she will be taking over the classroom completely in a few weeks. Please make her feel welcome as she embarks on this great academic adventure and hopefully a future career in the teaching field.

Writer Wall of Fame

Due to a delay in starting up the Writer Wall of Fame last week and our Manatee TV Staff member being out Tuesday, we are going to try and resume the writing wall of fame on Wednesday. Congratulations to Cody who will be recognized, hopefully, on Wednesday (20th) for being selected as our next “Writer Wall of Fame” recipient. The “writer wall of fame” wall is in the cafeteria and all recipients will have their writing posted for one week. They will also be spotlighted on our morning Manatee news program where they will receive a special writing pencil as well as waving to their TV audience. Stay tuned for next weeks Writer Wall of Fame recipient. This broadcast can be viewed by logging onto our website and clicking on the CCTV icon.

Haiti Relief

A pink flyer was sent home with your child pertaining to an opportunity to help Haiti survivors. If you would like to be a part of this effort, please refer to the information on the flyer for donation needs as well as an opportunity to wear a hat on Friday. All students have the opportunity to become a “Disaster Action Kid” as they help others who are less fortunate.

Kindergarten Awards Ceremony Thursday, January 21st will be our 2^nd Kindergarten Awards Ceremony in the cafeteria at 8:15. Anyone is welcome to attend the ceremony but I want to make sure that the parents of the recipients that are receiving the award have been notified for support and photo opportunities.

The following reminders are from previous K-Connections:

Snack

Please remember that we have snack time every day and your child is responsible for bringing in their own daily snack. Please make this a part of your morning routine or have it as part of your nighttime routine to put it in the backpack the night before.

Expectations

As we enter into the 3^rd progress period, the pace will pick up as well as the skill levels becoming more complex. With this increase in responsibility come the expectations of positive behavior as well. I expect to give fewer reminders and more compliments! The journey to the treasure box will also increase. The students will now need 20 stickers on their pouch in order to visit the treasure box to reward them for their fantastic choice of great positive behavior. This will be the last step increase in the treasure box journey.

Kindergarten will be celebrating the 100^th day of school on Tuesday January 26^th. Our room mom, Mrs. Freeman, will be contacting you for volunteer opportunities as well as donations that will be needed. It is going to be a fun-filled day and everyone is welcome to come out and join us. There are 2 events scheduled where you can watch the excitement or join in. The first will be a 100 day assembly in the cafeteria at 8:20-8:50 where the k students will sing, count, and we will have a special visitor come and present our 100 day perfect attendance recipients. This will be followed by their normal activity time 8:55-9:35. At 10:00, we will be going outside for about 1 ½ hours to participate in 7 stations that are related to the theme of Zero the Hero and 100 days. Lunch for our 100^th day will be the same schedule and our afternoon will consist of activities in the classroom pertaining to 100. If you would like to come out to watch the 100^th day Assembly at 8:20 or the 100^th day stations at 10, please feel free to join us for these 2 activities.

One activity that your child can participate in before the official 100^th day is that of donating items for needy animals. Our class is going to accept the challenge from Mrs. Bunner, a 2^nd grade teacher at Manatee, and try to collect 100 items to donate to a local animal organization, the Humane Society, as part of our 100^th day celebration. Donations can be dry and canned dog/cat food, toys, snacks, blankets, old towels, (many of the dogs are sleeping on cold concrete floors) etc. anything that an animal shelter could use. If you would like to participate in this opportunity of giving, please send the animal donations for our class challenge by Thursday, Jan. 21 (which is the 100^th day of school for grades 1-6). Please have your child bring their donated item(s) to our classroom where we will keep count until we hit 100 items. Since we have 20 students, if each child could donate several items, then we will successfully get to 100 even faster……thanks again for helping out a local organization in need, the animals will greatly benefit from any donation given.

Art Shirts

If your child has not brought back their art shirt, please put it in their backpack so that they will be prepared for their next Art activity day.

Jackets

On chilly mornings, please pack a jacket with your child. On really cold days, students will not be allowed to go outside unless they have a jacket. Thanks for your cooperation, this is one way to keep everyone well, warm, and healthy…hopefully!

Art Shirts

If your child has not brought back their art shirt, please put it in their backpack so that they will be prepared for their next Art activity day.

Jackets

On chilly mornings, please pack a jacket with your child. On really cold days, students will not be allowed to go outside unless they have a jacket. Thanks for your cooperation, this is one way to keep everyone well, warm, and healthy…hopefully!

Friendship day

Looking ahead……On Friday February 12th, we will celebrate “friends and friendship”. Our day will focus on the theme around “friends´ and we will be reading several stories about friendship. Each student will be given the opportunity to pass out friendship cards if they want to. There are two rules for giving out friendship cards: 1) if you plan on passing out cards, then everyone will need to receive a card. 2) Please do NOT address the cards, only put who they are from on the outside. Additional information will be given closer to the date. We will celebrate our special day with a very low key “cookies and punch” snack sometime during our special day.

Box Tops, Campbell Soup Labels, Capri Sun Pouches & Pop Tops

Manatee will continue to collect General Mills box tops and the UPC from Campbell soup labels all year long as well as Capri Sun pouches. This is a great, easy way that you can help our PTO fund requests for classroom materials and manipulative request from teachers. Clipping these items will only cost you minimal time and effort. We are also collecting pop top tabs as we support the Ronald McDonald house thorough tab donations.

Homework (Fast Start)

This is just a friendly reminder that when you return the weekly homework “Fast Start” poems, papers, forms, correspondence, please remember to have your child write their name on their paper. Thanks J

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1/9/2010

K-Connection

“The Kindergarten link between classroom and home”

Week of: Jan. 11-15

Theme for Literature: Animals: “Animal Babies ABC”

Letter of the week: Ff /f/

High Frequency Word: play

Math: Numbers to 30

Science: Earth Science: Our land, water, and air

Activity schedule: (Monday, Jan. 11th will be day 2)

Red group: Day 1 Music Day 2 Art Day 3 Media Day 4 Computer Day 5 PE Day 6 Science

Blue group: Day 1 PE Day 2 Science Day 3 Music Day 4 Art Day 5 Media Day 6 Computer

Orange group: Day 1 Computer Day 2 PE Day 3 Science Day 4 Music Day 5 Art Day 6 Media

Purple group: Day 1 Science Day 2 Music Day 3 Art Day 4 Media Day 5 computer Day 6 PE

Green group: Day 1 Media Day 2 Computer Day 3 PE Day 4 Science Day 5 Music Day 6 Art

Yellow group: Day 1 Art Day 2 Media Day 3 computer Day 4 PE Day 5 Science Day 6 Music

Please mark your calendars as a school holiday on Monday, Jan. 18^th in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday

Fast Start Poem, January Calendar, Book It recording sheet

If you could not find any of the above listed items in your child’s Friday folder, it is because I failed to run them off…..I will double the poems for next Friday and include the other 2 missing items. Sorry for the delay, I couldn’t remember if I sent the calendar and “book it” ahead of time in the last Dec. Friday folder or not…. but just in case, I will include it again in this coming Friday folder. Sorry!

Writer Wall of Fame

Congratulations to Cody who will be recognized on Tuesday (12^th) for being selected as this week’s “Writer Wall of Fame” recipient. The “writer wall of fame” wall is in the cafeteria and all recipients will have their writing posted for one week. They will also be spotlighted on our morning Manatee news program where they will receive a special writing pencil as well as waving to their TV audience. Stay tuned for next weeks Writer Wall of Fame recipient. This broadcast can be viewed by logging onto our website and clicking on the CCTV icon.

Progress reports

Friday, December 18th completed our 2^nd progress period and completion of 1^st semester. Progress reports will go home on Thursday January 14^th.

Snack

Please note: It is time to get back in to the routine of packing a daily snack. We have a few students who are forgetting to bring in a daily snack. Please remember that we have snack time every day and your child is responsible for bringing in their own daily snack. Please make this a part of your morning routine or have it as part of your nighttime routine to put it in the backpack the night before.

Kindergarten Awards Ceremony

Thursday, January 21st will be our 2^nd Kindergarten Awards Ceremony and it will be held in the cafeteria at 8:15. If your child is receiving an award, an invitation will be in the January 15th Friday folder. (I will also email you to inform you that your child will be an award recipient) Anyone is welcome to attend the ceremony but I want to make sure that the parents of the recipients that are receiving the award have been notified for support and photo opportunities.

Expectations

As we enter into the 3^rd progress period, the pace will pick up as well as the skill levels becoming more complex. With this increase in responsibility come the expectations of positive behavior as well. I expect to give fewer reminders and more compliments! The journey to the treasure box will also increase. The students will now need 20 stickers on their pouch in order to visit the treasure box to reward them for their fantastic choice of great positive behavior. This will be the last step increase in the treasure box journey.

Art Shirts

If your child has not brought back their art shirt, please put it in their backpack so that they will be prepared for their next Art activity day.

Jackets

On chilly mornings, please pack a jacket with your child. On really cold days, students will not be allowed to go outside unless they have a jacket. Thanks for your cooperation, this is one way to keep everyone well, warm, and healthy…hopefully!

100^th Day Celebration Kindergarten will be celebrating the 100^th day of school on Tuesday January 26^th. Our room mom, Mrs. Freeman, will be contacting you for volunteer opportunities as well as donations that will be needed. It is going to be a fun-filled day and everyone is welcome to come out and join us. There are 2 events scheduled where you can watch the excitement or join in. The first will be a 100 day assembly in the cafeteria at 8:20-8:50 where the k students will sing, count, and we will have a special visitor come and present our 100 day perfect attendance recipients. This will be followed by their normal activity time 8:55-9:35. At 10:00, we will be going outside for about 1 ½ hours to participate in 7 stations that are related to the theme of Zero the Hero and 100 days. Lunch for our 100^th day will be the same schedule and our afternoon will consist of activities in the classroom pertaining to 100. If you would like to come out to watch the 100^th day Assembly at 8:20 or the 100^th day stations at 10, please feel free to join us for these 2 activities.

One activity that your child can participate in before the official 100^th day is that of donating items for needy animals. Our class is going to accept the challenge from Mrs. Bunner, a 2^nd grade teacher at Manatee, and try to collect 100 items to donate to a local animal organization, the Humane Society, as part of our 100^th day celebration. Donations can be dry and canned dog/cat food, toys, snacks, blankets, old towels, (many of the dogs are sleeping on cold concrete floors) etc. anything that an animal shelter could use. If you would like to participate in this opportunity of giving, please send the animal donations for our class challenge by Thursday, Jan. 21 (which is the 100^th day of school for grades 1-6). Please have your child bring their donated item(s) to our classroom where we will keep count until we hit 100 items. Since we have 20 students, if each child could donate several items, then we will successfully get to 100 even faster……thanks again for helping out a local organization in need, the animals will greatly benefit from any donation given.

Friendship day

Looking ahead……On Friday February 12th, we will celebrate “friends and friendship”. Our day will focus on the theme around “friends´ and we will be reading several stories about friendship. Each student will be given the opportunity to pass out friendship cards if they want to. There are two rules for giving out friendship cards: 1) if you plan on passing out cards, then everyone will need to receive a card. 2) Please do NOT address the cards, only put who they are from on the outside. Additional information will be given closer to the date. We will celebrate our special day with a very low key “cookies and punch” snack sometime during our special day.

Box Tops, Campbell Soup Labels, Capri Sun Pouches & Pop Tops

Manatee will continue to collect General Mills box tops and the UPC from Campbell soup labels all year long as well as Capri Sun pouches. This is a great, easy way that you can help our PTO fund requests for classroom materials and manipulative request from teachers. Clipping these items will only cost you minimal time and effort. We are also collecting pop top tabs as we support the Ronald McDonald house thorough tab donations.

Homework (Fast Start)

This is just a friendly reminder that when you return the weekly homework “Fast Start” poems, papers, forms, correspondence, please remember to have your child write their name on their paper. Thanks J

Please note: In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. school will be closed on Monday, January 18^th.

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12/18/2009

K-Connection

“The Kindergarten link between classroom and home”

Happy New Year 2010

Week of: Jan. 5-8

Theme for Literature: Animals: “Mama Cat has Three Kittens”

Letter of the week: Oo /o/

High Frequency Word: is

Math: Numbers to 30

Science: Earth Science: Our land, water, and air

Activity schedule: (Tuesday, Jan. 5th will be day 4)

Red group: Day 1 Music Day 2 Art Day 3 Media Day 4 Computer Day 5 PE Day 6 Science

Blue group: Day 1 PE Day 2 Science Day 3 Music Day 4 Art Day 5 Media Day 6 Computer

Orange group: Day 1 Computer Day 2 PE Day 3 Science Day 4 Music Day 5 Art Day 6 Media

Purple group: Day 1 Science Day 2 Music Day 3 Art Day 4 Media Day 5 computer Day 6 PE

Green group: Day 1 Media Day 2 Computer Day 3 PE Day 4 Science Day 5 Music Day 6 Art

Yellow group: Day 1 Art Day 2 Media Day 3 computer Day 4 PE Day 5 Science Day 6 Music

Happy Holidays….see you in 2010

Art Shirts

Art shirts were sent home today in your child’s backpack. Please wash then over the break and return them to the back pack so our Tuesday Art group will be ready for their activity.

Box Tops, Campbell Soup Labels, Capri Sun Pouches & Pop Tops

Manatee will continue to collect General Mills box tops and the UPC from Campbell soup labels all year long as well as Capri Sun pouches. This is a great, easy way that you can help our PTO fund requests for classroom materials and manipulative request from teachers. Clipping these items will only cost you minimal time and effort. We are also collecting pop top tabs as we support the Ronald McDonald house thorough tab donations.

Writer Wall of Fame

Due to the winter break, our next Wall of Fame recipient will not be announced until we return in January. Stay tuned for the next great writer to appear on the Writing Wall of Fame.

Homework (Fast Start)

This is just a friendly reminder that when you return the weekly homework “Fast Start” poems, papers, forms, correspondence, please remember to have your child write their name on their paper. Thanks J

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12/11/2009

K-Connection

“The Kindergarten link between classroom and home”

Weeks of: Dec. 14-18

1^st semester assessing

Theme for Literature: “Gingerbread stories (compare & contrast) Holiday theme

Letter of the week: Review all letters & sounds from 1^st semester (masptinc)

High Frequency Word: Review words: I, we, can, the, like, a, at, am, see, go, to, have

Math: Measurement (length, height, capacity, and weight), standard measurement tools

Social Studies: Our Big, Wide World/”Where in the World is the Gingerbread Man?”

Activity schedule: (Monday, Dec. 14^th will be day 5)

Red group: Day 1 Music Day 2 Art Day 3 Media Day 4 Computer Day 5 PE Day 6 Science

Blue group: Day 1 PE Day 2 Science Day 3 Music Day 4 Art Day 5 Media Day 6 Computer

Orange group:Day 1 Computer Day 2 PE Day 3 Science Day 4 Music Day 5 Art Day 6 Media

Purple group: Day 1 Science Day 2 Music Day 3 Art Day 4 Media Day 5 computer Day 6 PE

Green group: Day 1 Media Day 2 Computer Day 3 PE Day 4 Science Day 5 Music Day 6 Art

Yellow group: Day 1 Art Day 2 Media Day 3 computer Day 4 PE Day 5 Science Day 6 Music

Important note: If you are planning on your child being absent any next week or if you are checking your child out early, please let me know. I am in the process of administering 1^st semester assessments as well as district assessments and I need to be able to plan so that your child has all assessments completed before next Friday. Thanks for the heads up on any planned absences and remember that Wed., Thurs. and Fri. are all early dismissal days. The students will be dismissed one hour earlier on those days and bus riders will arrive home one hour earlier.

Thank-you very much

Thank you for the unexpected surprise this morning as the moms presented me with a beautiful orange and blue decorated “Gator style” wreath. It is gorgeous and the gift cards all around it are so very special. I haven’t had a chance to get to each one but I wanted to say thank you so much for the beautiful wreath which will be hanging on the inside of my front door as soon as I get home. Thanks again for all of the gift cards, this was definitely a very unexpected surprise.

Special Guest

On Monday, the K students will be visited by a special guest (who lives in the north pole) and they will be able to tell him what they would like for Christmas. We will also have a guest reader, Mr. Brown our principal, who will be visiting our classroom and reading us the story of the “Polar Express”. I will be providing doughnuts and juice/milk for the students to celebrate this special event. On Monday afternoon, ask them to tell you about their special day. This is a surprise as I have not told them yet of our expected visitor J

Hat Day

To support the United Way, we are holding a hat day on Tuesday, Dec. 15^th. If your child would like to participate in wearing a hat, we are asking for a $1 donation that will go to the United Way. This is a fun way to support such a great cause, especially at this time of the year when so many families are in need and the united way will be supporting families in our area. Please send in $1 with your child and don’t forget to wear a special hat on Tuesday.

“Where in the world is the Gingerbread Man”

We have been all around the world tracking sightings of the gingerbread man during our social studies/geography time. So far, in North America, we have traveled to the states of Alabama, California, Illinois, New York, Virginia, Texas, Colorado, Alaska, Washington DC and Florida. We have also traveled to other continents to visit Vietnam, Dubai, and the Netherlands. We still have several more sightings for us to discover so we are extending our adventures until the end of the semester. We are enjoying using the cool new classroom technology where we can actually take our “kindergarten airplane” and “fly” into each area that has reported a sighting of the gingerbread man. This has been a fun adventure and I hope that your child is learning something new each day about out “big, wide, world”.

Gingerbread Academic Stations

Thank you to all of the parents who volunteered to help with our gingerbread station celebration. We had a total of 11 moms, grandmom’s and Ms. Kroger, our intern assist with the stations. Thank-you to ALL of the families that made donations so that our special gingerbread day could be a success. The kids really enjoyed themselves and the adults had fun to. The gingerbread houses that were made today were sent home today with the students. I saw many houses missing decorations before they hit the exit door J The other items are drying and will be sent home next Friday with all of their decorations, work, and Friday folders. Thanks again for all of the support whether through donation or as a volunteer.

Box Tops, Campbell Soup Labels, Capri Sun Pouches & Pop Tops

Manatee will continue to collect General Mills box tops and the UPC from Campbell soup labels all year long as well as Capri Sun pouches. This is a great, easy way that you can help our PTO fund requests for classroom materials and manipulative request from teachers. Clipping these items will only cost you minimal time and effort. We are also collecting pop top tabs as we support the Ronald McDonald house thorough tab donations.

Writer Wall of Fame

Due to the winter break, our next Wall of Fame recipient will not be announced until we return in January. Stay tuned for the next great writer to appear on the Writing Wall of Fame.

Homework (Fast Start)

This is just a friendly reminder that when you return the weekly homework “Fast Start” poems, papers, forms, correspondence, please remember to have your child write their name on their paper. Thanks J

Early Dismissal Days

Please note:

Dec. 16, 17, 18 (Wed., Thurs and Fri.) are early dismissal days where the students will get out one hour early. Please make note of this when making plans for transportation. Car riders will be dismissed at 1:20 and bus riders will be arriving home one hour earlier than their normal arrival time.

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