Calendar Dates
January 27th - Skate Night at InterSkate 6-8pm
January 30th PTO Meeting @ 6:00 pm TCE Library
January 31st - 100th Day of School
February 14th - Valentine's Day Party at 2:00
February 17th - No School
February 20th - Bad Weather Day (No School)
Important Information:
Library Books and Book Bags
Please return Book Bags and Library books on Monday so your child can get new books to take home!
Valentine's Day
We will be celebrating Valentine's Day at school on Tuesday, February 14th! Please have your child address a Valentine card to each person in their homeroom class. A class list was sent home in your child's folder this week. Please have them bring the cards with them too school on our before Tuesday, February 14th.
We will be making Valentine bags (to collect our Valentines in) at school the week of February 6th. If you would like to donate any stickers, stamps, doilies, or things to decorate our bags, we would greatly appreciate it!
On Tuesday, February 14th we will celebrate with a class party from 2:00 to 3:00. Parents are welcome to attend.
100th Day of School
We will be celebrating the 100th Day of School on January 31st! (This is a change from the previously announced date of February 1st - I apologize!!!) One fun activity we will do is share collections of 100 objects. A bag is coming home in your child's folder with your child's name on it. Please help your child fill their bag with 100 items and bring the collection to school. An important part of this activity is having your child count the 100 objects.
Examples include 100 paper clips, 100 stickers, 100 pennies, etc. The possibilities are endless!
Please send the collection to school next week. We will return everything after the 100th Day of School.
We are SO proud of all of their hard work over the last 100 days, and we can't wait to celebrate 100 days of FUN in Kindergarten!!!
I Pad Update and Info
Please double check your child's school issued I Pad to be sure it has the latest update! Also, please don't forget to charge it each night and send it to school each day! We have a limited number of charges available in our classrooms and we would love your help with this! Thank you!
Coats and Winter Wear
As the weather turns colder and students are needing coats for recess we would ask a few things:
Please put your child's name or initials in coats, hats, mittens, etc... These items get misplaced often and it is so helpful if there is a name inside so we can get it back to the correct friend!
Next, please practice with your child putting their winter coats / jackets on and zipping or buttoning them independently. While we are MORE than happy to help with the zipping and buttoning, etc... the more friends that can do it by themselves the more time we get out on the playground rather than getting zipped, buttoned, and dressed for the weather! We would so appreciate your help!
Ms. Martin's Parent Newsletter
Parent Newsletter Linked Here!
Ms. Matlock's Counselor Newsletter
Counselor Newsletter Linked Here!
Take a Peek at our Week
Language Arts
Writer's Workshop:
This week in Writer's Workshop we will begin a new unit on "How To" writing. This unit focuses on writing to teach others. We will learn about transition words such as first, next, and last. We will write simple sentences that can help us share information and things we are good at!
Reader's Workshop:
This week in Reader's workshop we will wrap up our unit on becoming Super Readers! We have grown so much and have become SUPER Readers! We will continue to build on these skills as we keep growing!
Phonics:
This week in phonics we will focus on VOWEL Power. We will talk about the middle vowel sounds (short vowel sounds) in CVC words. We will practice hearing and recording sounds and identifying the correct vowel for each CVC word.
Math
In Math this week, we will be continuing our learning about representing teen numbers in many ways! We will learn that our teen numbers can be shown in so many ways - pictures, words, tally marks, ten frames, number lines, and SO many more! In Math Workshop we will do many fun, hands-on stations to practice representing our numbers in many different ways! We will also be getting ready for the 100th day of school!
Social Studies
In Social Studies this week, we are learning how to recognize and demonstrate Empathy and Kindness by participating in Kind acts for each other, We LOVE our Kindergarten Friends and want everyone to show Kindness! We will continue to work on our Handwriting Skills with our Handwriting Without Tears Book. Don't forget to return LIBRARY BOOK(s) tomorrow!
Science 
For Science next week, we are continuing our Earth Materials Unit with Properties of Rocks. We had a great week with learning how Rocks are EVERYWHERE! We observed, compared, and sorted rocks. Please see our photos of our Rock Sort on student i pads. We have a FUN Keynote Rock activity to work on this week in class. Please ask your child to share their Rock Keynote with you!! Your child is welcome to bring their own rocks for this activity. Please put in a baggie with name on bag.
SCIENTIST OF THE WEEK:
K2 - Addison
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