Saturday, August 23, 2014

Welcome!

Welcome to our new Kindergarten Families!   It was so nice to meet you!  We had a great first week.  We can already tell that it will be a wonderful year!

Quick reminders:
  • Please remember to wear your bus tag to school every day for the first 2 weeks.  Mrs. Haughey's class are bears and Mrs. Gallucci's class are frogs.
  • Pack a snack daily for your child.  Please try to pack it separate from the lunch.
  • Bring a folder to school each day.
  • Keep the PE shirt in your child's backpack because we wear them to all of our specials.  This helps our librarian (Mrs. Kudley), our music teacher (Mrs. Jones), and our PE teacher (Mrs. Barnes) learn names. 
  • Please remember to complete and return all forms.  Thank you!
Below is our contact information:

Karen Gallucci  330-562-6199 ext. 2218 or kgallucci@aurora-schools.org
Cyndi Haughey 330-562-6199 ext. 2199 or chaughey@aurora-schools.org






Tuesday, June 3, 2014

THANK YOU!

Thank you for such a great year!  We were lucky to have such amazing students and families this year!

If you are looking for a few ideas for summer, check out these recommended apps:

Writing Wizard--Letter formation
Letter Reversals--Letter formation

http://happynumbers.com/?redirect=no#~oG2zOPRqSz1CiI--Math
Friends of 10--Math


Have a safe and happy summer!

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

End of Kindergarten Notes

Reminders 
  • Friday is our field trip to Craddock!  Please wear your tie-dye t-shirt!  
  • Monday is our end of the year party.  Remember to wear your tie-dye t-shirt, sunscreen and a bottle of water.
  • Tuesday is our last day of kindergarten!  Report cards will come home with your child.  Your child will not be able to purchase a school lunch or milk on Tuesday.  Please make sure your child has a packed lunch!
  • We are collecting all of the "book in a bag".  Please make sure you return them to school. 
  • Please make sure you return all library books.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Butterflies

This week we let our butterflies free!  It was so exciting to watch them fly away! 


Friday, May 9, 2014

May 12-30

Important News
  • Field Day is Tuesday, May 13.  Please make sure your child is wearing tennis shoes, their tie dye t-shirt and has a water bottle. 
  • We will being completing end of the year assessments during the month of May.  Therefore, please make sure your child is well rested and eats a healthy breakfast. 
  • Please continue to work on sight words and math facts. 
  • Please return your "book in a bag" as we are going to be concluding this program for the year and we would like to have all of our books returned.  Thank you!
Language Arts and Science
We will begin a unit on insects.  We will learn about all types of insects!  Have you heard about the caterpillars that we have been observing in our classroom?  We have been writing in our journals about our observations.  Now, we are waiting for them to make a chrysalis.

We will continue to talk about long vowel sounds, and adding -s and -es to make plural nouns.

Math
We will continue our unit on shapes, place value and practice our math fluency facts to 5.  We will solve addition and subtraction story problems.

Tie Dye Tshirt Dates

  • Tuesday, May 13--PE Field Day
  • Friday, May 30--Craddock Field Trip
  • Monday, June 2--End of the Year Party

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Music concert

Dear Families,

A family had some technical difficulty during the music concert and was not able to get a video of the entire show. Does anyone have a copy that they would be willing to share with this family? If so, please send us an email to let us know.

Thank you!

Thursday, April 24, 2014

April 28-May 2 and May 5-9

Important Reminders
  • The second blizzard bag is due on Monday, April 28.  
  • The white t-shirts for our Tie dye project are due by Wednesday, April 30. 
Music Concert
Our music concert is on Friday, May 2 at 2:30.  Students should dress in clothing that fits the farm theme.  Suggestions include:  Shirts with pictures fitting the theme such as tractors, farm animals, scarecrows, sunflowers etc.  Plain shirts are fine also.  Please avoid tops with other types of pictures or athletic numbers.  Pants, skirts, shorts, overalls, or dresses may be worn.  Please make sure your child's outfit has a pocket.  The students will be bringing a small prop on stage and keeping it in their pockets during the performance.  Please make sure they wear safe, comfortable shoes.  Please keep it simple.  No one should feel obligated to buy new clothing for this concert.

Language Arts, Science and Social Studies
For the next two weeks, we will be learning about seeds  We will be learning about what seeds need to grow and the difference between living and non-living things. We will be reading various stories including Seeds, The Mystery of Seeds and Alive or Not Alive.  We will continue to work on comprehension skills such as comparing and contrasting.

During writing workshop, we will continue our unit on narrative writing.  We learned that narrative writing means that we are telling a story.  Narrative writing includes characters, setting, and a beginning, middle and end.  We will be practicing writing in this genre for several weeks.

Word study--Blends
  • Week of April 28--dr, gr, tr
  • Week of May 5--sw, wh, qu, tw
We are also working on spelling our sight words correctly.  

Math
We have been focusing on fluency with the addition and subtraction facts to 5. You may have seen some timed tests come home. We are practicing completing 10 math facts in one minute.  We will begin a unit on shapes.