Snacks and Field Trips

Hope everyone had a fabulous spring break! I have not sent out an April snack calendar because we have lots of odds and ends that we need to finish up... I'll send a calendar out when we start getting low :)

Remember, if you are even slightly interested in going on the field trip with us on the 22 of May you must turn in your Chaperone form no later than This Friday.... Visit volunteer.ocps.net complete the chaperone application, print it and send it in with your child. We would love to have you!!

Can you believe that this is the last 9 weeks of kindergarten? They are almost 1st graders..... How time flies...

How to Teach Children to Be Responsible

I had a chat with the kids today about transitioning out of using shared table materials and moving towards being responsible for their own personal materials... Please send in a pencil pouch or small pencil box that is able to hold 2 pencils, one box of 24 crayons, an eraser, 1 glue stick and a pair of scissors. No "extra" stuff can be kept in there. The box/pouch will stay at school and will not go home until the end of the school year. If we want them to become responsible young children, then we need to give them many opportunities to practice being responsible for something. They are extremely excited about this! :)

February Snacks

Thanks for sending in healthy snacks for the kids!!

Chaperone Application

This is the link you will need to visit to print out the Chaperone Application.
Thanks to those who have offered to help out with our Science Center Trip!

https://www.ocps.net/es/cr/resources/Pages/ADDitions.aspx

A Special Day for my Funny Little Valentines :)

We will be exchanging cards for Valentine's Day! If you plan on sending in cards to exchange please have your child do the cards :) they need to write the names of their classmates on the envelope/card and sign it from them... This can be very time consuming, I know, but if you do a few each night it won't be so overwhelming for your child (or you, lol). Please send one for each child, we don't want anyone feeling left out :) Here are the names of the kiddos:

Berlyn, Jaeden, Lloyd, Laney, Gabbie, Abraham, Jadon, Brook, Joshua, Lauren, Luke, Millie, Peyton, Kaytie, Dayna, Bethany, Will, Owen... 18 all together :)


Thanks <3

Field trip :)

Permission slips have been sent home for our trip to the Orlando Science Center! Please get them turned in ASAP :) We are all VERY excited to explore and absorb all there is to see and TOUCH! There will be a touring exhibit about force/motion and simple machines with Bob the Builder :) should be a great day of fun and learning!

January Snack Calendar

Wanted to share this with you

What is free and proven to increase your child's academic performance and success in school? Read all about it..... Makes sense to me :)


http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2012/01/20/physically-active-children-Perform-better-academically.aspx?e_cid=20120120_FNL_art_1

Volunteer hours/intent/wishes

Hello everyone! What a busy new year it has been so far! I wanted to check with everyone and make sure you got the message about volunteer hours and about filling out your letter of intent for next year. I hope to see all of "my kids" here next year as first graders so please take care of these obligations so this can happen! :)

I have a few wish list items and jobs that would help better organize some of our materials. Maybe you have some of these items around your home that you are no longer using or you may be you would be willing to purchase something for our class as a donation. Did you know that you can turn in receipts for purchases that you have made for the class and take care of some of your volunteer hours?

Here are some of the wishes:

New or used is great!

Rolling drawer storage carts.... 4 of these would be great! (links are just an example of what I'm looking for)
http://sites.target.com/site/en/spot/mobile_product_detail.jsp?tcin=10497007

Plastic shoe boxes (for library books/manipulatives) any amount would be great these are always useful

These magazine files would be great for keeping journals and folders organized:
http://mobile.walmart.com/ip/Rubbermaid-Techfile-Plastic-Magazine-File-Black/14915981?pos=60

We currently have one bookcase for the class library would love to have a few more bookcases, this would allow the books to be organized in a way that the kids know where each book belongs when it's time to clean up

One of our families donated beautiful wood shelves but we need brackets to mount them... So brackets would be great :)

Then once we have some brackets I'll be looking for someone to install the brackets

Remember I am always looking for more of the fcrr.org games just print one make it and send it in... The kids love it when we get new ones!

The cubbies in the room are great and hold all of our learning tools... Anyone interested in making or installing curtains to cover the contents?

And as always you are always welcome to come on in and spend time with us and pitch in!

Thank you so much for all you do for our classroom. The kids and I are quite fortunate and very grateful :)

Heather