KINDERGARTEN NEWS Jan. 30 – Feb. 3 We have been having a fun time in Science and Language Arts, studying nutrition and the food groups. I have a homework assignment for your child to do over the weekend. If you don’t look at this letter until Sunday night, you can still do it next week –please. Homework: Could you please write down everything your child eats and drinks for one entire day? We will graph it (Math) and see if they are eating foods from each food group. The kids love graphing their own food for a day. Please don’t worry if your child eats junk food that day- I have children, too. We don’t always eat healthy foods. The awards assembly for February will be this coming Thursday, Feb. 4. If you have any questions about your child’s IRI score, you can talk to me. The IRI printout was rather confusing. Kindergarten children were tested on letter names and sounds. In the beginning of the year, I believe only the letter names count, and at the end of the year, only the sounds count in their scores. It is timed. Letters appear on the test more than once, and the score is based on how many letters they get correct in one minute. Letter of the week: Gg. Please send in those lists. Objectives for Reading/Language Arts: identify pictures whose names begin with /g/, use rhyming words, practice writing letter Gg, read and write high-frequency words. Identify beginning, middle and end of a story, identify first and last letters in words, blend to read short /a/ words, start to read color and number words Math objectives: provide practice with number writing and other numeration skills, introduce attribute blocks, introduce a game that helps children think about sorting rules, develop understanding of mathematical symbols and language in the context of addition and subtraction number stories, provide practice with reading and representing 2-digit numbers We will start studying China and Chinese New Year. We will work on a play that takes place in China, and we will celebrate with 2nd grade at the culmination of the unit with a dragon dance throughout the school after eating rice with chopsticks. Thanks, Mrs. Moyer                    Read Mrs. Moyer's story. Click on her photograph.               Click on the Pencil to view Mrs. Moyer's Rules & Expectations.                                                                            Click Here for Elementary Handbook

          

What’s New in Mrs. Moyer's Class

SHOW AND TELL: Your child will have a specific week when he or she is the V.I.P. That is, the Very Important Person. That week, he or she can bring in items to share with the class. We will notify you when it is your child’s turn, to give more details. If it is not your child’s week to show and tell, and your child would like to bring something that goes along with what we are studying, that would be great. I discourage bringing toys to school. We have plenty of educational toys here, and plenty of work to do, and often toys from home get misplaced or broken, sometimes creating bad feelings. Thanks.                                Mrs. Moyer

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TIME: We have only one session of kindergarten lasting three hours each day. School starts at 8:00 and ends at 11:00. MORNINGS: Kindergartners need to wait with their parents or other students in the lunchroom until the first bell rings. The time in the morning before the bell rings is a time for teachers to set up the room and prepare materials for the day, or we may have staff meetings or training sessions at that time. Students are not allowed to be in the halls or classrooms unsupervised. There will be supervision in the cafeteria starting at 7:30. Breakfast is served for a cost of $1.00 starting at 7:40 if you would like your child to eat here. If you need an application for free or reduced breakfast, please ask for a form in the main office. PICK-UP: Kindergarten ends at 11:00 each day. There is no bus leaving the school at that time. Please be prompt to pick up your child because the kindergarten teacher needs to eat lunch and prepare for preschool in the same room. If anyone else is picking up your child, please call or send a note or I will not release your child to that person.

       

SNACKS: The cooks graciously provide a snack for the kindergartners free of charge every day. If you ever wish to send a special snack with your child or snacks for the whole class, that would be fine. Please let me know if your child has any food allergies. Milk is available every day from the kitchen for a charge of 5 cents a day. Please plan to pay for the whole year. The cost for the entire year is $8.50.

                                

DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS? Call me at school 347-2411. Thank you for your time and I look forward to another productive year with your students.                               Sincerely,                          Mrs. Linda Moyer Click Here to E-Mail Mrs. Moyer		IMPORTANT PARENT INFORMATION: Volunteers...Click Here Click Here...Supply List
FRIDAY FOLDERS: Starting next week, artwork, papers, and important notices will be sent home in a large manila envelope entitled: Friday Folder – every Friday. Please look through the work and notes inside the folder, sign the front showing me that you read and looked through it, and then send the folder back every Monday morning. There is room for you to write comments or ask questions. If your child forgets the Friday Folder, I will send his or her work and notes stapled together, but there will be no way for you to sign or write comments. I will issue a new Friday Folder every nine weeks, if it is needed.		BIRTHDAYS: These special days will be acknowledged on or near the day. Please feel welcome to bring a special treat. Those students with summer birthdays will have a special summer birthday party towards the end of the year. COMMUNICABLE ILLNESSES: Please notify the teacher if your child develops chicken pox, mumps, measles, pink eye, impetigo, head lice, etc. and please keep your child home. Be sure to keep your child home if she/he has a bad cold, cough, fever, or has vomited during the night or morning. I do recess duty for my own class and cannot let a sick child stay in the room alone even if a parent requests that the child stay inside.
REGULAR ATTENDANCE: To get the most benefit from the kindergarten program, it is important that your child attend regularly. This not only gives them the academic start they need, but also starts good habits of attendance for the following years. If your child will be missing class for health or family reasons, please let the teacher know. Both regular attendance and prompt arrival are important.		Click Here for Academic Information Click Here for Kindergarten Core Knowledge Information                          Click Here for Idaho Content Standards for Kindergarten

            

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