Beverly Brown

March 2009

  Thanks to all for your participation in the

 Boosterthon and most importantly for sending in your pledge money so promptly. It was a huge success and we should be able to purchase some technology items with the money we raised.

  Weekly Curriculum Overview

     For the month of March, please follow the homework calendar for our letter concentration and sight words. Remember, as always, homework is very important in helping the children practice skills necessary to begin recognizing words, making words, writing, and reading.

Week 1: Letter J, j and sight words: have, are

Week 2: Letter U,u  and sight words: help, like

Week 3: Letter W,w and sight words: went, was

Week 4: Letter X,x and sight words: he, she, they

Week 5: LetterY,y and sight words: yes, this

We are also working on retelling stories and blending basic CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words.

Math 

   Our math focus for the next few weeks is measuremennt of time. (calendar, days, months and seasons)We will also start building number combinations, better know as addition.

Science, Social Studies and Health

 We will be leearning about living and nonliving things and then move into animals and plants.

  Writing

  Our writing concentration is still writing a narrative. Every story needs a good beginning, middle and end. I am amazed at the improvements in your child's writing abilities.

March Birthdays

  March 4 - Chance H.

               March 11 - Aidan L.

               March 17 - Saulo C.

              Wednesday's Specials for:

March 4 -  Music

March 11 - P. E. 

March 18 - Art

March 25- P. E.

Important Dates and Information

March 7 - Change clocks one hour ahead - Spring forward

March 9 - Stevi B's pizza night - See you there!!!

March 17 - St. Patrick's Day and Chick-fil-A night

March 19 - Second Grade Musical Perfomance at 7 P.M.

March 20 - Kindergarten Field Trip to Cagle's Dairy Farm

March 23 - 27 - Penny Wars (more info to come)

March 27 - Spirit Day and Chick-fil-A Biscuits

Everyone should have received a copy of the March homework calendar. Along with this was a field trip permission slip to Cagle Dairy Farm, scheduled for Friday, March 20th. Please check your child's folder and return as soon as possible.

As always, thank you so much for all your support in your child's education.

                   

 

 

 

January

  Happy New Year from Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Kessler

            Hooray for 2009

For the month of January, please follow the homework calendar for our letter concentration and sight words. Remember that homework is very important in helping the children practice skills necessary to begin recognizing words, making words and reading. I have seen much improvement in your children, especially in their writing. I am very proud of them. Keep up the good work and thank you so much for all your help.

 

Week 1: Letter G, g and sight words: find, six, seven

Week 2: Letter E, e and sight words: here, eight, nine

Week 3: Letter R, r and sight words: little, ten, zero

Week 4: Review previous letters and sounds and all sight words

Math: We will be working on counting to twenty, recognizing number words and counting and making sets to twenty. We will also continue to work on money. The value of, and recognition of a penny, nickel, and dime.

 

Wednesday's Specials

January 7 - Art

January 14 - P.E.

January 21 - Art

January 28 - Music

Important Dates:

January 1- Happy New Year

January 5 -  Student Holiday

January 12 - Stevi B's pizza night - See you there!

January19 - Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

January 20 - Chick-fil-A Night - Chastain Road

January 22 -  100th Day of School Celebration

January 26 - 30 - Conference Week - Early dismissal at 2:20 each day

January 30 - Spirit Day - Don't forget to wear your spirit wear - Be sure to check out all the art work in the halls

November 2008

  Happy Thanksgiving from Mrs. Brown's and

                                       Mrs. Kessler's Class

Weekly Curriculum Overview

 For the month of November, please follow the homework calendar for our letter concentration and sight words. Remember that homework is very important in helping the children practice skills necessary to begin recognizing words, making words and reading. I have seen much improvement in your children, especially in their writing. I am very proud of them. Keep up the good work and thank you so much for all your help.

Week 1: Letter C,c and sight words: you, not, two

Week 2: Letter N,n and sight words: make, look, three

Week 3: Review all letters and sight words

Week 4: Happy Thanksgiving

Math: Solid figures - cubes and sphere, ordinal numbers, recognizing sets and numbers 1-10. We will also be reviewing all our math so far.

Science and social studies: We will concentrate on Thanksgiving and indians as well as continuing with maps and globes. Have your children been working on reciting their address for class recognition?

Writing: We continue to focus our writing on informational writing. Come by and see what a fabulous job your children produced on the information they learned about spiders!

Hoppy Birthday  November 5 - Emily M.

                                             November 19 - Liam P.

                                             November 24 - Erin P.

Wednesday's Specials for:

November 5 - P.E.

November 12 - P.E.

November 19 - Art

Important Dates:

November 1- Set clocks back 1 hour

November 4 - Election Day - Student Holiday - Please vote!

November 10 - Stevi B's pizza night - See you there!

November 11 - PTA - Chorus performance - Veteran's Day

November 17 - 21- Scholastic Book Fair Week

November 18 - Chick-fil-A Night - Chastain Road

November 19 - VIP lunch - Please join us for our feast.

November 21 - Kindergarten Play at 8:15

                     Spirit Day - Don't forget to wear your spirit wear

November 24 - 28 - Thanksgiving Holidays - No School

 

 

 

 

                                                                                       

 

 

October 2008

Mrs. Brown's and Mrs. Kessler's Kindergarten Class   

         

Fall has finally arrived and the cooler weather is here. The first nine weeks is over and we are off to a great start of the second nine weeks. Please look at the parent rubric enclosed with the report card to help you understand what part of each standard we evaluated.You will also notice that the expectations for the second nine weeks will increase with each standard. The children are expected to recognize ALL upper and lowercase letters and their sounds, name and produce rhyming words, read ten or more sight words, and blend sounds to make words.

Weekly Curriculum Overview

For the month of October, please follow the homework calendar for our letter concentration and sight words. Please remember that homework is very important in helping the children practice skills necessary to begin recognizing words, making words and reading.

Week 1: Review of all letters and sight words

Week 2: Letter I,i  and sight words: can, and, pink

Week 3: Letter D,d and sight words: big, gray

Week 4: Letter S,s and sight words: run, white

Math will continue to work with pennies and nickels, and dimes and also work on recognizing and counting 0-10. We will also begin working on two dimensional shapes and solid figures - cubes and spheres as well as measuring using non-standard units.

In science our focus will be motion/gravity and day/night.

In Social Studies will learn about Vetran's Day and Thanksgiving, Maps and Globes and where we live.

Our Writing focus will be informational writing along with learning to write better sentences we will also continue to form all letters correctly. 

Important Dates

October 13 - Stevi B's Pizza Night

October 15 - Early Release - 12:20 dismissal

October 17 - Carnival

October 20 - Bus Driver Appreciation Day

October 21- Chick-fil-A night on Chastain Road

October 23 - Field Trip to Cherokee YMCA (please watch the    weather and dress accordingly. We will be outside much of the time)

October 29 - Picture Make-up Day

October 30 - Fourth Grade Story Teller's Night 7pm

October 31 -  Spirit Day

Wednesday's specials for:

October 1 - Art

October 8 - P.E.

October 15 - Art

October 22 - P.E.

October 29 -

 

 Welcome to Mrs. Brown's and Mrs. Kessler's Kindergarten!

We are off to a great start! It has been a very busy first two weeks, but your children (and I) have adjusted well and we are on our way! Thanks to all of you who attended Open House. It is always nice to see your smiling faces and we appreciate your support tremendously. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me.

The name tags helped with transportation for the first two weeks so now, please remember to send a written note if there is a change in your child's usual schedule.

Also, remember to send any written communication, money, etc. in your child's take home folder. Check your child's folder each evening for notes and daily work sent from school.

Weekly Curriculum Overview

Next week we will begin our phonics study with the letter T. We will be introducing the sight words I, see, and a. It is a good idea to begin making flash cards to use at home with the words introduced each week.

  Our math time has focused on relationship words such as below, above, beside, behind, in front of, inside, and outside. We will also be sorting by size, shape and color and identifying continuing patterns.

  Science will be sorting and grouping objects by particular attributes such as size, texture, bouancy,and physical properties. They are enjoying being scientist discovering new things.

Our Social Studies has been focusing mainly on rules. Who makes the rules and why do we need them? We will begin to explore holidays such as Labor Day and we will also talk about jobs in the community. This would be a good time to talk to your child about your job so we can identify how the many different workers help our community as a whole.

    Please check the monthly calendar for homework and skills being introduced so that you can reinforce your child's learning at home. The September calendar will be coming home next week.

Important Dates

September 1 - Labor Day/No School

September 8 - Stevi B's Night

September 9 - Sally Foster Orders Due

September 15 - Picture Day

September 16 - Early Release Day (dismissed at 12:20)

September 22 - First Day of Fall

September 26 - Spirit Day, Chick-Fil-A Biscuits, Movie Night

Wednesday's Special for:

August 27th - Music