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Week of September 28th-October 2nd

Dear Kindergarten Parents,

I hope all your families made it through last week without any = or too much damage. It was defin= itely an unusual weather week! Hope= fully, the fall sunshine and cool days are ahead!= Due to our short week last week, our class will be finishing up on s= everal activities that we did not get to.

The Boosterthon has been re-schedul= ed for this Wednesday, = September 30, at the same time (<= span style=3D'font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:red'>11:25-12:3= 0)! The ch= ildren will receive their Boosterthon T-shirts on this day. Parents, please come cheer on the Bower Bats!! Bring your pom poms, noisemakers, and bells!!! It is not too late t= o keep making those pledges…… Log onto www.funrun.com!! Pledges are due by October 8<= sup>th!! The children have done a great job earning pledges and earning money for the school! We have set our own class incentiv= es for earning pledges… so far we have earned an extra recess, a popsicle party and a special Rest Time of sleeping wit= h one of Mrs. Bower’s “beanie babies” from the Beanie Baby Tub!! Go Bower Bats!!

THINGS TO REMEMBER THIS WEEK:

*Media Ce= nter-will be = on MONDAY this week. Don’t forget to have your child return his/her library book.

*Homework Notebooks-The new October Homework Calendar will be sent home in your child’s Daily Folder on Mond= ay, 10/28. Please have your c= hild return his/her Homework Notebooks to school each Friday to be checked!! Thanks!

*September Reading Logs-Your child may bring in his/her September Reading Log to school any day this week. The children will get to choose a prize out of Mrs. Bower’s Treasure Box<= /span> for retu= rning their Reading Logs!!

*Guidance Lesson-with Mrs. Carter will be on Tuesday, September 29^th.<= o:p>

*Collabor= ative Teacher Meeting-<= /b>Mrs. Bower will be in a Teacher Collaborative Teaching Meeting on = Wednesday, September 30^th, from 8:15-11:00am. Dana Archambe= au (Nicole’s mom) and Radha Katta (Aadi’s mom) will be helping Mrs. Callawa= y with the classroom during this time!! Much thanks to both moms for volunteering their time.

*L.I.F.T.= -Learning = Is Fun Together will be on Friday! W= e will be singing and dancing as we learn color words, days of the week, opposites, positional words and much more!

*Clarkdale Elementa= ry-If you would like to help Cl= arkdale Elementary School w= hich was destroyed last week by the flood, you may log onto www.cobbk12.org to find out how you can help. The School Box on Johnsons Ferry Road is also taking donations and we are also accepting school supply donations = here at Tritt for Clarkdale.

*Poetry Notebooks-did not come home last Friday as we were making up for lost da= ys. Notebooks with a new poem will com= e home this Friday!

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Words of the Week: like, take

Letter of= the Week: Kk<= o:p>

Our letter focus is the letter Kk<= /span>. Literat= ure for the letter Kk will include What Do Yo= u Do With a Kangaroo?, King Bidgood and the Bathtub, The Friends I Brought to Meet the K= ing, Koala Lou and more. Our cla= ss will practice listening for words that begin and end with the consonant Kk sound. The childr= en will create a kangaroo and fill the mama kangaroo’s pocket with begin= ning Kk pictures. We will sequence the days of the w= eek and sequence the animals in the book, The Friends I Brought to Meet the = King!

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THE SOUND MUNCHER is hungry for objects beginning with the beginning Kk sound. Have your = child bring one object to school that begins with Kk by TUESDAY!

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In Handwriting this week, we will practice writing upper and lowercase Kk with The Alphabet Teacher DVD program!

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Math=

In Math, our class will concentrate on learning characteristics= of the nickel this week. The c= hildren will be playing “The Nickel<= /b> Toss Game” which will help = us recognize the front and back of the nickel and its worth. The children will practice making a “fair trade” (trading Mrs. Bower 5 pennies for a nickel)!

This week we will also practice sorting, patterning, and writing numbers 3, 4, and 5.

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Social St= udies

This week our class will continue to learn about COMMUNITY HELPERS and thei= r importance to our communities. Police officers, the dentist, doctors, nurses, soldiers, constructi= on workers, firefighters are just a few of the important community helpers= we will be discussing this week. We are working on a “community helper” book to bring home soon!

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Science

In Science, the children will recognize similarities and differences between a parent and a baby animal. The children will be matching pict= ures of animal parents and their babies using picture cards and the Active Board! We will sort animals by their body coverings (fur, feathers, scales)!!

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Show &= ; Tell Day!

ORANGE= DAY is Friday= ! Please have your child bring one orange item to share for Show & Tell o= n Friday!&= nbsp; In Math, we will share, sort and graph our orange items by common attributes!

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The following is a list of Dolch Si= ght Words your child will be learning this year. We call these words our RAINBOW WO= RDS (Dolch Words) in class…we have separated the wor= ds into colors of the rainbow. T= he children will record their progress on individual rainbows in their reading/writing folders in class.

At home, please practice these words beginning with the “red” rainbow words and progress down through each color of the rainbow when your child can read each word by sight!

Happy Reading!

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RAINBOW WORDS:

RED Words-= me, my, see, I, no, he

ORANGE Words-can, for, a, up, so, by

YELLOW Words-go, it, look, the, of, will

GREEN Words-and, is, play, said, you, at

BLUE Word= s-big, come, in, we, have, do

INDIGO Words-here, make, to, run, not, was

VIOLET Words-some, made, she, then, now, into

Cloud Words-like, as, am, from, went, out

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