Hello everyone! Get ready for a BUSY couple of weeks! Here are some
important dates for you to keep in mind:
***KINDERGARTEN RECOGNITION is JUNE 5th! We will be singing a few
songs and everyone will be getting a certificate to honor their year in
kinderarten. You are welcome to bring the whole family! There will be plenty
of "photo-ops!"
***FIELD DAY is JUNE 12th! Both classes will be here in the am and
we will all be participating in field day activities with Mr. B. our gym
teacher!
We had a great time on our class trip, despite the rain! They were all
pretty excited about everything we saw! Thank you again to our chaperones!
You really made the trip possible!
Our spelling units are going very well! Your children are picking up on
the concepts of rhyming, filling in misssing letters, writing sentences, and
remembering the words for the tests! I am very proud of their progress!
You have noticed a paper coming home each day with your children's writing
on it. This is their writing of the daily message. We write a message
together each day, I write on the easel, they write it on their paper and
clipboard. They are performing many functions during this activity: letter
formation, proper pencil grip, capitalization, punctuation, left-to-right
progression, return sweep, and spelling repetition. They are also performing
a task called "far-point" copying. This is simply a copying technique that
they will need in the higher grades. It doesn't seem like much is happening
each day here in kindergarten, but when you break it down, it's amazing!
I would like to remind everyone that our newsletter comes out each Monday.
It will tell you what our themes are for the week, and what letter/sounds we
will be learning. Please check your child's folder each Monday.
Please remember you can always email me from this site. Just
go to the email link on this page and send me a note! If you can, please
include your email address. I can only reply if your address is included, as
these emails from my site are "no reply." I will try to answer it
within 24 hours. I look forward to working with all of you!
I am very excited about our school year! Thank you for checking out my
site! Keep checking often, as I update regularly!
Thanks again,
Mrs. Susan Chioffe
