Dear Families, November 10, 2009
We have a great Holiday Bazaar on Saturday, November 14th from 9-4 here at Bandelier. There
will be some great arts and crafts AND a special table just for our sugar skulls paired with Ms.
McNellis’ art. We will be selling around 24 sugar skulls molded and decorated by our students for $5
each. My volunteers so far are Kristen, Emily and Amy. I will try to come for an hour before my test
to get everything rolling Thanks volunteers, couldn’t do it without you guys!
NO SCHOOL tomorrow, Wednesday, November 11th. Veteran’s Day, enjoy your day off and
discuss how important veterans are with your kiddos.
SERIOUS DONATIONS- Okay y’all, have you seen our donation box? It is OVERFLOWING with
donations from our families! We are using tally marks to keep track of donations and it is very cool!
Keep them coming if you can! They are also collecting money to purchase turkeys for families in
need…see Lorri in the health office if you would like to donate.
COOKING DONATIONS NEEDED-We need cans of pureed pumpkin please! I would like to make
pumpkin pie next week and would love some cans of pureed pumpkin and some premade pie crusts!
Send in when you can…thanks!
BEHAVIOR-Well, it’s that time of the year where the kids get a little rambunctious and forget
some of the rules. In class, we will work on behavior-using words, keeping our hands to ourselves,
asking adults for help. We will also start running some more laps and do a little dancing to get our
crazies out.
REST TIME, no more…Starting next week, we will begin a read aloud/lay down time without mats
after lunch. None of the kids are sleeping anymore and I would like to start a chapter book read
aloud. If a child is extremely tired, we will set them up with a mat in the reading corner if needed.
During this time, I will also pull some students who may need some extra help and work with them.
Some of the time will be added to self selection.
COMPUTER REMINDER-A parent was asking about websites for kids to use that were kinder
friendly so I thought I would pass on a reminder to you. On the Bandlier website (http://10.17.0.3/)
there are some Bandabear Best Links that have some great sites such as Starfall and other just fun
sites to visit WITH YOUR CHILD. Check them out.
WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
Writing-Next week, we will cover the last two letters of the alphabet in lower case and begin
uppercase after Thanksgiving. We will use our knowledge of letters and sounds to write a poem
about being thankful next week with lots of help in small group using our peers and adults to help.
Science-we are starting some seeds in baggies to see the development of a seed as it grows. We will
also collect nuts next week, count them, graph them and taste them. We may start making
birdfeeders using pine cones, peanut butter and birdseed to feed birds on their way south for the
winter.
Math-We are continuing our addition word problems and will introduce them to some math
symbols-the addition sign and equal sign. We will also work on ACE in math-Answer, Compute and
Explain-a school wide strategy used to build understanding in math. Answer is done with pictures of
math problem, Compute is done with a number sentence, and explain is a written answer. We will
start this next week.
Reading- we will start a book using position words and a turkey. Small groups for reading will start
after Thanksgiving.
Book order due Friday, November 13th.
NEW SHARING THEME-Three things that rhyme-such as a rock, sock and clock! be imaginative and
send it in on your snack day!
If you never sent in a family picture, please do because we are going keep them and make a book
out of them for our class.
Thanks for sharing your children with us. I look forward to seeing all of you at parent teacher
conferences, Lhasa Lea 228-8759 lea_l@aps.edu
Teacher website- http://teacherweb.com/NM/Bandelier/LhasaLea
