Welcome to our School Notes site! This is our 2nd May update. Hope you all had a good weekend! Just wanted to let you know we have practice for the program at 8:00 sharp Monday morning. Please try to have your child at school before announcements. Please make others aware that do not have email and Schoolnotes.
Our room mom did a great job on Field Day. We needed bottled water donations and Mrs. Bell came through for us. We want to thank the following parents for helping: Mr. Krauth, Mrs. McInnis, Mrs. Balboa, Mrs. Bell, Mrs. Ingram, and Mrs. Helm. Teachers and students got to rotate to outdoor athletic events and have snack. We all brought cool shades, towels and sunblock we did not need to use. We all had visors alike. Everyone had a great time! Then we surprised Mrs. Cyr and celebrated her 40th birthday! Thank you to Mrs. Kreher for the cake and flowers! Mrs. Helm brought some great trailmix!
Mrs. Bell brought pretty butterfly cookies on Friday for Timmy's last day at school. He is going to Europe with his parents for 50 days! Irene's last day will be Monday. We will celebrate her birthday. She is going to China until Aug. 1st! Alex's last day will be Wednesday. He is going to Washington D.C. with his grandparents!
Our class has finished the Science unit on summer.
We will learn about the sea in this last week. Let's finish up journals on what we learned this year. We will use these in the program. We are doing subtraction centers at our center time in Math along with the money counting and time. We have learned about the summer holidays: Memorial Day, Flag Day, and 4th of July, too. Hope you will display the flags we sent home for the summer holidays.
We have really worked on our reading skills .
We hope you are still making time each evening to read a decodable reader with your student. They are all so very eager to improve in this area. Please return the books if you are not going to read with them. These readers are the school property. I have to account for each one. Let us know if you need any! Last day for these is Wednesday, 5/21. I know you all are very pleased with their interest and progress!
We are now all working from the first grade word list.
Use it over the summer.
Each day we are trying to make language arts and math centers available to your student to complete for practice in the areas we feel your child is struggling.
After centers each day there is time for quiet reading called SSR(sustained silent reading) or DEAR(Drop Everything and Read). So if your student mentions these activities, you will understand. Some students can really give great effort here, reading well in decodable readers durng this practice time! Your student must pass the STAR reading test for first grade before they can start in another program we call "Accelerated Reading". This test is timed. We will try our best to get the class academically ready for this. The librarian, Mrs. Pratt, or Mrs. Brown will enter them in the program after they have mastered the sight word list for the year. None of this is graded or mandatory. These activities are all supplemental and voluntary. Not everyone gets into AR. Mrs Pratt sticks to her rules. If the student does not finish reading our take home readers and learn sight words, they cannot take the STAR test and get in AR, sorry! This program is entirely student motivated. If they want to to do AR, they must work hard to read above and beyond the goals of kindergarten! We are ready to get some students started on this sight!
We use a fantastic website called,
starfall.com in the class to assist them in preparation for AR. In computer lab each week, we used a program called, "Island Adventures" to assist the students with phonemic awareness. They loved it!
Check out Starfall.com at home this summer! We finished all but two books from the series.
Thank you for your work on the poems. We are finished!! They already know them. Now we do them in class at calendar! Students are finished keeping a poem folder for "poem of the week". They will be graded now!! This activity helped with identifying rhyming words, a skill that is crucial in phonemic awareness(This is a term for learning the sounds of each of the letters of the alphabet.) and pre-reading. Once the student masters identification of rhyming words, the activities continues to learn sight words, capitalization and punctuation in sentences. The students received stars on our poem poster. Many of the students have all their stars! They will get extra bonuses for work well done! This is all done in conjunction with homework. The poem folders are looking great for most students. Your family knows if you have catching up to do. This is extremely important for your student if they are not hearing rhyming words yet! This is always the weekend homework. Weekday homework directions are provided on a homework calendar and is no more that 15 minutes nightly. Homework is a continuation of what has been presented in class for practice. This will give you insight into whether the student grasped concepts presented that day. Please use the agendas provided by the school for communication to us about homework which will help improve the students progress! Parents please sign the agenda somewhere on the page after you have read my notes.
Hope your family will be checking out SkillsTutor for extra help on alphabet. Passwords have gone out! We are setting up activities for your student to do.
There is a step left off of directions!
This is the direct link where you download it from! http://www.achievementtech.com/go/support-
Please use my cell # to contact me in the room for emergencies. I do not check voicemail here at school often. Please pass the word to other parents that do not have computers. Of course, you may use email, too.
The students are continuing to get very talkative. They are very familiar with Mrs. Cyr and myself. Please encourage your child to remember to respect others and keep the talking down so others can work.
They were some better this week! Let's strive for good manners! Thanks! Let's use good manners for the program. I have encouraged them to be prepared to be videoed like they are on TV!
We are so happy for the kids who have done AR, Book-It, poem folders, and homework calender regularly! Hope I have been your partner in these practices!! Remember, we are only an email or phone call away. More updates will be added in this last week. We look forward to working with your student through the last 5 days of school. Have them wear layers they come out of as the day warms up.
Cell Phone: 678-485-3449
email: susan.ray@cowetaschools.org
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Please excuse the typos!
Thanks for sending in extra supplies. We are in need of paper towels!
Special note: Thanks for making your student aware of my surgery. They have been gentle, caring, kind and helpful thru these last five weeks. Sorry this has not been updated often. My arm has hindered and limited my typing skills. We hope your child gave you the special Mom's Day gifts. Hint: It needs to be watered! Oh! Remember to get a costume together for the program! Even a T-shirt with an alphabet letter is enough! So see some of you one Tuesday or at the program on Friday! Come back to the room to pick up report cards Friday after the program. Students leaving after the program to go celebrate need to be checked out by signing the list in the room.
Hope to talk to you one more time by Thursday!
Thanks for all your family does. Have a great evening!
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