We have lots of fun things planned for May!!! We will be busy and it is going to go fast! Mark your calendars for:
May 6th- Fun Run! Hope to see you there!
May 8th- Kindergarten Graduation and performance at 8:30 in the lunchroom!
May 13th- Field Day!
May 21st- End of year celebration!
May 22nd- Last day of school!
This has been such a wonderful year! Thank you so much to all my parents for always being so supportive! We will miss you! Have a safe and fun summer!
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Happy April!
Thank you all so very much for the wonderful party that you gave me April 3rd. It was such a great surprise to receive so many lovely cards filled with kind words, awesome gifts that I can use while I am recuperating at home, terrific gift cards for meals, books, and movies, the many magazines, and a huge monogrammed canvas bag filled with every kind of item imaginable. I really appreciate your thoughtfulness and generosity. Everything will be put to good use, and I will think of you all as I enjoy using them during my long recovery.
April Units
- Animal babies and adults, habitats, sorting by characteristics, mammals, and oviparous animals
- Signs of Spring
- Journal writing using complete sentences with capitalization and punctuation
- Creative story writing
- Math; data and graphs, addition, problem solving, reviewing coins and time, making number sentences
- Phonics: word families, blends, and digraphs
- Sight word reviewing
- Listening and following directions
- Reading fluently
P. E. Dates: April 13th, 16th, 21st, 24th, 29th, May 4th, 12th, 22nd
Important Dates:
April 15th: Volunteer Luncheon 11:00am to 1:00pm
April 21st - 27th: CRCT Testing Grades 1 thorugh 5
(during this time no parents are allowed to be in the school for volunteering or visiting at lunch.
Mrs. Dorsey will be proctoring in other classes during the testing times.)
May 8th: Kindergarten music program and diploma ceremony at 8:30am in the cafeteria
Thank You's:
to Mrs. Preston for teaching Junior Achievement
to Mrs. Fernandes, Mrs. Snowden, and Mrs. Zacharias, our head room mothers
to all of our many wonderful parent volunteers who faithfully helped with literacy centers, and guest readers, and to all of you for your terrific support this year.
I am so impressed with the tremendous progress the children have made this year. They have worked very hard to be ready for first grade.
I hope that you all had a fantastic Spring Break. Mrs. Seaman will be the teacher for the remainder of the year, and she will do a great job because she was a kindergarten teacher at Mountain View last year. She is an excellent teacher who really loves and cares about children.
I will miss your children very much and will keep in touch with Mrs. Seaman.
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March is a marvelous month, and the children are making tremendous progress. We have a busy month ahead of us filled with many exciting activities:
Important dates to remember:
Every Wednesday is Library Day
March 2nd - Dr. Seuss Day-wear pajamas and bring a favorite book
March 3rd - early dismissal (12:20pm)
March 6th - Family Fit Night (6:00 to 8:00pm)
March 8th - Daylight Savings Time begins
March 17th - St. Patrick's Day activities
March 19th - Report Cards
March 24th - "Wildlife Wonders" in-school field trip (10:00am)
Mountain View Book Fair - March 9th through 13th
April 1st - Kindergarten Registration
April 6th through 10th - Spring Break
Thank you to our room parents, center volunteers, guest readers, and to those of you who supported our spaghetti dinner and Book-in-the-Bags. We also greatly appreciated our Teacher Appreciation gifts.
For those of you who can help, we are in desperate need of glue sticks.
Please help your children learn their address, city, state, zip and phone number.
Thanks for your support!
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We're moving right along and are working very hard. During February, we will be very busy as we begin learning about the following:
Important Dates to Remember:
February 4th: Early Release
5th: Picture Day
9th: Young Chef's Academy - wear the blue class T-shirts
13th: Class Valentine Centers - bring in Valentines and
Valentines "Mailboxes"
16th: Student Holiday - Presidents' Day
18th: Dentist Visiting Kindergarten to Teach About Dental Care
20th: Spaghetti Night for Relay for Life, Teachers' Spelling Bee and Summer Activities Fair
24th: Optional Six Flags Reading Sheet Due
27th: February Reading Log Due
Library Dates: February 3, 11, 18, and 25
PE: Tuesdays and Thursdays during February
Jumprope for Heart: February 13th during PE
Thank you for coming to discuss your child's progress with me. It was wonderful meeting with you. We really appreciate our guest readers, snack helpers, center volunteers and room parents. Your children have made so much progress.
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Welcome Back and Happy New Year! I hope that everyone had a restful and relaxing Winter Break! We're ready to work hard and have alot to look forward to in January. We are going to have a great second half of the school year. Thank you for your support in helping your children learn and for volunteering in our classroom.
This is a busy month. We have several fun activities planned for the children.
January 19th: MLK Day- No School
January 20th: In-House Field Trip- Scientist's visit- "Fabulous Forces-Motion- and Gravity"
January 22nd: 100th Day of School activities
January 23rd: Fire Safety Program
January 26th-30th: Conference Week- 12:30 Dismissal, early lunch time (Please notify me if you need a conference before school or on a certain day or at a special time.)
Library: Every Wednesday
P.E.: Tuesdays and Thursdays for 9 weeks.
Units:
Extra Practice at Home:
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November is here and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. The children are making so much progress, which is exciting and rewarding. Thank you for working with your children and for reading with them every day.
We're looking forward to our Thanksgiving luncheon on Tuesday, November 11th, at 10:15 and we hope you can come.
Thank you for donating items for our fun Fall Celebration Centers, our Treasure Box, Snack Bank, and for supporting Sally Foster, the Fall Festival, and Red Ribbon Week.
Kudos to Robbi Fernandes, Monique Snowden, and Ann Zacharias for planning and carrrying out our wonderful Fall Centers. We really appreciate our center helpers, guest readers, and letter of-the-week snacks.
Our units will be:
Looking Ahead:
November 4 - No school - Election Day
5 - Library
11 - Thanksgiving Luncheon
12 - Library
14 - Bingo Night 6:30 to 8:30pm
17 - Barney the Bus Safety Program
19 - Library
21 - Class Food-Tasting Party 1:20pm
24 - 28 No School - Happy Thanksgiving!
P.E.: November 6, 11, 14, and 19.
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We are really having a great year in our class, and the children are learning so much. October is a busy month filled with many important events.
October 3 - Movie on the Mount to benefit Relay for Life, Book
Buddies with Ms. Tinley's third grade class
6 - Trip walking to the Fire Station
8 - Library
13 - Starting new specials' schedule with the computer lab
teacher-funded through the Foundation
14 - Imagine It Children's Museum
15 - Early Release
17 - Report Cards
25 - Fall Festival
31 - Our Class Fall Celebration Centers (more information
to come)
In Math, we will be recognizing, writing and making sets of numbers to fifteen, making patterns, learning number words and ordinal numbers, and working on number sense. Please help your child learn the value and identification of pennies and nickels.
In Language Arts, we are doing journal writing using Guess and Go spelling and using finger spaces between words and upper-case letters at the beginning of sentences. We write sentences and label the pictures.
In Social Studies and Science, we are studying apples and the seasons, fire safety, Fall, Christopher Columbus, and rocks and soil.
We are studying the beginning and ending sounds of the letters A, O, B and C. Please help your child practice identifying the lower-case letters and their sounds.
Thank you for sending in your permission slips and money for our field trip and for the fire fighters. We really appreciate your support every day.
Kudos to our wonderful class center volunteers, guest readers and snack helpers. The children have loved the yummy snacks.
Ask your child about making apple sauce and doing special graphing, describing on thinking maps, and sorting activities with apples.
Happy Fall!
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We're off to a terrific start, and our wonderful school year is going well! Thank you for being so conscientious about checking your child's red folder each night and for initialing the behavior chart. I believe that when home and school work together, it makes for a successful school year. Please continue to keep the lines of communication open. You may reach me at school at 770-578-7265 or you may e-mail me at cathy.hallberg@cobbk12.org. A written note is often the best for a quick reply, as I am so busy during the day with your children.
A BIG THANK YOU to the parents who have volunteered to help with literacy centers and coming in to be a Mystery Reader. Children love to see their parents at school and involved in what they are learning. It's also fun to see how busy kindergartners are, how hard they work, and to see the faces behind the names that you hear about at the dinner table each week.
We will be doing activities with the letters Dd, Pp, Tt, and Hh. The children need extra reinforcement identifying the letters and sounds of the lower case letters and identifying words with the initial and ending sounds that we are learning each week.
Please help your child "dress-up" his/her cardboard body to look like himself/herself. It will look adorable hanging outside our classroom all year, and your child will be so proud as he/she presents it and sees it all year. This is due Sept. 15th. "We are a family" is our theme.
Reading with your child for 20 minutes nightly is really important. List the name of the pages or book that you read, and then at the end of the month a reward will be given when the Monthly Reading Log is returned.
THANK YOU for coming to Curriculum Night to find out all about our year and about the exciting things we have planned for this year. You are always welcome to come and visit.
Sept. 3 - Library
9 - Library
10 - Fall Picture Day
16 - Early Dismisal
17 - Library
24 - Library
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Hello August!
Welcome to KINDERGARTEN! It was great getting to meet you all at Sneak-A-Peek. We are having an exciting first week of school getting to know each other. We're busy learning about shapes and our families this month.
My teaching is a partnership with you and I want the best for your child. It is going to be an AWESOME year!
Thank you for all of your support. Mrs. Dorsey and I are really enjoying working with your children. We are moving right along each day!
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