This Week in Review

Whew!  What a week.  This has been a difficult week with behavior in the classroom.  We have stopped and spent some time reviewing what would be considered "paw pride" behavior and also talked about what it should look like as well.  As always, it is a work in progress.  To help with this, the children have started earning stamps for their clip position at the end of the day.  If a child ends their day on green, they will receive one stamp, blue receives two stamps, purple is three stamps, and off the chart is equal to four stamps.  When each child has filled up their chart they will have the chance to earn a prize from me.

Conferences are all set and scheduled for Thursday.  I look forward to speaking with all of you.  When you arrive at school, just let the front office know you are here for conferences and they will help direct you to where we will be meeting.  Thank you in advance for taking time to come in to meet with me.  I enjoy getting to share with you our many accomplishments!

So this week in class we have been working on adding pages to our stories during writing time.  Instead of using just one page for a story, I have the children take a new page each time they write a sentence.  When their story is complete, I staple their book together and we share the books in the classroom.  Keep having your child practice spelling words at home.  A lot of the children are struggling with wanting to try to spell words on their own during class time.

During centers, we are staring to talk about Thanksgiving.  We have worked on a writing about things each child is thankful for (these are really cute!), we are staring to talk about the Pilgrims and Native Americans and we are going to continue to work with this topic next week.

I talked to the class a little bit on Friday about our math time block.  Starting  Monday, Kindergarten will be switching classes for our math time.  Some children will have either Mrs. Trammell or Miss Fernkas for their math teacher and some children will continue to have me as their math teacher.  I have sent home an envelope with your child today that explains this in more detail.

Have a great weekend!