The Relatives Came!!

What fun!!  Our relatives came!!!
The kids were so excited and relatives you did a great job at keeping the secret! I wish I had a video of them listening to the story "The Relatives Came" and then Mrs. Drake discovering the relatives at the door. Just Precious!
Enjoy the photos:)

Center sign-up calendar

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqUUzMGv2-7RdDk5ckh5Sm1LZk1qeE93d2U0SGpJT0E&hl=en&authkey=CJTxkM0B

Click the link above to sign up for centers.  This document will also be on my blog.

Direction:

1.  Click on the month of October.

2.  Choose a day you can volunteer.

3. Type your name in the box for the day(s) you can volunteer.

4. Click save in the top right corner.

Viola!  You are signed up for centers.

Visit the link as many times as necessary and update as often as you like.  Everyone will be able to see where you have signed up.

Pumpkin Farm Trip

October 8, 2010

Ganyard Hill Farms

Durham, NC

http://ganyardhillfarm.com/barn_news/

·       Fill out both sides of the parent consent for completely and sign.  Remember there are TWO SIDES.

·       Return the form and $16.00 to cover the cost of admission and transportation.  See payment information below.

·       Let the teacher know immediately if you have been approved as a volunteer and would like to volunteer for chaperoning, as we can only take 3 parent chaperones per classroom.  (see the office to check your volunteer status approval)

·       Chaperones and all parents attending must pay $10.00 at the gate.  Correct change will make the process go quickly.  Chaperones must provide their own transportation.  Your child may not ride with you to or from the trip.

·       Your child must bring a lunch to the field trip and everything in it must be disposable, including the lunch bag. 

·       Cost of trip includes:  crop mazes, corn crib, observation bee hive, hayride tour, pumpkin patch (pick your own pumpkin to take home), animals to feed, hay mountain and slide, meet the farmer.

·       Pay online at http://osp.osmsinc.com/wakenc. If you are unable to pay online, send in a check made payable to Joyner Elementary with K Field Trip and Child’s Name in the Memo section of your check. You must pay no later than October 5^th.

·       We will leave Joyner at 9:30 a.m. sharp.  We will depart the farm at 1:00 p.m. sharp and arrive back at Joyner no later than 1:45 p.m.

·       Your child should wear tennis shoes, long pants, a thin shirt and a sweatshirt or jacket that can be easily tied around his/her waist.  We will be wearing our tie-dye shirts over the shirt your child wears to school.

Chickadees having fun!



putting abc's in order



working with starfall.com

working with manipulatives  

housekeeping fun

acting out "Owl Babies"                  

Dr. Seuss ABC

puppet show fun

alphabet center

building as a team

listening center

lower playground

what a pretty day

lunch time!

listening to Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

making an "I like___" book

AB patterns

what's for lunch

working on IB attitude of respect

How do you show respect?



writing our names



making our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree

AB patterns

writing our names

"I like ___" books





this week- Sept 13-17th

This week we worked on:     reminder-this Friday is early release @12:30

• color red, shape- circle, #1
• sight words: I, like,red
• IB attitude- respect
• AB patterns
• number sense 1-5
• writing "Jump frog" letters- F, E
• alphabet letters
• working with math partners
• computer programs: starfall.com- abc's, Dr. Seuss ABC's
• listening center
• reading/writing names

We read these books:
David gets in trouble, No David, David goes to school, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Wheels on the Bus goes to school, Big Yellow Bus, we are reading the chapter book- Magic Treehouse book 1- Dinosaurs before dark

songs: days of the week song, red, Cindy Circle, #1, Kiss your brain, Tooty-ta, Wheels on the Bus


Next week

• color-blue, square, #2
• sight words: I, like,blue
• Sept 20th- Scholastic Book order due
• Sept 21st- Personality train due

The Relatives are invited, Shhhh!!!

Attention Parents!

Shhh!! This is a secret!

We would like to invite you to a special reading treat for you and your child on Tues., Sept 28 at 12:30 (will need to sign in at the office and be quietly outside our room at 12:30).

We will be sharing a book in class called The Relatives Came and we are hoping all our parents and grandparents will come to surprise the children and read a favorite book with them. 

Please bring a towel, blanket, or quilt and your favorite children’s story.  We want this to be a surprise, so please try to stay out of the Kindergarten Hall prior to 12:00 as we will be making our way back from lunch & recess.  After 12:30pm, please wait in the hall outside our room until we announce your presence.  This would be a GREAT time for you to meet some of the other parents in our room as well!  Please bring cookies to share with the students and other parents.  We can’t wait to see you!!

Mrs. Drake & Mrs. Depo

Don’t forget…it’s a surprise, so don’t tell your child!

Happy Weekend!

Chickadee Families:
Sunny D drinks are having a special for schools. Send in 20 labels and we can get 20 free books for our classroom and our school may win money for our school. Please save and send in SunnyD labels. Thanks!

Reminders:
Work on personality train projects due by Sept 21st,
 work on "I can read" sheets, put labels, logos your child can read on this- due Sept 14th
Scholastic Book Orders due Sept 20th
Need all parents to register on Wake County volunteer registration- it takes time to be processed

Have a great weekend! Mrs. Drake

Shh!! It's a Surprise!!

Kindergarten is studying our IB unit "Free to Be you and Me". We are learning about ourselves, our families and each other. On Tuesday, Sept 28th we will be reading the book "The Relatives Came" by Cynthia Rylant.
We want to time the reading so that we'll finish the book at 12:30.
That's when Mrs. Drake's and Mrs. Piner's classes   relatives are invited to be waiting in the hallway outside our rooms. (other kindergarten classes will do this on Wed. Sept 29th)
When the teacher finishes reading the story she will say she hears something in the hall and will open the door and discover our relatives came!
Relatives of our class are invited to come and bring a store bought refreshment to share- cookies, lemonade. If a parent would volunteer to bring cups and napkins, please let me know.
We will share refreshments and visit with each other until 1:15 when we need to pack bookbags and get ready for specials/spanish.
Remember this is a secret!!! Do not tell your child about this plan!! I look forward to meeting our relatives on Tuesday, Sept 28th at 12:30. Please wait quietly in the hallway, out of sight of our door.

Early Release

Friday, Sept. 17th is early release day. Students will be dismissed at 12:30.

Scholastic book orders

September Scholastic book order forms went home for Firefly and SeeSaw. I will be taking orders through Sept. 20th. Fill out the order slips and write one check for the total of both forms to Scholastic Book Clubs.
I can't except cash. Ordering books helps our class earn books for our room.

If you'd like to order us some books here is our Scholastic wish list for our room
#70 sight word readers
#82 sight word dvd
#59 nursery rhyme readers
#66 science vocabulary fall set
#20 Discovering My World-Forest animals
#9 and #10 Bob books
#64 science sight word readers: human body collection

If you order a book as a gift for the class, please mark so on your form. Thanks!!!

Chickadee Families
Thank you for coming to Open House this week. Our class had a great turn out. If you were not able to attend, we can arrange to show you the power point presentation. It will give you information about kindergarten and how our classroom works.

Homework Assignments:

• read to your child nightly- can occasionally use print concept/retelling ideas from your child's OTIS
• "Look I can read..." help your child collect labels, logos of environmental print that they can read, examples include: cereal labels, McDonald's logo, drink labels, etc. Please send these in next week.
• Personality Trains: Gather photos, stickers, drawings, words that you will mount onto the colored construction paper we sent home, these will be laminated and wheels added when you turn them in so no 2-dimensional or different sized/kind of paper please.  We would like these turned in by Sept 21st which gives you two weeks to work on them.

Color Snack days

Color Celebration Fridays- thank you for volunteering, please send in snack in the morning

• send enought food to serve 25 students
• send napkins, plates, cups, forks- as necessary for your snack
• food must be store bought and not homemade goodies
• our class has a cashew allergy

Red- Sept 17th- Jerri Lemanski (can you send watermelon slices? it will go with our story)
Blue- Sept 24th- Jackie McCrory
Yellow-Sept 30th -Dana Golub
Green- Oct 8th- Jennifer Carrillo
Orange- Oct 15th- Elizabeth Jordan
Purple- Oct 22nd- Teresa Padgett
Black- Oct. 28th- Lea Tackett (may need to change date due to creepy crawly day?)
Brown- Nov 5th- Ava Lentz
Pink- Nov 12th- Catherine Lackey
White- Nov 19th- Katherine Poole
Rainbow- Dec 3rd- Jessica Sanders

Helpful Links and online games

Joyner links:

Mr. Knott's Blog-
http://jyjprincipal.blogspot.com/

Wake County Schools-
http://www.wcpss.net/

Joyner PTA
http://joyneres.wcpss.net/home.htm

Joyner's official website
http://joyneres.wcpss.net/index_files/supplyk.htm

online games:
http://www.primarygames.com/

http://www.starfall.com/

http://pbskids.org/games/index.html

http://pbskids.org/lions/

http://www.softschools.com/

http://kellyskindergarten.com/online%20games/online_games.htm

Welcome 2010-11 Chickadees

I am so excited to be at Joyner for my sixth year! My first class will be graduating to middle school this year. That's so hard to believe! Let me tell you about myself. I love teaching! Kindergarten is such a wonderful place to learn. In my class I use a lot of children's literature to teach all subjects and believe in hands on learning activities. The addition of the Promethean Board and United streaming have added rich resources to our curriculum. This year we have a new math curriculum called Math Expressions and a new handwriting curriculum called Handwriting without Tears. I teach reading using guided reading groups and will be adding some reading workshop time. The children will have a writing journal and some writing workshop lessons.

Nana meeting Mackenzie for the 1st time

My family

   In August, my husband and I celebrated our 32nd anniversary.  We have two sons. Our eldest, Travis, is a paramedic for Apex. He is married to Michelle and just had our first grandchild, Mackenzie. Our son Joey works for Wake Med-Cary and blessed us last week with a grand-dog named Bella.
   I enjoy quilting, making prayer shawls for my church, being a Stephen Minister and reading. This summer I was lucky enough to spend July in the mountains. My sewing machine went with me and I finished four quilts. We enjoy escaping to the mountains whenever we can!

quilt for niece Corey

Mackenzie Grace's quilt

Cabernet Stars for my husband

   We've had a busy first few days. The children are learning routines and procedures. They completed a beginning of the year portrait. They did a wonderful job of sharing their "Me Bags" and sharing what they'd like to learn in kindergarten. We have a delightful group of children! It will be fun making lots of memories together this year.