Dec 1st

We still need a lot of volunteers to help with holiday rotations on Dec. 12-Dec. 19th. There is a new spread sheet sign up link. If you volunteer already on the previous one, I transferred you to your selected day. On the spread sheet our class volunteers are in the red section for each day. We need 5-6 volunteers in all six classrooms. If you see that the red sections are full or if you'd just like to help Mrs. Depo and I with Chinese New Year activities, you can sign up under my name on any of the six days.

There is a second page on the needed supplies. These are supplies that our class will need when they rotate to the other classrooms. In these rooms they will do activities on :Hanukkah, Diwali, Los Posadas, Christmas in Germany and Sweden. While outside this weekend, please be on the lookout for pinecones. We need 22 pinecones to make bird feeders in one of the rotations.

Nov 23rd

Holiday Rotations

During the six school days starting Dec 12th, kindergarten will be hosting holiday rotations. Each classroom will specialize in presenting holiday traditions from a country or culture. The six kindergarten classes will rotate, spending one morning in each classroom learning about the holiday traditions. Our class will start in our own classroom on Dec. 12th learning about China and the tradition of Chinese New Year tradition. For the next 5 days our class will rotate through the other five kindergarten classrooms.

Each class will need to provide 5-6 volunteers each day to assist in the classroom that hosts their class. Centers will be from 8:45-10:30 each day. It would help if volunteers can be in place by 8:30 to get instructions from the teachers. Many volunteers are needed to make this learning activity a success. We can use all adult family members. Moms, dads, grandparents can all sign up on different days to help give us the volunteer coverage needed.

Our class is responsible to provide the supplies needed to present Chinese New Years rotation. We have 132 students in the six kindergarten classes. In this rotation we will: act out a story called "Buddha called the animals", make a lion dancer mask, make a New Year's zodiac calendar hat, taste lomein noodles for long life, read a guided reading book on New Years, get a fortune cookie, get a lucky red envelope with a chocolate coin, get a pair of chop sticks, get a chinese placemat with the zodiac calendar animals on it, learn some things about China from our bulletin board and see some Chinese decorations and signs and hear them read in Chinese.

Please sign up for volunteering and helping with supplies on the sign up lists. We appreciate all your help!

Nov 21st

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Thank you for coming to our Family Pow Wow

Nov. 16th

Joyner's International Parade- Tomorrow, Nov 17th at 9:30

Joyner will have our annual international parade representing different countries and cultures tomorrow at 9:30. The parade will go through the school hallways. If you would like to come see the parade you need to find a spot along the hallway before 9:30.

Rainbow Day- Friday, Nov 18th

Wear a colorful collection of colors or your favorite color to celebrate the end of our color celebrations. The Howard's are providing a rainbow snack.

Family Pow- Wow

Monday at 12:15 in our classroom

All families are invited to our Family Pow-Wow to celebrate with us. We have prepared costumes and will sing some songs for you. Then families with work with their child to make a Thanksgiving craft and snack. We look forward to seeing you then!

Mrs. Hoover's leaving

Mrs. Hoover, one of our kindergarten teachers, is leaving Joyner. She has accepted a technology position at Wiley Elementary. Her last day will be Tuesday, Nov. 22nd. This week we are collecting special notes, cards, photos or gifts to give to Mrs. Hoover before she leaves. If your family has any items for her please send them in by Friday, Nov 18th. The items will be compiled and presented to Mrs. Hoover next week.

I enjoyed talking with all of your during parent conferences. After Thanksgiving we will begin sending home the "Go-Read" orange bags. They will come home 2-3 times a week. Please help your child have a consistent routine of where and when they use the bags and return them to school the next day with the book, journal and sign in sheet in the bag. These bags should be carried in their bookbags.
Your child will also start bringing home the poems/books they have made and practiced on. These are to be kept at home in a special box or basket that they can reread periodically.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Nov 6th

You're invited to join us in our classroom

for

Family Thanksgiving Activities

Monday, Nov 21st at 12:15

You'll get to help your child make a Thanksgiving placemat, a turkey cookie and listen to our class sing

 

We love our families!


Creepy Crawly Day



 

What fun! Make and eat a spider cookie, wear a bat on your head, autumn shape rubbings, create a creepy crawly, make a spooky pattern, count and match pumpkin sets to numbers, graphing autumn candy mix and build a monster. Thank you to all families who donated supplies and our terrific adult volunteers.

It's parent conference time!
Sign up now on the blog.
If you can't come in at that time-indicated phone # by your name and I'll call you at that time



                                   

October 31st

Thank you for everyone's help with supplies and volunteers for Creepy Crawly Day! Will get photos up soon.

Sign up List is ready for signing up for 1st Quarter Parent Conferences

Look for link on right side of blog

Conferences should only take about 15 minutes

Oct. 20th

Friday, Brown Day

wear brown

Joyner Jamboree Tomorrow night

bring your family for some fall fun

5:30-8:00

Creepy Crawly Day

Oct. 28th

8:45-10:30

Next Friday we are having a morning of special creepy crawly activities. We really could use 6 volunteers to have a helper at every center and to have enough adult guidance. We love having other adults in the family if mom's busy, like dads, grandparents, aunts and uncles. There is a signup on the links section for needed supplies as well as volunteers. Please send the supplies in by Wed. Oct 26th so we can have the centers organized.

Next Week is Spirit Week

Monday- pajama day

Tuesday-Crazy hat/ crazy hair day

Wednesday- Team day, wear your favorite team shirt

Thursday- Wacky, Tacky mismatch day-plaids, stripes, mismatched socks/shoes

Friday- Joyner Day wear your favorite JAG wear or joyner colors, gold/blue

This week we worked on:

Letters/sounds of Ll and Ff

sight word: the

rhyming words

fall patterns

reading to self with our reading boxes

1st quarter math/reading assessments- will continue this next week

A big thank you to our parent chaperones this week to the pumpkin farm! Kim Collins, Pam Howard and Beth Reed we appreciate your help!

 

Parent Conferences will be the first two weeks of Nov. watch for a sign up link soon.





Sept 27th

 Please try signing in on Volunteer Calendar now. Hopefully the problem as been fixed! So sorry for the difficulties.

The Relatives Came

A big thank you to all our relatives who surprised us on Friday. What a great turnout despite the downpour! We appreciate your support and your kids love you!