Pumpkin Farm trip on October 18th to Ganyard Hill Farms
Cost is $16.00, please pay online at if possible
http://osp.osmsinc.com/wakenc/
Otherwise send in exact cash or checks written to "Joyner Elementary"
Each classroom may only take 3 chaperones, let me know immediately if you have been approved as a chaperoning volunteer and parents will need to pay $10 at the gate. I'll take the first 3 approved parents. Parents cannot ride the bus. You'll need to drive or carpool together. We will leave Joyner at 9:30 sharp and depart the farm at 1:00 sharp. I need chaperones who can stay the entire time, you will have a small group to keep up with.
Every child and chaperone needs to bring a lunch/drink in a disposable lunch bag. Labeled with name. Not a lunchbox. Please send a lunch that does not need to be kept cold.
Cost of the trip includes: crop mazes, corn crib, observation bee hive, hayride tour, pumpkin patch (pick a pumpkin to take back to school- we have activities will do the next day with them). Parent chaperones get one too, if you'll donate these to the class we'll have them as backups if someones pumpkin breaks, turns bad, etc.
Dress your child in jeans, tennis shoes and we'll wear our tie-die shirts.
I need a volunteer to tie die our t-shirts blue. I can send the shirts to you on Monday. Or maybe can send home tomorrow after "The Relatives Came" which is at 12:30
Help Heal Hait
Last year our school sent a team of teachers and many supplies to Haiti. There were photos on the Joyner website. The team found that help was desperately needed and still is. We were told of another orphanage that needs a lot of help. Each grade level will be collecting different items that will be taken to Haiti.
Kindergarten will be putting together health kits. We need donations of full sized: shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, wash cloths, brushes/combs. Please help. Our plan is to send two teams in June this year.
Curriculum
So far we've covered:
shapes: circle, square, triangle
colors: red, blue, yellow
sight words: I, like
days of the week
patterns- AB, AAB, ABB
Concepts of Print:
front and back covers,
print is what you read,
where you start to read on the page,
taking a picture walk before you read the book
a book has characters
a book has events that happened
reading and writing our names
What is and how do you show respect
Identifying letter names
What is a capital and lower case letter
graphing how many girls/boys in our class
our families
Next Week
letter sounds of m/s
how to model a number 1-10
starfall.com (alphabet letter sounds/words)
Book club orders are due on Friday, Sept 23rd. Please send the completed order form and exact change or a check written to "scholastic book club". If you are ordering something from our wish list for the classroom, please indicate so on the order form.
Kindergarten is excited to be ordering Scholastic's "Let's Find Out" weekly learning magazine for our students this year. These magazines include weekly thematic unit issues with emphasis on science and social studies. There will be a rebus reader edition that goes with the unit of study. Our classroom will also get a digital version for our promethean board which will allow us to study the topics as a whole group and have access to sorting/classifying games and videos. The cost per student is $5.50. Please send exact cash in an envelope with your child's name on it or a check written to Scholastic. We may need sponsors for some children.
Wake County Schools is encouraging families to provide healthy snack to celebrate birthdays. If you'd like to bring a snack for your child's birthday, you may bring it to the cafeteria at 10:45 to serve during our lunch time. Options may include: fruit, mini cupcake or simple cookie, gogurt or fruit snacks.
