In This Issue:
~ Nutritious Snack
~ Homework Policy
~ Colors All Around
~ Language Arts Testing!
~ Exciting News
~ Sleep..Sleep....
~ Kindergarten Hours
~ Mathematics 1-30

Nutritious Snack
Many students are coming to school without a snack. While it is NOT mandatory, your child may be hungry after a couple of hours of being in school. (We use a lot of our brain power!) Talk to him/her about bringing something small if he/she needs something to eat to get through the day. (ie: a piece of fruit, crackers, juice, etc.)

Everyday, with the exception of Thursday, your child gets five minutes to eat something before playing outside. If he/she does not have anything to eat, he/she waits until being dismissed to the playground.

Homework Policy
Please make sure all homework packets are completed and returned by Friday inside the envelope.

Colors All Around
We've been working on learning all our colors. So far we have learned about red, blue, yellow, and green. We learned that green is a secondary color and that you need blue and yellow to make it.

Up next is purple! We will have fun with Harold and the Purple Crayon.

Language Arts Testing!
The following tests will be given in the coming weeks. This will be the final test. Scores will be reported to you when I pass out the report card next month.

If you have any questions on the test given, please ask me! There are no new tests.

1.) Capital letter recognition
2.) Letter sounds (shown lower case letters)
3.) Blending
4.) Segmenting
5.) Concepts About Print
6.) Writing name
7.) Writing the alphabet
8.) Writing a story
9.) High Frequency Words
10.) Word Reading

Exciting News
Your child will be part of an exciting new endeavor. I wrote a grant to partipate in creating videos with students to teach concepts and skills based on our content standards. We will be learning to share, create movies in imovie, learn to use a video camera, and use our creativity to enter a contest at the end of the year. This is a very special opportunity that I hope will enhance your child's education. Please look for the parent release form so that I can use video of your child. Without this release form, your child will NOT be able to participate or be included onscreen.

**Update** We have completed our very first video** The next video we will create will be a PSA . (public service announcement)

Sleep..Sleep....
Make sure your child is going to bed at a resonable hour. The first week of school was difficult for some children who felt very tired and were restless.

Kindergarten Hours
Please remember...

School starts at 8:40 and ends at 2:45 everyday except Thursday.

Thursday is our minimum day and we get out at 1:20 p.m. Please make sure you are on time to pick your child up. I have meetings to attend and picking up your child late makes me late to my staff meetings.

Mathematics 1-30
Students must count, recognize, name, write, and know the value of the numbers.