Last Week of September!

This week the Kindergarten classes will be doing a variety of things.  Please let me know which goes best with what you are doing in your classroom.  We can read, A Tree is Nice, and see Tree video on the Smartboard, or read Today I feel Silly, or read books about the farm, if you are doing Farm Concert in your class.  Let me know what would be best.  If I am not doing the tree video, I will be doing Jolly Phonics on the Smartboard.

For the PreK block grant classes, I will be reading Pumpkin, Pumpkin. For the Tuition-based classes, I will be reading Daisy the Fire Cow. 

For all classes, I would like to start WiggleWorks with your classes next week.  Please enter the names of your children into WiggleWorks under your class name.  If you would like to enter the levels for your children that would be great as well.  Please do not let the kids enter their own names, as this causes problems on the record keeping portion of the program.

Have a great week!

This week in the Media Center

This week in the Media Center, Kindergarten will be hearing a story about their body called Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr.  The Dual Language classes will hear a story about the 5 senses.  On the Smartboard the children will play a memory game with rhyming pictures.  I would like to know when you have completed the first two units of Jolly Phonics so we can play another game on the Smartboard.  Please let me know if you would rather I read something else!

We had a busy time with the PreK last week!  I was able to find the students from last year, so we have more library cards now!  Hopefully more of them will be in our system this week!  Please let me know your themes so I can pick stories that go with them.

A BIG thank-you goes out to Cindy Mueller and Rosa Figueroa!  They were a big help in the Media Center on Friday!  YOU TWO ARE AWESOME!  Thanks so much!

Have a great week!

The week of September 12.

This week in the Media Center most of the Kindergarten classes will hear "I'm Gonna Like Me"  by Jamie Lee Curtis.  They will also learn some mouse manipulation skills as they play with Kidspiration on the computer.  They will be finding pictures of things they like.  After checking out their books, they will be using white boards to practice writing their names.  If you would prefer I do something else in the Media Center with your kids, just let me know!  I want their time here to be relevant to what is happening in your classroom!

This will be a BIG week for PreK as they get to check out their first books!  I will read "Going on a Book Hunt" to them.  They will also receive a paper to take home that will help them remember how to take good care of their books.

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This week in the Media Center

For Kindergarten this week we will again be testing--math this time!  This week it will go a bit differently as there are more tests and it will take a bit longer.  What this means is that the children will be tested during their normal media center time.  I will be reading "L" is for Library and doing our 5 Little Monkeys reading on the bed chant.  As always if you feel that I should read something else, please let me know!
Thanks!

This week we welcome PreK to the Media Center!  This week we will talk about how to take care of the books we take home, and next week we will check out books!  We will see 2 classes at a time in the media center.  One class will listen to a story with me, and the other will check out books.  Then we will switch!
The schedule is as follows:
Monday (will start next week)
10:45-11:05:  Julie Blevins and Melissa Gethner
Thursday:
12:25-12:45:  Megan Wilson and Katie James
12:45-1:05:  Beth Miller and Alyssa Reed
1:05-1:25:  Carol Woolbright and Ally Fessler
1:25-1:45:  Julie Blevins and Melissa Gethner
Friday:
10:05-10:25:  Megan Wilson/Katie James
10:25-1045:  Beth Miller
10:45-11:05:  Carol Woolbright and Ally Fessler
We will begin by having the children check-out books on top of the shelves like we did last year, but then mid-year we will teach them about shelf markers and let them try it on their own!  So glad you can come!

I have another request!  We somehow ran out of baggies!  We could really use some more--especially the ones that just have the zip closure.  The ones with the slide don't work very well as many of our books won't fit in them.  We also received some with twist ties, these don't work very well either.  Thank you so much!!