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Update...11.13.09

  We have been very busy preparing for our Moms For Muffins. The students can't wait for you to visit.

A special thanks to Reagan's parents for getting the word out about Foundation. I was so excited to hear I get a spa certificate. Thanks to everyone who supported this fundraiser. Foundation funds a lot of wonderful classes as well as resources for teachers. I recently received a grant to purchase a set of games that can be played at home that focus on our standards of Math and Language. More info to come on this.

Congratulations to Denmark whose entry of photography in the Reflection's Contest earned him a medal. He attended a special PTA meeting to accept his award.

Welcome Arthur to our class. He and his family recently moved here from England. He is a wonderful addition to our class.

Please remember to send back reading folders the next day.

Weekly Highlights...

1. Met Mr. F who has fancy feet.

2. Added is and for to our sight word list.

3. Learned about the life of Pilgrim children.

4. Started our unit on three dimensional shapes.

5. Wrote some special letters.

6. Started our unit on the five senses.

7. Learned about Veterans Day.

Weekly Assignments...

1. Don't forget Moms for Muffins on Tuesday at 8:30. Thanks in advance for being on time.

2. Library books due on Friday.

3. Send in 4 new books for silent reading if you have not done this. Many students do not have any books in their book box.

Have a great weekend!

Update...11.06.09

  Thank you for sending in the Mom's For Muffins RSVP's so quickly. The students are very excited to have you visit our classroom. We are still missing some pillowcases, feathers and cans. Please send them in on Monday.

I am sending home forms to order Highlights magazine on Monday. It is your choice if you order. However, please send it back. We get supplies for the classroom for each one that is filled out and returned. If you don't want it, mark no and sign. If you want it, mark yes and fill out information on it.

Weekly Highlights...

1. Met Buster the Bus and learned bus safety rules.

2. Learned about the story of Thanksgiving.

3. Took our test on numbers 1-10.

4. Added on and make to sight word list.

5. Working on writing complete sentences.

6. Welcomed our new month, November.

7. Working on being able to tell a summary of a story. This is a hard skill.

8. Working on our problem solving skills.

Weekly Assignments...                     

1. Send in a pair of sunglasses that fit your child by Tuesday. You will get these back untouched.

2. Send in 4 small objects that represent the following three dimensional shapes. Send in a cone, cube, cylinder and a sphere on Wednesday (Example...a soup can for cylinder). We will be starting our new unit on these shapes next week. Please put them in a bag inside your child's book bag.

3. Library books on Friday.

4. Send in feathers, cans and pillowcases if needed on Monday.

5. Send in four new books for silent reading on Monday.

Have a super weekend!

    

10.30.09

  Fall Festival was a lot of fun. The rain held off until we were inside! Thanks to everyone who sent in things and a special thanks to Bethany and Denmark's mom and Will and Reagan's mom and their special visitors for helping at the Festival.

It will soon be November. Everyone should have received their special feather. Please decorate it with pictures and words from magazines,newspapers, etc.

Please sent in all materials on time that are listed below. November is a very busy month.

Put November 17th at 8:30 on your calendar. It is Moms For Muffins. This is only for moms, no siblings. It is very important for each child to have someone here with them. If you have a conflict, please find another female to be here for your child like a grandma or a special friend. I hope that all moms with be able to join us. Look for the invitation to come home next week.

Weekly Highlights...

1. Working on sequencing skills.

2. Graphed and decorated our pumpkins.

3. Practiced sight words. Look for a special game to come home next week.

4. Practiced writing numbers 1-10. Everyone should be making these correctly.

5. Working on word families an and en.

6. Started talking about Motion and how things move.

7. Learned about our bones and ways to keep them healthy.

8. Working on nice manners.

9. Made an ABC book.

Weekly Assignments...

1. Send in a white plain pillowcase (no zippers and standard size). This does not have to be new. We will be cutting and decorating it. Send in by Wednesday, November 4th.

2. Send in a 26 oz. empty can by Wednesday, November 4th (This is the size of a coffee can).

3. Feathers are due by Friday, November 6th.

Have a "Boo..tiful Weekend!

Update...10.23.09

Next Friday is Fall Festival. Thanks in advance for sending in materials needed. Please send in all materials by Wednesday except cookies. We will be outside most of the morning so dress appropriately. In case of rain, it will be moved inside. Thanks to our moms who are helping. Please come down to the classroom when you arrive.

It was a fabulous day in the fifties in Kindergarten on Wednesday. Everyone looked great and also learned many new things throughout the day.

Thank you for returning the report cards back so quickly. We only have three that need to be returned.

Weekly Highlights...

1. Most people know their color words. We are now working on number words to ten.

2. Learned how to measure using centimeters.

3. Working on making life connections when we read stories to help us remember the meaning.

4. Still working on writing numerals to 10 with no backwards numerals.

5. Zero the Hero made a visit. Working on counting by 10's and 5's to fifty.

6. Your child should know the identification and value of the penny and nickel. We will add the dime next week. Let your child sort your extra change.

7. Working on word families an and en.... fan, pan, hen, pen etc.

8. Practice blending words with your child in the car. For example tar get, put it together: target. It is not as easy as you think for many students.

9. Working on putting two letters together, a consonant and a vowel. t + a = ta. Practice at home with all of the vowels.

Weekly Assignments...

1. Library books on Friday.

2. Send back report card white slip and envelope if you have not done so.

3. Make sure that your child knows their address. Many still do not. This includes city and zip code.

4. Send in pumpkins by Thursday and all materials for Fall Festival.

Have a great weekend!

Please Support our Foundation!

Do you know about our ELMOs?  Thanks to the Foundation, we started the school year with an ELMO in every teacher's classroom! Click here to learn more!

The Mt. Bethel Foundation is funded 100% by parent donations and the Patron Program, which ends next week, is their only fundraiser. If you plan to make a donation or pledge, please send in your patron card ASAP. The superb programs and teacher grants provided by the Foundation are in jeopardy! Thank you to the families that have contributed!

Our class currently has 29% Participation!

Highest participating classes per grade level: 

• Kindergarten - Schreck
• First - Cillian
• Second - Birdsong
• Third - Bredickas
• Fourth - Sloan
• Fifth - Jones

Please view the MBESF website for more information about the Foundation and what it provides for our school. 

Keep Mt. Bethel students' thinking caps fully charged, send in your patron card before 10/30/09!

Please Support our Foundation!

Do you know about our ELMOs?  Thanks to the Foundation, we started the school year with an ELMO in every teacher's classroom! Click here to learn more!

The Mt. Bethel Foundation is funded 100% by parent donations and the Patron Program, which ends next week, is their only fundraiser. If you plan to make a donation or pledge, please send in your patron card ASAP. The superb programs and teacher grants provided by the Foundation are in jeopardy! Thank you to the families that have contributed!

Our class currently has 29% Participation!

Highest participating classes per grade level: 

• Kindergarten - Schreck
• First - Cillian
• Second - Birdsong
• Third - Bredickas
• Fourth - Sloan
• Fifth - Jones

Please view the MBESF website for more information about the Foundation and what it provides for our school. 

Keep Mt. Bethel students' thinking caps fully charged, send in your patron card before 10/30/09!

Update...10.16.09

 October fun has begun! There are some pretty scary spiders outside of our room.

Report cards will go home today. I would like everyone to have a 2 or 3 in all areas. If you received a 1 in an area, please practice this skill at home. On the behavior side most people got S's and P's. Please pay close attention to a behavior that received an N. My hope is that by the end of the year, most people have all S's.

The P.E., Art and Music grades were given by the special area teachers.

Mrs. Quintero, Mrs. Nichols and myself are very proud of the progress that has been make so far this year by your children. I hope you have seen it also!

Inside the report card is a white card, please sign it and return in the envelope to school. The report card is yours to keep. Please do not seal the envelope.

50's day is next Wednesday. Make sure to come all dressed up! It is a really fun day!!!

Weekly Highlights...    

1. Met Mr. S.   

2. Learned about Spiders. Can your child give you 5 facts about spiders?

3. Added am, goes,take and make to sight word list.

4. Working on writing numerals 1-10 and number words also to ten.

5. Your child should know most of the color words.

6. A fireman came to visit to teach us about fire safety.

7. Learning to stop and ask questions while reading to increase comprehension of the story.

8. Learned about why we celebrate Columbus Day.

Weekly Assignments...

1. Next Wednesday, dress like the 50's. It is also Early Release day.

2. Return white cards and envelopes of report cards by Tuesday.

Have a great weekend!

Update...10.09.09

 The community helper outfits were wonderful. Everyone was so prepared to give their oral report on their helper. Thank you!

October 14th, Wednesday, is picture re-take. You must return your pictures to have retakes. If you were absent, your picture will be automatically taken.

Weekly Highlights...

1. Germbusters came to visit us from Wellstar to tell us about ways to keep germs away from our bodies.

2. We completed our unit on Community Helpers.

3. Learned about our school, city, state, country, continent and planet. See if your child came name these.

4. Learned and made American flags.

5. Continuing to work on color and number words.

6. Added like, big and can to our sight word list. I can tell who is studying these at home!

7. Learning about how good readers stop and think about what they are reading.

8. Learning about the four seasons.

Weekly Assignments...

1. Library books on Friday.

Have a super weekend!!

Update...10.2.09

 We had a great time on our field trip. Thanks to Wilson's and Bethany's mom for going with us. It was a beautiful day, and the class was very well behaved. The blue t-shirts really help keep the class together.

Fall is here! Jackets are starting to arrive. Please make sure that you have your child's name inside on the tag.

Please make sure that Reading Folders are returned the very next day.

Next week, we will be discussing community helpers. On Monday, I am sending home an outline of a person and a community helper that your child has chosen. Your child needs to make the body into the community helper and come dressed on Friday as the community helper. A paper (report)  will also go home that needs to be filled out and returned. It might be fun to go visit or interview the helper. Talk with your child this weekend about a helper that they might want to choose. Have a few choices. I want to have 16 different helpers on Friday.

Your child should know their birthday and telephone number. Please start working on addresses if you have not already.

I hope people are making pictures, writing stories etc. for the Reflection Program. Info is on my blog from last week. The deadline is approaching. No late entries are accepted.

Monthly calendars are now coming home. Thank you to Denmark's mom. If you need to change or cancel, please first try to call another parent in the class to take your place. If you can't find someone please let Denmark's mom know.

Weekly Highlights...

1. Welcomed October.

2. Working on writing numbers 1-10, equal sets, more and fewer.

3. Reviewed all our sight words...and, a, I, it, in, is, my, one, the and see. We are also working on reading color words.

4. Talked about baby animals.

5. Wrote a personal narrative (a story about ourselves).

6. Went to the fair!

Weekly Assignments...

1. Community helper person, uniform and report will be due on FRIDAY. It will be a fun day, and everyone enjoys seeing each other dressed in costume. Also, you may send in any props that the special helper might use in their job.

2. Library on Friday.

Have a good weekend!

Update...9.25.09

 

   

 Next Wednesday is our first field trip. Class shirts will come home on Monday. Please wear them on Wednesday with pants or shorts and tennis shoes. We will be going to a petting farm at the fair.

Hope everyone enjoyed a few days off and that everyone's home survived the rain.

Thanks to all of our mystery readers so far this year. The students have enjoyed you visiting.

If you are chaperoning on the field trip, please be at school by 8:50. We will board the buses at 9:00.

Look for a calendar to come home next week. Mystery readers and other volunteers needed for that month will be on it.

I would like to encourage the students to enter the PTA Reflections program. This program offers a chance for the students in K-5 to unleash their talent and creativity in a fun and positive way.  This year's theme is "Beauty is..." The students may enter in any of the following six categories: Film  Production, Dance Choreography, Musical Composition, Photography, Visual Arts, and Literature.  All entries  must be the original work of the student and the deadline is October 7th.  More  information and the entry form can be found from the PTA blog at : http://mtbethel.blogs.com/pta.

You can send entries into the classroom, and I will make sure they are turned into PTA.

Weekly Highlights...

1. Zero the Hero came to visit us. We have been in school for 30 days.

2. Met Mr. D.

3. Finished our unit on patterns. Everyone did very well on the end of the unit test!

4. Added is to our sight words. I hope you are keeping a list of these words. Over 50% of words read are sight words.

5. Welcomed our new season Fall.

6. Became detail detectives and learned that good writers use details in their writing.

7. Measured, weighed, graphed and ate our apples. Do your child tell you about the special star we found?  You should have seen their faces when we cut open the apples.

8. Your child should know their telephone and birthday. Many students still do not. Please start working on teaching your child their address including street, city and zip code. I am hoping by the end of September everyone will know their address. Please work on this at home.

Weekly Assignments...

1. Wear class shirts on Wednesday. If you did not order one, please wear a light blue shirt.

2. Library books on Friday.

3. Work on teaching your child their address.

Have a great weekend!

Update...9.18.09

   Thank you for returning reading folders promptly!

Don't forget to send library books on Friday.

We are sending home school pictures today. There will be retakes in October. You will need to return pictures in envelop for retakes. I will send the exact date of retakes when I get it.

 

Weekly Highlights..   

1. Met Mr. T. He has very tall teeth.

2. Made a toothpaste graph.

3. Learned that good readers use the title and cover to make predictions about the book.

4. Added in to our sight word list.  

5.Working on reading color words.

6. Learned about turtles.

7. Made many patterns.

8. Wrote about a special friend in our class. Ask your child who they wrote about.

9. Sorted and counted pennies and nickels.

10. Made telephones and learned good telephone manners. Please make sure that your child knows their telephone number.

Weekly Assignments...

1. Send in an apple on Tuesday, any color or size.  We will be eating them at school.

2. Send library books on Friday.

Have an awesome weekend!