Morgan

November

Our fall festival was fabulous!  We REALLY want to thank all of the parents who helped to make it possible.  We decorated pumpkins, ate a fun treat, played games, ran the track, made neat crafts and had FUN with all of our Kindergarten friends!  Now we are busy making Pilgrims, Indian vests, and turkeys!  We have learned about the first Thanksgiving.  Our Moms are invited to visit our classroom on the 20th at 10:30 for "Muffins for Moms".  Yes, we are very thankful for our Moms!  (Don't worry dads, we'll have a special day for you too).  Jake and Henry are celebrating their birthdays this month!  Can you believe that Henry's birthday is on Thanksgiving day?  We hope that they both enjoy their special days!  Zero the Hero visited our classroom for the 6th time.  He teaches us tens and ones.  Next month we will start working on our 50 tangrams in math.  Everyone is starting to read and "sound out" words.  We are very proud of the progress that we are making!  We hope that everyone has a nice Thanksgiving with family and friends!

Fall Festival Time

Can you believe that it is almost time for our annual Kindergarten Fall Festival?  We'll have a great time rotating through stations (hopefully outside) with all of our Kindergarten friends this Friday, Oct. 30th.  We want to thank all of our parents for volunteering and donating.......we appreciate it!  We are looking forward to a great day!  Our 50th day of school was a big success too.  We wore our 50's outfits, we made necklaces with sets of 50, we met Zero the Hero, we used the Smartboard to do some 50's math activities, we counted to 50, AND we ate Rootbeer floats!  Yes, it was a good day!  We enjoyed our unit on Christopher Columbus.  We learned many interesting facts:  our earth is a sphere, our continent is North America, he sailed on three ships, etc.  Next month we are looking forward to all of our Thanksgiving activities and 'Muffins for Moms' on Friday, Nov. 20th at 10:30.  We have met Miss A and we are reading lots of 'three letter words' with short a 'in the middle'.  She wants everyone to learn their address.  All of us can go to the media center now with a classmate.  We can find a new book and check it out by ourselves. Enjoy these last few days of October and have a great time Trick or Treating!!!!!!!!!!! 

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 15% 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 15% 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 15% 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!

Autumn News

We are starting to see lots of orange pumpkins around Mt. Bethel School!  Mr. P brought candy pumpkins to our classroom and we estimated how many were in the jar (before we ate them) and Kieran was our BEST estimator!  Wow!  Mary Alice celebrated her birthday on the very first day of October.  We hope that she had a nice day.  Last week we went to the North Georgia State Fair.  It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed the trip.  We saw lots of animals and we rode on a long trailer.  It was a terrific day!  We will be bringing home a class book about the trip soon.  On Friday, we visited the Mt. Bethel Nature trail with our fifth grade buddies.  We made a nature bracelet for Mr. N.  Yesterday we went to the computer lab.  Mrs. Frey is teaching us how to use the Scholastic Keys program.  She is a great 'computer' teacher.  Today we had a visitor from Welstar and she presented a program called Germbusters.  We learned alot about germs.  The 21st of October is an Early Release day.  All students will be dismissed at 12:20.  Our Kindergarten unit has a great day planned for October 30th.  We will have our Kindergarten Fall Festival (Let's hope for a beautiful sunny day!).   

Kindergarten News

We have been very busy in Room#817.  Our reading readiness skills are improving daily.  We can rhyme and we recognize all of the letters of the alphabet.  We print our names using one capital letter and the rest lowercase letters.  Our second journal is almost finished and we'll bring it home soon so that we can share our good journal writing.  We are learning to read sight words: I, see, me, my, like, the, and all of the color words.  Today we read our color words and completed an M&M graph.  We used terms like equal, most, fewest, more....how many more....and the best part was eating the M&M's!!!!!  On Sept. 30th we are looking forward to our first field trip to the North Georgia State Fair.  It's a great trip and the children always enjoy it.  We're hoping for a bright sunny day!  We are amazing workers in the computer lab and we can go to the media center with a buddy and check out books! Sofie is having a birthday on Sept. 22nd!  Happy birthday, Sofie!  She'll be our 'Kid of the Week'.

It's almost September

We are sailing along in Room #817!  We are learning to write in our journals using our color words.  Everyone should be able to read red, yellow, green, me and my at this time.  We should also be able to distinguish between the initial m and t sounds.  Our next mini unit will be our Five Senses.  We'll meet our fifth grade buddies this Friday.  We have many exciting activities planned with Mrs. Perry's class.  Last Friday we visited the media center and we learned how to 'check-out' books.  Your child can bring his/her library book back to school at any time but always before the due date.  Every day we participate in calendar math.  Zero the Hero will visit our classroom again this Friday.  He always brings a treat shaped like a zero!  We're added the penny to our daily calendar and at the end of each week we'll do a 'fair trade'..........5 pennies for a nickel.  Please help your child learn to recognize these coins.  We have our Boosterthon fun run this Wed. and 'Mt. Bethel night in the parking lot' on Friday.  If you can, please join us for these great activities.  We hope that everyone enjoys their Labor Day Weekend! 

Welcome to Kindergarten

WoW!  We had a great first week in Kindergarten!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Everyone took home their school house journal on Friday.....we hope that you enjoyed them.  Riding the bus to school is always a favorite for K students so we ATE a school bus on Friday!  (We iced a graham cracker with yellow icing, added mini oreos for wheel, Life cereal for windows......and we enjoyed eating it).  The first few weeks of school we socialize, share Big Books, sing, interact at free choice centers (we call it "clip time"), and become familiar with the school day routine.  We became official Mt. Bethel Buccaneers on the first day of school so everyone made a buccaneer hat to wear home.  Everyday we complete whole group calendar activities.  Today we celebrated Enrique's birthday and we'll have Olivia L.'s birthday on Friday!  Enrique is presently our 'Kid of the Week' and Olivia will have a turn next week.  We'll meet our first letter person this week and Zero the Hero already introduced himself to the class. 

   It was great to meet all of you at Meet and Greet and at our Back to School Night.  Thank you again for the numerous supplies that you have so nicely donated to our classroom.  Please remember to join our PTA.  Our Mt. Bethel PTA and our Foundation do many wonderful things for teachers and students.  They help make Mt. Bethel the excellent school that it is.....please give them your support. 

We are looking forward to a great year in Kindergarten!!!!!!!!!!