Theme: Harvest
Welcome Fall! Prepare for MORE RAIN!
HIGHLIGHTS OF NEXT WEEK:
We’ll spend our week reading
wonderful stories about orchards,
apples, pumpkins, and the harvest. In
reading, we will be starting our second
lesson and answering the question “Why do we have rules at school?”
We’ll continue with Letters Pp, Qq, Rr,
Ss, and Tt both in handwriting and
with sounds. In Math, we’ll finish our
chapter on shapes and begin Chapter
1 - Representing, counting, and writing
numbers 0-5. Please ask your child
each day for a report on our lessons.
Reminders: Tuesday, October 1st is
Picture Day. Students must wear
uniforms for this picture. They’ll be
able to dress-up for the Spring picture.
Bus Safety
Assembly
Friday,
September 20th
Cooking Project
“Name Cakes”
Volunteers Needed
I will be needing parent helpers to prepare
and manage our Learning Totes. Once up
and running, Learning Totes will go home
on Mondays and be checked in on Fridays.
This usually requires about 45 minutes
once you understand the process (which is
not complicated at all). If you are interested, please email me or send a note. I will
set up a schedule as soon as I can. Only
with your help can I run the program as I
believe it should be run. Thanks for
volunteering!
Needed: Empty cereal boxes, any
kind. We’ll be making books with
the fronts. Please send in one of
each different kind that you eat.
SUCCESS AT HOME
“Bath Math”
You can help your kindergarten child learn math
while he splashes in the tub. How?
*Rice Cakes
Fill the tub with water and add plastic contain*Peanut Butter
ers of different sizes (no glass, please).
*Chocolate Chips
Old milk cartons work well for quart, half-gallon,
Procedure:
and gallon sizes (remember to wash out milk).
1. Spread the peanut
Toss in an 8-ounce measuring cup and a pintbutter over the rice
size container as well.
cake.
Now the fun begins. Pick up several contain2. Teacher writes upper- ers and start asking questions.
case letter in beginning  Which holds more water—this cup or this
of name with knife in
pint?
peanut butter.
 How many cups of water will it take to fill
3. Student traces the
this quart? The half-gallon?
letter with chocolate
 How many quarts of water does it take to
chips.
fill this gallon?
Ingredients:
Our whole school
gathered in the
cafeteria for a Bus
Safety Assembly.
Featuring puppets and catchy
chants/songs, the
rules for safely
riding the school
bus were presented and repeated
numerous times.
The children took
a safety pledge
and received
safe rider certificates. Please ask These name cakes are
your child to tell
alphabetically delicious!
you what he/she
remembers!
Not only will your child have good, clean fun—
she will also learn a great deal about sizes and
measures.