Hello Kindergarten Families,


Thank you SO much to everyone who was able to volunteer/donate to our class Halloween party! And a special BIG thank you to our wonderful Room Moms, Carol Dudley and Dina Lee for planning and organizing the best Halloween party ever!!! I am so blessed to have so many supportive and involved families this year! The students all had the time of their lives! :)

Here is what's going on in Kindergarten next week:


In addition to studying the meaning of Thanksgiving, students will begin to learn about our new theme: Butterflies! We will be ordering some caterpillars for the students to observe in our classroom. In a couple of weeks, the caterpillars will begin to form chrysalises, at which point we will put them into a large netted cage so we can watch them emerge into butterflies! At the end of observing this amazing life cycle, we will release the butterflies outside. It's a very exciting process. Make sure to ask your child all about it throughout the next few weeks!  We are also so excited to go on our first field trip to visit the Monarch butterflies at Natural Bridges and observe them in their actual habitat! Paperwork for this field trip will be sent home next week.


Word of the week: have


Math focus: Students will continue to work on math word problems and solving them through a variety of strategies.  They are also studying the differences between 2 dimensional shapes (square, circle, triangle and rectangle) and 3 dimensional shapes (sphere, cube, cone, cylinder). If you would like to review the concepts that we've been studying in class with your child at home, please look through the Home Connection math book and do any of the games, number writing practice and lessons up until page 29. Nothing needs to be turned in, it is just optional support for your child.


Next week I'll send home Parent- Teacher Conference reminders with the date and time of your conference.  I'm really looking forward to meeting with you and discussing your child's growth so far this year!


Just a reminder, there is no school on Friday, November 11, in honor of Veteran's Day.


Thank you,

Cathy Werner