Kindergarten with Mrs. Petersen

Hey folks! This last week we had our middle of year Acadience reading and math testing.
I am happy to say they these kids did amazing! I am excited to show you all at our Winter conferences. If you have not signed up for Winter Conferences please do so soon and remember your child will be presenting to you so please try to bring them with you.
Also the week of Parent Teacher Conferences will be a scholastic book fair held in the Lunchroom. Flyers will go home with info about times on Monday.

With Valentine’s Day approaching. Quest has “Friend Grams” they allow students to purchase and have sent to their friends in the morning before school. I believe they are 25¢. They will be delivered to each child along with a small piece of candy. If you allow your child to receive these friend grams they need to fill out this form for Quest.
In our class, we will allowing the students to pass out Valentine’s to each student. Please keep in mind that if you send Valentine’s for you child to pass out they should have one for each student. We have 21 students in our class. We will decorate bags to receive these valentine’s in class. Please do NOT send any food items to pass out. We do have allergies in class so we are very careful what we do and do not allow to come through to the students.

Upcoming Dates:
Friday Jan 26 – Dollar Dress Down
Jan 31 – Feb 1 – Early out days 1:10 and Parent Teacher Conferences
Jan 31 – Feb 1 – Book Fair in Q1 Lunchroom
Feb 2 – No School for students.

Another week in Kindergarten.
No School on Monday Jan 15 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
This week we will be doing middle of year testing. Please do your best to have your students present this week.

Our Winter Student Conferences are approaching. Jan 31 – Feb 1. Both days will be early out at 1:10 p.m. Please sign up for a 20 minute time slot here. Your student will be doing a presentation for you so please have them attend with you.


Upcoming Dates to remember:
Jan 26 – Dollar Dress Down
Jan 31 – Fab 1 – Early Out 1:10 p.m.
Feb 2 – No School for students
Feb 14 – Valentine’s Day – Info coming soon!

Happy New Year and welcome back!
I hope you all had a great break!
Now that we are back we are going to be diving back in to get ready for our middle of year testing. The testing will take place over the week of Jan 16 – 19. Our 2nd term ends on Jan 12. We will be having student lead Student Conferences at the end of the month. Jan 31 and Feb 1 from 2:00 – 7:20. Please be on the look out for my sign ups coming soon.

Upcoming Events:
Jan 2 – Back to school after break
Jan 15 – Martin Luther King Jr Day – NO SCHOOL
Jan 16 – 19 Middle of Year testing
Jan 26 – Dollar Dress Down Day
Jan 31 – Feb 1 Student Lead Parent Teacher Conferences.
Feb 2 – NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS

We are on the final stretch before break!
This week we will have some fun things with our STEEM class, an in house field trip, and our winter party.

We are still working hard to be ready for middle of year testing. If you would work with your child in being able to identify numbers between 1 – 100 and fluently identifying letters both uppercase and lowercase. We do work hard on that in class but any extra helps for out middle of year testing.

Dates to remember:
Every Monday – Library books and folders due.
Wednesday – STEEM with marshmallows. If you haven’t filled out the form for your child to consume marshamllows please either email me or fill out this form
Thursday – In house field trip. Discovery Gateway will be showing us about forces of motion.
Friday – FREE DRESS DOWN, Winter Party 8:30 – 9:30 am.
Dec 16 – Jan 1 – NO SCHOOL
We return Jan 2.
Jan 15 – MLK Day No School
Jan 16 – Jan 19 Middle of Year Testing.

Quest families,

The time has come for us to select a yearbook cover for our 2023-24 elementary yearbook. We will be holding a Yearbook Cover Contest to select two students whose artwork will be featured on the front and back cover of the yearbook. This year, students can choose to do artwork that is created digitally or hand-drawn. Each entry must be brought in on a white 8 ½ X 11” paper, and include the school name along with the student’s first and last name in one corner. We will be looking for entries that represent this years theme which is “BE GREAT!” 

Entries are due by Friday, January 5, at 8:30 am.

List of digital art programs suitable for children: Adobe Fresco, Gimp, Krita, Artweaver Free, ArtRange, Sketchpad, Astropad Studio, Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, Vectr, FireAlpaca, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Paint, Procreate, Tux Paint, Drawing for Children.

Feel free to call the school with any questions. 

Thank you, and happy drawing!

Welcome to December! Only 10 school days left before Winter break! I love this time of year
We are have fun things planned in class as long as we are still able to get our work done.
This week in math we are counting from 1 to 100 by 10’s and by 1’s. This would be helpful for us in class if parents also work with counting at home. Any counting helps especially getting through those teen numbers. 12, 13, 14, seems to be a particularly hard one to get passed for many students.

Upcoming Dates:
Dec 15 – Winter Party 8:30 – 9:30 (Volunteers welcome!)
Dec. 16 – Jan 1 Winter Break – NO SCHOOL

Welcome back! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with gratitude and delicious food!
Monday is Library and Folder day.
This week we will be sending home a “Snow Day Packet”. These will be kept at home just in case we have a snow day this winter. This will have things for the kids to work on if school is closed due to snow. We will also be sending home a paper in the front of their take home folders that could be used in case of absence. This is great to use if your student will be gone for multiple days in a row.

This Saturday, Dec 2 is the Reindeer Run and Breakfast with the Grinch. Please see previous post if you have any questions. Hope to see you there.

I am looking for some parents to volunteer to plan our Winter Party Friday, Dec 15 8:30 – 9:30 am. Please email me if you are interested. We would like to have at least 4 centers of activities the students can rotate to for the party.

Upcoming Dates:
Dec 2 – Reindeer Run and Breakfast with the Grinch
Dec 14 – In house field trip – Discovery Gateway
Dec 15 – Early Out Day 1:10 pm – Dress Down Day
Dec 16 – Jan 1 Winter Break NO School
Jan 2 – Back in School
Jan 12 – End of 2nd Quarter

We are excited for our upcoming Annual Reindeer Run and Breakfast with the Grinch. We hope to see all of you on Saturday, December 2. Sign up now to get early bird pricing. Click here to register: Quest 5K and Fun Run Registration

I am so glad I was able to meet and discuss each of my amazing students over parent teacher conference.
One thing I was going to mention to all families but forgot to mention to some. On the right side of my blog page. I have a widget that connects to a form for snacks. I know most of you send your child with a snack each day but just in case they don’t have one, please fill it out and I can share with them some of the snacks I have had donated. I will update the form as necessary if we get other snacks as to have permission for everything.

This week is going to be a fun one. Red ribbon week, we call “Positive Me week” kicks off tomorrow:
Monday – Pajama day “Don’t let drugs ruin your dreams” and Library Day
Tuesday – Halloween Parade “Scare away drugs” Halloween Parade 9:00 am, Early out 1:10
Wednesday – NO SCHOOL for students.
Thursday – Hawaiian Dress up “Lei off drugs”
Friday – Cowboy/Cowgirl “Give drugs the BOOT”