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February 14th, we will be having our class Valentine’s Day party. Children are welcome to bring a valentine for their fellow classmates, but please no treats are allowed.  We have 24 students in the AM class and 23 in the PM Class (please do not write who the valentine is for on the card, this makes passing out valentines very difficult).  Also, the children are welcome to bring a decorated valentines box to hold their valentines in.  This is purely optional; please do not feel like you have to create a box.  I will be providing a bag for students who do not bring a box.  

If you would like to help with our class Valentine’s party coming up on Feb. 14th, please email our class room mom below.

AM Class:  (Angel Papciak)  angelpapciak@gmail.com 
                or (Nicole  Harms)  nicole.bass7@gmail.com

PM Class:  (Blakeley Ferrin)  thekiddo1@msn.com

Our school’s fund raiser starts today!! We are selling Little Caesars crazy bread and sauce punch cards for $10. Each pass has 10 punches and you are able to get free crazy bread and sauce with every purchase. Please help your child collect as much money as possible and return the order form and money in their envelope (found in your child’s homework folder) in two weeks (Feb. 10th). Orders (cards) will be ready for pickup on Feb. 14th from 8am to 4pm. If you child lost their order forms, you can print the form below. Thank you for all your help and support. 

Our next book fair is coming up!

Mon, Jan 27 – Fri, Jan 31 we will be open during school each day and during parent teacher conference evenings.   

We need Volunteers! Please visit our Scholastic Quest Homepage to sign up.   

https://www.scholastic.com/bf/questac0120

This is just a reminder that February 6th (Thursday) is our field trip to the Treehouse. Both Classes (morning and afternoon kindergarten classes) meet at school at 8:30am.  The children will be dismissed at 12:00.

Every student in my class needs to wear a red shirt.
Please email me if you are will to be a chaperon: smcbride@questac.org 
NO SIBLINGS!  The Tree House does not allow sibling to come on the field trip

There will be no Kindergarten on January 28th and January 29th.  Instead we will be holding Parent Teacher Conferences. 

I am trying to give you plenty of notice so you can get some time off work to come and meet with me.  I have set up a SignUp Genius with the time slots available. There are plenty of slots so that I can meet with EACH of you about your child. It is very important that I meet with everyone to talk about your child’s progress and our goals. Please go to the link below to sign up for a time that works for you. Let me know if you have any questions.
Hurry, slots fill up fast! 

Parent Teacher Conference Sign-up Genius link:    Conference Sign Up Link

   I just wanted to thank all the wonderful parents for the very thoughtful gifts and treats. I am truly touched by your generosity and kindness. I feel so incredibly blessed to be working with such amazing parents! Thank you all for letting me be your child’s teacher; I absolutely love each and every one of them. I am so lucky to be able to work with these sweet little children every day. Have a wonderful Christmas and I look forward to seeing you all January 6th.

Optional concept to work on over the Christmas break:

Language Arts:
1.       Identify all uppercase and lowercase letters and sounds
2.      Read all 20 Sight words: I, can, the, we, see, a, like, to, and, go, you, do, my, are, he, with, is, little, she, was
3.      Write first and last name
4.      Tell how many syllables are in a variety of words
5.      When given a word they can say a word that rhymes with that given word
6.      When given a three-letter word, they can identify each sound in a three-letter word
7.      They can identify the first sound in a variety of words

Math:

1.      Count to 100
2.      Write to 20
3.      Add and subtract with numbers less than five where the solution is less than 10. 

Today your child will be bringing home a very special Christmas gift that they made for their family. Please watch for them; they have been working on this special gift for the last four months. One more week of school then have a wonderful Christmas and we will see you back in school Jan. 6th.

Just a friendly reminder of how important it is to bring your kids to school every day (Unless they are sick, please don’t bring them).