Weekly Newsletter #10

 

October 18-22, 2010

From Mrs. Hicks' desk… This Weeks' Focus Language Arts The focus this week will be on classifying and sorting as we read the book Baby Animals in the Grasslands. We will continue our study of pumpkins this week. We have read The Five Little Pumpkins book/poem and completed the first page in our Pumpkin Book. We will add this poem to our Poetry Notebook where we practice recognizing rhyming word pairs, sight words and punctuation. We will also read Pumpkins, Pumpkins and learn the growth sequence of a pumpkin. Through Reading Street the letter Pp and its sound will be introduced this week.   Amazing Words for this week: pup, foal, joey, grasslands, cub, calf Sight Words we my like Math * practice making ABC patterns using a variety of items * practice recognizing coins and their amounts * practice place value and counting by tens * practice measurement of everyday items   We will estimate the circumference, weight and number of seeds in our pumpkin!

Important Dates! October 25th: Fifties Day – wear your Fifties Clothes! November 11th: Veteran's Day (no school) Fall Carnival Thank you to everyone who donated candy or a drink to the carnival or who volunteered their time. It was a wonderful night-PTA hit it out of the park! The BEST one yet! If you haven't yet joined PTA, please consider doing so. Your $5.00 membership will go directly to our classrooms. The PTA chose not to subject you or your children to fundraising this year (you and your child selling items to make a percentage of the profit for our school). Instead, the decision was made to function off donations and attempt to secure a few corporate sponsorships. That being said, your membership is very important to our school. Please consider joining. Thank you for all that you do! J Homework All written homework is due on Friday. 1. Practice reading Sight Words. 2. Read Family Times magazine. 3. Complete Math Sets Page 4. Complete 4 Day Homework Page. You may reach me at 428-7127, jhicks@hsv.k12.al.us or http://hicks-thealphabetgarden.blogspot.com.

Fall Carnival-Friday, October 15th

Fall Carnival is this Friday from 4:00-8:00pm. This is going to be our biggest Fall Carnival yet with inflatables, games and plenty of food!

Prepay $8 for your child's wristband to enjoy the activities or pay $10 at the gate!

We need volunteers from Kindergarten to help with games! K Teachers will be running concessions with PE staff so anyone who is willing to volunteer even a half hour will help us out tremendously! If we are able to cover a game for a two hour time period then Kindergarten will get a percentage of profits for the evening to be used in your child's classroom! Please contact your child's teacher if you can give any of your time to help with a game for our carnival. If you are unable to volunteer any time, please consider sending in a two liter drink and/or a bag of single packaged candy.

Also, I can't say enough about the importance of joining PTA! EVERY cent goes back directly to OUR school, OUR classrooms and YOUR child. For a $5 membership, you actually put money into my classroom to provide materials that I don't have to buy out of pocket since we have absolutely NO STATE MONEY for the second year in a row. What this means is that whatever supplies that you purchased at the beginning of the school year are all that is provided to our classroom-everything else is purchased out of pocket. Please send your $5.00 membership in an envelope marked for Providence PTA.

Thank you so very much for all of your support and come out and have some Fall Family Fun!