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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

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!

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Weekly Newsletter #9


 

October 11-15, 2010

From Mrs. Hicks' desk…

I will begin scheduling conferences so that we may discuss the progress your child has made this first nine weeks of school. A letter will be sent home with times available for us to meet. I look forward to meeting with you!


 

This Weeks' Focus


 

Language Arts

Our Sight Words this week are:

have, is


 

We will read Armadillo's Orange for our Scott Foresman Unit 2 story this week. This unit focuses on habitats, their characteristics and the animals that live there. We will also begin our study of pumpkins, their life cycle and the many ways we use them.


 

Amazing Words for this week:

armadillo, burrow, tortoise,

rattlesnake, grubs, insects


 

Don't forget to wear black and white on Friday!

Math

Our colors this week are black and white.

We will:

* make an ABC pattern using fall foam stickers

* practice recognizing coins and their amounts * practice place value and counting by tens

*practice measurement of everyday items

Important Dates!

October 15th: Fall Carnival

October 25th: Fifties Day

November 11: Veteran's Day (no school)


 

Field Trip

What a wonderful trip to Tate Farms! The kids had so much fun playing on the new playground, petting the animals and, of course, the hay ride! I hope you are all enjoying your pumpkins-make sure to check my website, I have posted photos of the kids with their own pumpkin-so cute!


 

Thank you to all the parents who came to chaperone, I couldn't have done it without you! I think you all made some new friends, too! If you are on the Wait List, you will have first priority for our next trip. J


 

Homework

All written homework is due on Friday.

1. Practice reading Sight Words.

2. Read Family Times magazine.

3. Complete 4 Day Homework Page.

4. Practice CVC Reading Page.


 

You may reach me at 428-7127, jhicks@hsv.k12.al.us or


http://hicks-thealphabetgarden.blogspot.com.