January Field Trip

Sorry for the confusion, the January field trip will be to the Ferguson Library in Stamford. The library ‘s purple bus will pick us up at 9:30 and drive us back to Roxbury for 11:30!

Winter Concert

I am so proud of all of my tots for their hard work for the show. They did a wonderful job and put everyone in the holiday spirit!

Toys from Home

We are having an issue with sharing toys from home. My classroom rule is there are no toys from home allowed at school. If your child attends an afterschool program, or goes somewhere where they need to bring their own toys, they are to stay in their backpack.


Thank you for your cooperation.

This Week

There will be no book in a bag this week. We will continue in the new year!


Letter of the week: Bb
Word of the week: love
Number of the week; 12


If you have signed up to send in items for the gingerbread decorating on Thursday, feel free to send those items in early.


Thank you to everyone who attended their child's conference. It was so nice sharing their growth with you!


Please check back soon for photos of Room 210's Tots in action!

Upcoming Letters and Sounds

Letter sound: ch
Letter of the week: U
Words of the week: my, said (reviewing and, you)
Number of the week: 11

Reminders

Tomorrow is our Kindergarten Holiday Concert. Please be sure your child wears a white shirt, and black pants! 

The show starts at 10:00 am and all families are invited. We hope to see you there!

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week are early release days for teacher conferences. If you are not sure of your date and time, please email me. I look forward to discussing your child's progress with you.

Visitors in Room 210

The month of December has been quite busy! I have invited all families to share a holiday treat or tradition with our class. We have had two families come in. It is not too late if you are interested!

Jacob's mom came to visit to share the story of Hanukkah! We learned about menorahs, read a story, played dreidel, ate munchkins and got chocolate gelt coins! Thank you Mrs. Bueckman!

Romy's dad came in to share the advent calendar; a German tradition they do every year around Christmas. Each student got to reach into the advent bag and see if there was a treat inside!

We also had Dr. Bonasera come in to play a rhyming game with us! 

Thank you to all of our visitors! 

Happy Birthday Vanessa!

Happiest of birthdays to Vanessa who turned 5 on Friday!

Family Projects

As we said goodbye to our disguised turkeys who were oh so cute...

 We say hello to our gingerbread characters!!

More gingerbread characters coming soon!

Gingerbread Decorating

https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10c0f4eabaf29aafd0-gingerbread/19099210

This is the link to sign up to send in items for our gingerbread decorating day! Please sign up if you can! Thanks for your continued support!

New Specials Schedule

Below is the new specials schedule for the second Marking Period. This will begin on Monday, December 10th.


Monday- Music
Tuesday- Art
Wednesday- Media
Thursday- Music
Friday- Gym (please wear sneakers)

One Week To Go!

One week to go until our big performance!!


Wednesday, December 12th at 10:00


Roxbury Auditorium


All families are invited!!


Below is the poem our class is performing. Please practice with your child at home!




Snowball


I made myself a snowball
As perfect as can be
I thought I'd keep it as my pet
And let it sleep with me.
I made it some pajamas
And a pillow for its head
Then, last night it ran away
But first it wet the bed!


Shel Silverstein

Holiday Traditions

A letter went home last week inviting all families to come in and share a holiday tradition! Throughout the month of December we learn about the winter holidays and would love to learn a little about your family traditions. Please email me if you are interested!

After our four day weekend, we came back to a jam packed week!

On Monday we began our new Reading and Writing Unit- an Author Study on Eric Carle! 

We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and sequenced/ retold the story using visuals. We learned about Eric Carle's illustrations strategies. Ask your child to explain it!

We learned the letter Jj and made a J project using jewels.

On Tuesday we took a field trip to the Stamford Palace Theater to see an Eric Carle show. We got to see four different stories performed. We loved it!

The December Family Project went home on Thursday and is due back Friday, December 8th. We will use the gingerbread characters to create stories in school. 

Report cards went home on Friday. Please sign and return the report card envelope. If you have questions regarding your child's report card, please bring all of those questions to your scheduled conference.

All conference dates and times were on your child's report card. I will send home a  reminder next week.

Looking Ahead....

Letters of the Week: Kk   -ch

Words of the week: you, and

Number of the week: 11

The Kindergarten Holiday Concert is Wednesday, December 12th at 10:00!

I hope to see you all there! A poem is going home tomorrow night. Please practice the poem with your child as we will perform it in the show!

End of November Updates!

The last two weeks have been so busy! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We've been working so hard. Here is a glimpse at some skills and projects we've been working on!

We finished the letter Ll by making leaves with tissue paper. We also used leaves to make additions problems. This project is being displayed on our classroom bulletin board.

After the letter Ll ,we moved on to the letter T! We learned about turkeys and made a T project. We learned the poem Tom , Tom Turkey- ask your child to recite it for you with the movements! :)

We used feathers to make another addition problem. 

We learned about the holiday Thanksgiving. We discussed  Native Americans and Pilgrims. We prepared for our feast where some of my tots were pilgrims, and some were Native Americans!

We had a delicious feast as a class. Thank you to all of the families who sent in items to make our Friendsgiving Feast a success!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

December Conferences

Below is the link to sign up for a December conference!


https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e094eaeac29a6ff2-december1


Check back soon for updates on our Thanksgiving feast and what is coming up next!

Thanksgiving Feast

Thank you to the families who signed up to send in items for our feast! If you have signed up for things such as utensils, plates, or juice boxes, feel free to send those items in at any time.




Any non-hot food items can be dropped off  on Tuesday or Wednesday morning. All food needs to be at Roxbury no later than 11:45 on Wednesday.


Please let me know if you have any questions!

L is for Leaf!

We have picked up the pace in Room 210 and moved to two letters of a week! We learned about the letter P and L last week. We came up with 63 words that begin with the letter P-Way to go kindergarten!

We went on a leaf hunt to find the most colorful leaves at Roxbury. We collected them and brought them back to the classroom for our L project of the week. 

In reading and writing we worked really hard on our first stories written and illustrated by your child! My tots brainstormed, drew pictures, sounded out words, labeled their pictures and edited their work. I am so proud of them! These stories are being shared during morning meeting and displayed in the hallway.

Looking Ahead...

Letter of the Week: Tt, Ii

Words of the week: we, to

Number of the week: 8

All turkey projects are due tomorrow!

If you have not returned your book-in-a-bag contract, please do so ASAP so your child can take books home to read!

I would like to recognize Room 210's top readers as of today for the read-a-thon. The read-a-thon is not done so everyone needs to keep reading!

1. Romy  776 minutes

2. Jacob 536 minutes

3. Leonardo 273 minutes

If you are not logging your child's minutes online, please do so! We are currently in third place in all of kindergarten. If we come in first, we earn a class pizza party!

November Family Project

A bunch of turkeys waddled their way out of my classroom yesterday and into my tots mailboxes! Your job is to disguise that turkey so it doesn't get eaten on Thanksgiving! All turkeys are due back to school disguised and decorated by Tuesday, November 13th.

This project is inspired by the children's book, Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano.

Click here to listen to the story!

Happy Halloween

Here are some photos of my tots all dressed up for the Halloween parade!

The kindergarten teachers joined in on the fun! We dressed up as characters from the series If You Give a Mouse a Cookie!

Happy Halloween from Room 210!