Halloween Parade

Friendly reminder that tomorrow, Wednesday October 31st Roxbury will have their annual Halloween Parade! The Halloween parade will take place only outside this year. We ask that students bring their costumes to school in bag. Please do NOT send your child to school in their costume.


The Kindergarten portion of the parade will begin at 12:30.


If you have signed up for items for our small party, please drop them off today after school, or tomorrow morning during arrival.


If your child does not participate in Halloween, there will activities in the media center.

I hope to see you there!

Book-in-a-Bag Contract

A letter went home on Friday explaining our book-in-a-bag program. The second page is to be signed and returned to school before your child can take books home. Please do so ASAP!

Reading for the Read-a-Thon

Check us out reading for the read-a-thon! Please be sure to track your minutes online. The information was sent home to you last week. I've been giving minutes out for students who are active listeners during story time, and when they are reading to self or with a partner! Log in to see how many minutes they've earned at school so far!

A Week of Visitors!

Last week was filled with visitors from the community! On Monday, Mrs. Rizzi's (kindergarten teacher at Roxbury) mother who is an author came to visit. She showed us two books that she wrote and explained the writing process.

On Wednesday, Stamford firefighters came to discuss fire safety. Each kindergarten class got to sit in the truck. The firefighters also brought  cool fire hats!

On Thursday, we had readers from Kiwanis come, and the dental hygienist, Ms. Tony. She showed us the correct way to brush our teeth. Each kindergartener got a copy of the Tooth Book and a new toothbrush! 

We ended our busy week with a marshmallow project for the letter M! 

What a week!!

Looking Ahead...

Letter of the week: Hh

Word of the week: can

Number of the week: 6

Halloween parade is on Wednesday, October 31st at 12:30. If you signed up to send something in for the class, please do so Tuesday after school or Wednesday during arrival. Thank you!

Halloween costumes are NOT to be worn to school. Please send them in a bag and we will put them on before the parade. If your child does not celebrate Halloween, there will be an activity in the media center. 

Kick Off to Our Read-A-Thon!!

Today is the first day of Roxbury's first Read-A-Thon! We are encouraging students to read (or read with a family member) as many minutes as they can through out the next 31 days! This is a fundraiser to raise money for resources for Roxbury's new theme, Higher Order Thinking!

 All information went home today in your child's folder.

Pre-K, and Dr. B did the honors while the rest of us cheered them on!

Reading takes us places! Let the reading begin!

G is for Green!

We are moving right along with sight words and letters in Room 210! Here we are on doing a project for, "Fine Motor Friday". My tots ripped green paper to form the letter G!

We also learned about nocturnal animals. We read fiction and Non-fiction books about owls and bats. Check back for more photos of our latest work!

Next Week....

Letter of the week: Mm

Word of the week: like

Number of the week: 5

A letter will be sent home explaining Halloween. A parade will take place at 12pm on Wednesday, October 31st. Details to follow! 

The items that I've requested on signup genius are for an early morning classroom celebration that is for students only.  

Thank you for your continued support. I was so impressed with completed homework this week.
Book-in-a-bag will begin in November!

Halloween

An email was sent to each of you through SignupGenius.com, Below is the link to access the sign up list! Thanks in advance for your continued support!


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


A letter will be sent home with more details about the events that day!

Looking Back on Our Week

Here's a peek at last week in Room 210!

We learned all about the letter Dd. We made a list of things that start with the letter D, and used dot markers to make a D.

We were "digging" for D and C objects in our sensory bucket. I asked students to close their eyes, feel around and pull out an object. Then, they listened for the first sound in the word to decide if it was an object that began with C or D. They loved it!

We finished our D week by reading If you Give a Dog a Donut, while eating doughnuts!

In math we had our first week of real math stations! We had one station at my table, one at Mrs. D's table and one independent station with no teacher! My tots did a fabulous job. Please use dream box at home if you have not already!

In reading and writing we read alphabet and farm books, and looked for punctuation. Ask your child to find a period, question mark or exclamation point!

On Friday, we had a picture perfect day for our first field trip to the Nature Center! We explored all of the animals, got to play on the huge playground, learned how to make apple cider and had a picnic lunch.

  This is what I call a fun Friday!!

Thank you to all the families who sent in their family projects. They look awesome in the hallway, and the other children at Roxbury are loving them!

Looking Ahead...

Letter of the week: Gg

Word of the week: go

Number of the week: 4

*This will be our first week of homework. Please be on the look out for homework in your child's purple folder. Homework is due back the next day. *

Please be on the look out for information regarding Halloween! Once my room moms have been assigned, you will receive a class email as well. 

More Apple Treats!

Thank you to the Ladd and Ho families for sending in a home made apple crisp and apple cider!

We are officially moving on to pumpkins!

Picture Day!

Tomorrow is picture day! Please try to have your child to school on time, our time slot it 9:35! 

All About Apples!

Thank you to the Campo, Bueckman and Taylor families for sending in apple sauce, apple bars, and apple cider doughnuts for the class to sample during our apple unit.

In reading, I read fiction and NF books with apple facts or apples as characters, how silly! We explored alphabet and number books such as Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and  Chicka Chicka 1,2,3. We practiced "shopping" for classroom books to read, and learned how to partner read! We sat elbow to elbow and knee to knee with one book. My tots loved it!!

In math we counted, practiced  writing numbers  1,2 and 3, and went on Dreambox for the first time in the computer lab! Dream box is easily accessible at home on a tablet or computer.

Here are some of our apple math centers from the week.

This is Sheza and Francesca using playdoh to form letters and count!

This is the apple tree counting game where students had to identify the number and count that many apples on the tree!

In phonics we learned all about the letter O! On our last day with the letter O we used, CheeriO's to trace the letter... and have a little snack! Look at these pros using liquid glue the correct way!

We ended our busy week with a rest time show! Since we rested nicely Monday-Thursday, we earned  an episode of Pete the Cat!

Looking Ahead...

No School- Monday Columbus Day

Jack-O-Lanterns are due Tuesday, October 9th!! 

School Pictures- Wednesday, October 10th 

Field Trip to the Nature Center- Friday, October 12th 

*your child will need a bagged lunch*

Letter of the week: Dd

Word of the week: I

Number of the week: 4