Superintendent's All Star Literacy Week

We are going to have a busy Literacy Week and we hope everyone is able to participate in some of the fun! :)  A paper went home explaining all the FUN, but we wanted to do a blog post to get everyone EXCITED!!

Monday, October 12
 Students will watch Dr. Vitti’s launch video in their classrooms.
 Celebrate Family Literacy by visiting Barnes and Noble. Proceeds will support district literacy campaign. Dr. Vitti will be doing a “Talk with the Superintendent”

Tuesday,October 13
 “Celebrities” will come to classrooms to read their favorite book to students.

Wednesday, October 14
 Book Swap: Students will bring a book to our bring one take one book swap. We will be doing the swap in our Media Center.

Thursday, October 15
 Students will Drop Everything And Read during breakfast.

Friday, October 16

 Favorite Book Character Book Character Day
 Students will come to school dressed as their favorite literary character and holding their favorite book. We plan on dressing up too!! (Be sure to check the blog for pictures of all the Characters!!)

** The Annual Kindergarten Reading Expectation is 75 picture books read with an adult or independently. Click this link to get extra Book Logs.

Week of October 5

Our Resources for the week are: Monday #1-18 P.E. & #19-36 GUIDANCE, Tuesday MUSIC, Thursday #1-18 P.E. & #19-36 MEDIA, and Friday ART. Tuesday is WALK TO SCHOOL DAY!! Hope to see lots of you participate. Wednesday is an Early Release Day and Friday is School Color Day!! Emily will be bringing Fun Friday Snacks.

Handwriting/Writing

The letter formations we are working on are: Nn, Kk, Qq and Vv.

We will be focusing on using our letter sounds again this week and SLOWLY writing. Make sure when doing the writing homework your child is beginning to write and using their sounds. DO NOT tell them how to write. We want them to gain confidence and independence. :) They may only write the beginning sound for each word or they may write more. Also, please make sure their characters are detailed!! We have worked a lot on detailed people: facial details, necks, muscle arms and legs, etc.

EXAMPLE: I like to wk to s.

*We have learned the sight words I, like and to. So those may be spelled correctly. However, your child will use their sounds to write the unknown words walk "wk" and school "s."

Math

Number 10 is the number of the week! Working with ten in different configurations, adding to ten and stories about ten are the focus. We love 10!! Practice counting to 100 and beyond! Here is our Superhero counting song to practice with at home!

 Science

Our little scientists investigated the sense of smell last week. We finished today by completing a journal page of things we like and don't like to smell! Some things the class brainstormed were dirty socks, pizza, flowers, perfume and skunks! How do we use our eyes? Our class will explore that question this week!

Reading

Sight words for the week are: one, two, five & it.
We will be listening to stories and discussing how they are fiction stories made up by someones imagination. Some of the stories may be new to the students, but others they may already know.  We will be retelling the stories using pictures to guide our words and when appropriate saying the name of the character instead of just the animal name. The stories we will be enjoying are: Chicken Little, The Three Little Pigs,The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids and The Bremen Town Musicians.
Click on the titles so that you can reread the stories to your child and have them practice retelling the stories to you. :) Enjoy!

Fall Festival!!!

 

Make sure to SAVE THE DATE!!

 November 14, 2015

10:00a.m. - 2:00p.m.

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Vendors! Vendors! Vendors!

If you operate a small business and would like to set up a vendor space at our community fall festival, we would love to have you!

Vendor spaces are on a first-come, first serve basis. We have enough room for about 10 vendors. The cost to rent a space is $25.00.

If you have any questions and to reserve your space, please contact Amanda Stoker at stokera@duvalschools.org. 

Hope to see all of you at the Fall Festival!!

Egypt

Our school is an International Magnet School. Each grade level learns about a Continent and a particular country. Kindergarten has Africa and we chose to learn about Egypt. :)

This month we focused on finding the country on our large World carpet and then looking at it's flag. All the students were able to color an Egyptian flag and then we chose one to hang up on the Bulletin Board near the front office. 

Here is Corey posing with his work. 

Check back for more posts about Egypt and International Day. :)

Patriotic Day

It was a great day for Patriotism and Popsicles!! :)

The students were so proud showcasing their red, white and blue clothes. They were even happier to eat the yummy popsicles.  Enjoy watching the smiles in the slideshow as the students tell you the USA is #1!!

   

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Library Field Trip!!

Our Field Trip to West Regional was GREAT!! If you haven't been there before... you've got to check the place out. It was a beautiful library. :) It is located at: 1425 Chaffee Road South.

Enjoy watching the slideshow and seeing what your child experienced on their first Field Trip!!

  

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Thanks to all the Chaperones that joined us. Hope to see your smiling faces again! :)

Walk To School Day!!

 

Our school will be participating in Walk to School Day on Tuesday, October 6.

Everyone is invited to walk! Students, Teachers, Parents and even bus students, but a parent must bring them to Winn Dixie. Make sure to be there by 7:45. The walk will begin promptly at 8:00. They will be be walking from the Winn Dixie Parking lot to the school.

 

 Mrs. Pitts and I are both hoping to be there! Hope to see all of you!!

Ooh I almost forgot: we hope to have a few celebrity walkers there too... this includes a Jacksonville Jaguar player. Two lucky children will be chosen to walk with him. :)

If you have any questions let us know and we will do our best to answer them.