Week of: November 3 rd – November 7 th News to Know THANKS: I would like to send out a huge thank you to everyone who helped out with last week’s Halloween Party and this week’s field trip. Both experiences were very successful and the kids had a lot of fun! In case you were wondering, the kindergarten classes donated nearly 1000 lbs. of food to the OPRF Food Pantry this week and received tons of praise from the staff and the Holmes teachers, GREAT JOB! NO SCHOOL: This is no school this Monday in recognition of Veteran’s Day. Please make sure to turn in library books on Tuesday when we return to school. WEATHER: It looks like the weather is turning cold fast! Please make sure that your child is coming to school prepared to go outside for recess everyday! GIFT BASKETS: Holmes school is collecting money this holiday season for a family in need. Feel free to donate what you can, a handout was sent out earlier this week with more information. TURKEY TROT: The Holmes School Turkey Trot is coming up on Monday, November 17 th. This is an in- school physical education event in which the kids will take some time in the day to run around the school! More information will be coming regarding the time. Rowdy Readers As the trimester comes to an end the kids and I are in the process of fine tuning some reading skills so that they are able to show me everything that they know. We worked hard this week in our new FOOD unit as we discussed the tools an author and illustrator would use, where they do their work in a book and their overall roles. We also continued our work on know characters, settings and events in books as well as all of the physical parts of a book. Finally, we worked on the initial and ending /n/ sound. Some of the stories that helped us out this week include: Apple Farmer Annie There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Pizza Please How Rocket Learned to Read The Goat in the Chili Patch Pumpkin Town We also added a new word wall word to our collection. We are now up to seven. Our new word for the week was “to”. Our new vocabulary words for the week that will improve oral speaking skills were: ingredients, nutritious, combine, market and farmer. Math Madness ATTRIBUTES: This week the class worked hard sorting, counting and coming up with different attributes with simple objects. Each day we found different things to sort and discuss their attributes. Some of the objects that we sorted were: shapes, people, buttons, balls, math manipulative and school supplies. Try sorting and finding attributes at home! Upcoming Dates Monday, November 10 th : NO SCHOOL Friday, November 14 th : PTO Trivia Night (Pleasant Home) Monday, November 17 th : Turkey Trot Friday, November 21 st : End of the 1 st Trimester Tuesday, November 25 th : Kindergarten Sharing Feast 11/26-11/28: NO SCHOOL (Thanksgiving Break) Things we do at Holmes/Things to work on at Home Sorting objects by different attributes Separating the initial and ending sounds in words Finding the title on a front cover Recognize and produce rhymes Button, zip and tie independently