May
2014 Kindergarten Newsletter
Dear
Parents:
Is it possible that we are in our second last month of school!!!! Time is passing quickly.
Our
themes for the month of May will be: “Mother’s Day”, “Life Cycles”, and “Plants”. We will be finishing off the last letters of
the alphabet and then reviewing all the letters/sounds, building words,
learning to print between lines. We will began reciting our phone numbers. We will continue practicing this topic and
add our birthdays. If you did not return
the information sheet sent out with last month’s newsletter and you have a
preference for which phone number your child memorizes (eg. Your cell number
instead of your home number) please let me know.
Kindergarten
Fridays
The Monday/Wednesday Class
has school the following Fridays
(Monday/Wednesday Class)
Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 is early dismissal (2:30 p.m.)
Friday, May 9th 2014
Friday, May 23rd, 2014
The
Tuesday/Thursday Class has school the following Fridays
(Tuesday/Thursday Class)
Friday, May 2nd, 2014
Friday, May 30th, 2014
There will
be no school for any students the following days
Friday,
May 16th, 2014 (Mid-Term Break)Monday, May 19th, 2014 (Victoria Day)
Holidays: There will be no school on Friday, May 16th
(Mid-term break) and Monday, May 19th (Victoria Day).
Monday/Wednesday
Class Assembly Presentation:
Throughout the year, the
Monday/Wednesday class participated in every Wednesday Morning School
Assembly. Each month a grade is
responsible to make a small presentation on stage. May is the month that both Mrs. Kubik’s and
the Monday/Wednesday class will present a small dance on stage, infront of the
school. All parents are welcome!
The presentation will take
place in the gym, first thing in the morning (8:35 am) on Wednesday, May 21st, 2014.
More information will follow
as we come closer to the date.
Class
& Grad Pictures: On Tuesday,
May 27th and Wednesday,
May 28th, we will be having Class and Individual Graduation pictures
taken. Look for more information to come
closer to the time.
Book
Orders:
No book order forms will be
sent home in the month of June. I worry
that I would not receive the books before Summer Holidays. Therefore, May’s Scholastic book orders will
be our last book orders of the school year.
June
Information:
1)
The last day of school for Kindergarten will
be on Wednesday, June 25th.
2)
Safety City
Fieldtrip: For our year end fieldtrip, all 3
Kindergarten classes will be going to Safety City (Alberta Safety Council) in
Edmonton on Tuesday, June 24th.
More information will be coming in the June newsletter; however we would
like to mention that every student will need a properly fitted bike helmet.
Also, we will be looking for parent volunteers to assist that day, so if you
would like to join us that day, please let me know. It will be an all day fieldtrip.
3)
Family Fun
Afternoon: On the last day of school, our Kindergarten
class will be hosting a Family Fun Day from 2:00-3:15 p.m. This will be a time filled with activities,
kite flying and a WATER FIGHT to end the day and year!!!!!!! I hope that I am giving everyone sufficient
time to book time off work and plan for babysitters (as this is a special time
with your Kindergarten child, siblings are asked not to come). If one or both of you are unable to attend,
please note that a grandparent, aunt or uncle may come in your place. We just hope that every child has a least one
parent in attendance. We ask that if
both parents are attending that other adult members of the family do not come
as we will not have the space to accommodate extra bodies (especially if the
weather is poor and we need to move our activities indoors). Thank you.
I will be sending a sheet home with the June newsletter asking who will
be able to attend so that we can plan for activities.
June
Heads Up
(Combining
the two classes)
I will be combining the two classes on the following days in
June
Safety City Fieldtrip on Tuesday, June 24th,
2014
Family Fun Afternoon/Last Day Activities on
Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
This will allow all the students to be bussed and present for
the afternoon fun.
Education
Week: Education Week will be from May 5-9th.
Monday: Children are
encouraged to bring to school books they no longer want to read at home in
exchange for a ticket which can be exchanged for a different book someone else
has brought in.
Wednesday: Skip-a-thon
Kick-Off
Friday: Talent Show (12:50-1:55 p.m.)
Guest Readers in from
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Mother’s
Day Gift: As your child’s Mother’s Day gift is fragile,
we are asking you to send a towel to school so we can wrap the gift up in it to
keep it safe on its way home. However,
all our Mother’s Day presents are made and waiting to go home. If there is a time before Mother’s Day that
you drop by the school it would be best to bring a towel then and take the
Mother’s Day gift home with you instead of packing it in your child’s backpack.
(No peeking!!!!)
Please
have your child bring their towel to school during the week of May 5-9 if you
can’t stop by the school to pick it up.
Father’s
Day
Just
a reminder, even though Father’s Day is not for several months, we are
preparing for the gift we would like your child to make for their dads. For this gift, we need a 4 X 6 sized picture
of just your Kindergarten child with their dad.
Also, if you have small to medium sized bolts/nuts/screws that you have
no purpose for, we will start collecting them now.
Recess/Extra Clothing
After Spring
Break, all the Kindergarten students will be enjoying the same 3 recesses as the rest of the school. With the onset of spring comes puddles and
slush. Puddles mean: run, jump and get
wet!!! Please send extra socks and
splash pants each day as keeping
children out of the puddles is like asking the sun not to shine!! PLEASE
LABEL ALL CLOTHES!!
Rubber Boots
Every spring, we
have major stress (students included) over whose black and orange boots are
whose and whose butterfly boots belong to whom.
With so many boots that look the same, we are asking the both boots be well labelled so that
someone else does not go home with your child’s boots. Thank you in advance.
Student Year End Booklet
Since the
beginning of the school year each week we have explored a letter from the
alphabet. I have saved an activity from
each letter to place in a Year –end A-Z Booklet as a Kindergarten keepsake for
you and your child. However, some
students missed some of the activities.
If you want a complete booklet I will send home the missing craft activities
for you to complete with your child.
Once the craft is completed return it to school and I will paste into
their booklet. I will only send the
material to create one craft at a time.
I will only send
home the materials to make the crafts at parent request.
Please let me know
through an e-mail or note sent in your child’s homeschool folder.
Pictures of all
our letter crafts can be found on our classroom blog.
Extra Information Sheets:
Attached is a
sheet called,” Strategies for
Teaching Children to Make Good Choices”, as information for you as
parents
If you have any
questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at 780-986-8456 or
e-mail
Have a great month
of May,
Dina Hannon
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