Panda Parents,
Anyone else's kids wake up at 5 am today?! 
I hope you are enjoying the weekend and I hope you enjoyed an extra hour of sleep or the status quo.
I hope you are enjoying the weekend and I hope you enjoyed an extra hour of sleep or the status quo. I am looking forward to meeting with everyone in the upcoming two weeks! I really enjoy parent teacher conferences and connecting with families. Remember that for the next two weeks, dismissal will be at 1:15 daily. If you need to check your conference time, you can find it on this document. Please note that this sign-up can no longer be edited. If you need to reschedule your conference, please email me.
You may have heard that one of the Pandas will be joining the TK class starting this Monday. The class and I had a brief discussion about this. Your children will still see the former classmate on the playground during snack recess and lunch recess. We discussed that we will NOT ask the former classmate questions about her move to TK. I answered that question for them in a simple manner during our class conversation. We WILL continue to say hello and play with this classmate at school and at extended care. Some of the classmates were sad about this on Friday and a couple pandas were absent. Our discussion revolved around how her birthday makes her almost a whole year younger than many of the pandas and that the school made a mistake. To fix the mistake, the school decided it would be best for her to join the TK class. Thank you for your help in coaching your child to be kind and to move forward regarding this matter.
Special Family Project
I am excited to see all the decorated turkeys this week! You can start sending those in on Monday, but no later than Wednesday. Remember that Wednesday envelopes will go home on Tuesday the 8th this week, so if you'd like to send your child's turkey back in the envelope on Wednesday, that would be perfect.
Classroom Help
After some discussion with the Kinder team, I've added a few more dates on the Sign-Up Genius for centers in December. We've decided to do an additional week of centers in December, the week of 12/5. Please see the Sign-Up Genius if you are interested. As always, thank you so much for volunteering at centers and making small group instruction possible.
Friendship Feast
Thank you for signing up so quickly to help out and bring items for our Friendship Feast on 11/18 at 10:00. Several people were very generous with their time and food donations! If anyone who signed up for multiple things would like to drop out of an item, that would be totally fine. The Sign-Up Genius is for the ENTIRE grade level, so there are plenty of people to fill the slots. Please let me know if you are unable to join us for the Feast so that I can pair your child with another family to get help with going down the buffet line. Thank you!
In Class This Week
Language Arts:
We are about to wrap up the introduction of all letters when we introduce the letters Xx and Yy this week. The only letters remaining are Qq and Zz. If you notice that your child does not recognize all upper & lower case letters, as well as know all letter sounds, please provide additional reinforcement at home. To help your child form this week's letters correctly, please see the Fundations Family Letter. Our sight words this week are yes and no. For a list of the 19 sight words (also called high frequency words) we've introduced so far, as well as all words we'll be studying this year, please see the class website. Again, if you notice that your child is not able to read these sight words, please continue working on them at home. Note - this can be done with flashcards but not necessarily as a flashcard thing. You want to discuss what the letters say (refer to better alphabet song). All the sight words taught so far are decodable.
Math
This will be a review week in math. Children should continue working on counting to 100 by 1s and 10s, counting on from any given number, and writing numbers legibly and correctly to 20.
**Library is every Wednesday. Please return your child's library book by Tuesday each week.
**Remember to wear shoes and clothes appropriate for fitness on Fridays.
**Panda t-shirt days are every Friday.
This Week's Helpers & Activities:
Monday: dismissal @ 1:15
Tuesday: No centers, White envelopes go home, dismissal @ 1:15
Wednesday: Library (Lia & Jose), dismissal @ 1:15
Thursday: NO SCHOOL: Professional Development Day
Friday: NO SCHOOL: Veteran's Day
Upcoming Events
1/7-11/18: Parent-Teacher Conferences
Wednesday, 11/9: Return completed turkey project to school
Thursday 11/10: NO SCHOOL: Staff Development Day
Friday, 11/11: NO SCHOOL: Veteran's Day
Friday, 11/18: Friendship Feast @ 10:00
11/21-11/25: Thanksgiving Break
