Mrs. Pickett's Kindergarten Class 2017-2018

Friday, December 15 will be our Polar Express Day!  We will drink hot cocoa and eat popcorn while we watch The Polar Express.  Feel free to bring pillows and blankets to be comfortable in while watching the movie.  I am really looking forward to the day! Jenny

DO NOT EAT!  Please do not eat the gingerbread houses we sent home today.  The houses are glued together with hot glue, we used expired frosting to decorate them, and the candies we used are old candies (I don't know how old).  These are for decoration only.  The children did a terrific job on these!  Please see earlier posts for information about our Polar Express day on Friday, December 15, 2017.  This will be a fun day! Winter Break is coming!  Please check previous posts for the dates. Lost and Found Please check the school's Lost and Found if you are missing coats, hats, gloves, lunch boxes, backpacks, or anything else.  The items in Lost and Found will be donated to charity on December 15.  Colder Weather Occasionally, our weather does get cold.  Please dress your child appropriately to go outside for recess on these days.  We go out to recess every day.  It is essential that they have an appropriate jacket to w...

Gingerbread Houses This Friday, December 8, we will be decorating Gingerbread Houses.  Thank you to Mrs. Olson and Mrs. Myers for making the houses for us!  We will decorate houses during our normal center time from 9:15-10:30.  Parents are welcome to join us.  This is always a fun activity and I look forward to it!  Assessments I will be doing assessments with students next week and Mrs. Diemert, our literacy specialist, will be asking each child to read for her.  At this time of year, we expect children to be reading at level 2 or level B.  I am eager to see how much the children have learned!  Polar Express Next Friday, December 15, we will watch The Polar Express at school.  It will be a pajama day!  We will have popcorn and hot cocoa during the movie.  The book and movie are absolutely terrific and I look forward to sharing both with the class next week!  Winter Break We will be on Winter break from December 18-J...

Please be sure to check the blog post from Wednesday, November 29 Storyteller      Our Storyteller, Ms. Sharon, came for a visit today.  She told 3 stories.  One of the stories that she told was a variation of the Gingerbread Man.  Ask your child to tell you the stories! Classroom Needs Our classroom needs gallon size ziplock bags and Chlorox wipes. 

Late Start  Wednesday, December 6 is a Late Start Day.  School will start at 11:30 and we will go straight to lunch.  We will dismiss at the usual 3:40 time. No School We will be on Winter Breakfrom December 18-January 2.  We will return to school on Wednesday, January 3. Report Cards Report Cards will be available on Infinite Campus on Friday, December 2.  A hard copy will not be sent home.  I will also send home a couple of pamphlets that will explain the report cards.  If you do not know your log in information for Infinite Campus, please contact the office.  I do not have that information to forward to you. Gingerbread Houses Thank you for the old Halloween candy!  We will decorate Gingerbread Houses a little early on December 8.  Parents are welcome to come in and help with the decorating.  We will need a couple of containers of frosting, some M&Ms, graham crackers (needed right away), and paper plates to glue the...

Storyteller Today, our Storyteller came for a visit.  She told 3 stories about Thanksgiving.  The children loved the stories.  Ask them to tell you all about it. Halloween Candy Don't throw that Halloween candy away!  Bring it to school.  We will use that Halloween candy to decorate gingerbread houses right before winter break.  Package the unwanted candy up, and send it to school. Pumpkin Pies On Monday, November 13, we will make pumpkin pies.  This is a delicious recipe that I have made with classes for several years.  I need help collecting the ingredients.  If you can help, please go to http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c45aba72ea3fb6-pumpkin and sing up for what you can bring.  I apologize for the short notice.  I appreciate any help you can offer! Thanksgiving Break There will not be any school November 20-24.  It is Thanksgiving Break. Late Start Wednesday, December 6 is a late start day.  School will...

We had a long, busy day in kindergarten today! Today in a Nutshell We worked at Centers this morning.  I finished re-assessing students on letter recognition and letter sounds.  The kids worked on counting with play-doh, read 2 Let's Find Out magazines, practiced writing letters correctly in our Handwriting Without Tears notebooks, and worked in math journals.  After our morning recess, we reviewed our Orton-Gillingham letter cards.  If you do not have a set of these, and would like a set, please email me and let me know.  I would be happy to send a set home to you.  We looked at the sight words we have learned (the, to, a do, no, I, go, so, he, me, she, we, be, of, was, too).  I was happy that most kids seemed to remember them!  We also read Five Little Ghosts Playing Tricks at School.  I asked if we really have ghosts at school, and the kids happily knew that we do not.  I connected this story back to the rhyme Five Little Monkeys...