Ms. Goldberg

 Mrs. Goldberg’s Kindergarten News

SEPTEMBER

The "letters-of-the-week" for September are M (week of September 8), S (week of September 15), and F (week of September 22).  We will be focusing on the numbers 0 through 5.  The themes for the month are Friendship, Children’s Names, and Growth and Change (ourselves, Monarch caterpillars, and blueberries).  Thank you for helping your child search for caterpillars and chrysalises and sending them to school!  The children have enjoyed observing them with magnifying glasses!   

Please send to school a baby picture of your kindergartner for our Growth and Change unit.  It would be helpful to have these in class by Friday, September 12. 

We will study the work of author-illustrator Eric Carle.  Please send to school Eric Carle books you would like to share with the class.
           
Wednesday, September 10, is an early release day for the District’s elementary schools. The children will be dismissed at 12:00 on this day.                                                

I welcome and encourage volunteering in the classroom.  I will hold two sessions for interested volunteers (parents, grandparents, relatives, and friends of our classroom families) on Wednesday, September 10 in the kindergarten classroom to discuss the specifics of the volunteer reading, writing, and math programs and to sign-up volunteers for specific dates and times to work in the classroom.  Interested volunteers should come at 3:30 p.m. or 7:00 p.m.
 
 We will be having morning and afternoon snack-times.  The children may buy milk or juice for the morning snack-time.  Please send a drink to school for the afternoon snack-time because the cafeteria is closed at this time.

Each day the children will leave the Kindergarten classroom to attend “specials.”   Specials include physical education ("P.E.") with Mrs. Dyer and music with Mr. Michaud on Mondays and Tuesdays, library with Mrs. Dinino on Wednesdays, art with Mrs. Marquis on Thursdays, computer with Mr. Rozett on Fridays, and Spanish with Mrs. Kugler on Wednesdays and Fridays.  Mrs. Dyer requests that sneakers be worn to P.E.  At library time, each child will receive a library book to take home.  The children must return the books one week later.  If you have not already done so, please send a large t-shirt to school to be used as an art smock.

I will be ordering books from the Scholastic Book Club this year.  Please take a moment to look over the selections in this month's Book Club News.  If you would like to purchase any of the books, check the appropriate box on the order form and return it to me with a check payable to Scholastic Book Club by Friday, September 12.  Please do not send cash--only checks are accepted by the Book Club.  The class order will arrive in two-to-three weeks.

The children have settled nicely into the Kindergarten routine.  We're off to a great start!