This week in kindergarten

Please note there is NO SCHOOL on FRIDAY due to a teacher planning day!  I will be here getting ready for parent conferences and organizing the classroom.

We are entering the interesting month of November.  To those unfamiliar with Portland Public Schools, it pays to carefully watch the calendar in November.   In addition to this Friday's teacher planning day, we have no school on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week due to conferences and Veteran's Day.  Later in the month we will miss three days of school around the Thanksgiving weekend.

I still have several families who have not scheduled their conferences.  Please stop by or shoot me an email if you need to schedule a meeting or if you are unsure of your conference date or time.

Library is on Thursday morning -- please have your child return any outstanding books.   Both library and share day are on Thursdays -- this may be a motivator to put a library book in a backpack along with share toys.

We are running low on snacks -- Please think of us as you shop this weekend!

Family photos -- we are working on a small family unit, including art and we would love to have a photo of your family to go along with the artwork.  Please send in a photo!  Speaking of art, we had a wonderful gang of volunteers who helped us make potato prints today (and helped make centers successful).  Many, many thanks!!

Rest  -- many young scholars in our room were beyond tired this Halloween week!  Please help them get lots of rest this long weekend, but try to keep them, to the extent possible, on schedule.  On many Mondays it feels like the kids are going through all the stages of jet lag.

Calendar:
November 4 -- No School -- teacher planning day
November 9-10 No School -- conferences
November 11 -- No School -- Veterans Day
November 23-25 -- No School -- Thanksgiving holiday

This weeks themes:
Theme Book: Animal Babies in Grassland
Other Books:  Miscellany 
Letter study: Pp
Letters we know: Mm, Tt, Aa, Ss
New words: we, my, like
Words we know: I, am, the, little, a, to, have, is
Writing: Halloween and Star of Week writing
Math: November calendar, Tally Marks
Song: River verse to "Roll on Columbia"