Kindergarten B Star of the Week
Our Kindergarten sharing format is changing with the advancing oral storytelling and listening skills of the children. Attached you will find an information sheet and questionnaire about our “Star of the Week” activities in the coming months. Due to long weekends and holidays, this stretches our schedule out for many months, so please reassure your child that during this time we will continue to have a time each week when the children share with one another of personal news, adventures, plans, and prayers, but I do ask that items from home be saved until their “Mystery Bag” turn during their Star of the Week activities (see Wednesday, below). Please let me know as soon as possible if the following schedule conflicts with family plans, and I will be happy to arrange an alternate week for your child.
Friday before your child's week begins
You will receive Wazo and Zazo, our class mascots, who will spend the weekend with you. We ask that you print about their adventures at your house (real or fictional) in their journal, which will also come home with them. Feel free to include shopping receipts, movie stubs, menus, and/or any other memories from the activities he did or the places that she may have traveled with you. Please return them on Monday. You will also receive a short questionnaire for you and your child to complete together. This will be displayed in the classroom (along with five photos of themselves or favorite people/pets). The questionnaire will be copied for a class memory book, and returned after the end of your child's week.
Monday
Your child will share Wazo and Zazo’s adventures with the class. This is also the day that you send back the questionnaire and 5 photos for display. Also, if you have something special for Friday (see below) please send a note to school with your child so I can plan for it. Your child will share the poster with the class. The class will then have an opportunity to ask questions and interview the "Super Star".
Wednesday
Mystery Bag! Please help your child come up with a favorite object and bring it to school in a brown grocery bag or lunch bag. We ask that you help your child come up with three clues to describe the object and attach them to the outside of the bag. Your child will share the clues, one by one, and see if their classmates can guess what's in the bag.
Friday
Counting/Estimating Jar! Please send a collection of small objects (blocks, pennies, individually wrapped candies, etc.) in a clear zippered bag for the counting/estimating jar. The children will estimate how many objects there are, and then record the actual amount in class. The collection can be from 5-50 items depending upon size.
Your child will have an opportunity to bring a special guest (mom, dad, grandparent, etc.). The guest can choose to share with the class: a family cultural tradition, a science experiment, a cooking activity, an arts and crafts activity, read a favorite book, bring something from their current/former career, etc. Please send a note on Monday to let me know what you have planned or to let me know that you are unable to attend and I will plan something in its place. For scheduling convenience, the guest may share just before lunch (11:00 – 12:00) or during the last half hour of the school day (2:45 – 3:15), but we welcome them to stay with your child for the full half day if they are interested in doing so – just let me know in your note so we can ensure as much hands-on participation as possible for our guests!
This will be an exciting week and a very BUSY week for you and your child. I appreciate your extra effort and assistance in making your child a "Super Star"! Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks again!!
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WARM VALENTINE GREETINGS:
Leading into the long weekend for our Monday, February 16th holiday, we have a few items of note:
Our Valentine's Day Party on Friday will be filled with painting (a special keepsake valentine for Mom & Dad), games, candy estimation, science, french (la famille), Valentine poetry and songs, and of course, our valentine exchange and treats. Our Superstar of the Week is bringing his Mom in as a special guest. She will share with us a beautiful story about Ethiopia, and share the Ethiopian alphabet, treats, and information about some of the food, housing, and people there.
Next week we are celebrating I Love to Read Week at BSLS! As part of the festivities, we will be carrying a book with us during the day, and when the principal rings the bell, we are to stop in our tracks (even in the hallway, technology lab, etc.) and read! Also, Wednesday (18th) is PAJAMA AND BEDTIME STORY DAY, so please send a favorite bedtime book (with your name inside the front cover, if possible) along with your child. On Friday we are to dress as our favourite Storybook Character, then we'll have FAMILY LITERACY NIGHT in the evening from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at the school. The Parents In Partnership are sponsoring an evening of Literacy-based games in each classroom, food, and a Book Fair!
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Is your family struggling with the Roll It Tic Tac Toe game that was sent home? Perhaps your child has already taught you how to play. Just in case, though, here's how it works:
1. Each player chooses a color (marker, pencil crayon, etc.).
2. Youngest player goes first (sorry, Moms and Dads, but that's the rule!) and rolls both dice. On the playing card, the player who rolled colors in the square of the number (total) that he/she rolled. If you roll a 7, it is "wild" and you may colour any uncoloured number on the game board. If you roll a 2, you miss your turn.
The Object of the Game: to get as many "3 in a row" lines as possible when the game board is full. The player with the most "3 in a row" lines is the winner.
The "Real" Objectives of the Game: a) fun for your child b) fun with your child c) number recognition of groupings of objects and of numerals d) beginning addition (without the terminology) e) turn-taking and sportsmanship f) strategic logic!
HAVE A TERRIFIC WEEKEND!
God bless,
Mrs. Lorianne Butterfield
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Beautiful Savior Lutheran School
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