Kindergarten Connection

Your child's day with Mrs. Hooker

September 24, 2019

This Week

Hooray for a wonderful first full week of school! We built stamina reading to ourselves and started working on writing. In math, we explored patterns and representing sets with written numbers. We enjoyed our first experience with our daily specials.

Snack and Leaders

September 28- Audrey Conrad

September 29- Henry Czerniak-Manning

September 30- Xavier Disterheft

October 1- Sam Draper

October 2- Will Draper

We have 21 children in our class.

*denotes birthday.

We will snack in the afternoon each day. It is not necessary for you to send a snack with your child, as the leader provides it each day.  

Reminders

-Please return the blue Picture Day form by Wednesday whether or not you are ordering pictures. Let me know if you need another form.

-Send in a water bottle everyday.

-Please send two masks each day. 

-October calendars have been added to the back of our take home folders and will also be available on the blog.

Virtual Orientation

If you haven’t seen our virtual orientation please go through it for information about our year.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1a4TSkv20fiAl_ozTvlu-tCEqVIs2PqFyEEPYQZhuNMo/edit?usp=sharing

Next Week Events

Wednesday, 9/30 is a late start. School begins at 9:55. It is also Picture Day. Bring your blue envelopes and your bright smile! 

Friday will be our first Popcorn Friday of the year. Thank you PTO!

 Happy Back to School Night!

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    Kindergarten Connection

Your child's day with Mrs. Hooker

September 10, 2019

This Cycle

It has been a great first week of school with our phase-in schedule! Thank you for all your help with this transition for your child. 

I am so excited about this school year! We have enjoyed virtually meeting our other teachers for Music-Mrs. Richards, Gym-Mr. Phaler, Art-Mrs. Warsow, Library-Mrs. Berry, and Social Emotional Learning-Mrs. VanHekken. The children are doing a great job washing hands, wearing masks, and traveling in one direction down the hallways. 

The colorful house your child brought home last week was from the story, The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Pinkwater. Ask your child to tell you what their houses represent. 

Snack and Leaders

September 21- Ella Koener*

September 22- Nora Anderson

September 23- Gus Bargren

September 24- Gage Becker

September 25- Jude Butzbaugh

We have 21 children in our class.

*denotes birthday.

We will snack in the afternoon each day. It is not necessary for you to send a snack with your child, as the leader provides it each day.  

Reminders

-Please remember to send in headphones with your child if you have not.

-Send in a water bottle everyday.

Google Meet Recording

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hKMgVo_BTFg-3N2yBMsGFpDog5OGlwQO/view?usp=sharing

Virtual Orientation

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1a4TSkv20fiAl_ozTvlu-tCEqVIs2PqFyEEPYQZhuNMo/edit?usp=sharing

Next Week Events

September 21st is our virtual BTSN. I will send an email at 5:30pm with a link to a screen recording regarding our kindergarten orientation presentation.

On Wednesday we will be doing our NWEA Reading test and on Thursday we will take our NWEA Math test. This is solely to collect baseline data for students. 

Wednesday, 9/23 is a late start. School begins at 9:55. 

On Thursday we will have our first fire drill. The students and I will talk about the importance of these safety drills and why we practice them.

Welcome!

 Welcome Kindergarten Families!

      This blog will be updated weekly with information about our learning and any upcoming events. It will be a place to stay connected through out the year.

    Thank you for a wonderful first week of school! We celebrated our names, practiced classroom routines, and had lots of fun. This week we are ready to meet more of our friends, celebrate families, and continue to learn our routines. Friday, we will meet together virtually from 9:00-9:23 am in a Google Meet through our Google Classroom. Be on the lookout for instructions on joining our Google Classroom. Google Classroom will be a hub of information and learning for this school year. 

~Mrs. Hooker