Please Read a Note from Nurse Jen

Please remember that all Kindergarten students need updated physicals on file in the nurses office. I am still missing some immunizations and have sent that paperwork home. Please send that information into me as soon as possible in prevent your child from being excluded from school. • Massachusetts state law (105 CMR 200.00 – 200.920) requires a physical exam upon entry to school and updates in 4-year increments. • Massachusetts state law (105 CMR 220.000) requires up to date immunizations for school attendance. • Massachusetts state law (105 AMR 460 050 & .060) requires lead testing for all preschool and kindergarten children. Also Please remember to keep your child home if he/she: • Has a fever over 100 degrees f or higher. • Has a persistent cough or cold. • Has had vomiting or diarrhea within the past 12 hours. • Has an unidentified skin rash. • Has “pink eye” with itching and drainage. • Has a contagious illness i.e. strep throat, chicken pox. • Has active head lice or body lice. In order for your child to receive any medication while at school I will need a medication order from the doctor, signed parental consent, and the medication (which must be brought in by a responsible adult). This is a state wide policy and is strictly enforced here at JA. With the upcoming cold temperatures, it is important to remember to dress your child appropriately for cold weather. Hats, mittens, and roomy waterproof boots with socks are essential to protect your child’s fingers and toes against extreme cold. This is especially important for those children who either wait for a bus or walk to school. It is also a good time to remind your child to use his or her own hat and to avoid sharing such headgear, to minimize the possibility of head lice transmission. Please make sure that your child has an extra change of clothes with them in their classroom or backpack. As always, should you have any questions please do not hesitate to call me at 978-534-7765 Nurse Jen http://janursejen.blogspot.com/

Week in Review ~ October 5th - 9th

K2 continues to be a busy place! In ELA. This week we talked about how baby animals move. We listened to the stories Pouch! , The Tortoise and the Hare , and How Baby Animals Move. We worked on the short a vowel sound and the sight word "we" was introduced. We currently have introduced 4 sight words so far: I, can, the, we. Please continue to practice these words at home with your child and possibly look through stories to try and find them. We also continued to work on Nouns. In learning centers the K2ers wrote in their journals about their favorite animal, sorted pictures by person, place or thing, practiced the sight word we, sorted pictures into Fantasy and Real categories and reviewed the sounds /m/ and /a/.

In math we continued with topic 2 about comparing numbers 0 to 5. We discussed the terms greater than, less than and equal to. We also played a fun game of Roll & Cover where students roll a dice and put their colored counter down. Once all numbers are covered we then lined up our counters to see what color was greater than, what color was less than or if they were equal. The kids really enjoyed playing Roll & Cover.

This week at Johnny Appleseed we started the fall school-wide read aloud of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Each day, every classroom at JA, reads the same chapter(s) from the same book. It really gets the students excited and I know my K2ers are so excited when it is time to listen to each day's chapter(s). We made a prediction prior to reading Chapter 7 "Charlie's Birthday" about whether Charlie would find a golden ticket in his birthday candy bar from his family. 13 K2ers said yes, they thought Charlie would find a golden ticket and 5 said no, they thought Charlie would NOT find a golden ticket. Be sure to ask your child if Charlie found a golden ticket in his birthday candy bar.

As a reminder there is no school on Monday for Columbus Day...I hope you enjoy the day!

 

 

 

 

 

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Week in Review ~ September 28th -October 2nd

This week in ELA our essential question was "How can we get along with new friends?" We read the poem Make New Friends and named old friends we had from before kindergarten and then named new friends we have made at kindergarten. We focused on the letter Mm this week and reviewed the sound. We also listened for where we heard the /m/ sound in a word...at the beginning of the word, as in map, or at the end of the word, as in gem. We also spent some time going over the formation for both the uppercase and lowercase Mm. The sight word the was introduced and we also reviewed our previous sight words can & I. A great way to help your child with the sight words is to have them look in a book for the ones introduced while you are reading to them. Also, when they do find the word have them read it to you. This week we also introduced what a Noun is. We sorted pictures during center time as to whether they were a person, place, or thing.we also brainstormed and listed different nouns around JA. During learning center time we practiced the letter Mm, sorted pictures with the /m/ sound, used letter stamps to spell sight words and wrote in journals about what we like to do with our friends.

Also during centers I introduced a favorite learning center to many students..."I Spy." For this center the students put on special "I Spy" glasses and look around the room to find picture/word cards. This week they were on the hunt for cards with a picture and word that began with "M." This group of K2ers loved the "I Spy" center just as much as other classes. Here they are in action...

This week in Math we started Topic 2 titled Compare Numbers 0 to 5. We talked about groups of objects that equal and how that means they have the same amount and we talked about the terms greater than and less than. We learned that the number of girls in K2 is greater than the number of boys in K2. To extend our learning of these terms we used a dice and cubes. Player 1 rolled the dice and lined up that many cubes. Then player 2 rolled the dice and lined up their cubes under player 1's. Next they had to discuss who had the greater amount, the lesser amount or if they equaled. We will continue with Topic 2 next week.

This week we had our annual Magazine Drive assembly. Packets went home with every child on Tuesday. If your child has magazine sales to pass in, please send them into school in their message tube.

As a reminder next Friday, October 9th, is a Professional Development Day for teachers so there will be no school for students.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

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Who would like to help K2 from the comfort of their own home?

This year our daily math sheets are in a workbook and need to be ripped out for the K2ers to do each day's lesson. As you can imagine, that is not the easiest task for a 5 or 6 year old without ripping the pages in half! If you would like to help out, please send a note in your child's message tube and I will send between 4-5 workbooks with your child, as well as directions on how to sort them and send them back.

 

Thank you!!

 

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