Welcome To Kindergarten

WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN!!

We are so excited to meet you.  Here is what is coming up.

OPEN HOUSE  and NEW PARENT ORIENTATION is on August 16th. 

Open House is from 5:30 till 6:30.  During the Open House you will get to meet your teacher, eat a snack, do a scavenger hunt in your new classroom, go to the fish pond, make a craft, and have fun.

New Parent Orientation will be held in the gym from 6:30-7:30.  If you would like to have your children play outside with the teachers, we will be available to take your children during orientation and you may pick them up from the playground after the meeting.


PRECONFERENCES are on August 23rd from 8:00 am-8:00 pm.  Please sign up using the link below to schedule a conference with your teacher.  Please bring all forms back on this day that you received at the Kindergarten Open House. This is also a good time to bring all your child's school supplies.

http://www2.mysignup.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?datafile=caconferences


FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL is on August 29th. 

May 27-June 2

Friday, May 27th
College T-Shirt
OSA is at 9:00 am in the Gym.  Early Release at 1:00

Monday, May 30th
Memorial Day--No School

Tuesday, May 31st
Spirit Week
Sports Apparel - Jerseys, team shirts, and athletic clothing.

Field Days

Field Day activities will take place on the city field behind the gym, southwest of the school. Parents wanting to attend can get to the field by parking at the school and taking the walking path behind the gym to the field OR by driving west on Village Parkway from the school and taking a left (south) on Naples Avenue to the park and field at the end of Naples Ave. Tuesday, May 31 K-2: 9:15-11:003&4: 1:00-2:307&8 students will be assisting with Field Day stations. Students should wear non-uniform sports wear with tennis shoes

Kindergarten Award Ceremony 2:30-3:15 

Wednesday, June 1st
College T's and shorts. (All school field trip day)

Kindergarten Field Trip to Hyland Park (All Day)
Bring a bag lunch.  If you take hot lunch, a bag lunch will be provided for you.  All students need to bring a drink.  Please apply sunscreen to your child before school.
Parents are welcome to meet us at Hyland Park.  If you wish to take your child from Hyland Park you will need to sign them out with their teacher. 

If you have not handed in your permission slips please do so ASAP.

Thursday, June 2nd
Hawaiian/Summer apparel - flowers, bright colors, etc.
Last Day of School!


*** Please note, students must wear socks every day. No spaghetti strap tank tops or other inappropriate wear. Jeans or non-uniform bottoms are acceptable.

May 9-13

Field Trip to the Haler Farm is on May 13th from 9:00-10:30.  Please send in your field trip forms as soon as possible.

Class Party--May 13th from 2:00-3:10.  Please contact your students' teacher or room parents if you would like to help.

SPRING FLING- Donation items

Kindergarten:  

Arts & Crafts: examples; crayons, paints, construction paper, play dough, colored pencils, sidewalk chalk, paint brushes, finger paints, finger paint paper, glitter, markers, scissors, stickers

Beach Time: examples: suntan lotion, blanket, towels, beach chairs, sand pails/ shovels, beach ball, underwater camera

RELAY FOR LIFE   Cologne Academy is again teaming with Relay for Life to raise funds to help fight cancer. We are offering a jeans day (with uniform top) for students who bring in a $3.00+ donation for Relay for Life. The jeans day will be Friday, May 20^th.  Last fall we raised a whopping $1,795; let's see if we can do even better this spring!  Students who do not participate will be expected to be in uniform bottoms.  Please make out any checks to ACS NOT CA.

LITERATURE

Presidents and Symbols-This unit explores the lives and legacies of five famous presidents and introduces students to several national symbols including the American Flag, the Statue of Liberty, the White House, and Mount Rushmore.

MATH

This week's focus: Money

During the months of April, May, June students will work on the following skills

• numbers to 100 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)
• addition and subtraction
•  patterns : ABA and shrinking
• capacity
• telling time to the hour
• money: identify coins and the coin’s value, counting coins with the same value

Throughout the year students will explore math through open-ended- problem solving journals, math stations, ipads/ipods, IXL, rekenreks, and a variety of math manipulatives.

HANDWRITING/WRITING

We are working on thinking like writers and getting our ideas on paper using pictures and words.  We are also labeling, stretching out words, and using our vowels.  This week we are working on turning our writing and ideas into books and scrolls.  We are working on thinking about what we are going to write and planning it out across all of the pages in our story. Including details and labeling in our pictures is an important way to tell more about our story.  We are also working on neatness, finger spacing, punctuation, and making sense.

CORE KNOWLEDGE

Magnets-Students will identify what a magnet is, what the familiar everyday uses of a magnet are, and what objects are attracted to a magnet.