October 23-27

REMINDERS!!

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Veteran's Day Program

Cologne Academy's Veteran's Day Program will be held on Friday, November 10 at 2:30 pm in the CA Gym. This is a wonderful program honoring all of our Veterans and we invite all of our CA families to attend.   We need your photos!  If you have a special serviceman/woman that you would like to honor in our Veteran's Day program please click here for a photo submission form (or pick up a form up in the main office) to submit with a photograph. The photo will be included in the PowerPoint presentation during the Veteran's Day program.      Please submit photos with a completed photo form to Carla Riemer at criemer@cologneacademy.org at your earliest convenience*.  *Photo submission DEADLINE is Monday November 6, 2017.* If you had pictures in the slideshow from last year, we will be able to reuse your photos.

  Give to the Max Day is November 16th.  Online giving starts November 1st and continues through November 16th.  

The goal and incentive for Give to the Max is below:

$15,000 - All School Non-uniform Day

$20,000 - Monday after Easter NO SCHOOL! 

LITERATURE

Focus:  Prediction

Busy Little Squirrel

Blueberries for Sal

Have you Seen My Duckling?

MATH

Review Week

During the months of September and October students will work on the following skills:

·         numbers 0-10 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)

·         matching and sorting: size and shape

·         2-dimensional shapes

·         patterns :AB and ABB

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

Zaner-Bloser Handwriting

Students will practice the basic handwriting strokes, pencil grip, and correct posture.

CORE KNOWLEDGE

Plants- kindergarteners will learn about the parts of a plant and what plants need to grow. We will be growing our own plants and completing an observation log.

October 2-6

Pumpkins needed for each classroom:  1 large, 1 medium, and 1 small.  See your classroom teachers specific email about this project.

Relay for Life

This week we have a very important event! Cologne Academy Scholars will be given the opportunity this week to help those battling cancer, and also earn a non-uniform day in the process! CA's National Junior Honor Society is raising money for our school's Relay for Life team. All money collected goes directly to the American Cancer Society and is used to fund research and help patients get the care they need.

Here are your child's options for non-uniform day!

Relay for Life Non-Uniform Day

$2 = non-uniform bottoms

$4 = non-uniform bottoms + top

$5 = non-uniform bottoms + top + hat

Please have your child bring their donation to their homeroom teacher this week. The non-uniform day will be this Friday, October 13.

It is already time to think about Fall Conferences. Fall Conferences will take place on Tuesday, October 17th from 4:00 - 8:00 pm and Wednesday, October 18th, from 8:00 am - 3:00 pm. Below you will find the link to sign up for a conference time. If you cannot make it either day, please let your child's teacher know so we can schedule a different time to meet. 
https://signup.com/group/26997444140752090

LITERATURE
Focus: Schema

Fall

Let it Fall

Stellaluna

MATH
During the months of September and October students will work on the following skills:
·         numbers 0-10 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)
·         matching and sorting: size and shape
·         2-dimensional shapes
·         patterns :AB and ABB
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.

CORE KNOWLEDGE
Nursery Rhymes and Fables: This unit will introduce students to nursery rhymes and fables that have been favorites with children for generations.  Students will learn classic rhymes like “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,”  “Humpty Dumpty,” and “Hickory, Dickory, Dock,” as well as classic characters such as Humpty Dumpty and Little Miss Muffet.  Mother Goose and other traditional poems help students learn vocabulary and build phonemic awareness.  By listening carefully to nursery rhymes and repeating or reciting them by heart, students develop an awareness of language that will help them become better readers and writers.  Because nursery rhymes are fun and involve everyday activities, Kindergarten students can relate to them.

Five Senses - Students will learn about each of the five senses as well as how we gather information about our environment through the use of the senses. Students will also learn about what happens if the senses of sight and hearing do not function properly. Students will hear the stories of Helen Keller and Ray Charles, two individuals who overcame very significant challenges posed by disabilities related to sight and hearing.

WRITING

Slant Lines

Letters Tt, Oo, Aa and Dd

Students will practice the basic handwriting strokes, pencil grip, and correct posture.