Elephant News

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Elephant News
December 17th-20th

• FYI
• This will be our last week for Show and Tell.
  Elephants with a Thursday Show and Tell day
  please plan to share on Monday and Elephants with
  a Friday Show and Tell day will share on Tuesday.
  
• Gingerbread house party (12/19)-All parents are
  invited and encouraged to attend (grandparents
  are welcome too ?). We will need volunteers to
  help with set up (1200) and clean up. If you
  are available please let me know. We hope to see
  all of you there! ?
• Annual Kindergarten Christmas Concert-Our concert
  is on Thursday, December 20th at 900 in the
  cafeteria. Please send your child to school
  dressed in their Holiday best or Holiday colors.
  Be sure to bring your cameras.its an event you
  wont want to miss!

• This Weeks Studies
• This week we will
• review all letters of the alphabet as well as
  their sounds
• continue to work with patterns
• build and decorate our gingerbread houses
• perform our Kindergarten Christmas concert
• Please remember, to demonstrate mastery of
  letters, your child needs to know its name, write
  it, and use the sound. To demonstrate mastery of
  numbers, your child needs to know its name, write
  it, and show objects to match it.
• To demonstrate mastery of sight words your child
  should be able to recognize the word in several
  different settings (alone, in sentences, or in
  books)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I want to
wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year! I am blessed to work at a
wonderful school, with great students and
supportive parents. Enjoy the Holiday Season
with your loved ones! Im looking forward to a
great 2013! ?
A B C D .. We have finished studying all the
letters (and theirs sounds) of the alphabet! We
will use the next to weeks to review. At this
point your child should be able to identify ALL
lower and upper case letters as well as their
corresponding sounds. Our letter/sound knowledge
will help us independently blend sounds into
words.
READ! READ! READ! Every night for 20-30
minutes Kindergarten teachers have always known
that kids have to believe they can read before
they can actually do it. -Reggie Routman, from
Reading Essentials
Remember to save your box tops and soda tabs! Box
tops will help earn money for our school. Soda
tabs are collected, counted and sent to the
Ronald McDonald House. Remember to order your
SCRIPit is money you would spend anyway and it
earns money for our school!

• Important Dates
• December 19th-Gingerbread House Party 1230 (our
  classroom)
• December 20th-Kindergarten Christmas Concert 900
  (Cafeteria)
• December 21st-January 4th (Christmas Break)
• January 7th-School resumes

If you every have any questions or concerns,
please do not hesitate to contact me via the
communication log in your childs folder, email
(LaPointeM_at_mail.okaloosa.k12.fl.us) or directly
at the school (833-4100).