Upcoming Dates to Remember:

Nov. 30th - Info session on french immersion 6:30, LHHS

Dec. 1 - Book orders due (let me know if you order a Christmas present; we can arrange something!)

Dec. 1 - Career Day!

Dec. 9 - Movie Night with the home and school, 6-8 ($5.00 to attend)

Dec 15 - Christmas Concert! (2 shows; 9:00 and 11:00)

Dec 19 - Christmas Concert “rain” date

Dec 22 - Christmas Lunch!

• Chef Roberta will be offering turkey dinner as the hot lunch option ($5.00).  Parents are welcome to join.  K-2 students will have their lunch at 12:00 and 3-5 students at 12:30.

• If you plan to bring your child home after lunch, please sign out using the sheet posted on my door to help me keep track :)

This Week:

Parent Teacher Interviews

• THANK YOU to parents who came to discuss your child’s successes in kindergarten.  K is a special year; students show so much growth and really become their own person.  I loved talking to you about your children - they are very special to me!

Career Day

• Career day is on December 1, 8:30 - 12:00.  If you are interested in participating by setting up a booth to give a glimpse into your career, please contact Mr. Campbell or myself. (patrick.campbell@nbed.nb.ca)

Food Drive:

• We are continuing to collect food for the Fredericton Community Kitchen. Our target is to collect 50 pounds of food from the list found on the main website. If possible, please donate to this great cause!  

• We will be delivering to the Community Kitchen at the end of the week!

• Thank you to those of you who have donated!  

Take Home Books: New take home books will come home on Monday.  Please return them by Friday.  Remember to read them each night!

Literacy

Jolly Phonics: We have learned and will review S, A, T, I., P, N, C, K, E, H, R, M, D, G, O, U, , L, F , B, J, and Z.  We will learn W and V this week.

• Please watch the videos online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCjJYB07aSU

• Please practice printing these letters at home as well as practicing the sounds and actions

ABC Boom: We say the following sounds as we make the strokes.

• Plop: Most letters "start in the sky and drop down to the ground”. We use tall plops to form upper case letters and lower case letters like Tt, Ll, and Hh. We use short plops to make lower case letters like m, n, and r.

• Vroom: This is the horizontal stroke that goes from left to right. We use it to start lower case e and we also use it in upper case letters such as T, E, F, A, Z, and H.

• Boing: This is a curved stroke that reminds us of a hop. We use it to create the curve in letters such as h, m, and n.

• Blowing Sound: This stroke makes a circle.  We imagine blowing a pinwheel as it goes around in a circle.  We use it to make Oo and Q

• Splash: We picture a fish or a dolphin splashing in the water to make a U shape.  We find this stroke in U, u, q

• Prrrshhh: We think about a rocket taking off.  We start from the bottom and go straight up.  We find it in a, d, g, q, N

• Shlang: We think about the helmet of an astronaut closing.  We find it in P, p, b, B, D, R

• Beep, Beep: We think about a truck backing up.  This is the opposite of vroom.  We find it in G, and we can also use it instead of vroom for the tops of F and E.

• YOOP: We think of a worm going into the ground. We find YOOP in  J, j, g

Sight Words:

• me, I, it, like, the, is, in, can, was, and

• Practice reading and writing these at home

• Challenge your child to find sight words they know in books

Writing:

• We are continuing to work toward our writing goals.  We review individual goals before we begin writing to keep students focused, as well as meet with the teacher in small groups with other students with similar goals..

• We keep our “alphabet sound card” in our book box to help us sound out unknown words independently.

• This week we are creating a class book using sentence starters such as “I like___”, “I can___” and “I was____”.  We will share the book and have a celebration at the end of the week!