Ms. Shelly's News October 19

WOW! We had a busy week with the homecoming parade, 3rd grade play, DASH, and all of the hard work they put in learning and challenging themselves.  We also made the Rocket report news today for showing kindness.  We wrote thank you letters to sailors away at officer school to say "Thank you" for their contribution to our country.

We used the pumpkins from the field trip to do some math and science investigations. Then, we completed our 2nd STEM challenge, Pumpkin Towers.  The students used their senses to evaluate different building materials (jelly pumpkins, candy corn pumpkins, and marshmallow pumpkins) to decide which would be the best to make a model tower.  We also reviewed 3-D shapes and having a solid base to support our structure.  The students have learned the Engineering Design Process and motions to help them remember the steps.  Some structures were a success and some structures were not, but that is all part of the discovery process. Ask them to tell you more about our challenge!

Please help the 2nd grade students make a difference by contributing pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald House.   It costs between $50 and $100 to operate a room at one of their facilities. The RMH receives market value, usually between $0.35 and $0.50 per pound, for the recycled metal in order to assist families in need.  Last year our school collected just over 100 pounds of aluminum through our collection efforts. This would almost pay for one night’s stay at one of the Ronald McDonald facilities. In order to help more families, we would love to increase our goal to 150 pounds of aluminum this school year.

In order to contribute, remove the pop tabs from every aluminum can and send them in to your child's homeroom teacher each month. The 2nd graders will collect each teacher’s tabs month, weigh and graph the data, and take the pop tabs to an individual who will deliver them to the Ronald McDonald House of Atlanta.   Thank you so much for your contributions!

Parenting and Technology Night

Plugged-In Parents:  Keeping kids safe, happy, and healthy in the digital age.  

Tuesday, October 23

6:00 - 7:00

RBES Media Center

Join us as we address your main concerns regarding children and media use.  

• Determining the right amount of screen time for your aged child
• How to establish limits with screen time without major battles  
• When to get your child a cell phone 
• Developing a family media agreement
• Media and friendships together - the benefits and challenges

As we prepare for the presentation, we would love your input.  So, if you haven't completed the parent technology survey, here's the link!

• Continue to practice sight words every night for 5-10 minutes.
• Practice counting to 100.

Week in Review:  

• Place value (ones/tens place)
• Teen numbers
• Letter K, k and G, g sounds and letter formation
• CVC words (consonant/vowel/consonant)
• Sight word games
• CGI math (Cognitively Guided Instruction)

Activity Snapshot: 

• STEM challenge
• DA$H Fun Run
• 3rd grade play "Squirm"

Sneak peek at the week:

• Continue teen numbers
• Letter J, j (Jumping Jim); W, w (Walter Walrus)
• Continue Informational writing- Fall
• CGI (taking away problems)

Star Student: Hollis Ade

Reminders and Announcements:

• Oct. 31- Book Character Parade
• Nov. 5- iMom breakfast 7:20
• Nov. 15- Thanksgiving Feast
• Nov. 19-23 Thanksgiving holidays
• Dec. 17- Jan. 2 Winter holiday break

Ms. Shelly's News August 24

We had a great week and we ended it with a very fun Friday!  We kicked off the day with a NOHS pep rally with football players and cheerleaders! The students got to play with their food in order to sort their special snack into 2-D and 3-D shapes and then enjoyed the yummy treat. We completed our week of "Keep RBES Beautiful" by picking up some trash off the playground and hanging up lost items at lost and found.

**We will be going to the library on Tuesday each week.  We have talked about where our library book should "live" (in our book bag) when we are not reading it and how to take good care of the books we borrow. The students understand that remembering their book is part of learning responsibility, but know forgetting their book can happen.  Please feel free to help your student remember to return their book on library day if needed.  We will not have another opportunity to go to the library until the next week.

We have a couple of "collections" that we do at our school.  If you would like to send in Box Tops for Education, just send them in a little plastic bag at anytime.  We also collect aluminum can pop tops for the Ronald McDonald house in memory of a former RBES student. Again, just send them in a small plastic bag if you choose to collect them. We will be starting a Project Based Learning project (PBL) school wide that is led by Kindergarten starting in October.  We will be collecting plastic grocery bags and a few select other plastic films.  More information will come home regarding this project around the end of September. Please do not send in plastic bags until we begin because we do not have a place to store them right now. We will have drop off boxes around the school for students to drop off bags and one at the front office for parents to drop off as needed.

Another way to help is through grocery purchases.  If you are a Publix shopper, you can go to this website for more information about Publix Partners: http://corporate.publix.com/community/corporate-campaigns/publix-partners

Looking forward to another amazing week in Kindergarten!

Week in Review:  

• We worked on the "d" sound (Dippy Duck) and "h" sound (Harry Hat Man)
• Practiced writing D, d ; H, h
• Sight words: a, I, the, and, at
• Completed 2-D and 3-D shape review and sorted out yummy shape snack
• Staying Healthy- hand washing; healthy choices
• Began Community Helpers- Doctor, Nurse, EMS
• Special guest visitor: Nurse Ashley, our school nurse, came to talk to students about nurses

Sneak peek at the week:

• Patterns
• Positional words
• Making new shapes
• Letters S, s (Sammy Snake); Z, z (Zig Zag Zebra) sound and letter formation
• Patriotism, Labor Day, Honesty, Pride
• Parts of a book

Star Student: Jase Roberts

Reminders and Announcements:

• Aug. 29 Kindergarten Picture Day
• Sept. 3 Labor Day (no school)
• Sept. 10 iMom breakfast
• Sept. 10-14 Fall book fair/Grandparent lunch
• Sept. 11 Fall picture make-up
• Sept. 24 RBES spirit night @ Zaxby's