Pizza Ranch Field Trip!

The kindergarten classes are taking a field trip to the Oostburg Pizza Ranch.  On the tour we are going to learn how food is prepared, how a restaurant runs, and how to make a pizza!  The Pizza Ranch has been very generous in letting us come each year at no cost!  Please thank them the next time you are there.

Here are the dates each class is going:

October 10th- Mrs. Stapel's class
October 17th- Mrs. Ramaker's class
October 24th- Mr. Michna's class
October 31st- Ms. Glodosky's class

The classes will be walking to the pizza ranch on these dates, so please make sure that your child dresses appropriately for the weather.  No cold lunch/hot lunch is needed on this date as we will get to make our pizza!  

Each class is looking for 2 volunteers to help supervise children on this trip.  Each kindergarten teacher will take the first 2 volunteers who respond.  Each classroom teacher will notify you if you are one of the first two who respond.

Early Release Wednesday!

This week is our first OES early release day!  Please alert your child's teacher right away if your Kindergartener will have his or her end of the day plans change in any way that afternoon.  You can call or email us to let us know!  Thank you for your help in making sure our Kindergarteners all get safely home on early release days!

First Week Complete!

First Week Complete!

 

 

 

    Our first week of kindergarten is complete!  Students have dived right in by learning classroom procedures and routines.  We have also practiced the school-wide PBIS system so that we are safe, respectful, and responsible in all we do.  Reader’s Workshop and Writer’s Workshop have begun!  Students are practicing habits of independent readers, writers, and listeners.  Each classroom has practiced what each workshop should look and sound like. 

 

 

    In Reader’s Workshop, students have helped to create a list of what good readers do.  Students have been introduced to print concepts as we demonstrate how to open and take care of a book, and how text moves left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.  We have studied our names and recognize the first letter that begins our name.  Teachers have modeled making personal connections to text.  Students have learned to compare events in a story by using the words “same” and “different.”  Students have also learned to retell an event’s beginning, middle, and end through sequencing pictures.             

 

    In Writer’s Workshop, students have helped to create a list of what good writers do.  During the workshop, we have brainstormed specific ideas that we have that could help teach someone else something new.  Students have used drawing and writing to tell about an event.  Students have learned that “When we think we are done, we have just begun!”  This means they look at their work again to add more detail to their words or pictures.  After celebrating our hard work, students have learned how to make suggestions to peers to make their work even better!  We have also wrote or drawn or reactions to the character’s in the story and how we have felt similar.    

We will continue exploring the following books this upcoming week!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Milk for Snack!

Yesterday you should have received a gold sheet with information about buying milk for your child during snack time. If you choose to purchase milk, please return the form by Tuesday, September 10th.  Thank you!




School pictures will be taken on September 10th!  If you will be purchasing a package this year, please have your money and order at school no later than Sep. 10th.