Look into our week 12/1-12/5

Good morning parents and guardians,

I hope you all enjoyed this week off and had an even better Thanksgiving Day! Time to get back to work before our next mini vacation. I am looking forwarding to these next few weeks and they will be filled with many fun activities.

Upcoming REACH dates:

• 12/5 End of 1st Trimester
• 12/8 PTO meeting
• 12/10 Wacky Wednesday and Coding (more information to follow soon-Volunteers will be needed)
• Coffee with director @ 8:30 am
• 12/12 Family Friday Lunch
•  Trimester 1 report cards go home
• 12/18 Award Assembly
• Christmas/Holiday performance @ 2pm
• 12/19 Vision and Hearing test

Look into our week

Language Arts:

• Unit 2 week 5: "A bed for Winter"

• Weekly comprehension exam: Sequence

Math:

• Continue with Chapter 6: Numbers 0-20
• Students will be able to read and write from 10-12
• Students will be able to read and write from 13-16
• Students will be able to read and write from 17-20
• Students will be able to compare groups of up to 20 objects

Social Studies/ Leadership:

• Winter Holidays
• This week students will learn about Hanukkah
• Leadership-Resilience:What is resilience?

Science:

• Gingerbread man-making predictions and what dissolves in water?

Please feel free to email me with any questions or concerns. 

Have a great weekend and see you all soon, 

Miss. Maciel

Winter performance

Our Winter Performance will be on Thursday, December 18th at 2pm in the Sanctuary.

We will be performing two songs: Run Rudolph Run and Santa Claus is Coming to Town. We have been practicing in class but PLEASE practice with your student as often as possible.

The links below have the words to the music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeZEn7Tq0GU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkimySRWiiw

Thank you and enjoy your Thanksgiving Break!

Week of 11/17-11/19

Good mooring parents and guardians,

We are approaching the end of another month for us at REACH. This next week will only have three days, but we still have so much to do! Here are some important dates to keep in mind for this short upcoming week:


11/17-11/20 Parent teacher conferences

• Reminders about your time and date were sent home on Thursday

11/19-November award assembly @ 8 am
         -Lego engineering class (our class had to be rescheduled due to the Kaiser Permanente assembly)

         -Emergency Drill 

(please talk to your child about listing to their teacher and lining up quickly. 

Also, please remind them that this is only a DRILL-we are just practicing staying safe in case of a real emergency)

         -Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast-from 10:15-12:00

• THANK YOU to all those families that have signed up to bring in items on this day.  We are still missing our main food dishes (chicken nuggets and mashed potatoes), if you would like to sign up for these or any other item(s) you may be able to donate to the class please stop by our classroom to sign up, or send me an email. Once again, thank you for all the donated items, special fun activities could not be accomplished without your help and support!                  

Look into our week

Language Arts:

• As a Kindergarten team we decided it would be best to begin a new week in our Language Arts curriculum until we come back from Thanksgiving break.
• In our class, during our Language Arts block, we will be learning about the first Thanksgiving along with making some different hats to represent the people present that day.

Math:

• Chapter 6-Numbers 0-10
• Count from 0-10
• Write numbers from 0-10
• Represent numbers 0-10

Science:

• Continue learning about seasons
• Spring and summer

Social Studies:

• Unit 6 lesson1-What is a holiday?
• Students will be able to describe the meaning of a holiday.

Leadership:

• Service: Gratitude and giving back

The Kindergarten team will be sending home a homework packet on Monday 11/17 to be due back Monday 12/1. 

As always, if you have any questions or concerns please feel to email me or stop by the classroom.

Enjoy the weekend, 

Miss. Maciel

Look into our week 11/10-11/14

Good morning parents and guardians,

The first week of November is done! There is so much to do, yet so little time with all these days off in November, BUT I'm sure the kids will enjoy it!

Here are some important school dates to keep in mind this month:

• 11/11 NO school-Veteran's day
• 11/12 Coffee with director @ 8am
• 11/14 Family Lunch Friday- Kindergarten lunch @ 11am
• 11/19 Awards assembly for the month of November @ 8am
• 11/20-11/21 NO school-Parent teacher conferences
• 11/25-11/28 NO school-Thanksgiving Break

Classroom Dates: (please make sure your child is present on these day for some fun/educational activities)

• 11/12 
• Kaiser literacy assembly @ 8:30
• Lego engineering class from 9-10 am
• 11/13 Meet the Masters Art class 12:45-2:00 pm

REACH PTO new:

Look into our week

Language Art:

• Unit 2 Week 4-"Bear snores on"




• Weekly comprehension: realism and fantasy

Math:

• Finish Chapter 5 
• Students will understand the concept of same-sized
• TEST-11/13
• Students will be able to describe size and position of objects.
• Begin Chapter 6-Numbers 0-10
• students will be able to count to 10

Science:

• Season
• Fall and Winter

Social Studies:

• Unit 5 lesson1-How can we show time?
• Months of the year, days of the week

Leadership:

• Service:Military

Disguise a Turkey project

Due: 11/12/14

Examples of completed projects

Cant wait to see what our class comes up with, have FUN!

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me.

Thank you and enjoy the weekend, 

Miss. Maciel

November is here!

Good morning parents and guardians,

Another month has come and gone. This school year seems to be flying by, but I hope your kiddos are enjoying their Kindergarten year at REACH! I wanted to say THANK YOU to all those families that donated items towards our class activities and also to those that donated their time. If you would like to help out more in the classroom please let me know and we can set up a time and date. I already have one parent who comes in during math and works with children.

The month of November will seem like a short month with no school on two consecutive Wednesdays (11/4 and 11/11), no school on 11/20-21 (parents conferences) and of course having the last week off for Thanksgiving break.
Parent conferences: I will be sending home more information soon about parent conferences. Those parents that return their forms will have priority (towards the time slot they choose).

School updates:

Look into our week

Language Arts:

• Unit 2-Week 3: "Animal babies"

• Comprehension exam: Main idea

Math:

• Chapter 5
• Students will understand the concept of same-sized
• Students will explore the idea that only a few big objects fit into small spaces and many small objects fit into big spaces
• Students will identify positions of objects
• Students will use language such as before and after to describe relative positions in sequence of events

Science:

• Baby animals
• How are babies similar to their parents?
• Farm baby animals
• Ocean baby animals
• Possible donation items for project:
• Lunch sized zip-lock bags
• hair gel (dollar tree or 99 cent store)
• ocean animal stickers

Social Studies:

• Unit 4 lesson 1: How can you find things
• Students will be able to determine the relative location of objects using the terms near/far, left/right and behind/in front.

Leadership:

• How we serve others

Classroom Shutterfly page:

• Ive uploaded about 250 photos so far
• If you would like access to our page please send me an email or stop by the room
• IF you have access already-please feel free to upload any pictures you have taken of our kiddos

As always, please feel free to email me with any questions or concerns or stop by the classroom.

Have a great rest of the day!

Miss. Maciel