Kindergarten teacher emails and class schedule

Important message from Dr. Rentie...please read.

Dearest REACH Family,

Please find a facility update below:

Grades TK-1- Rustin Campus.

Room Assignments are as follows:

Room 1- Special Ed Office

Room 2- Quach (K)

Room 3- M. Contreras (TK)

Room 4- Gil (K)

Room 5- Juarez (K)

Room 6- Gallegos (1)

Room 7- Gascon (1)

Room 8- Osequeda (1)

For the first week of school, parents will park and walk students to the grassy area. Overflow parking will be allowed at the Mosque across the street. For pick-up (this week only), parents will pick-up from classrooms. No pickups from After School will be allowed before 4 p.m.

For grades 2-6, there has been a FACILITY CHANGE. Instead of the Islamic Center, classes will be held at Sandals Church, located at 150 Palmyrita Avenue, Riverside, 92507 (3.5 miles from Rustin Campus- allow 10 minutes to drive between both campuses).

Grades 2-6- Sandals Church

Students may be dropped off starting at 7:00 a.m. REACH staff will provide guidance as you enter the parking lot on Mt. Vernon. Please have students ready to exit car when pulling up to the curb. To pick-up, pull cars forward and students will be ushered to cars, For After School Care, students will be bussed from Sandals to the Rustin campus. Parents will pick-up from Rustin no later than 6:00 p.m. To have your child BUSSED to after school care, you must sign a release form in the foyer of the church on Tuesday Morning. To have the release form sent to you via email, send request to msmith@reachroyals.org. NO CHILD WILL BE TRANSPORTED TO AFTER SCHOOL CARE WITHOUT A SIGNED FORM ON FILE.

Sincerely,

Dr. Rentie

Homework information

Good evening, 

Some crazy weather today! I hope everyone stayed dried. I wanted to give out some information on our kindergarten homework plan for this school year. I thought it would be best to share it now, as our first homework packet will be going home the second week of school. This will give you time to review the information and allows me to answer any questions for you. 

• Homework Folder
• Provided by me
• Students are encouraged to bring and turn in their folders daily (will have a file holder on my classroom door)
• I will keep folders over the weekend and return every Monday

• Homework practice pages 

• going home every two weeks
• The pages sent home are meant to be fun and used multiple times
• Feel free to place them in sheet protectors or laminate to use with a dry erase marker
• Nightly Reading
• A month log reading log will be sent home at the beginning of each month
• On a daily basis please read 10 min, clean out your child's folder and backpack. Then initial in all corresponding spots
• Monthly Family projects
• These will go home at the beginning of each month and will have a set due date (at least two weeks time will be given)
• Due date are given so children have time to present their projects to their classmates
• Recommended items to have at home
• dry erase marker
• dice 
• dominoes
• deck of cards
• counting items (beads, beans, pennies, connecting cubes, legos, etc)

Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions.

I can not wait to get this school year started and begin to see all my kiddos grow academically!

Have a great evening, 

Mrs. Gil

WELCOME 17-18!

Welcome new parents and guardians, 

Thank you for stopping by. I know we will have an amazing school year. Please check back on we weekly basis (weekends) for updates.

Here is some information to get you started.

Parking: 
-ON THE FIRST DAY ONLY, parents are allowed to park at the mosque (same as meet the teacher day).
-parking on the street is always opened (if you are able to find a spot)


Drop off and pick up
-Please use first drive way to enter  (from the Linden St)
-Use second driveway to exit (towards Blaine)

• Students can be dropped off as early at 7am
• Pick up
• No siblings- come before 3:00 (TK/K ends at 3:00pm)
• Siblings-we would like to encourage families with multiple siblings to come closer to 3:15

Morning:

-Kinder students will meet on kinder playground

-Each teacher will have backpack bins and a lunch bin

• Please place items in correct bin

-7:35-7:40 We will be meeting students outside our classroom (signs will be posted)

-Parents will be allowed to stay for the pledge (7:45) and walk to classroom

Recesses:

-Students are encouraged to bring a snack for first recess (9:10-9:30) and afternoon recess (12:45-1:15)

-Students are allowed to bring water bottles to keep in class and take out to recess

Lunch:

-Students will be walked to MPR to have lunch

-Types of lunch

• Cold lunch (lunch brought from home)
• Lunch pails will be placed in bin outside, that all be be brought into the classroom to keep cool
• Hot lunch (lunch provided by the school)
• Make sure to fill out the lunch form on a monthly basis (usually sent home at the end of each month)
• Practice lunch number at home

Back to school night: September 14, 2017
-Admin lead orientations in MPR 4:30-5:00 and 5:30-6:00
-Teacher lead sessions in own classrooms 5:00, 5:30 and 6:00

Remind
-Don't forget to sign up for my remind, this is the quickest way for me to reach all parents at once. This is also the best way to reach me, as the messages come straight to my phone via text.

Shutterfly
-Every year I create a new Shutterfly page for my class. Here I am able to share pictures with via invite only, to keep them private to this year's parents. Please email me if you would like to be added.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.


Thank you!
Mrs. Gil

Kinder Graduation 2017

8am Check-in: In front of Jurupa Campus Sanctuary

Please bring CAPS!

I have the ones that were not decorated

All balloons must be weighed down and placed in the back.

More info to help things run smoothly tomorrow

Thank you for an amazing year!

Keep in contact over the summer and years to come!

Also, check our Shutterfly page for our last class pictures!

Last week of school

Day of Play-June 19

Student may bring in 2 toys/games to play with.

Items brought to school must be in their backpack, bag or box.

Please do not send technology

Full day of school June 21

Full Day-End of year luau-June 22

Regular full day-School is out at 3

Classroom celebration is set to begin at 1:30

Free Hawaiian Dress day

If you would like to bring in anything that is not on the sign up list for the celebration please let me know!

Tentative Schedule:

Food party 1: 30-2:00

Clean up/set up for class awards: 2:00-2:15

Classroom awards with red carpet: 2:15-2:35

Meet the stars (autographs): 2:35-2:50

Pack up for the last time: 2:50-3:00

Kindergarten Graduation-June 23 @ 8:30

JURUPA CAMPUS (sanctuary)

Kinders have free dress

Kinders will be wearing a cap (if you would like to decorate your cap, please let me know)

June awards will begin at 8:30 followed by the graduation ceremony for all three kinder classes!

We would like to have drinks and cookies for guest. If you are able to donate cookies, please let me know!

Look into our week 6/5-6/9

Good afternoon parents and guardians, 

Our class will be taking their last online STAR test this week (Monday and Tuesday). Please be sure your child is present and on time.

Be sure to check our our Shutterfly page for our latest classroom pictures. If you would like access, please email me for a special invite. Also, don't forget all parents/guardians were given access to teachers grade books. I try to update my grades right away after the students take a test.

With a new year upon us, some of our classroom supplies have begun to run low. Donations of the following items would be greatly appreciated!

-Gently used board games or card games
-Lysol disinfecting spray

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 Please continue to reinforce the following hand signals and rules: 

Hand Signals: (show me the number of fingers in the air)

1 finger: restroom

Encourage your child to use the restroom before school, during recess, during lunch, during PE and after school.

2 fingers:water

Children may bring their own water bottle to keep in class, please LABEL it with their name

3 fingers: pencil

Student may replace their dull or broken pencil for a new one

4 fingers: tissue

when needed, please ask student to sit back down right away

5 fingers: question

question for me to give more information on

Classroom rules:

#1: Listen while the teacher is talking

#2: Follow directions quickly

#3: Respect others, respect yourself, respect your school

#4: Raise your hand to speak or stand

#5: Keep your hands to yourself

#6: Keep your dear teacher happy

If you have any question or concerns please feel free to email me, text back to the reminders I set or stop by the classroom.

School News:

-May/June Family Project: due by 6/6/17

6/7: STEAM expo

Kindergarten Field Trip 6/13

-Students must wear REACH spirit shirt

-Students have free dress for their bottoms (exp: jean shorts)

-Student must wear closed toe shoes

6/14: Full day of school

6/15: Earl Release day at 1pm NO AFTER SCHOOL

Spring Performance

Tk-2 Show begins at 4:30

Students will report to teachers at 4:00

6/16: Donuts with dads

6/19: Day of play

6/21: Full day of school

6/22: Rustin Kindergarten Graduation @ 1:30

6/23: Last day of school-End of year party

Here is a look into our week

Songs to practice at home:

Syllable song

Letter sounds

Count to 100

Count by 10s

Language Arts: Unit 6-week 5: "The house Tony lives in"

Words to talk about: words found in the story

Words to read: HFW/Sight words

• Weekly reading comprehension test: Every Friday (Based on the comprehension skill of the week)
• Song we review in class:  Parts of a story song
• This week's focus: setting
• High Frequency Words (HFW-also known as Sight words : Same set of words last for two weeks. These words are meant to be read just by seeing them.

Math: end of year final

• Given Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Science: STEAM EXPO-

• Students will be able to state facts about paleontologist tools

Writing: The Writing house

• Final wiring test FRIDAY, JUNE 9
• Write sentences with a "WHO",  "WHAT", "WHERE", "WHEN", "WHY" and "HOW"
• Exp: The dog  quickly ran into the house  at noon because he was hot.
• who: dog    what: ran   where: house   when: noon   why: hot   how: quickly
• Practice paper (print and use at home)













Please feel free to stop by with any questions or concerns. If you are unable to, you may always email me or text back via my reminders.

Have a great rest of the day. See you all tomorrow!

Mrs. Gil