Week of August 13

On Monday your child becomes a big Kindergartener!! We know it can be a tough transition, so our wonderful PTA will be putting on a BooHoo Breakfast. So... right after you drop off your child with us, head on over and get a treat. Plus get to talk to other parents that are going through the exact same thing as you. 

We have a busy, busy week!! We will be diving straight into our Rituals and Routines. We have agreed that spending the week honing down on our classroom procedures was more important that any lesson out there. We will be discussing our voice levels, how to transition in the classroom and our number one important word: ATTENTION! When we say the word attention at Chimney Lakes, ALL students are expected to quickly get to a Voice Level 0 and turn their attention to the adult speaking. In Kindergarten, we also have our students raise one hand. We do this added piece so that if it is ever to loud to say the word, we can still get the students attention. 

We will begin the County wide program Sanford Harmony. We had a training last week and we are excited to empliment the program in our class! We know that many of you are not familiar with the program. If you would like to check out their website and learn more about them, click HERE. 

To help get a sense of Community and Respect, we will be reading the following story books... :)  I Like Myself by Karen Beaumont, How Full Is Your Bucket? by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer, Friends by Helme Heine and as many books as we can find from the series The Best Me I Can Be!! Don't be surprised if your child comes home and tells you we read more than this... we love books and are readers in this room!!


**These posts normally gets published to the web on Sunday night, so we are so ahead of schedule!! With that being said... we both like our Football Sunday's, so sometimes it's Monday afternoon. haha**