Behavior Colors

Today we discussed Behavior Colors in class and changed colors. Before I remind/inform about the colors, I would like to say we give LOTS of warnings before a color is changed. Not just now, but throughout the whole entire school year. 

~ When your child receives a color change, we will write a number corresponding to a consequence at the bottom of the conduct sheet. Today we wrote a lot of #1, #2 and #3 consequences. ~

Below is a picture of the behavior colors in order and the faces that we use to teach the student what each color means. Green across to the red are all the school wide colors. We like to give our students the chance to go above and beyond in our class and we chose to do this with the color purple. 

Color Explanation:

PURPLE: You make your teacher excited!! You've gone above and beyond the expectations in class.

GREEN: Great job! You met the class expectations.

BLUE: Your teachers are tired after reminding you of all the rules and having to stop teaching. 

YELLOW: Uh oh... the Teacher's mean voice came out and you made her sad. 

ORANGE: The wrong choices continued. Now it's not just your teacher that's upset... your parents are sad too.

RED: Unfortunately you weren't able to turn the wrong choices around and now everyone is sad. At this point all teaching in class has stopped and Administration may be involved. 

*** Thankfully, we don't often have RED happen in our room. And the few times it has, Administration was not involved. ***

Color changes are averaged in to your child's Behavior Grade. Duval County School Board lists this grade on the Report Card as Social Growth and Development. 

EMAIL CHECK!!

We sent out an email to parent email addresses. If you received it, please reply back to it and include Mrs.Croft's email. If you did not receive it PLEASE write us an email at

Finocchiaj@duvalschools.org & Crofth1@duvalschools.org  

In the subject line, write your child's first & last name and your relationship. (Ex. Joey Smith's Dad)

Thanks so much!

Chimney Lakes School Magnet

Chimney Lakes is selling school magnets!! 

Please support our school by purchasing the magnet for $5.00. You can stop by the Front Office and ask for one.  Or if you prefer, send the $5.00 in an envelope with your child's name and the title School Magnet and we'll get it covered. :)  

(We love driving around and seeing them on everyone's cars!! But if that's not you... put it on the refrigerator. It'll look great there too!) 

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**

Customized Products by BAE Designs

We want to give a shout out to our friend and T-Shirt Making Queen, Brooke Arnett!! Last school year Brooke made Mickey Mouse t-shirts for the Kindergarten Team. :) This year... Brooke has made us the cutest pineapple shirts along with a few other personal items!

We wanted to showcase a few of the things she's done, but please go online at check her out!! You can find her on Facebook at baedesigns88.

She made this one for her daughter, Hannah. She goes to Chimney Lakes... so you'll see a lot of super cute shirts walking through the hallway. :) 

This was made for my Mom. ~ Ms.Finocchiaro

This is the shirt design for Mrs. Croft and I. :) Isn't it the cutest saying?!?

Meet the Teacher

We wanted to say THANK YOU!! to all the parents and BIG Kindergartener's that took the time to come out today and meet us. :) It was wonderful getting to meet everyone and put some faces with the names. 

We know we gave out a lot of information today, so please email us if you have any questions. We haven't looked at all the paper work that was turned in today... but tomorrow we will and we will be emailing everyone to make sure we have the correct emails. As mentioned; if you don't receive an email from us this weekend and you gave us your email, please email us and make sure we have the correct email addresses. 

See you all on Monday!! 

Supply List

Please note that our class Supply List has items that were not mentioned on the generic Kindergarten List. These are items that we fill are important to our class. :) If you have any questions or concerns, please email us.