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Welcome to a fun week in Kindergarten! Wednesday is a half day, students will be dismissed at 11:30 and there will be no school on Thursday. Information about special events and activities are found in our KG google calendar!
We’re all looking forward to Kid’s Day this Wednesday. Students will have tons of fun playing different activities all day long! We kindly ask all parents to make sure your child has a change of clothes in their classroom as they will most likely get wet that day. This change of clothes should include: pants, shirt, underwear and socks. You may want to send an extra pair of shoes just for that day!
Given that Wednesday will be Kid’s Day and dismissal will be at 11:30, students are only asked to bring a light snack in a disposable bag, a water bottle with their names on and change of clothes if they haven’t done so. The water bottle is extremely important as we will carry them with us from station to station. The water stations are only to refill water bottles, not to give plastic water bottles to students.
There will be a snack station for our students to eat, please make sure they’ve had breakfast at home before coming to school as this snack may be a bit later than usual. We strongly suggest to send a light snack in a disposable bag as we will carry these around as well. If you have any questions, please email us!
Other important things to keep in mind for all children to be prepared:
- Arrival at 7:30 - Students will walk straight to their classrooms as soon as they come in to change into their house shirt and leave their bags. Please make sure your child comes to school before 7:55 so we can all walk to the gym together.
- Dismissal at 11:30 will be from each classroom just like we did for Halloween.
- Running/Athletic Shoes - please no loosely "tied" shoes (loose shoelaces are dangerous), sandals, flip-flops or heelies.
- Appropriate and comfortable pants. We highly discourage jeans on this day.
A message from Ms. Purpura:
In guidance we are continuing with our lessons on empathy. Empathy helps students perceive and understand what others are feeling and is the key ingredient in the development of prosocial behaviors and interpersonal problem solving skills.. The lessons focus on the critical next step of putting empathy into action by showing compassion. We read books like How Full Is Your Bicket and Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley and are using the characters in the book to try to better understand how someone else might feel in certain situations through literature. The second step lessons, written work and discussions also support this month’s core value.
Our Core Value for November is compassion. Just as we are responsible at work and home, so are our kids. You can help support their understanding of compassion by having discussions such as:
- The Core Value definition for compassion is, “Be Kind, Caring and Considerate”. Share with your child what you would you add to this definition?
- Share how you show compassion in your daily life?
- Do you have to know someone to feel compassion?
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Dana Purpura
CAC School Counselor
dpurpura@g-cacegypt.org
Math Workshop for Parents
Interested in learning more about the math models used at school? On November 20, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm we will offer a K-5 Workshop for parents where we will explore number bonds and the area model; math models we use to teach for understanding. We will all meet in the first floor common room, then K-2 parents will move next door.
We hope you can join us!
General Services Staff Appreciation Lunch Announcement
Student Council students will be be released from classes at 11:50 next Monday, Nov 20 for the general Services Lunch. The meeting point will be under the big tree on the ES lawn. Remind kids to wear their red shirts. Click here for list of students
Learning in KG!
Reading Workshop
Our Super Readers are continuing their hard work this week with careful attention to comprehension. Students will learn to change their reading voices to match the character feelings, punctuation, or dialogue in their Just-Right Books. It takes a lot of attention and focus to make these adjustments while reading, so we’ll have lots of practice with this skill. Reading partners will get together to read to each other, teachers will read aloud, and students will get independent practice bringing these books to life!
Writing Workshop
Writers are eager to write teaching books! The How-to unit was launched last week with the idea of writing to teach others. Students are generating ideas by thinking of what they’re experts on and a potential audience for their books. “My little sister doesn’t know how to get dressed by herself, I will write a book to teach her how!”
In this unit students are learning the differences between narratives and nonfiction, by thinking of the vocabulary used in each one. Writers are not writing about themselves, they are writing to others!
The lessons we’ll teach this week will give writers tools to write books step by step, putting themselves as readers and thinking “Can I follow these steps?”. In this unit, students will learn the importance in writing specific instructions to make their “How To” books a success.
Math
During the coming short week, students will be doing mid-module assessments, reviewing their understandings of the concepts comparisons of length, weight, and capacity. While the one on one assessments will be taking place between teacher and student, the rest of the class will be participating in math centers, where they will be able to practice skills acquired during previous modules.
Social Studies
Our social scientists continue to be visited by amazing and interesting CAC employees! We are learning all about the special people who make CAC great. Students are learning to ask a mix of work questions (Do you have meetings? What do you do at CAC?) and personal ones (What is your favorite food? What do you like to do in Egypt?). Each time we are visited by a Mystery Guest, we reflect in writing on what we learned and what we did with them.
Who will visit us this week?
Shhh! It’s a secret!
As always, we highly appreciate your dedication to your children and the time to take to read our newsletter and stay tuned with what’s happening in KG.
Please email us if you have any feedback, suggestions or questions!
Ms. Ana, Ms. Paola, and Mr. Balazs
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