Welcome back! We hope you all had a fun, safe Fall Break. It's hard to believe we have already been in school for 43 days! The kids have settled in nicely and you will be seeing their progress on the report cards they bring home this Thursday. Please sign and return them after you have a chance to review them.
We hope you found the permission slip for our first field trip in last Friday's folder. We will be going to Hilltop Farm Pumpkin Patch on Friday, October 24. We will be at school for the first half of our day and follow our regular schedule through lunch. The pod teachers, CES administration, and adults at the farm will supervise the students on this trip. The cost is $7.00. This covers the cost of the bus driver and bus gas, a pumpkin for each child, and farm costs that include animals' food that children will use during the trip plus hayride expenses. Please return the signed permission form with the $7.00 as soon as possible!
Have a great week!
Blue Pod Teachers
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Oct. 6 - Oct. 10
We hope you all have a wonderful Fall Break this week. We enjoyed our apple tasting party on Friday with the students and thank you for sending in needed supplies for that. We also completed our testing for the end of the first nine weeks and you will be receiving report cards on Thursday, Oct. 16.
We hope you found the permission slip for our first field trip in Friday's folder. We will be going to Hilltop Farm Pumpkin Patch on Friday, October 24. We will be at school for the first half of our day and follow our regular schedule through lunch. The pod teachers, CES administration, and adults at the farm will supervise the students on this trip. The cost is $7.00. This covers the cost of the bus driver and bus gas, a pumpkin for each child, and farm costs that include animals' food that children will use during the trip plus hayride expenses. Please return the signed permission form with the $7.00 as soon as possible. Our field trip shirts have been ordered and will be ready for that day. If you have not sent in that $6.00 required fee, please do so as soon as we return to school. (Headphone and journal fees - $9.00 total - are also past due)
Have a great week with your children; see you on October 13!
Blue Pod Teachers
We hope you found the permission slip for our first field trip in Friday's folder. We will be going to Hilltop Farm Pumpkin Patch on Friday, October 24. We will be at school for the first half of our day and follow our regular schedule through lunch. The pod teachers, CES administration, and adults at the farm will supervise the students on this trip. The cost is $7.00. This covers the cost of the bus driver and bus gas, a pumpkin for each child, and farm costs that include animals' food that children will use during the trip plus hayride expenses. Please return the signed permission form with the $7.00 as soon as possible. Our field trip shirts have been ordered and will be ready for that day. If you have not sent in that $6.00 required fee, please do so as soon as we return to school. (Headphone and journal fees - $9.00 total - are also past due)
Have a great week with your children; see you on October 13!
Blue Pod Teachers
Saturday, September 27, 2014
September 29 - October 3
We had a good week in the Blue Pod. We want to thank Ed and Eli Westbrook's dad for visiting the pod and sharing about his work with Forest Fire Prevention. We have learned so much about trees in our AMSTI unit and having this visit from him and Smokey Bear really added to our learning and interest in caring for our trees and forest! Thank you, Mr. Westbrook!
We will continue our Fall Science unit this week with a focus on Apples. Please send in one apple with your child as soon as possible this week. We will use the apples in counting, graphing, and language enrichment lessons all week and we will end our week with an apple tasting party.
This week will also be our testing week for the end of the 1st quarter in our school year. Please make every effort to have your child ready to show how much they have learned these first nine weeks! Report cards will come home after Fall Break; report card day is October 16.
Enjoy your Fall Break from October 6 - 10! When we return, we will be moving in to the pumpkin season - always fun!
This week:
Oct. 2 - Shaved Ice at P.E. $1.50
Oct. 3 - National Walk to School Day - You are invited to join your child at P.E. (8:00 a.m.) to walk a specified course with your child. Join us if you can:)
Our first school fundraiser begins this week; your child will bring home info on Monday afternoon.
Have a good week and a great Fall Break!
Blue Pod Teachers
We will continue our Fall Science unit this week with a focus on Apples. Please send in one apple with your child as soon as possible this week. We will use the apples in counting, graphing, and language enrichment lessons all week and we will end our week with an apple tasting party.
This week will also be our testing week for the end of the 1st quarter in our school year. Please make every effort to have your child ready to show how much they have learned these first nine weeks! Report cards will come home after Fall Break; report card day is October 16.
Enjoy your Fall Break from October 6 - 10! When we return, we will be moving in to the pumpkin season - always fun!
This week:
Oct. 2 - Shaved Ice at P.E. $1.50
Oct. 3 - National Walk to School Day - You are invited to join your child at P.E. (8:00 a.m.) to walk a specified course with your child. Join us if you can:)
Our first school fundraiser begins this week; your child will bring home info on Monday afternoon.
Have a good week and a great Fall Break!
Blue Pod Teachers
Friday, September 19, 2014
September 22 - 26
The Blue Pod is proud to announce that Mrs. Boyer had a beautiful baby girl this week! Mr. and Mrs. Hodum have already held her and proclaimed themselves as honorary grandparents! Congratulations, Mrs. Boyer! We miss you , but Mrs. McClain is doing a great job in her classroom and we cannot wait to see some pictures of little Kathryn to share with the kids.
We had a busy past week at CES with shaved ice, picture day, and special scheduled times of music and library. The children are becoming accustomed to our routines and we hope they are sharing all of the special times as well. This week we will be going to Counseling/Guidance classes and to the computer lab.
This week, we will continue our AMSTI unit with the study of trees and leaves. Take time to go outside with your child this week and observe the trees right around you. We have been using our science journals to record what we see on our outside school area. We are going to have a special guest this week that will help the students understand the importance of taking care of our forest and land. For now, it's a secret, but we hope your child comes home Monday being very aware of the treasures in our trees and forests.
Many of you signed the notes sent home this week concerning the sale of ice cream on Fridays in the cafeteria. Please know this is optional and we encourage the students to eat their lunches before we let them go pick their ice cream. The cafeteria staff is aware of who does and does not want their child's lunch accounts to be used for ice cream. If we see .75 in an envelope or ziplock bag on Friday we will assume it is for ice cream. Thanks to those of you who label things for us: it makes our time collecting money so much shorter and we are anxious to get on with our instructional day as quickly as possible. Please talk to your child as to when they can buy ice cream and when they cannot. Thanks for your help!
See You at the Pole is an annual event at all of our county schools when parents and students are invited to join us around our school flagpole to pray for our school, community, state, and nation. This will take place this Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 7a.m. You are welcome to join us if your schedule permits. It will be over by 7:15 when students may enter the building.
Have a great weekend; please take note of the upcoming October events (listed on the right side of the blog page).
Blue Pod Teachers
We had a busy past week at CES with shaved ice, picture day, and special scheduled times of music and library. The children are becoming accustomed to our routines and we hope they are sharing all of the special times as well. This week we will be going to Counseling/Guidance classes and to the computer lab.
This week, we will continue our AMSTI unit with the study of trees and leaves. Take time to go outside with your child this week and observe the trees right around you. We have been using our science journals to record what we see on our outside school area. We are going to have a special guest this week that will help the students understand the importance of taking care of our forest and land. For now, it's a secret, but we hope your child comes home Monday being very aware of the treasures in our trees and forests.
Many of you signed the notes sent home this week concerning the sale of ice cream on Fridays in the cafeteria. Please know this is optional and we encourage the students to eat their lunches before we let them go pick their ice cream. The cafeteria staff is aware of who does and does not want their child's lunch accounts to be used for ice cream. If we see .75 in an envelope or ziplock bag on Friday we will assume it is for ice cream. Thanks to those of you who label things for us: it makes our time collecting money so much shorter and we are anxious to get on with our instructional day as quickly as possible. Please talk to your child as to when they can buy ice cream and when they cannot. Thanks for your help!
See You at the Pole is an annual event at all of our county schools when parents and students are invited to join us around our school flagpole to pray for our school, community, state, and nation. This will take place this Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 7a.m. You are welcome to join us if your schedule permits. It will be over by 7:15 when students may enter the building.
Have a great weekend; please take note of the upcoming October events (listed on the right side of the blog page).
Blue Pod Teachers
Saturday, September 13, 2014
September 15- September19
Thanks to all of you who met with us on Parent Report Day last week. We hope the brief time was helpful to you as you were able to see just how much we do in Kindergarten. If you have not yet returned the items requested at Parent Night, please do this week: white t-shirts, change of clothes for emergencies, required paperwork, and required school fees. We will be ordering field trip t-shirts and headphones within the next week and would appreciate your taking care of these final, beginning of year needs.
Picture Day will be this Wednesday, Sept. 17. You may have received picture payment envelopes on Friday. If not, you will be receiving them on Monday. Everyone will have their picture made on Wednesday. This picture is the one that goes in our CES yearbook. The envelope sent home will explain many options you have in regard to buying the pictures if you choose to.
Tuesday, Sept. 16, is our second day of shaved ice offered at P.E. If you want your child to participate, please send the money in a labeled envelope so that funds can go where you intend them to. The cost is $1.50.
Please make sure you are sending correct change for snack every day. We do not keep change in our classrooms and can not make change for $5's and $10's. We can also not keep money in our classrooms to use for future days. If we see those bills we are going to assume it's for lunch and we will put it in their lunch accounts. We are not allowed to keep money in our classrooms. Snack and juice is $1 every day. Lunch is $2.50 a day and $.40 for reduced. Please plan accordingly
Have a great week!
Blue Pod Teachers
Picture Day will be this Wednesday, Sept. 17. You may have received picture payment envelopes on Friday. If not, you will be receiving them on Monday. Everyone will have their picture made on Wednesday. This picture is the one that goes in our CES yearbook. The envelope sent home will explain many options you have in regard to buying the pictures if you choose to.
Tuesday, Sept. 16, is our second day of shaved ice offered at P.E. If you want your child to participate, please send the money in a labeled envelope so that funds can go where you intend them to. The cost is $1.50.
Please make sure you are sending correct change for snack every day. We do not keep change in our classrooms and can not make change for $5's and $10's. We can also not keep money in our classrooms to use for future days. If we see those bills we are going to assume it's for lunch and we will put it in their lunch accounts. We are not allowed to keep money in our classrooms. Snack and juice is $1 every day. Lunch is $2.50 a day and $.40 for reduced. Please plan accordingly
Have a great week!
Blue Pod Teachers
Sunday, September 7, 2014
September 8th - September 12th
We hope you all had a great weekend!
Tomorrow is Parent Report Day and we are looking forward to meeting with all of you! Please remember to be on time and prepared with any questions you may have. We have full schedules and only 15 minutes with each of you. We will be showing you what the report card will look like, your child's DIBELS scores, and we will be giving you a list of sight words for the entire year. We will also be giving you a reminder slip if your child still needs something from the beginning of the year. This is a no school day for the students.
Please make sure you are sending correct change for snack every day. We do not keep change in our classrooms and can not make change for $5's and $10's. We can also not keep money in our classrooms to use for future days. If we see those bills we are going to assume it's for lunch and we will put it in their lunch accounts. We are not allowed to keep money in our classrooms. Snack and juice is $1 every day. Lunch is $2.50 a day and $.40 for reduced. Please plan accordingly.
Please refer to the weekly lesson plans and calendar on the right side of the blog to see what we will be doing this week. Practice the letters and sight words with your child every night. Talk about words that start with that letter and sound. Make sentences with the sight words. The more exposure your child gets to the letters and sight words the quicker they will pick it up and remember!
We encourage you to go to the Spirit Nights that our PTO hosts at various restaurants during the month. If you go to these Spirit Nights, and tell the cashier that you want your receipt to go to the CES Spirit Night, our school receives a portion of the profits made that night. You can also send your receipt to school the next day with your child and we can give it to the PTO then. Thank you for supporting our school!
Have a great week!
Kindergarten Blue Pod Teachers
Tomorrow is Parent Report Day and we are looking forward to meeting with all of you! Please remember to be on time and prepared with any questions you may have. We have full schedules and only 15 minutes with each of you. We will be showing you what the report card will look like, your child's DIBELS scores, and we will be giving you a list of sight words for the entire year. We will also be giving you a reminder slip if your child still needs something from the beginning of the year. This is a no school day for the students.
Please make sure you are sending correct change for snack every day. We do not keep change in our classrooms and can not make change for $5's and $10's. We can also not keep money in our classrooms to use for future days. If we see those bills we are going to assume it's for lunch and we will put it in their lunch accounts. We are not allowed to keep money in our classrooms. Snack and juice is $1 every day. Lunch is $2.50 a day and $.40 for reduced. Please plan accordingly.
Please refer to the weekly lesson plans and calendar on the right side of the blog to see what we will be doing this week. Practice the letters and sight words with your child every night. Talk about words that start with that letter and sound. Make sentences with the sight words. The more exposure your child gets to the letters and sight words the quicker they will pick it up and remember!
We encourage you to go to the Spirit Nights that our PTO hosts at various restaurants during the month. If you go to these Spirit Nights, and tell the cashier that you want your receipt to go to the CES Spirit Night, our school receives a portion of the profits made that night. You can also send your receipt to school the next day with your child and we can give it to the PTO then. Thank you for supporting our school!
Have a great week!
Kindergarten Blue Pod Teachers
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