Kindergarten in room 101 is off to a great start!

Just some reminders:
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	<li>The green and white Ray School folder will come home only on Fridays full of notes for you to read.  Please read and respond appropriately.  Send the folder back on Monday.  This is a good way to send lunch money as well.</li>
	<li>The red folder will come home Monday with homework.  Please work on it a little bit at a time each day with your child and return in on Friday. </li>
	<li>Please send lunch/milk money for the week on Mondays.</li>
	<li>September is snack month for boys.  Please send in a healthy snack, enough for 28 students.  We do have a peanut allergy so please be careful in choosing your snack.</li>
	<li>October will be snack month for girls.</li>
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This week:
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	<li>In Math we will be focusing on numbers 1-9.  We will also explore volume and patterns</li>
	<li>In Reading will begin exploring letters.  I will be assessing students to find out which letters and sounds they already know.  We will use shared reading to explore phonics and comprehension strategies.  We will also continue to build stamina for reading to ourselves, learning how to choose books that are a good fit. </li>
	<li>In Writing we will continue to discuss choosing ideas from our lives on which we can base stories we want to tell.  Students will continue to tell those stories through drawing pictures and writing words, if they can. </li>
	<li>For Handwriting we will begin to discuss the kinds of lines used to make letters and use the wooden pieces from Handwriting Without Tears to make those letters.</li>
	<li>In Social Studies we will continue to discuss feelings and use the knowledge of feelings to form I messages so students to resolve their own conflicts.</li>
	<li>I hope to begin Science this week with the introduction of the Kindergarten tree.  The three classes will care for this tree throughout the unit and eventually plant it on the grounds at the end of the unit.</li>
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Important Dates to Remember:
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	<li>Open House/Curriculum Night 9/23</li>
	<li>PTA Meeting 9/21 6:00 pm dinner, 6:30 pm meeting</li>
	<li>No School 9/25</li>
	<li>After School Program Starts 9/30</li>
	<li>Picture Day 9/30</li>
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<p align="center">Have a Great Week!</p>