Kinder News

Welcome to Kinder News! Here you can find upcoming events, reminders, and things going on here in kindergarten. For any other questions, visit our Baker Website or contact your child's teacher!

Address: 3125 Bluewood Dr, McKinney, TX 75071

Phone number: (945) 678-2100

• November 3rd: Picture Retake
• November 11th: Veteran's Day Assembly
• November 16th-20th: Book Fair Week
• November 19th: Special Friends/Grandparents Lunch (K, 2nd, 4th)
• November 20th: Special Friends/Grandparents Lunch (1st, 3rd, 5th)
• November 20th: House Meeting
• November 23rd-27th: Thanksgiving Break

Baker Elementary needs you to help with our Scholastic Book Fair! Our Scholastic Book Fair will be delivered the week of November 6th. Mrs. Busbee could definitely use your help making this a wonderful and fun experience for our students and staff! We are looking for volunteers to help with decorating the hallways and the book fair space starting Monday, November 9th. We will provide the fun and decorations and all we need is YOU! We also look forward to help with our Book Fair Preview for classes on Thursday and Friday, November 12th and 13th as well as when the Book Fair is open Monday, November 16th through Friday, November 20th. Please take a look at the time slots here and let us know when and where you can help. We appreciate you very much and could not make this experience happen without YOUR HELP! Thank you for offering your time to volunteer for our Book Fair!

We are hosting a Toy & Gift Drive benefiting Cornerstone Christmas, supporting over 350 children in our local area this season. We are collecting new, unwrapped toys and gifts valued above $15, with our greatest need being items for kids and teens ages 8–18. In order to offer a varied selection for our youth and prevent duplicate donations, we kindly ask that no books or board games be collected right now.

Drop-off location: Baker Elementary Front Office

Collection deadline: Tuesday, December 1st

Thank you for helping us make Christmas morning special for our neighbors!

Birthday grams are here! Make your student’s Birthday extra special at school!
-All Birthday Grams include a goody bag with a Birthday Button, pencil, bracelet and personalized message.

-Order at least one week before

• ELAR: We will be able to make connections when reading/listening to a story and understand the author's purpose.
• Social Studies:We will learn about relative location and use spatial terms to describe a location.
• Math: We will be learn about measurement and ways to measure length, weight, and capacity.
• Science: We will show how objects can only be seen when there is a light source.

Below you will find a copy of our nightly homework schedule. Homework is optional, but is highly encouraged. It is a great idea to find a safe place to keep the half sheets that come home with students each week. Please reach out to your child's teacher with any questions!

In order to help with practicing our high frequency words, we thought it would be helpful to note which words we have already covered in class. We will continue to add learned words to the list throughout the year!

• Every kindergarten class goes to the library at some point on Tuesday. Please make sure you are sending your child's book back in their backpack so they can check out a new book each week. We will start by keeping books at school for the first few weeks.
• Please make sure your child has ONE DRY snack and a water bottle every day. Please try to keep your child's snack separate from their lunch. Please remember at school ONLY water is allowed in a student's water bottle.
• Every kindergarten class is allergy aware. Please do NOT send products with nuts in them for your child's snack. Thank you for your help with this!
• Please make sure your child is bringing their red take-home folder to school everyday. Also, please make sure you are emptying it each night.
• If you haven't already, please send in a pair of headphones for your child to use with their Chromebook throughout the year. They will stay at school and be returned in May.

Please use the button below to sign up to have lunch with your child and eat on the stage in the cafeteria. Due to limited space on the stage, we must limit each parent/guardian to signing up only once per week. Please check in with the front office before you head to the cafeteria. Ms. Flores will also be able to assist you with any questions you may have about the process of lunch at Baker.