Kindergarten Weekly Update

We have almost made it through October!

These next two days will be BUSY! Please make sure you read the entire newsletter so you have all of the info!

For attendance questions and concerns, please contact:

PEIMS Clerk: Shea Harrison sharrison@aubreyisd.net

Attendance Administrator: Anverly Laster alaster@aubreyisd.net

Reminder to ensure your kiddos are wearing dress code appropriate clothing each day for school!

Let us know if you have any questions!

With love,

Mrs. Beck, Ms. Ceaser, Ms. Hardin, Mrs. Stuart, Mrs. Summerville, and Mrs. Yusaf

SILLY SOCKS ON MONDAY ALL MONTH!

Oct. 30: 50th day of school! Dress like it is the 1950's and come to school ready to celebrate being 50 days smarter! We will have a Sock Hop in the gym and learn all about the 1950’s Vs now as part of our celebrations!

• some classes will partake Rootbeer floats as a celebration of learning during snack time - please let your child’s teacher know if they need to go elsewhere for this activity!
  

Oct. 31: Character Parade - 1:30pm

Beck - Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late

Ceaser - Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Hardin - Room on the Broom

Stuart - The Day the Crayons Came Home

Summerville - If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Yusaf - How to Hug a Pufferfish

Feel free to go as big, or as small as you would like with these costumes! Just ensure that they relate to the book for their class.

From Mr. Smith: October 31st we will be holding our book character parade. Your child's teacher should have already reached out to you about their classroom's book and character plan. We cannot wait to see everyone's book character celebrated on this day. Many have asked, but they may NOT wear their halloween costumes on this day. This day is strictly reserved for our book characters only.

You are more than welcome to come and eat lunch with your child any day (with exceptions for closed campus testing days) of your choice. If you are eating lunch at school remember:

- check in AND out with the front office

• no background check required, but the school does need to keep track of who is and is not in the building

- you may only sit with your child, their friends may not eat with you at the visitors tables

- you cannot supply food to other children that are not your own

- please encourage your children to continue to follow school rules while you are visiting

These are rules across campus to keep all children safe, and must be followed by all visitors.

TEKS we will focus on this week:

K4A Self selecting texts

K5C/F making predictions and inferences

K2biv Identifying sight words

K2E Handwriting

During both whole and small group instruction we will discuss using our powers observation to make predictions and inferences applicable to reading and writing. We will connect this skill back to science as it is something we have already talked about when exploring the natural world.

We are continuing to work in our handwriting books, moving into different letter strokes this week.

TEKS we will focus on this week:

K.8 Create & Draw conclusions from real-object & picture graphs

Linking in some inferencing to math, we will begging to graph and read graphs, drawing conclusions about data and making inferences on what we think data trends will be.

In addition, we are working on the skill of rote counting forwards and backwards to 30, with and without objects for representation, and continuing to

practice skip counting by 10.

TEKS we will focus on this week:

K.2A&C Ask questions about objects observed in the natural world.

K.2A-E Ability to ask questions and seek answers.

We will connect science to our theme AND our 50th day celebration this week by exploring popular activities and objects from the 1950’s to build vocabulary and background knowledge, and then by investigating the life cycle of trees and why leaves change color.

Optional project: go on a walk around the neighborhood with your child. Collect a ziplock bag full of leaves for us to explore in class this week.

TEKS we will focus on this week:

K.3C Identify and explore geographic tools

We will do some great connecting crafts and writing to determine how to read and make simple maps, understand how neighborhoods are set up, and more!

*Please note that Ms. Beck's class is split between classes and will not appear on the schedule.

Aubrey ISD does enforce a strict dress code. Please review the following links to familiarize yourself with the dos and don'ts!

Please note that outerwear, jewelry, and accessories worn to school are the responsibility of your child to keep up with. We will do our best to give reminders and monitor the location of these items as they are taken off, and we do give reminders that everything needs to be stored in backpacks if it is not on, but students should be aware of guidelines from parents as well. Any items brought to school do have the chance of being left at school, lost, or taken home by others if guidelines are not followed.

Dress Code

Dress Code Dos and Don'ts

• LABEL ALL LUNCHBOXES, WATER BOTTLES, JACKETS AND MORE. WE CANNOT GUARANTEE THE RETURN OF MATERIALS HOME IF YOUR STUDENT MISPLACES THEM AND THERE IS NOT A NAME LABELING IT.

• Send your kiddo to school with a LABELED, reusable water bottle daily.

• Don't forget a snack, packed SEPARATE from their lunch so they don't eat it at lunch accidentally.

• Pack an extra set of dress code approved clothes in a gallon sized bag, or other container, in case of accidents or clothing emergencies.

• Check green folders nightly, empty and return each day. Any paperwork that needs to come back to school will on the RIGHT side, and teachers will check for returned forms daily.

• Car tags are REQUIRED at dismissal in the car line, as well as Walker Pick up locations

• Email ALL transportation changes to FESTransportation@aubreyisd.net by 2pm.

• We will not go outside for recess if the temperature exceeds 100*F or is below 40*.

• Parents need to drop their kiddos off at the door - fostering independence is essential in Kindergarten! There will be teachers around to help kiddos find their way to our classrooms.