Sunday, September 17, 2023

Back to School Night 9/18 5:30

Monday 9/18. 5:30-6:15 

Plan to attend this information filled evening. 
Please be on time as it goes by very fast.
No children allowed.

I will post the slideshow to this blog post after the event if you
can not make it. 

This will be a time for general questions about the classroom 
but not a time for individual parent child conferences. 
 If you would like to schedule a conference with me, 
please email me and I will be happy to do so.

Formal Parent Teacher Conferences will be scheduled 
in the evenings beginning in late October.




9/17/23 Week 4


Welcome to our 4th week of school 

  • Books we have read and Songs that we sang last week:

    • Little Blue Truck

    • Time For School Little Blue Truck

    • Lily's Purple Plastic purse

    • Purple Stew-GoNoodle

    • Sour Grapes

    • Brown Bear's Birthday

    • Teddy Bear Teddy Bear Turn Around

    • Brown Rabbit's Day

    • Two Little Black Birds

    • 10 Black Dots

    • Freight Train

    • It Looked Like Spilt Milk

    • Pete the Cat - White Shoes

  • These can be found on YouTube.



In Math, we continued to work on number sense and 1 to 1 correspondence up to 10.  There are many ways that you can help your child develop these skills at home.

What should children count? Everything!! 

Buttons, rocks, candy, seeds, hair clips, toys, books, pencils, crayons, blocks, etc. 


How can you help at home?  

Count out objects out loud together! 

Provide objects to count: cereal, macaroni, sunflower seeds, pennies

Give your child cups and plates to organize by tens and hundreds

Show your child how much you love counting too! 


Listen to your child count and ask:

-Are they including every number in the sequence? 

-Are they touching each item as they count?

-How are they organizing their objects?

-Can they write the number and draw a picture of what they counted? 


We will continue our learning of colors with the 3rd (Final) week.

Wear these colors if you have them.

Monday - Pink Day
Tuesday - Gray Day
Wednesday - Rainbow Day
Thursday - Rainbow Day 
Friday - Favorite Color Day

We will continue show and tell  for the rest of the year.   
Only our leader of the day brings in show and tell.  
Please limit to one item.

Monday - Soren
Tuesday - Gwen
Wednesday - Theia
Thursday - Myla
Friday - Logan

School wide: Positivity Project - word of the week - Optimism
WHAT DOES OPTIMISM MEAN?
You expect the best from the future and work to achieve it.

Back to School Night 
Monday 9/18
5:30-6:15
This is an adult only night so please leave the kids at home.
Time will go fast so please be on time.
I will try to record this presentation and post my slideshow on this blog.

I am not very techy but I will do my best.

SAVE THE DATE - Laps for Lincoln 9/29

Any questions for me?  Email or text Mrs Confer.
aconfer@sjschools.org
773-968-9657




Sunday, September 10, 2023

9/10/23 Week 3

 


Welcome to our 3rd week of school


  • Books we have read and Songs that we sang last week:

    • Little Mouse and the Big Red Strawberry

    • I like Red Best

    • 5 Little Ducks

    • Wheels on the Bus

    • Who eats orange?

    • Big Mouth Frog

    • Froggy goes to school

    • Too Many Frogs

    • 5 green and speckled frogs

  • These can be found on YouTube.


We will continue our learning of colors with the 2nd week of colorful dressing.  
It is ok if they do not have all of these colors of clothing.  
No need to buy anything new.  
Wear these colors if you have them.

Monday - Blue Day
Tuesday - Purple Day
Wednesday - Brown Day
Thursday - Black Day 
Friday - White Day

We will also introduce show and tell and begin our leader of the day.
Your child will bring home the Show and Tell Bag.  
Please read the Show and Tell instructions in that blog link.

Monday - Wynter
Tuesday - Nikki
Wednesday - Leland
Thursday - Eston
Friday - Klay

Save the Date - Back to School Night 
Monday 9/18
5:30-6:15
This is an adult only night so please leave the kids at home.

Any questions for me?  Email or text Mrs Confer.
aconfer@sjschools.org
773-968-9657


Arrival and Dismissal Reminders

Arrival & Dismissal Procedures: 

I will meet students outside by the playground doors at 8:20.  .

There is an adult supervisor on the playground at 8:10,

so students can be left on the playground as early as 8:10. 

If your child is going for breakfast, they will enter the doors by the gym.


Beginning this week we will need our families to remain outside the gates

of the playground in the morning.

We were told by the police department that this is how we keep o

ur students safe at school!

Staff members are on the playground and will be glad to help get our littlest l

earners where they need to be and keep them safe.

The students have had a lot of practice lining up as a class and are now very familiar with the routine.

If you need to send me a message please text me.  773-968-9657 or 

if your child is having separation issues, please contact me to discuss. 

 Parents that need to enter the building should enter the front door and sign in. 

At dismissal, Y5/K teachers will walk students to the back of the school at 3:40.

This allows us to help our littlest learners get to their families without

the congestion of other grades.

Teachers will not dismiss Y5/K students without seeing the parent/guardian.

Please park and walk up to pick up your student. Thank you!

A teacher will help our Y5/K bus riders get to the correct bus at the end of the day.

Sunday, September 3, 2023

Leader of the day Starting 9/11

Leader Day, Show and Tell and Snack
For Show and Tell, your child will bring home a show and tell bag
the night before his/her leader day. One (1) show and tell item
should fit in the bag. Their item can be anything they choose as
long as it is appropriate for school.
Included in the show and tell bag is a notebook. Please sit down
with your child and brainstorm three clues together that would
help describe your child’s item.

Your child will give the class these clues and the class will then
have three guesses as to what the show and tell might be.
Your child will then share and talk about the item.
Three students will be allowed to ask a question regarding the item,
to be answered by the leader.
This works well in helping the students to learn the difference
between a question and a comment. 
This is a time the children love and is a wonderful way to
work on communication skills.
We will all get to know your child better through the
things he/she chooses to share with us ☺.

In addition to show and tell, on this day, your child is responsible
for providing a nutritious morning and afternoon snack for the class. 
Please do not send snacks with peanut, we have a peanut allergy in our room.

 Please send 30 prepackaged items that are individually wrapped.
crackers, pretzels, Goldfish etc...but not cookies
Gogurts, string cheese or fresh food/fruit items are fine if
they are individually prepackaged from a store.
 We know that birthdays and parties are a special time,
so store bought cupcakes or cookies or donuts are fine on
those days only.  

Please email me with any questions or concerns
you may have: aconfer@sjschools.org

Thank you,
Mrs. Confer
           


9/3/23 - Week 2



Last week was great.  We learned about and visited all of the important areas of the school and met a lot of important people around our buildings.  
Principal - Mrs Knuth
Secretaries - Ms. Tiffany and Mrs. Kauffman
Art - Mrs Warsow
Music - Ms Mileham
Media Center/Library - Mrs Hassenger and Mrs Gruchot
Gym - Mr Wilson
Children really settled into the classroom routines and are doing a great job transitioning together as a group.  We are learning to follow school rules and how to use our whole bodies to listen.

  • Books we have read last week and can be found on youtube.

    • We are going on a Bear Hunt

    • Pete the Cat: Rocking in my School Shoes

    • Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

    • How do Dinosaurs go to School?

    • Who took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar

    • Ten Little Caterpillars

This will be our week to see the whole group together.  Expect some tired kiddos.  We will kick off our learning with 2 weeks of colorful dressing.  It is ok if they do not have all of these colors of clothing.  No need to buy anything new.  
Wear these colors if you have them.
Tuesday - Red Day
Wednesday - Orange Day
Thursday - Yellow Day
Friday - Green Day
Monday - Blue Day
Tuesday - Purple Day
Wednesday - Brown Day
Thursday - Black Day 
Friday - White Day

Any questions for me?  Email or text Mrs Confer.
aconfer@sjschools.org
773-968-9657






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