November is a busy month for Kindergarten! Here are some
things you may want to mark on your calendar.
Next Tuesday, November 10, is our Elementary Family Night.
You are invited to come to the elementary cafeteria between 5:00-6:00 for a
free taco supper. This will be followed by activities in the classrooms from
5:30-7:00. Each grade level will have various learning activities set up in the
classrooms for the students from their grade to participate in. Please come and
be sure to visit Mrs. Brinks’, Mrs. Green’s, and Miss Thompson’s classrooms for
some fun and great learning ideas. Please send back the blue flyer your child
brought home if you will be attending, so we can get an idea of how much food
we need.
On Thursday, November 12, we will visit the book fair and
each child will make a “wish list” of items they would be interested in. They
will bring their “wish list” home with them Thursday night. On Monday, November
16, we will go back to the book fair and make any purchases that you might want
to have your child make. “Shopping” with 21 kindergartners is always a treat,
so if anyone is available to help us “shop” at 12:30 on Monday the 16th,
I would sure appreciate your help. Just drop me a note or an e-mail. We will
shop right after lunch, so maybe you would like to join your child for lunch
that day and then help us with our shopping afterwards.
There will be no Holiday Bazaar this year due to
construction on the auditorium. The Holiday Bazaar is the biggest fundraiser
for the PTO. We are hoping to have increased participation in our book fair and
also in our “Labels for Education” program to try to make up for some of the
lost revenue. Please keep saving those labels- ask relatives too!
Look for your child’s first report card to come home next
Friday, November 13. Parent/Teacher conferences will take place on Thursday, November 19.
There will be no school for students that day. Appointment times should be
coming home from the office very soon, possibly even today. Please try to keep
your appointment time if at all possible, because it is very difficult to
reschedule conferences for 21 students. However, if your time just will not
work for you, please let me know as soon as possible so I can try to make
different arrangements.
The week of Thanksgiving is an exciting and busy week for
kindergartners as we prepare a “feast” to share together. On Monday, November
23, we will begin to prepare the feast. We will make homemade butter and
cornbread. We will also prepare to make the main course of our feast, our
traditional “stone soup” or “Friendship Soup.” For those of you who do not know
what Stone Soup is, you can find out by reading the traditional tale Stone
Soup, which can be found in many different varieties retold by many
different authors. To work together to make this soup, each kindergarten class
will be responsible for providing several items for the soup. Each child will
be asked to bring something for the soup. There are other items that will be
needed for our Thanksgiving celebration as well, so I will have a sign up sheet
available at conferences. I will also be looking for parent helpers to help in
food preparation that week, as well as parents to help serve the feast on
Wednesday afternoon.
Please
remember that you can always keep in touch with me via e-mail through the
mcbain.org website.
