Chattahoochee Nature Center
We had fun at the chattahoochee Nature Center. We ate lunch with geese walking around, looked at a snake, and learned how to use our five senses on a nature walk. A special thanks to Stephanie Young for helping chaperone.
















Eating lunch















We got to look at and feel a snake.

Joshua feeling the snake.


Riley and Mrs. Rockett

Makenzie and Joshua

Important! We need your help with the Fall festival basket! Thanks Angie Haddad for coordinating our fall festival basket. The theme is Health. Please send in items to put in the basket that relate to help and wellness. You can send the items to school with your child and we will send them to Angie. Thanks for all you do!!!!

Hi!

Last week we were busy learning about families. Thank you all for sending in the handprints with pictures of your family. We will finish learning about families this week. We will learn about the differences between needs and wants and we will learn about the different types of homes people live in. We will also look at friends and how we are alike and different. In math, we will continue to identify shapes. In phonics, we will read the poem "One, Two buckle my shoe." We will continue to work on the letters A-G. We also introduced three sight words: one, play, and you.

Thank you for working with your kids at home. It makes such a difference in their success!!
Homework Ideas:
Practice sightwords: one, play, you (If you would like sightword cards with visual cues to use at home, please make a note in your child's folder and we'll send the cards home.)
ABC's: Identify or match ABC's, identify letter sounds
Name: recognize name, spell name, write/trace name.

*Dates to Remember*
September
27th-Chattahochee Nature Center Field Trip

October
13th-No School
16th-20th Conference Week



The field trip is on Wednesday Sept. 27th. Please make sure your child dresses
appropriately. All lunches will be provided but, if your child decides to
bring a lunch, please put it in a brown paper bag. We have the field trip
shirts here at school. We will pass them out on field trip day and then
collect and wash them at the end of the day. We will do that for every field
trip and you will receive them at the end of the school year.

YEARBOOKS! On sale now thru Sept. 29th for $24. Make checks payable to Ford PTSA.



A special thanks to Kelli Renier, our earth parent, who taught us about how to use our five senses when looking at nature. We walked through the garden using our five senses. Then we ate apples and painted apple trees. We also looked at plants that we could smell and touch.











Students standing by the pond in the garden.





Makenzie ate "Pastries with Mrs. Pepper" for being a "Terrific Kid."

We had another fun week of kindergarten! This week we finished learning about our five senses. Students had fun playing the smelling game, tasting game, hearing game, and touching game.

Riley playing the tasting game. Students tasted sweet, sour, salty, and bitter foods.















Joshua playing the smelling game. Gross! Pickles!



















In math, we are learning about shapes. This week students enjoyed singing the shapes song and making the Monster Shapes Book.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Please remember to complete the homework that was sent home on Thursday and send it back by Monday. Good job to Riley who turned his homework in on Friday!!

Our first fieldtrip will be to the Chatahoochee Nature Center on Sept. 26. At the Chatahoochee Nature Center we will focus on using our five senses to explore nature. A special thanks to Mrs. Young for volunteering to chaperone on the field trip. If you are interested in chaperoning a field trip in the future, please let me know. We'd love the help!

Early release Day is Wednesday Sept. 20. Students will be released to go home at 12:10.

The Ford Family Fun Walk/Run will be Friday, October 6th, at 4:00 -just before the Fall Festival begins. There is no entry fee, and t-shirts are available for $10.00 each. Please make sure to check in for the race at 3:30.

Please turn in your Pike's receipts to Ford. We earn funds, based on the amount of receipts turned in, which support our Earth Parent program and keep our campus beautiful.

Special thanks to Kelli Renier for teaching Earth Parent lessons, Angie Haddad for coordinating the Fall Festival activities for our class and Stephanie Young and Kimberely Gunter for serving as the Room Moms.

We had another great week of kindergarten! Everyone is getting into good routine. Last week we focused on All about me. We made All About Me books and talked about our phone numbers, addresses, birthdays, and families. On Friday of last week, we went to the library. The students did a great job selecting their books and reading them quietly. We are keeping their library books here at school.

Essential Question(EQ): What are you five senses?
This week we are learning about the five senses. Today we sang the "Five Senses Song" to help us identify our five senses. On Wednesday we will focus on touching, Thursday we will focus on smelling, and Friday we will focus on seeing. We will continue with the five senses next week.

Jordan did a great job identifying the five senses.


In math, we just started a new unit about Shapes. We will focus on identifying and sorting shapes.

Important Information:
Thank you for returning the t-shirt money in on time!
Also, thanks for checking their communication folders at night. If you ever have ANY questions/concerns/praises/advise about your child feel free to email me or call me (2:10-2:50). I'd love to talk to you!

September 18th: Joshua's birthday
September 20th: Early Release/ performance
September 28th: Hannah's birthday

Thanks for ALL you do!