April 2, 2012

Greetings Families,

Ever since we started our last Daily 5 Rotation with Work on Writing our kiddos have been writing like first graders.  We will be moving into more forms of writing like letters, lists, stories, etc…. We will use these forms during our science time as we will be learning about various inventors and their inventions. We read about Thomas Edison on Friday and wrote what we learned, drew a picture of his invention, and wrote what life would be like without his invention. We are starting on subtraction officially but have been inadvertently learning along with our addition topics. Please take note of our upcoming days off from school. Also, our Golf Tournament is quickly approaching. You will definitely see me in my golf cart greeting our golfers all day! If you can’t make it please donate to our Disney Themed Kindergarten Basket.

It is time for our annual spring parent survey.  I would like to encourage all families to take the time to complete the survey because the results help administration set improvement goals for next year.  The survey will be available online until April 20^th at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9QD6BMR .

Please see visit our web-site, www.stlcgolf.com for registration in the Golf Tournament on April 21st.  If you are unable to golf, we have other opportunities to participate to support teachers through helping with the baskets for the silent auction.  Each grade is putting together themed gift baskets for a silent auction. Funds raised will go directly to our Growing Brilliance program, which helps fund the teachers and staff at San Tan Learning Center. The kiddos are very excited to help with this, so if each parent could donate anything related a classroom theme; we would appreciate it. 

Kindergarten

Theme: Disney

This basket will be filled with magical treats. It’s a small world after all, so let’s use our imagination to fill this basket with gifts. Anything large or small to help complete a Disney-filled day will be fitting. It could be tickets to Disneyland, a gift certificate to The Disney store, anything to do with Mickey, Minnie and the rest of the wonderful Disney characters. Stuffed animals, magic wands, etc. would all be great donations! This basket could be filled with dreams to come true…

Sincerely,

Amanda Errington

March 26, 2012

Greetings Families,

I wanted to take this time to thank everyone for all the birthday wishes, homemade cards, gifts, and hugs! It was such a special birthday because of you and your children’s presence in my life.  We are back into our routines and will be adding word study back this week. I did assess students and a pleased at the direction they are moving. Your child’s group may change a day based on this progress. I wrote in almost everyone’s agenda today when their day is. This movement is due to all of your hard work with word study at home. Thank you! Please remember this Wednesday is a half day and dismissal is at 11:30am. We do have pictures on the Friday the 30^th at 10:40a.m.

Here are some additional announcements in regards to our school:

It is time for our annual spring parent survey.  I would like to encourage all families to take the time to complete the survey because the results help administration set improvement goals for next year.  The survey will be available online until April 20^th at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9QD6BMR .

Please see visit our web-site, www.stlcgolf.com for registration in the Golf Tournament on April 21st.  If you are unable to golf, we have other opportunities to participate to support teachers through helping with the baskets for the silent auction.  Each grade is putting together themed gift baskets for a silent auction. Funds raised will go directly to our Growing Brilliance program, which helps fund the teachers and staff at San Tan Learning Center. The kiddos are very excited to help with this, so if each parent could donate anything related a classroom theme; we would appreciate it. 

Kindergarten

Theme: Disney

This basket will be filled with magical treats. It’s a small world after all, so let’s use our imagination to fill this basket with gifts. Anything large or small to help complete a Disney-filled day will be fitting. It could be tickets to Disneyland, a gift certificate to The Disney store, anything to do with Mickey, Minnie and the rest of the wonderful Disney characters. Stuffed animals, magic wands, etc. would all be great donations! This basket could be filled with dreams to come true…

Thank you so much for all you do for me and our kiddos. Have a great week!

Sincerely,

Amanda Errington

March 19, 2012

Greetings Families,

Welcome Back!

I’m thrilled we are back from spring break! I missed our kiddos so much and can’t wait to get started right where we left off. I will be doing additional word study assessments to ensure students are placed appropriately in groups. You will see new words on Monday as we will return to our regular schedule. I did assign the Time math lessons on Pearson as well as some games personalized to your child.  Please check the important dates as we have several half days and days off.   We are studying technology with a specific focus on inventors and inventions this quarter. Let me know If you have any biographies, invention books, etc… We love to read!!

Dates to Remember

v  March 24, 2012 San Tan Garage Sale

v  March 28, 2012 Half day -11:30 Dismissal

v  March 29, 2012 Spring Pictures

v  April 6^th, 9^th, 20^th  No School

v  April 21, 2012 FEC Golf Tournament

Thanks for everything and I look forward to another fabulous quarter!

Sincerely,

Amanda Errington

February 5, 2012

Happy Sunday Families,

 Greater than, Less than Alligator attachment:

January 29, 2012

Sunday Greetings Kinder Families,

Every week amazes me with our kiddos. They are really blossoming in our morning
routine. Thank you for reading and responding in their agendas. Please be sure
to send agendas and word study notebook back to school on appropriate
days.  I have an SRC parent volunteer who will be coming in on Wednesday
now so be sure to send SRC books back to school before Wednesday.  We will
be having a field trip to the Phoenix Zoo on February 17^th to follow up on our study of animals last quarter and following maps this quarter. I will be sending information about chaperones and permission slips shortly. Have a super week!

Sincerely,

Amanda Errington

January 22, 2012

Dear Families,

January 16, 2012

100 Days of Kindergarten!

It warms my heart to think that I have already spent 100 days with your children.
This Wednesday marks the 100^th day of school and we will be doing a
few things to celebrate this milestone. On Wednesday, please send a plastic Ziploc bag of 100 items (in groups of 10; i.e. 10 pretzels, 10 cheerios, 10 fruit snacks, 10 pennies,
10 beads, etc… all the way to 100) Please stick with our healthy, no nut policy for this project. This is perfect because we are learning about 100 and will be counting groups of 10 on Wednesday. With a new semester and tremendous growth in word study your child’s words and word study day may change. I will be emailing about this. Thank you for all of your support!

January 9, 2012

Welcome
Back!

It was so great to see all of my grown-up kindergartners today.  I really enjoyed our reunion hugs and was impressed by their motivation to get right to work. With the short week I am not planning on starting word study until next week. I will be assigning math starting with 10-1 on Wednesday so be on the lookout on the Pearson website. If you need a new log in and password please let me know. I am trying a new
schedule where I switched Math and Reading but am just using it on a trial basis to see how the kids do with it.

October 30, 2011

Happy Sunday Kindergarten Families! I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful weekend in Arizona.  I wanted to highlight a few things starting with Halloween on Monday.  Here at San Tan we choose not to celebrate this with costumes or treats. Thank you for your cooperation with this.  Another point to highlight is the field trip on November 10^th to the farm. The deadline for permission slips and payments is this Friday November 4, 2011. I have a lot of parents who have signed up for chaperones and I am limited to bringing 4 chaperones. I am just going to take the first four that turned in their permission slip and will be contacting them this week.  Thank you for your support and I hope we have another opportunity to go on a field trip.  I will include dates to remember below as well as the new word study schedule below.  Our new word study schedule has been working well so far in the classroom. If you have any comments about it at home please let me know. Thanks for everything!

Dates to Remember

v  November 10, 2011

Farm Field Trip- permission slips due November 4^th

v  November 11, 2011

No School

v  November 23, 2011

Half Day

v  November 23, 2011
11:30 am
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

v  November 24, 2011

No School Thanksgiving

Weekly W.S. Schedule

v Monday Group: sp, sk, sm

Guide Words:

spider, skate, smile

v Tuesday Group 1: b, m, r, s

Guide Words:

bell, mouse, ring, sun

v Tuesday Group 2: k, l

Guide Words:

key, log

v Wednesday Group: c, h

Guide Words:

cat, hat

Sincerely,

Amanda Errington

October 23, 2011

Dear Families,

We had a great week introducing habitats! The kids are super excited about learning about plants and animals in various habitats. We are going to start planting seeds this week and encourage anyone who has experience with gardening to please contact me. Thank you to those of you who have sent in literature connected to our content area of study. If you
find magazine or newspaper articles please send those in for our concept/question board.

I’ve altered the Word Study schedule to accommodate my different groups. The schedule is below:

v  Monday Group: s, t, st ( guide words: sun, ten, star)

v  Tuesday Group 1: j,w (guide words: jug, web,)

v  Tuesday Group 2: c, h ( guide words: cat, hat)

v  Wednesday Group: b, d review (guide words: bug, dog)

You will know what group your child is in by the bracelet I put on your child’s wrist tomorrow. It will say the day of the week they will get their blue folderand word study notebook.  If your child has Monday then their lesson is on Monday and the at home activities follow after that. Please be sure your child’s blue folder and notebook is back to
school by the following Monday. I will post the feature of study, words, and guide words on my website. I also put them up on the new schedule. Thank you for your patience with this.

Please be sure to turn field trip permission slips as soon as possible. I will take
chaperones as a first come first serve basis. The permission slips are in their
green folders which I keep on Friday’s. Please be sure to check the green
folder as much as possible.

Important Dates:

v  October 26, 2011 Half Day (K-7 Only)

v  November 10, 2011 Farm Field Trip- permission slips due
November 4^th

v  November 11, 2011 No School

Thank you for all of your support and cooperation at home. I have such a special bond
with these kiddos and we have so much fun together! Have a great week.

Sincerely,

Amanda Errington

October 18, 2011

Greetings Kinder Families,

Welcome back! I was so impressed yesterday with our kindergartners. They remembered our expectations and routines and we had such a  fun day back together.  I want to highlight a few things in this email and will  send you my usual newsletter this evening.

Important notes:

• This week is National Character Counts Week! Schools
  nationally are celebrating teaching students good character and celebrating
  their successes. Here at STLC we have done a tremendous job of integrating
  Character Education into our culture and it’s time to celebrate this! Attached
  is a letter that outlines what the week is all about.
• We are celebrating Red Ribbon Drug Free Awareness Week
  this week! Thursday is Red Ribbon Awareness Day on our campus, to have the students wear Red for the day.
• Math homework has been assigned online for the week.
• We are learning about life science this quarter and are in need of any newspaper
  articles, magazines articles, books from the library that discuss or have
  pictures of plants or animals and their habitats.
• Permission slips to Vertuccio Farms went home yesterday in the green homework folder. Please fill this out and return as soon as possible.  The field trip is
  scheduled for November 10^th and the permission slip is due November
  4^th .

I hope everyone had a fantastic fall break. This is going to be an exciting quarter and I look forward to working with our kids and you.
Thanks for all of your support!

PS. Please take a look at Coach’s PE webpage. She is in need
of equipment and has an equipment donation page.

http://www.santanlearningcenter.com/phys-ed/

Here is our music teacher’s (Ms. Ball)  webpage as well:

http://www.santanlearningcenter.com/music/

Sincerely,

Amanda Errington

September 26, 2011

Greetings Kindergarten Families,

I just wanted to update you about this week in this email.

Important Dates:

• Wednesday September 28^th – Half Day dismissal at 11:30am
• Wednesday September 28^th – please send blue word study folder and words back to school. Sending this home these past few weeks has been a trial run so if you are unsure about expectations, your child has lost their words already, please be patient as I am evaluating what is best for all involved.
• Monday October 3^rd- Community Helper Project Due- I’m sending a paper doll and a letter home tomorrow with this project. It is just a fun way to culminate our unit on roles and responsibilities in a community.  Students will choose community helpers like: policeman, firefighter, construction worker, teacher, etc… and they will decorate their paper doll however they wish. Please look in green homework folders for this project. This can be done in place of calendar assignments. Have fun with this.
• This week and next week we are benchmark testing so please be sure students are at school.
• Thursday October 6^th and Friday October 7^th – Parent Teacher Conferences. Please be on the lookout for the signup genius for these conferences. Remember if these times don’t work please contact me and I am more than willing to work with you.

I can’t wait to sit down with you and show you how much progress our kiddos have made in just ONE QUARTER! I LOVE  KINDERGARTEN! Thanks for everything.

Amanda Errington

September 18, 2011

Happy Sunday Kindergarten Families,

September 11, 2011

Greetings Kinder Families,

I wanted to start by thanking those of you that attended our Words Their Way parent workshop. It was so nice to see my kinder parents in the audience. That brings me to my first topic, word study sorts and activities.

I will give students their weekly words on Wednesday as well as their new words. The blue folder and notebook will go home on Wednesday and come back the following Wednesday with the activities finished inside the notebook. I’m attaching the instructions for each day and have this page printed with example in your child’s blue folder.  This can take the place of the calendar activities.

As you will see in my weekly newsletter we have a few exciting events this week. On Friday, the Gilbert Fire Department is presenting to kindergarten about community helpers. Also, on Friday we will celebrate Grandparents Day with an Art activity versus the Grandparents Day Lunch on Monday.  If your child’s grandparents live far away please feel free to have a grand friend or yourself join your child for this activity.  Please be sure who ever comes for this event signs in at the front desk.

Thank you for your time. It’s going to be another fabulous week in kindergarten!

Sincerely,

Amanda Errington

August 29, 2011

Dear Wonderful Families,

I’m starting to compile all of my weekly announcements into a newsletter. Please open the newsletter attachment to find out what fabulous events are taking place in kindergarten.

Please remember:

-August 31, 2011- Half-day: Dismissal at 11:30a.m.

-September 5, 2011- No School

-September 7, 2011- Words Their Way Parent Workshop: K-1 6:00- 6:30p.m.

August 22, 2011