Mrs.

Kimbrells Kindergarden
Where minds can GROW!

mlkimbrell@auburnschools.org

October 9, 2015

This Week:
October
Birthdays:
Presleigh
Jones

AR Goals:

These friends have

met their AR goal for
the 1st Nine Weeks!
Congratulations to:

Tanner
Dagostino
Virginia
Meyer
Caden Norris

How do you like our new newsletter!?!?! After working on the PTO
newsletter, I fell in love with the format and had to use it in the
classroom! I hope you enjoy it! This week weve been reading FUN
Farm fiction books! We are just getting our feet wet in our yearly
farm theme! We will be traveling to the farm this year (via bus,
train or RVdepending on the childrens vote)! We will begin learning
about those modes of transportation in preparation of our trip in
the next few weeks. So our fun, farm fiction stories are planned to
teach us about the farm, while sparking our interest and getting us
excited for our theme this year!
During shared reading this week, weve been talking about initial
consonant sounds (the beginning sounds in words). Ive been using the
Mrs. Wishy Washy books to work on this skill. The kids love Mrs. Wishy
Washy and I hope you heard all about her on Thursday evening (from
your planner question)!
On Friday, we had our very fist directed drawing lesson! The kids
LOVED IT! I hope you enjoy hearing all about it this evening-your
childs drawing is in their backpack today!

Dog Bite Prevention

On Tuesday, Auburn Universitys
Dog Bite Prevention Program came
to teach us a lesson! I hope you
check out the pictures on our blog!
We LOVED having Lily, Thatch and
Tim Cook come to our classroom!

Next Week

Shared Reading:

Beginning Sounds
We will continue working with
beginning sounds as well as reading
more Mrs. Wishy Washy!

Theme:

We will continue our fun, farm fiction

stories! Each day, we will web about
a different farm animal to prepare us
for voting on what we want to learn
all about once we get to the farm.

Today marks the official start to the 2nd nine

weeks! Please be working on your 2nd Nine Weeks
sight words at home:

you, do, my, are, he, with, is, little, she, was

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October
Volunteers
Please let me know if you are willing to send in
the following items for our October Activities:
10 baby pumpkins (we need 2 parents for
this, a total of 20 mini pumpkins)
1 extra large carving pumpkin
2 boxes of pumpkin bread mix
Email me or send me a note
if youd like to help!

Dates to remember:

October 14th: Make-Up Picture Day

October 15th: Parent-Teacher Conference
Day (No School)
October 16th: Fall Break-No School
October 22nd: Trike Trek & Report Cards go
home
October 23rd: Cary Connect
October 27th: Countrys BBQ Night

Picture Make Up Day:

Please let me know if you would like to have your

childs picture remade this Wednesday.
Only those who request it, will have the opportunity.
Please return your picture order on or before

October 19th !

Have a wonderful weekend!

With my best,
Mrs. Kimbrell

We are beginning a new nine weeks today.

During the past nine weeks, only those
friends who were reading independently
had an AR goal! Beginning TODAY, EVERY
child in our classroom has an AR Goal to
work towards. Please encourage your
child to check out pink dot library books
(kindergarten level). Once you and your
child have read the book at least three
times, please fill out an AR slip (in todays
Friday folder) letting me know your child
is ready to take a test on that book! Once
your child has met their goal, they get to go
to the library, get a coin and add it to the
bulletin board for all to see! They also get
to be featured on the morning news AND in
our newsletters! AR is a great way to
encourage reading and comprehension!

Parent Teacher
Conferences
A HUGE THANK YOU to those who have
signed up AND attended our parent
teacher conferences this week! We are
a TEAM for your child, and working
together will help achieve so much more
than working alone! If you have not
signed up for a conference, please
check your Friday folder today and
return your RSVP on Monday!

THANK YOU!!!
Another HUGE thank you to Virginia and Nellie for donating
books to our classroom from the book fair! Take a look at
our new books