HOOT#22

WEDNESDAY, March 2

TISA's annual Readathon and Pajama Day!

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN US for the annual TISA Read-a-Thon!!!

We need as many parents as possible to join us on WEDNESDAY, March 2nd from 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. to read with K-4 kids!!! If you cannot make it yourself, please consider sending a grandparent or a friend to read with your child for this very fun morning! (The goal is for every child to have one adult to read with).

We are raising money for our end-of-year field trip.  We are hoping that every Kindergartner will raise $20 at our Read-a-Thon so that we can achieve our goal. Please help your child find sponsors for the Read-a-thon. (Sponsor sheets are in your child's folder at school.)

The day of the Read-a-Thon is a pajama day!! Kids can come to school in PJs and wear them all day. They can also bring a class snack (muffins, fruit, popcorn, etc.) a pillow, and of course, LOTS OF THEIR FAVORITE CHILDREN’S BOOKS!!!!!

 Amazing Music-Making with Kombucha Marimba last week!

More drumming fun with Sandy, Shea's dad last week and this week!

HOMEWORK:
Do on Monday (due on Tuesday): play tic-tac-toe 

Do on Tuesday (due on Wednesday):  gather your favorite children's books to bring for TISA's Readathon. Jump in your jammies, grab the popcorn, and be a reading champ today!

Do on Wednesday (due on Thursday): Draw an illustration about a favorite book of yours. What happens at the beginning, in the middle and at the end? 

Letter of the week: x

Numbers: 11-19 

HOOT#21

This week's events:
MONDAY
If winter is indeed over, we'll be spending time at the park on Monday afternoons (from 1:30 to 2:30).
TUESDAY
Kombucha Marimba will be celebrating African music with us in the afternoon.
Art club
Pizza money due
WEDNESDAY
Miss Jutka will be gone (for emergency dental procedure) : (
THURSDAY
pizza day
We'll have our second session with Explora!

Art club this Tuesday
We will be starting to work on felting water bottle holders. Please send a water bottle with your child on Tuesday.

Letter of the week:

Homework:

Do on Monday (due on Tuesday):  

write and draw/cut 5 words that have a w (or start with a w)

Do on Tuesday (due on Wednesday): 

Pick a live or a stuffed animal friend of yours and follow the prompt below (in door pouch)

Please bring your animal to class if you can.

Do on Wednesday (due on Thursday):

Sight word practice

Please practice the sight word "do" using the worksheet in door pouch

Have a fun week!

HOOT#20

February 16
Our next Harwood Field Trip is tomorrow (Tuesday)
We are leaving at 9:45
returning to our campus at 1:15
Pick-up will be at regular time.













February 23 (1pm)
Marimba workshop with two soulful Kombucha Marimba players from Dixon!

March 1 
TISA is getting its own mascot! Creative juices are in action! Kindergarten is going to create watercolor submissions for the mascot contest to be judged in March.

March 2  (8:30-12)
is our annual TISA Read-a-thon!

Please pick up all read-a-thon  information from your child's folder.

March 8, 3pm (Tuesday before spring break):
Kinder's Shadow Puppet Performance with Kombucha Marimba from Dixon! Nancy and Cathy will be playing classic African folk tunes between story sets. All family members welcome!

HOMEWORK:
Please continue to read with your child every day. You are welcome to use the reading log or the reading response sheet, or go on a "sound hunt" to help with phonics skills and comprehension. How about hunting for ending sounds (final sounds) this week in story words?

letter Qq -- remember this helpful jingle, "q + u stick like glue"

Q path: start high up in the middle, swing into a magic c, then make an o. Frog jump down to add a tail.
q path: start in tunnel, make a magic c, then make an o, slide down, and make a hook (we use the rounded hook font).

Tuesday (due Wednesday):
Create an "itsy-bitsy Q book" together. Please pick up the page in the door pouch.

Wednesday (due Thursday):  play a game, bring a game (card game, board game, counting game). Any game! The important thing is that it can be used for counting. If you can't find one around the house, make one up!
We will be having a game day on Thursday

HOMEWORK FOR PARENTS
Please follow this link below to fill out the required parent survey. I ask that each parent please fill one out. Would you tread kindly... it affects my teacher evaluation. You and I have the hardest jobs we'll ever love. Thank you!

https://voicenm.org/survey/parent/0b3ddba95392a134

February 14     SWEETEST SCHOOL DAY EVER!  (overheard and confirmed)
Thank you for your tasty contributions to our party.
We made Valentine's Wonder Spinners and chocolate covered strawberries.... oh my!
We had so much fun with the thauma-tropes that we invited the third graders over to make their own.

HOOT#19

Thank you all for attending parent-teacher conferences. I am looking forward to visiting with your family, if you haven't had a chance to see me yet.

Explora's first visit to kinder was fun!  We studied HIDE AND SEEK (animal mimicry/camouflage) with Victoria.

Upcoming dates:
February 11 (this Thursday): Valentine fun! -- treats (except for candy) welcome!

February 16 (next Tuesday): Harwood field trip
March 8, 3pm (Tuesday before spring break): Shadow Puppet Performance

Homework:
Please continue to read with your child every day. You are welcome to use the reading log or the reading response sheet, or go on a "sound hunt" to help with phonics skills and comprehension.

Tuesday (due on Wednesday): create a Dd collage using letters and images from magazines/newspapers, or draw your own pictures.
Wednesday (due on Thursday):
find the missing numbers and write them where they belong (worksheet on door pouch)
OR Write a number riddle. E.g. "I am thinking of a number. It is between 7 and 10. It is an even number. It is the sum of 4+4."

Whole Schol Assembly on MONDAY

Time to Celebrate!

From the Director's Corner

"Student of the Month
Welcome to our  first whole school assembly celebrating our Student of the Month and Honor Roll Students. Judge Ernie Ortega will be speaking. Please join us for our first of many celebrations. The event will start on Monday February 8, at2:00 and be held at the Guadalupe Gym. All student from both campuses will dismiss at regular times from the Manzanares Campus. Elementary parents please take note of the change. "

We will be celebrating three outstanding kindergarten students this month

Kaylyn Staley

Quintin Lefthand

and Seamus Campbell 

There will be students of the month every month, which will give an opportunity for each child to be celebrated for their individual accomplishments in time.

Please note: kindergarten students will be picked up from TISA's upper grades' campus on Manzanares street at 3:30pm. Also, please find the location of the Guadalupe Gym attached.

The gym is at 243-303 Don Fernando (west/behind Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, at the corner of Don Fernando and Manzanares).

We all look forward to you joining us on Monday for this ceremony.
Jutka

Way to go, Kaylyn! 

Congratulations, Quintin!

Keep up the great work, Shea!

HOOT#18

Most of our parent-teacher conferences got buried in a blizzard. Thank you all for being willing to reschedule. I had a chance to meet with seven families and look forward to seeing everyone in the next week or so.

PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE RESCHEDULE TIMES
Thank you so much for considering these available times for your conferences. 

11:00-11:30  this Friday (Feb 5) ASHER

11:30-12:00  this Friday (Feb 5) AURORA​

1:00-1:30 this Friday (Feb 5) Angelina

1:30-2:00 this Friday (Feb 5) KARA​

2:00-2:30 this Friday (Feb 5) ANGELIQUE

    ​2:30-3:00 this Friday (Feb 5) BERNICE

3:00-3:30 Tuesday (Feb 9) QUINTIN

3:00-3:30 Thursday (Feb 11) AZALEA (Julian)

Homework:

Make every night a reading night! (Please use reading response sheets or the reading log -- on door pouch.) Read a story, poetry, a chapter book, a magazine every day for 15-20 minutes. 

Wednesday: play a game (dice game, card game, board game with family/friends) -- use your math skills!

LETTER OF THE WEEK (and continuing on to next week):
Dd 

D: (start upper left -- cross over) Slide, frog jump, swing

d: (start in tunnel straight up) swing, climb, slide, bump (remember NOT to lift up pencil)

Blends to practice this week at home: dr, tr

http://www.guruparents.com/support-files/preschool-letter-worksheet-dr-sound.pdf

Word family practice for home: 

https://www.myteachingstation.com/ed-word-family-match-letter-and-write-the-word-in-color

Sight word practice this week for home:

http://www.education.com/slideshow/kindergarten-sight-words/

Would like extra handwriting practice with tricky letter d? Get a "d" sheet in class! (Remember: first the dog, then the leash!)

http://www.themeasuredmom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Lower-case-ds-of-all-sizes.pdf

EXPLORA is coming to TISA kinder, thanks to an amazing donation starting this week!

2/3 - Do animals play hide and seek/growing pains 

2/25 - Exciting Electricity/bodies in motion

3/7- Family Science Activities

3/28 - Beautiful Bubbles

4/4 - Forceful Magnets 

5/9 - Mirror Mirror on the wall 

Check them out here: http://www.explora.us/en/ and here: https://www.facebook.com/ExploraScienceCenter