Updates and Reminders

Just a Few Reminders and Updates:

• Monday--"Star of the Week" posters are due!
• Tuesday--Join me and my friends at Spring Creek BBQ for a yummy dinner and support our Phillips' PTA!
• Thursday--Black day for our color word of the week!
• Book Fair will begin this week--please come by the school to shop for some great books!
• Book Fair hours are 7:30 to 8:00 a.m. and 3:00-3:30 p.m.

Book Fair--Our class will be going to the book fair for a sneak peek Tuesday and then we will go again as a class Wednesday. Please look for your child's "Wish List" sheet for the book fair to come home on Tuesday. You can send your child to school with money on Wednesday (with their Wish List form) for their books or shop before or after school.

Pumpkin Patch--please make sure to sign and return your child's field trip forms ASAP. Also, please send your child's field trip money in a LABELED baggie or envelope.

Volunteer badges and background checks--you will need to make sure you have completed the background check and received a volunteer badge to attend our field trip. Go to the Frisco ISD website to find the link to complete these forms.

Parent Conferences--Next Monday--October 8th. Please refer to your reminder note sent home for your time.

More Apples...

Just a few more APPLE items:

Our KWL chart about Apples

We think these are the ingredients for applesauce.

We read Ten Apples Up on Top by Dr. Seuss
Braeden's Ten Apples picture

Luke's Ten Apples Up on Top picture

We made APPLESAUCE!

Check out our collage of pictures from Friday!

We made APPLESAUCE!

YUM!

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Joke Box

Joke Box

I need your help with a little something. I want to create a Joke Box for my kids to use for our brain breaks. Although I know it is important to be learning every minute of the day, research has shown that the human brain does respond more and better when given mental breaks to recharge and reset. I feel like a great way to give my students a quick recharge is to tell a joke. :)

If you and your child could come up with a "kid" appropriate joke to write down and send in to place in our joke box, I would really appreciate it. I know the kids will love them!

Please send these joke any time and throughout the year. We will use these all year long. Have fun with your child finding these too! :)

Library Books

Parents:

Please send your child's library book

back by Thursday. 

We will be going to library 

on Thursday this week. 

Fabulous Fourth Week!

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A Few Reminders

Sunday:  Phillips Elementary Dedication at 4:00.
              Please join us in honoring the late, dear
              Mr. Billy Gene Phillips.

Monday:  Please make sure you send your child's sight
               word baggie. We will have two new words!

Thursday:  Yellow Day! Wear something yellow!

October 1st:  "Star of the Week" posters are due!!! :)

Sight Word Bags

Please make sure you send your child's

sight word bag every Monday.

Thank you! 

Join PTA!

Join the Phillips' PTA!!!

It is a great way to meet other
parents and families, participate in school events,
 and activities, and help our children
 learn and lead each day.

Today, you received a green form from PTA. 

We want you to join and get
involved in our wonderful school!

Also, help our class get a 100% participation! 

We want to earn a popcorn party!

Come join and get involved! 

Help our class and school learn and lead!

Apples on Monday!

Just a friendly reminder:

Please send two apples

 (any color) to school on Monday with your child.

We will begin our apple unit! 

Lots of fun apple activities this next week!

Shh....We are reading!

We began reading in our independent reading spots this week!

Browsing bags are out, books are in, and we are reading!

Sight Words in Our Books!

We are finding our sight words in our books!
Aiden found the sight word "I" in his book today!
SOOOO COOL! 

B-L-U-E Spells Blue!

We know the Blue Song!!!

Listen to us sing...

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College Week

 

Next Week is College Week!

Go UT-Tyler Patriots and the TEXAS Longhorns!

We are going to celebrate our bright future by

 enjoying a week filled with wonderful outfits!

Dress for Success each day:

Monday: Your Future is Bright! Wear bright colored clothing.
Tuesday: College Rocks! Wear college spirit gear.

Wednesday: Dress for success! Dress in professional clothes.

Thursday: Heading off to College. Wear a hat.

Friday: Show your school spirit. Wear a Phillips shirt.

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Our 2nd Week in Kindergarten!

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Environmental Print Items

Parents,

Today, I sent home a note regarding Environmental Print items and labels for our classroom environmental print word wall. We will begin collecting these labels to start our word wall and will continue to collect until next Friday. Please sent whatever "EP" labels you come across. I told the kids about it too...so their eye's are looking out for them as well. 

Some great items can be found on the front of cereal boxes, labels of canned food, coke can boxes, menus and packaging from restaurants. Please just make sure these items or labels are clean before you send them. We appreciate all of your help! :)

We are learning so much about letters, words, and print awareness---this will just enhance our literacy foundation and build meaningful connections for our students! 

Fun Friday!

We have worked so hard all week learning all about Kindergarten!

It's time for some fun!

We read Chicka Chicka, Boom Boom and we

watched the video too!

Now, we wanted to make our very own coconut trees!

So here we go....

Making our trees...

Making the leaves...

Adding letters...

So fun!

Almost done...

WOW!!!

Check out our coconut trees!!!

They turned out great!!!

The letters are climbing up the coconut tree!!!

Wonderful job!







Lastly, we played in some of our Fun Friday stations!!!
Legos, blocks, cars, and Mr. Potato Head

Red table is enjoying our potato heads!!!

Green table is building with blocks!!!

Blue table is creating with Legos!!!

Yellow table races the cars!!!




Also, it was Friday!!! Time to count our sticks!!!
EVERYONE HAD 10!!!
Treasure box here we come!!!

Growing Readers and Writers

In Kindergarten, we want to build a foundation for our students to grow and succeed. 

One way we do this is by creating a love for reading and writing. 

This week, we made our very first class book, read 

many wonderful stories, and wrote about ourselves.

Here are some of our wonderful creations:

We got to explore our classroom book boxes.

Tagg is reading "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie."

Aiden is enjoying a great book!

Reading is so much fun! 

In addition to books, we want kids reading 

other literature pieces, such as poems.

Our poem this week was called "School."

We illustrated our poem and then placed it into our poetry journal.

We went on a LETTER HUNT!

After reading Chicka Chicka, Boom Boom, we wanted to find more letters. 

We used a circle map and magazines to find our first initial.

See some of my friends fantastic letter circle maps!

Addison is finding the letter "A."

One friend is looking for "T."

We read  Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten! 

It was such a fun book!

Then, we created our own class book about our friends.

We used our first letter of our names and came up with something 

we liked that started with the same letter. 

Lastly, we put it all together to complete the sentence.

T my name is Tavin and I like the Titanic. 

S my name is Sophia and I like seashells.

L my name is Lathyn and I like lizards.

A my name is Addison and I like apples.

After we created our book pages, I put them all together into a class
book that will be in our library nook for the kids to read everyday.