KINDERGARTEN FACTS AND FIGURES
Monday return folders return library books once we start checking them out in Nov.
Tuesday P.E. : wear uniform tennis shoes (just like any other school day)
Wednesday folders go home: look for homework, and go online to www.holyspiritschoolfremont.com for school news
and mrsdrabink.weebly.com for my parent letter
P.E. : wear uniform tennis shoes
Thursday return homework and folder
Cooking for snack
P.E. : wear uniform tennis shoes
Friday bring art portfolio to school
folders go home
Kindergarteners will meet at the brown picnic table near the Science Lab in the morning before the 8:00am bell.
(Children arriving before 7:45am will go to daycare in the Peace Center.) After school, kindergarteners will be picked up in the classroom by persons on their list. Those going to daycare will walk directly across the hall at 3:10pm.
Kindergartners should not bring electronic devices to school. Students with cell phones must turn them in to the teacher each morning.
Our hot lunch program will be handled by Choice Lunch www.choicelunch.com . Register online with code Spartan . Order hot lunch by 9am the previous school day. Even on hot lunch days or minimum days your child will need a snack for the morning recess time. A piece of fruit or a granola bar or small snack will help your child continue learning during the day until lunch time. Food is fuel so eat what's good for you!
TO CLARIFY THE NUT-FREE POLICY, students may not bring to school any food containing any nuts or containing traces of any nuts. However, students can bring to school food items that have been processed in a facility near nuts. Those items will not be eaten by students with the allergy, but the processing does not affect the airborne allergy possible severe reaction.
Homework is given every Wednesday. It will be a 10-15 minute assignment that is due back on Thursday. It is your child's responsibility to do the homework, put it back into the folder, put it back into the backpack, and into the top red basket each Thursday morning. Homework will occasionally be done online on the computer. Take-home bags will be an occasional activity and should be returned within two days, as someone else is waiting to take it home too. Every Wednesday night, please go online to www.holyspiritschoolfremont.com for the school office’s Wednesday Envelope, then and go to mrsdrabink.weebly.com to see my weekly parent letter. Password bears
Required parent training is done at www.shieldthevulnerable.org ($8). The certificate must be turned in before you volunteer with the children. This is to be done by all parents on a 3 year cycle. Everyone returning is on the first year. Everyone is to complete it now. Fingerprinting required only once.
Traveling Teddy
Each day our classroom teddy bear will go home with a different child. It'll be that child’s responsibility to take care of the bear and return it to the classroom the next morning. A parent will read the accompanying bear book with the child and the visiting bear and also help write a journal entry, taking dictation from the child about the various activities they took part in while visiting. The child will illustrate the journal entry. We will read the story, and the bear will visit someone else. (The journals will be sold at the Crab Feed Auction too.) Our bear will be machine washed each weekend. Each child will have a chance to host the bear four times during the year. We hope he will be a well-behaved guest.
Sharing
Beginning September 14, the children will have sharing each week. On their day, each child may bring an object from home, such as a stuffed animal, game, vacation souvenir, favorite toy, etc. in their decorated sharebag. No war toys, violent toys, gory toys, Gameboys, nor expensive electronics will be allowed. The kindergartener will describe it, telling us what it does, where they got it, the size or shape or color, so that we may guess what it is. This is a wonderful way to practice verbal skills in front of a group, and listening skills for all. Some weeks there will be a specific topic for sharing and then it will be described in the Wednesday parent letter from me. If your child is absent on his/her day, or it is a holiday, then your child may wait until the next week for another sharing opportunity. Please keep the schedule below to help remind your child of his/her sharing day each week beginning September 14th.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Emmy Caleb Leander Gabbi
Mateo Isaac Adrina Bella
Alize Maddie Gianna Jonah S.
Jonah A. Kiera Alyssa N. Vivienne
Colin Jacob Christopher Mark Jayson
Ava Ewura-Adjoa Danica Alyssa T.
Enzo Max Camille Elijah
Gina
Birthdays
I am trying to make your child’s birthday a meaningful one, while at the same time reducing the endless amounts of sugar that children eat and dealing with food allergies of some classmates. How about letting your child “treat” our class to a Birthday Book ? The birthday child may bring a book, wrapped in birthday paper and with your child's photo as a bookplate, that s/he would like to give to the class. This book will become a permanent part of our classroom library, Please note that you are not obligated to bring a Birthday Book but the concept of the child being a giver instead of a receiver is good for a child's development. Book ideas are listed on the class website.
We would like to keep our parties at school simple. Food and goodie bags and party favors are an added expense and should be saved for smaller home parties. Invitations for home parties must be mailed home.
Monday return folders return library books once we start checking them out in Nov.
Tuesday P.E. : wear uniform tennis shoes (just like any other school day)
Wednesday folders go home: look for homework, and go online to www.holyspiritschoolfremont.com for school news
and mrsdrabink.weebly.com for my parent letter
P.E. : wear uniform tennis shoes
Thursday return homework and folder
Cooking for snack
P.E. : wear uniform tennis shoes
Friday bring art portfolio to school
folders go home
Kindergarteners will meet at the brown picnic table near the Science Lab in the morning before the 8:00am bell.
(Children arriving before 7:45am will go to daycare in the Peace Center.) After school, kindergarteners will be picked up in the classroom by persons on their list. Those going to daycare will walk directly across the hall at 3:10pm.
Kindergartners should not bring electronic devices to school. Students with cell phones must turn them in to the teacher each morning.
Our hot lunch program will be handled by Choice Lunch www.choicelunch.com . Register online with code Spartan . Order hot lunch by 9am the previous school day. Even on hot lunch days or minimum days your child will need a snack for the morning recess time. A piece of fruit or a granola bar or small snack will help your child continue learning during the day until lunch time. Food is fuel so eat what's good for you!
TO CLARIFY THE NUT-FREE POLICY, students may not bring to school any food containing any nuts or containing traces of any nuts. However, students can bring to school food items that have been processed in a facility near nuts. Those items will not be eaten by students with the allergy, but the processing does not affect the airborne allergy possible severe reaction.
Homework is given every Wednesday. It will be a 10-15 minute assignment that is due back on Thursday. It is your child's responsibility to do the homework, put it back into the folder, put it back into the backpack, and into the top red basket each Thursday morning. Homework will occasionally be done online on the computer. Take-home bags will be an occasional activity and should be returned within two days, as someone else is waiting to take it home too. Every Wednesday night, please go online to www.holyspiritschoolfremont.com for the school office’s Wednesday Envelope, then and go to mrsdrabink.weebly.com to see my weekly parent letter. Password bears
Required parent training is done at www.shieldthevulnerable.org ($8). The certificate must be turned in before you volunteer with the children. This is to be done by all parents on a 3 year cycle. Everyone returning is on the first year. Everyone is to complete it now. Fingerprinting required only once.
Traveling Teddy
Each day our classroom teddy bear will go home with a different child. It'll be that child’s responsibility to take care of the bear and return it to the classroom the next morning. A parent will read the accompanying bear book with the child and the visiting bear and also help write a journal entry, taking dictation from the child about the various activities they took part in while visiting. The child will illustrate the journal entry. We will read the story, and the bear will visit someone else. (The journals will be sold at the Crab Feed Auction too.) Our bear will be machine washed each weekend. Each child will have a chance to host the bear four times during the year. We hope he will be a well-behaved guest.
Sharing
Beginning September 14, the children will have sharing each week. On their day, each child may bring an object from home, such as a stuffed animal, game, vacation souvenir, favorite toy, etc. in their decorated sharebag. No war toys, violent toys, gory toys, Gameboys, nor expensive electronics will be allowed. The kindergartener will describe it, telling us what it does, where they got it, the size or shape or color, so that we may guess what it is. This is a wonderful way to practice verbal skills in front of a group, and listening skills for all. Some weeks there will be a specific topic for sharing and then it will be described in the Wednesday parent letter from me. If your child is absent on his/her day, or it is a holiday, then your child may wait until the next week for another sharing opportunity. Please keep the schedule below to help remind your child of his/her sharing day each week beginning September 14th.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Emmy Caleb Leander Gabbi
Mateo Isaac Adrina Bella
Alize Maddie Gianna Jonah S.
Jonah A. Kiera Alyssa N. Vivienne
Colin Jacob Christopher Mark Jayson
Ava Ewura-Adjoa Danica Alyssa T.
Enzo Max Camille Elijah
Gina
Birthdays
I am trying to make your child’s birthday a meaningful one, while at the same time reducing the endless amounts of sugar that children eat and dealing with food allergies of some classmates. How about letting your child “treat” our class to a Birthday Book ? The birthday child may bring a book, wrapped in birthday paper and with your child's photo as a bookplate, that s/he would like to give to the class. This book will become a permanent part of our classroom library, Please note that you are not obligated to bring a Birthday Book but the concept of the child being a giver instead of a receiver is good for a child's development. Book ideas are listed on the class website.
We would like to keep our parties at school simple. Food and goodie bags and party favors are an added expense and should be saved for smaller home parties. Invitations for home parties must be mailed home.