Ms. Lauren's Kindie Crew 23-24: Crew News September 1st, 2023

Announcements

Take Home Folders: Pictures are in Take Home Folders. Additionally there is a Zoo-phonics ABC chart for your reference. See below for our video demonstration of how we use this in class. Please empty Take Home Folders and return on Tuesday. Thanks!

September Lunch Menu: Click Here

Hike Chaperones: Ms. Lauren’s Crew is going to be doing a hike at Bingham Lake (in the Pinery) on Friday, September 29th. If you are interested in volunteering to chaperone on this hike, please email me by 9/13. We would ask for your help from 8:30-12:30pm. Adults must have completed a REMS Volunteer training to join us, and we ask that only one parent per household attend to accommodate as many families as possible and no siblings please. Students will be riding in our small white buses. Permission slips will go home next week.

Volunteer Trainings: Still need to do your volunteer-training? We have an easily accessible opportunity that you can complete in your own time.

Navigate to our Volunteer Training: Virtual Module, to watch the videos, answer the questions, and complete the interactive pieces. It is recommended that you dedicate at least 45 minutes to this training. We understand schedules and family, so thank you for setting aside quality time to diligently go through this module.

Upon completion of the exit slip, and review of your responses, you will earn credit for the volunteer training.

As per communication from REMS admin, it is required that parents who plan on volunteering attend one of the Volunteer trainings. Our hope is the same training across the board will help elevate the experiences for our students, parents and staff, while continuing to provide a safe learning environment.

Repeated for Reference: Volunteers Opportunities

-Classroom Volunteers: I need volunteers for filing Take Home Folders, plugging in iPads, and doing take home projects. Here is a sign up for those jobs. Thank you helping out our crew!

-Rug Washing Volunteers: Everyday, we use green mats for solitude. At the end of the week, I need volunteers to take the tubs of rugs home to wash and roll. If you would like to sign-up for this at home volunteer opportunity, please sign-up here.

-Upcoming Volunteer Opportunity: Kindergarten teachers would like to start having volunteers in the classroom to help with letter formation in the mornings, starting in September. Ms. Bethany and Ms. Lauren will be hosting training sessions if you are interested. We are opening this volunteer opportunity up to ALL Renaissance parents.

In this training, we will go over how, what, and why we do letter formation in a particular way. Please feel free to bring your child along as the perfect partner to practice during the training. We ask that you attend a training before you sign up to volunteer.

*9/13 Wednesday 1:15-1:45

*9/15 Friday 8:00-8:30

We plan to offer 2 volunteer slots per classroom from 8:30-9am on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, starting Monday September 18th. More information is available on our online portal.

Calendar

September 4th: Labor Day- No School

September 8: Community Reading 8:30-9am

September 15th: Ms. Lauren's Crew Picnic at Bison Park 5-7pm

September 21st: PCF Movie Night (movie starts at 6:30pm)

September 22nd: Teacher Professional Development Day- No School for Students

September 29th: Ms. Lauren's Crew Hike

October 6th: Renaissance Adventure Day (RAD)- More info coming soon

October 9-20th: Fall Break- No School

Crew Highlights

To help us learn letter names and letter sounds, we have been working on Zoo-phonics. Here is a delightful video to share with you how we do it! Having the letter, an animal, a movement, and a sound increases letter knowledge through a multisensory approach. Already, I have seen students transfer this knowledge to writing, and as they are sounding out the word, they begin to do the letter movement and sound.

In Take Home Folders, you will find a copy of the zoophonics one page abc chart. It has a graphic to help students remember the animal and the letter. I encourage you to put this by their writing or art station at home, so that they can use this resource at home.

Here is a script for the words and movement if you are interested. :)

Our crew did a fantastic job with iReady testing this week!

Students have added small white boards to their material bins in which we are using for practicing spelling their names with a capital followed by lowercase, our letter of the week m, and our sight words I, see, a, and can.

Our first cutting and gluing activity to put words that beging with m on the moon.

We began doing rotations where small groups are reading indepedently, doing Zoo Phonics, doing an iPad reading app, working with Ms. Martha, and working with Ms. Lauren.

Ms. Martha's group was working on letter stamping with Play Doh to find the missing letter.

Checking out books with Ms. Erin on Wednesday.

It as fun to come into the library and hear the excited buzz around new books and their pigeon booklets.

Thank you for helping your child remember to return their books on Wednesday.

We love pigeon!

Ms. Halle came to share about bullying. We define bullying as being mean on purpose over and over. It is different than single acts of unkindness or rudeness. Our crew did an excellent job listening and were all commited to treating each other like Crew. :)

We added the paint station to our morning Purposeful Play. We will only have two painters a day, and everyone will get a chance before we begin a new rotation. It has been a hit!