Our first week of school!!

We had a WONDERFUL first week of school. The children have been so excited about school! This week we learned our rituals and routines, went to some of our resource classes; computer lab, Media Center and P.E. We learned about earning good behavior tickets, had indoor and outdoor recess and even ate lunch with our teachers everyday! We have been reviewing our letters and sounds, learned all about the fun Math materials we will use in Math Investigations, wrote a story every day in Writer's Workshop and learned all about reading books.

Next week we will continue our work with letters and sounds, continue to practice using Math materials, we will learn how to make our stories even more exciting and will be given our "Just Right Reading Book Bags" so we have books to read!

Homework will be sent home on Monday. Please help your child complete it and send it back to school by Friday. You should have started to record books in your child's book log in the back of the agenda. We encourage you to exceed the 45 minimum books every nine weeks. We will have Art and Music this week for the first time and will try eating lunch on our own in the cafeteria. Treasure box will be given to children who have atleast 5 good behavior tickets.

Don't forget that Open House is fast approaching and we would love to see you there. We will be discussing important information about the school year and things we will be doing in our class. We also will be sending home Scholastic book orders soon and encourage you to take advantage of the low priced books. By buying books for your child, you help Ms. Burns and I to get materials for our classroom which helps us out a lot!

We hope your child has had as much fun as we did in the first week of school. Take a look at some pictures from our first week of school and feel free to leave comments at the bottom of the page!!

As always, Thank you so much for all of your support!
Ms. Ryan and Ms. Burns :)

Welcome to Kindergarten!!

Welcome to Kindergarten!

It was absolutely wonderful to meet so many of you this evening at orientation! We are looking forward to an amazing school year with your children. We have high expectations for this school year and will be setting the stage for success.

Kindergarten is an extremely important year for your child as they will start their journey of being a life-long learner.

If at any time you have questions or concerns, do not hesitate to call, use the agenda to send notes or email us. We feel that the only way to make your child's first year of school successful is by building a partnership with you.

We hope that many of you had the chance to visit the Media Center this evening and join the New Berlin PTA. We encourage those of you who have not joined, to send in money to join. It is only $5.00 and the first class to reach 100% gets a 'dream' party. PTA is not just limited to parents but also to grandparents, aunts and uncles and anyone else who would like to support our school!

We will continue to update our classroom blog to show parents and family members near and far what we have been busy doing in our classroom. Look for pictures and stories about what your child is doing as well as learning in our class.

Ms. Burns and myself are both Early Childhood Education graduates with a passion for working with children. We keep very busy with various training opportunities as well as organizations and groups within the school. We are both originally from Ohio where we left after college to pursue our dreams of teaching. We look forward to working with each of you this school year and hope you'll stop back occasionally to check up on what your child has been doing. Thank you so much for all our your support!

*Ms. Ryan*