Author: Sammi Burroughs

Burroughs’ Buzz

October 1, 2018

Get Ready for a “Bee-utiful” Year in Kindergarten!

I think I forgot to share with you a few special people we have helping us in our classroom! You all know about Grandma Ruth, but we have two other special ladies joining us this year! We have Miss Eve who is a high school senior A+ student. She comes over every morning and does “tutoring” with students. This may be students that need some extra help, or may be students that need an extra challenge. She is here from 7:45-8:15(ish) and will be with us until December. Miss Kaitlyn is a high school vo-tech student doing a student internship. She is here every Wednesday and Thursday from 7:30-10:45am. She pulls extra reading groups during centers, helps students one on one throughout the morning, and will teach one lesson a month on different topics! We are excited to have some extra help in our room!
As mentioned last week, October begins our Book-It Program. Today you will get a sheet explaining the program. All you have to do, is throughout the month fill out the form with book s you read and then send the form in when you get it filled out! Your student will then get a coupon for a free personal pizza from Pizza Hut!
A permission slip will come home today regarding our pumpkin patch! I apologize it wasn’t sooner, but we used a grant and fundraiser money (from the class pictures) to pay for this field trip and still had to work out all the details. Students are free but any parents wanting to attend must pay $5. Some parents may have to drive. We will not be spending the whole day out there, only until about 11:30am. Then we will be returning to school for the rest of our day!
Library books started coming home last week! Everyone was so excited! My rule is: when you get a library book you keep it at home to read it at least two nights (the night you get it and the next day) then it can be returned! If you want to keep it longer you are more than welcome! It just has to be returned by the next Day 3 so that your student can get a new one!
If you ordered a class picture through out fundraiser they are coming home TODAY! We hope you enjoy them as much as we did!
Grade cards come home next week. I wanted to share I ONLY NEED YOU TO SIGN THE ENVELOPE AND LETTER ID FORM, and return. I don’t need the grade card itself.

Look what we are learning:
Poetry-We will be learning a new poem about Fire Safety
Word Work-This week we will continue working on some phonemic awareness and handwriting
Big Book (Guided Reading)- Our big book this week is In a Dark Dark Wood
Author Study-We are going to start a new author study on Laura Numeroff
Writer’s Workshop-This week we will learn about what makes our stories look good
Math– We are finishing 0-10 and talking about greater than/less than.
Content-This week we will start a new unit on flag/Pledge of Allegiance.

Upcoming Dates of Importance:
Grade Cards Come Home-Tuesday, October 2nd
McTeacher Night-Wednesday, October 3rd 4-7pm
Pizza Hut Night-Thursday, October 4th
Early Release-Friday, October 5th

Bee of the Week

Our Bee of the Week is Liam Clemons! Liam was born on September 9th. Liam likes to eat pizza! His favorite color is blue. He has 2 sisters, a kitten and two cats. His favorite thing to play with is his kitten. Liam enjoys getting to play! His favorite animal is a zebra! Mrs. Burroughs loves how hard Liam always works!

Don’t Forget! Please send in any Box Tops for Education!!