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Miss Sneeuwjagt's news for Monday, June 2, 2008

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:27:05 GMT

Graduation-

Graduation is on June 5th, at 8:30 a.m. in the gym. Invitations went out Monday in the Weekly folders. Everyone has an extra invitation to invite other family members. If your child has a sibling at Stargate they may ask their teacher to be excused for the first hour, so they can watch the ceremony. The students arrive at school as usual, (at 8:00a.m.) that morning and go to their homeroom. Students can wear anything dressy, please not flip flops or any shoes that would prove dangerous on the risers. Parents will start seating themselves in the gym. If you would like to help set up tables in the multi purpose room for our reception please meet there after 8:00 a.m. before you seat yourself in the gym. Graduation starts at 8:30 when the Kindergarteners file in. The ceremony lasts about an hour. After that we'll enjoy food and cake in the multi-purpose room. The Friends are welcome to play on the "Big" playground with your supervision during the reception. There will be a setting for a photo shoot at the reception. We also have someone who is going to take your child's photo when he/she crosses the bridge. Please remember to take your child's timeline and advice paper when you leave the celebration. Everyone is very excited about our BIG day. I'm sure you have tons of questions so please ask. This celebration is put on by the parents, so thank you, thank you, thank you for all you're doing!!!!!

Field Day

Field Day is Wednesday, June 4th. Kindergarten may do a quick graduation practice in the morning, depending on how confident we are feeling about the ceremony. After that, we will go outside and participate in Field Day. We are inviting the Morning Friends to stay all day and enjoy lunch with the class. We are asking that everyone bring a sack lunch and we will eat it picnic style outside. Please remember hats, sunscreen, and anything else to avoid sunburn that day. If you are interested in volunteering to help, please contact Miranda Lamonski our P.E. teacher or let your homeroom teacher know. Please remember that it is an early release day, 1:15 p.m. for kindergarten on our playground. Thanks!

Have a great summer! I will miss you and don't forget you can stop by our classroom next year to say Hi!

Kindergarten News for May 27, 2008

Tue, 27 May 2008 18:46:06 GMT

What We Have Been Doing

Math- For Math we will explore area and weight, we will work with addition of 2 digit numbers, and discuss more than and less than number stories.

Theme-For theme we will explore more properties of water and discuss how we can conserve water at home. We are also preparing for Kindergarten Graduation.

Graduation

Graduation is on June 5th, at 8:30 a.m. in the gym. Invitations went out a couple of weeks ago in the Weekly folders. Everyone has an extra invitation to invite other family members. If your child has a sibling at Stargate they may ask their teacher to be excused for the first hour, so they can watch the ceremony. The students arrive at school as usual, (at 8:00a.m.) that morning and go to their homeroom. Students can wear anything dressy, please not flip flops or any shoes that would prove dangerous on the risers. Parents will start seating themselves in the gym. If you would like to help set up tables in the multi purpose room for our reception please meet there after 8:00 a.m. before you seat yourself in the gym. Graduation starts at 8:30 when the Kindergarteners file in. The ceremony lasts about an hour. After that we'll enjoy food and cake in the multi-purpose room. The Friends are welcome to play on the "Big" playground with your supervision during the reception. There will be a setting for a photo shoot at the reception. We also have someone who is going to take your child's photo when he/she crosses the bridge. Please remember to take your child's timeline and advice paper when you leave the celebration. Everyone is very excited about our BIG day. I'm sure you have tons of questions so please ask. This celebration is put on by the parents, so thank you, thank you, thank you for all you're doing!!!!!

Graduation Request

Wanted: Help for Graduation (at home or afterschool) :

I am looking for volunteers to blow up 50 balloons (with regular air) for a surprise at graduation. They need to be delivered back to the school by Tuesday, June 3rd at 5pm.

You can either join me Tuesday afterschool to blow them up and stuff them in the balloon drops in the gym, or you can blow them up at home and return the balloons to school on Tuesday. A small air compressor works wonderfully.

If you can help, please contact me and I'll arrange to get you the balloons.

Thanks,

Karen Mayer karenminco@yahoo.com or 303-350-0017(c) or 303-460-1187(h)

Field Day

Kindergarten News for Monday, May 19.

Mon, 19 May 2008 21:24:32 GMT

What We Are Doing:

Theme- For Theme this week we will release our butterflies. We also made shaving cream clouds. This also helped some students with sensitivity to touch. It is a fun activity! We will talk about bugs and our feelings about them. Students will also illustrate a bug book.

Math- We will have a math test on Tuesday. We will also explore place-value concepts for tens and ones, investigate place value digit patterns, and introduce greater than, less than & equal to symbols.

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Graduation- Graduation is on June 5th, at 8:30 a.m. in the gym. Invitations went out Monday in the Weekly folders. Everyone has an extra invitation to invite other family members. If your child has a sibling at Stargate they may ask their teacher to be excused for the first hour, so they can watch the ceremony. The students arrive at school as usual, (at 8:00a.m.) that morning and go to their homeroom. Students can wear anything dressy, please not flip flops or any shoes that would prove dangerous on the risers. Parents will start seating themselves in the gym. If you would like to help set up tables in the multi purpose room for our reception please meet there after 8:00 a.m. before you seat yourself in the gym. Graduation starts at 8:30 when the Kindergarteners file in. The ceremony lasts about an hour. After that we'll enjoy food and cake in the multi-purpose room. The Friends are welcome to play on the "Big" playground with your supervision during the reception. There will be a setting for a photo shoot at the reception. We also have someone who is going to take your child's photo when he/she crosses the bridge. Please remember to take your child's timeline and advice paper when you leave the celebration. Everyone is very excited about our BIG day. I'm sure you have tons of questions so please ask. This celebration is put on by the parents, so thank you, thank you, thank you for all you're doing!!!!!

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Timeline-

The Kindergarteners are doing a class project where they will create their own timelines, and write advice to next years incoming class. Both of these will be displayed at our graduation ceremony. We will need photos for this project. Please send your photos in an envelope with your child's name on it. They need one photo for every year, i.e., a baby picture, a 1 year photo, a 2 year, 3 year, 4 year, 5 year, and if they are 6, a 6 year old picture. They will also need a recent photo, ( a class picture would be good) for their advice. All together they will need 6 or 7 photos for this project. We realize it may take a bit before you can gather all pictures, so please just send them in when you have everything together. We will be working on this for most of the month of May. The Friends will share their timelines with the class. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you so much!!!!

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Field Day

Field Day is June 4th. If you know your child will get lunch from school, please let us know by May 27th. the lunches will be sack lunches and we need to know who is getting lunch before it is ordered. Also, we need some parent volunteers for field day. Please contact Ms. Lamonski if you would like to volunteer.

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Waterbottle

It would be great if you could put a water bottle in your child's lunch. They are getting very thirsty outside and it would help if they have water in their lunches.

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Library

The final due date for all library books is Wednesday, May 28. If your child still has a book at home, please have them turn it in by this date. Thanks!

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Dress Code reminder-

Students may not come to school wearing spaghetti straps and short skirts. I know that there is a big difference between a 7th grader wearing spaghetti straps and a kindergartener, but this is district policy. If you have any questions, please check out pages 29-30 in the Community handbook.

Graduation

Thu, 15 May 2008 21:29:24 GMT

Graduation is on June 5th, at 8:30 a.m. in the gym. The students arrive at school as usual, (at 8:00a.m.) that morning and go to their homeroom. Students can wear anything dressy, just not flip flops or any shoes that would prove dangerous on the risers. Parents will start seating themselves in the gym. If you would like to help set up tables in the multi purpose room for our reception please meet there after 8:00 a.m. before you seat yourself in the gym. Graduation starts at 8:30 when the Kindergarteners file in. The ceremony lasts about an hour. After that we'll enjoy food and cake in the multi-purpose room. The Friends are welcome to play on the "Big" playground with your supervision during the reception. There will be a setting for a photo shoot at the reception. We also have someone who is going to take your child's photo when he/she crosses the bridge. Please remember to take your child's timeline and advice paper when leave the celebration. Everyone is very excited about our BIG day. I'm sure you have tons of questions so please ask. This celebration is put on by the parents, so thank you, thank you, thank you for all you're doing!!!!!

Miss Sneeuwjagt's News for May 12-16

Tue, 13 May 2008 19:46:50 GMT

Personal note:

I want to apologize for this blog being a day late and for my absence at school on Friday, May 9 and Monday, May 12. Ryan and I got news early Friday morning that Ryan's stepfather passed away. He was diagnosed with terminal caner on May 2. Everything happened pretty quickly, but we know that he didn't suffer for very long. The memorial was on Monday. Thank you for your kind thoughts and support.

What We Are Doing:

Math-

For Math we are working with addition facts. The students are learning different ways to find addition fact sums. We will have our chapter test next week.

Theme-

We will learn about the different types of clouds this week. We will make a book and make the different shapes of clouds with shaving cream. Don't be surprised if your child begins predicting the weather soon.

Timelines:

Graduation-

Graduation plans are going well. If you would like to donate a package or two of juice boxes for our graduates, please contact Ms. Gelakoska by email, or phone ex. 135.

Snack-

We need some snack volunteers! It's the end of the year and we are running low on snack. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Leslie Shriver or Mrs. Warga.

Have a great week.

Kindergarten News for Monday, May 5

Mon, 05 May 2008 17:13:19 GMT

What We Have Been Doing

Math- This week for math we will investigate timelines, begin making number scrolls for numbers to 100 and beyond, and begin working on addition facts and fact power to find addition fact sums. We may take a couple of days to work on the number scrolls, this week.

Theme- For Theme, we are observing our caterpillars. It looks like we will have four chrysalises by the middle of the week! We will also learn about the water cycle, the different types of clouds, and how important water is for our weather.

Book Orders- This year's last book order is due on Friday, May 9. The book order is a great opportunity to buy books for the summer.

Chain of Kindness Party- On Friday we will celebrate with a Chain of Kindness party. The students voted to have a pajama day and stuffed animal day. Please make sure that your child only brings 1 stuffed animal to school. :) Thanks!

Graduation Meeting-

Graduation committees will meet in Ms. Gelakoska's room after school on Friday, May 9th to discuss preparations and welcome new volunteers. Everyone is welcome and needed!

Timelines

Miss Sneeuwjagt's Newsletter for April 29, 2008

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:03:38 GMT

What We Are Doing:

Theme- This week for theme we are discussing the three different stages of water: gas, liquid and solid. We played a game that taught us that when water is a gas, the molecules move very fast and they are spread apart. When the molecules are in a solid, they are close together and move very slowly. The students are also making a book that describes the three stages of matter.

We also have visitors in our Kindergarten classroom. We welcome our four Painted Lady Butterfly larva. We will observe the changes the larva goes through to become a beautiful butterfly. We are recording our observation in a classroom journal. We will let the butterflies go once they are adults.

Math- For Math this week we will measure our body parts with a tape measure. We will also explore two dimensional shapes and become familiar with base-10 blocks. Later in the week we will tell time on the quarter hour.

Book Orders- This is the last chance to order books through Scholastic book orders. You can order online or send an order to school with your child. The book orders are due on Friday, May 9.

Time Lines

Miss Sneeuwjagt's News Monday, April 21, 2008

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:04:02 GMT

What We Have Been Learning

Math- This week we are beginning a new math unit. Please read the home link pages we sent with math homework this week. Today we focused on reading thermometers and we talked about Fahrenheit vs. Celsius. We will also learn to measure & compare lengths using our hands feet & arms, we will learn about the inch & foot, and we will learn how to measure lengths of objects in inches. The math tests will be returned in Monday folders next week.

Theme- We finished learning about animals today. Tomorrow we will begin our last unit on Water. For the rest of the year we will learn about the water cycle, the three states of water: gas, liquid & solid, and we will learn how water creates energy with hydro-electricity. This week we do several investigations to learn about the different properties of water.

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Earth Day- Earth day is Tuesday, April 22. We will do some activities in the afternoon to celebrate. We will have an earth day scavenger hunt . Your child will take the scavenger hunt with them at the end of the day. They may continue to work on their scavenger hunt at home. We will also talk about conserving water and energy.

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Book Orders- Your child will bring home the last book order of the year on Wednesday. Remember, you can order online or you can fill out a catalog order form and send it to me. There are some great books your child can read during the summer. Book orders are due on Friday, May 2.

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Have a great week!

Miss Sneeuwjagt's News for April 14, 2008

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:39:30 GMT

What We Have Been Doing

Math- We are finishing up our Math chapter this week. We will explore domino patterns and use them to practice all the basic addition facts. We will also review Chapter 3 which consits of visual patterns, number patterns and counting. We will have a math test on Thursday.

Theme- For theme this week we are finishing our animal unit. We will study fish and invertebrates this week. On Friday the students will share their animal riddles that they made for homework this week. We will also learn interesting facts about all kinds of animals. Ask your child what they have learned this week.

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Theme Homework- Please make sure your child complete the What Am I? page for homework this week. They must turn it in by Friday so that we can do our activity in the afternoon. Half-day students may do this homework if they would like and participate with us.

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Math Test- We will have a Math test on Friday. The test will consist of telling time by the hour & half an hour, odd & even numbers, counting money, working with frames & arrows, and using a number grid to add & subtract.

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New Parent Handbook- The PSC would like your input on the new parent handbook. What worked? Do you have any other ideas? Contact the PSC at psc@stargateschool.org if you have any suggestions.

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Graduation Committee-

Graduation committees will meet in Ms. Gelakoska's room after school on Friday, April 18th to discuss preparations and welcome new volunteers. Everyone is welcome and needed!

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Have a wonderful week!

Miss Sneeuwjagt's News for the week of April 7.

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:22:05 GMT

What We Have Been Doing:

Math- This week we will be working with money. We will learn how to count pennies, nickels, and dimes all together. We will also have a "data day" where the students will read all types of graphs and interpret data. There will be a math test early next week.

Theme- We will learn about Mammals and Amphibians this week. The students also learn about the different ways vertebrates grow.

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Library- We will go to the library this Thursday. Some students have not turned in their library books. They may not check another book out until they turn in their library books. We sent home yellow sheets of paper that will let you know if your child has an overdue book.

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Africa Projects- The students did a great job on their Africa projects. It was fun to see the different activities they used to show what they learned. Everybody had an excellent presentation. We will send projects home today.

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Chick fil A- Chick fil A spirit night is this Thursday, April 10. Stop by and show your Stargate Spirit.

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Talent Show- The talent show is Thursday, April 10, at 6:30p.m. Come by and see our talented Stargate Students.

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Have a great week!