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 This page is designed to help you as the parent understand what your student is doing in the classroom. It will help in navigating you through the website and provide you with important dates, lessons and exactly what the students are doing in class this year. Please feel free to contact me if you may have any questions or concerns and I would be happy to address them. I am so excited to have an amazing group of learners this year and I am looking forward to an awesome year! **//Enjoy!//**   media type="custom" key="4330281" align="center"

// Parents: Feel free to use the dictionary and translator for a better understanding! //

__**Remember These Important Dates: **__ August 18th....................................................Teacher Duty Day--Open House 3:00-7:00pm August 19th....................................................First Day of School! Early Release at 1:15pm August 31st-September 1st.............................Assessment by Appointment (K-5th Grade) September 7th................................................ **Labor Day--No School!**  September 18th..............................................**District Inservice Day--No School!** October 9th....................................................**Elementary Work Day--No School!** October 14th..................................................Parent Teacher Conferences--3:15-7:15pm (//No AM & PM Kindergarten!//) October 15th..................................................Parent Teacher Conferences--7:15am-7:15pm (//No School K-5th Grade//) October 16th..................................................**Comp Day--No School!** November 11th.............................................. **Veteran's Day--No School!**  November 13th..............................................End of First Trimester November 25th..............................................**District Comp Day--No School!** November 26th-27th......................................**Thanksgiving Break--No School!** December 7th.................................................Assessments by Appointment (K-5th Grade) December 21st-January 1st.............................**Winter Vacation (Classes Resume on January 5th)** January 4th....................................................**Elementary District Work Day--No School!** January 15th...................................................Report Cards Sent Home With Kindergarteners January 18th.................................................. **Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday--No School!** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> February 3rd..................................................Parent Teacher Conferences--3:15-7:15pm (//No AM & PM Kindergarten!//) February 4th..................................................Parent Teacher Conferences--7:15am-7:15pm (//No School K-5th Grade//) February 5th..................................................**District Inservice Day--No School!** February 15th................................................ <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**President's Day--No School!** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> February 25th................................................End of Second Trimester February 26th................................................**Teacher Duty Day--No School!** March 22nd-26th...........................................**Spring Vacation--No School!** April 16th.......................................................**District Inservice Day--No School!** April 19th.......................................................**Comp Day--No School!** May 6th.........................................................Assessments by Appointment (K-5th Grade) May 7th.........................................................**Elementary District Work Day--No School!** May 26th.......................................................Field Day! May 27th.......................................................Last Day of School (K-5th Grade)--Report Cards Sent Home With Students <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 145%; text-align: center;">Hope you had a great year! Enjoy the summer! media type="custom" key="4951643" align="center"

<span style="background-color: #cd0404; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #cd0404; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">//**Parents!**// Look at the things that you children are doing this year! Explore around and find all that we are learning! **//Enjoy!//** <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 205.4%; text-align: center;">

media type="custom" key="4542598" align="left"<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">We have an amazing class this year. Click on the image and explore all of the fabulous words we found to describe our awesome Kindergarten classroom! Some of these are big words but we used books to help us figure out what they mean. It goes to show that our class is are of a kind! <span style="color: #4040fc; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #03b5b5; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #cd0404; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="color: #4040fc; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #cd0404; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">**//That's Not All!//** //We are definitely creative but below you will find all of the lessons that we are doing inside the classroom!// <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 121%; text-align: center;">This year, the students will be learning about plants and animals. We will take a look at indoor and outdoor plants, what plants need to survive and where certain plants are located. Students will choose an animal to do research on and will learn about different animals habitat, enemies, their eating habits and where the animals can be found. Please free to browse the page that includes the variety of the lesson plans that will be included into this unit. Plants and Animals Unit of Instruction and Lesson Plans <span style="color: #808000; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">

<span style="background-color: #cd0404; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">//**Wait! Don't Go Anywhere!** Check Out Our Class' Podcast!// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Not everything that goes on in the classroom is done with a paper and a pencil. Our class has created a podcast on what we are learning this year. Listen to what we know about plants and animals including poems as well as our written journals in podcast form! Listen and explore the various episodes of the kindergarten classroom podcast! __**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Listen to the first episode of our podcast here: **__

media type="file" key="Podcast 1.mp3" width="240" height="20" <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 121%;">Understand what we will be learning in class this year by listening to podcast #1!

media type="file" key="Podcast 2.mp3" width="240" height="20" Learn all about Coyotes! Listen to the fascinating facts that our class gathered about this animal!

media type="file" key="Podcas6t 3.mp3" width="240" height="20" Ouch! Those thorns were prickly! Learn all about the cactus and what makes them special!

The following lesson allows the students to create their own journal and then create an episode on our class podcast. These are similar to the previous episodes but are all student experiences, their thoughts and ideas. Listen to example podcast here: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Our Stories On A Podcast