Red Ribbon Week

Wow! Can you believe that it is already the end of October and time for conferences?  Our Kindergarten kiddos are 1/4 of the way to being first graders!  Boo hoo!  Conferences are being held on Tuesday,October 25th and Wednesday,October 26th.  You have received your scheduled appointment.  We can't wait to see the parents and spend some time chatting about our amazing students.

Red Ribbon week is this week! 

Our theme this year is "Use Your Senses-Make Healthy Choices." 

Students are encouraged to recognize RED RIBBON WEEK in the following ways.

Monday: Wear Read to school

Tuesday: Wear a Hat to school

Wednesday:Eat an apple at lunch or as a snack at school

Thursday: Wear read for the student assembly.

REMINDER Tonight, Oct.18.2001, is Culver's Night (20% of purchase goes to Northpoint) and the PTO Skate Night (6-8).

Super Hero Day

This Wednesday, October 12th, is Super Hero Day! 

For $1, your child can come to school dressed as his/her favorite Super Hero!

Conferences

Conferences are scheduled for Oct. 25 and 26th of October. Conference letters have gone home with the kiddos.   Each family will have an appointment with the teacher.  Please return the confirmation slip by Oct. 12th to your child's teacher.  Fall break is scheduled for October 27th and October31st.  There will be no school on these two days. 

Also, if you have not turned in your All about Me and My Family page, please do so by Friday, October 14th.

Parent Volunteers & Family Unit

Due to the Kindergarten DIBELS, Reading 3-D, math testing and baseline assessments our routines are still taking shape. We want to make sure that the kids are fully ingrained in their daily schedules before we introduce more to their day. Thank you for your patience as we get volunteering organized.   Please look for volunteer information to come home the first week of November. Thank you for your understanding and flexibility as we work to ensure the best learning environment for your child.

Our Language Arts theme is FAMILY.  We will be learning about family for the next three weeks.  We want to display the concepts that the children are learning over the course of the unit.  In the Kindergarten hallway, we have a bulletin board that we will be filling with different images,ideas and pictures of family.  If you have a special word, picture, drawing or other item that means family to you please send it in to be displayed on the bulletin board.  As children are reading, looking at magazines or the internet at home, please have them  bring anything that they  find about family (that we can display).

Donations

Hi Parents,
Our kindergarten buddies are in need of a few items.  If you can donate any of the following items, please send them in to your child's teacher.  ALL donations are greatly appreciated!  Thank you in advance!

• easy zip gallon sized baggies -huge need
• easy zip quart size baggies
• band aides
• tissue
• buttons of various sizes, shapes, and colors 
• brown,lunch-size paper baggies
• hand sanitizer
• clean-recycled egg cartons
• clean-recycled Styrofoam meat trays

Testing

Our Kindergarten Friends have jumped right in to testing and they are doing very well!  Over the next few weeks we will be testing each of our students in a one on one setting.  Students will be tested on beginning sounds, letter recognition and concepts of print.  In math, we will begin looking at number recognition and one to one correspondence.

The week of September 19th students will be taking our first NWEA test. This is a computer based test.  Each class will visit the computer lab four times (2 language arts tests and 2 math tests).  We will begin to collect information for leveled reading groups.  However, please remember this is your child's first experience with the NWEA MAP test and we will look at other information to help support this assessment.

NORTHPOINTOPOLY is in full swing. This check writing campaign is taking place of other fundraisers. PTO helps support so many wonderful programs at our school!  Please consider donating!