Week 13

This week, we studied the letter Uu, read & compared many different versions of the Gingerbread man story, and continued working on our patterning skills. Ask your child what their favorite Gingerbread story was

this week-

The Gingerbread Man, The Gingerbread Girl, The Gingerbread Baby, Gingerbread Friends, or the Jalapeno Man. 

 We made our own class Gingerbread Man today and he didn't run away till we went to lunch.  When we returned from lunch, he was gone!  Oh my! 
We searched the school for him and found him reading a book in the library.

 Here we are decorating him and getting ready to eat him!

 Oh he smells yummy!

 He tasted yummy too!

We even made him some clothes! 

Week 12 Activities

Pre-K getting ready for our Thanksgiving Feast in the Cafeteria!

We made Indian vests and headbands to celebrate.

 Look at closely at the headband.  We made AB patterns in Math using our pattern blocks.  Ask your child to tell you their pattern.

                                We also learned about Indian pictographs.

                           We drew some of our favorite on our vests. 

                            Turkey and dressing in the cafeteria.  Yummy!

                Here we are making patterns with different math manipulatives.

 Sunglass, heart, sunglass, heart...

 Airplane, spaceship, airplane, spaceship...

 Airplane, truck, spaceship, airplane,truck, spaceship...

 Butterfly,butterfly, lighthouse, ...

 Big, little, big, little...

 Blue, gold, blue, gold...

 Black, pink, black, pink...

 Red, purple, pink, blue, ...

Lighthouse, ship, anchor, lighthouse, ship, anchor...


We had a busy week !  We learned the letter Rr, we read more fairytales, we learned about Indians and their customs, and we started learning about patterns. 

Have a great Thanksgiving holiday!  See you in a week!

Don't forget to e-mail me a time that you can come to parent conferences on the 28th. Thanks!

Week 12 updates

Apex fun run Payment Reminder:  Please make sure that you have collected your pledges.  We need 100% collected and we only have received 74% so far. We will have a class PJ party when all pledges have been turned in.  Please help!

Coats needed at Recess- please make sure that your child brings a coat to school on cold mornings.  We go out to recess at 10 a.m. and it is still a little chilly and windy at times.  Also please put your child's name in his/her jacket.  We have several jackets that look alike. 

Parent Conference sign up has started.  Please let me know if you can come in the afternoon on Nov. 28th.  I will start at 12 p.m. and stay as late as I can. If you are not able to come on the 28th, let me know so we can choose another date.

College Spirit Day is Friday, November 16th.  Don't forget to wear your college shirt this Friday!

Garner Food Drive will be held Nov. 12th - Nov. 30th.  The class that donates the most items will receive a popcorn party by PTA.

Garner Annual Coat Drive will start after Thanksgiving between Nov. 26th and Dec. 14th. 

Parent Conferences After the Break

Dear Parents,

     I am scheduling parent conferences for Wednesday, Nov. 28^th.  Miss Carroll will take over the class that afternoon and I will be conferencing with parents all afternoon.  Please come by, call me at school or email/send a note in your child’s folder to set up a time on Nov. 28th that we can conference about your child’s progress this year.  The school number is # 972-262-5000.  I can be reached for scheduling after school (approx. 3:30 p.m.) or at my planning period (approx. 1:25-2:20 p.m.).

     I look forward to hearing from you,

     Mrs. Jan Hargrove

Week 11

 We practiced writing our numbers with chalk on a chalkboard.

 We used templates to learn our numbers!

 We wrote our numbers in salt!

 We wrote our numbers as we played number dice toss!

 We made crayon rubbings of our numbers!

 We made playdough numbers!

We made our numbers with geobands and geoboards!

This week, Pre-K studied about the letter Ss and compound words. Ask your child to tell you some words that start with Ss and what a compound words is.  We read many different fairy tales and discussed the characters, setting, problem, and solutions in each tale.  We learned how to write our numbers to 10 using a song.  Ask your child to sing the number songs to you.  We also learned about Thanksgiving and why we celebrate this holiday.  We made pilgrims and drew a picture of what we were thankful for.  These pictures are displayed in our hallway.  We have started making some turkeys to display also.  We are learning how to paint turkeys with watercolors. Today was crazy hair day and hot dog day!  We got to go out on the playground with the big kids for hot dogs and an extra recess. We earned this fun because our school did a great job of fundraising with the Apex Fun Run.  Thanks for all your support and have a great weekend!

Apex Fun Run Photos

 We had a great time at the Apex Fun Run!  Thanks so much for all the donations for our school! We ran lots of laps! Please collect donations this week and return your collection envelope by Thursday.  Prizes for donations will be given out on Friday to the students.

 Apex Super Hero's!  We are the champions!  Yea!

 Boy, were we thirsty afterwards!

 Parents and teachers cheering us on!

 Checking in each time we ran a lap!

 We can run fast!

 High fives for Pre-K!

 Coach Katie to the rescue.  Our feet sometimes got away from us.

 Before the race, we are so excited!

October Book It Reading Logs are due ASAP!

If you have been reading with your child for 20 minutes each night, please return your child's October Book It Reading Log so I can give them their certificate for a free personal pizza from Pizza Hut. If your child participates in the program for the next 6 months, I will give them a certificate at the awards ceremony at the end of the year.

Thanks so much!  Happy Reading!