Mrs. Neuville & Mrs. Rocky's Kindergarten Class: October 2021

Saturday, October 30, 2021

Our Halloween party and parade were so much fun! In case you missed seeing us at the outdoor parade... enjoy this Animoto video of our day!!

Thursday, October 28, 2021

From the Thorson Office

Thorson Thursday Folder

October 28, 2021

DON'T FORGET TO PACK YOUR COSTUME TOMORROW!

A Note from the Principal
Dear Thorson Families,

We have had a great week at Thorson. It has been fun to see all of the decorated pumpkins coming in for our annual Pumpkin Days celebration. The creativity of our students and families is amazing! The pumpkins will be placed outside on the benches tomorrow afternoon for you to retrieve. We are looking forward to our fun activities tomorrow. Details for tomorrow can be found here.

If you have not done so already, please be sure to log in to your Skyward Family Access account and sign up for a Fall Parent/Teacher Conference. All families are respectfully requested to sign up for a conference. Please be sure to indicate whether you would like a virtual or in-person conference. Details regarding conferences and sign-up directions can be found here.

Finally, we are busy preparing for our Veteran’s Day celebration. We invite veterans to join us in our special car procession past the three elementary schools. If your family has a veteran who can join us for this procession, please fill out this form. We will also be doing a service project to collect money to send a veteran on an Honor Flight. The Honor Flight is a sweet opportunity to celebrate the veterans of foreign wars. Many of the men and women who served our country have not been to Washington D.C. to view the memorials that stand in their honor. The Honor Flight is a coordinated trip from Milwaukee to Washington for a one day tour of the memorials. The veterans are treated to bus transportation between the memorials and a personally narrated tour. They receive mail from grateful citizens on their way home and a hero's welcome upon their return to Milwaukee. Please consider helping us with this effort. More details about both of these items can be found below.

Thank you for your continued support. Weather permitting, we hope to see many of you tomorrow at our annual Halloween Parade!

Sincerely,

Angela Little, Principal
Brittany Kleeba, Assistant Principal

*Upcoming Dates*
10/29- Outdoor Halloween Parade
11/1-4th Grade Riveredge Burke/Hoerchner
11/2-4th Grade Riveredge Brooks/Huevler
11/3-Picture Retake Day
11/5-NO SCHOOL
11/9- Dining for Dollars-Even Odds
11/11-Veteran's Parade
11/18&22-Parent-Teacher Conferences
11/24-28- No School Thanksgiving Break

National School Psychology Awareness Week
Please read this letter from our school Psychologists, Nicole Kikkert and Stefanie Cox Yuen.

BOOK FAIR 11/16-11/22
The Thorson book fair will return in person this year! Parents are welcome to shop during conference times on Thursday, 11/22, 4-7 pm and Monday, 11/22, 4-7 pm, or shop virtually. The children will have the opportunity to shop with their class during library time. An easy way to go cash-free is to set up the e-wallet through Scholastic's website by following this link. Go cash-free! We are looking for volunteers to set up (11/15), tear down (11/22) and man the cash register during conferences. Please use the signup genius link to help out and thank you for supporting our school! Please sign-up to help! Book fair set up/tear down/cashier

Thorson Green Squad All School Stewardship Day
Parents on November 2nd, we need your help with making sure your student(s) are prepared for this event. Please have your kid(s) wear long pants and a long sleeve shirt, tall socks, and shoes that cover their feet. It is highly suggested to bring work gloves as well!
Throughout the day each class will be getting out in the Thorson School Forest and giving it some Tender Loving Care. Tasks that students will undertake are pulling weeds, laying a cardboard barrier down, mulching the trails, and trimming back the branches that are in the trail's way. The Thorson Green Squad is helping launch this awesome connection with students and their school forest.
Thank you for your support and assisting in making sure students are prepared to partake in our 1st Annual Forest Maintenance Day at Thorson

Veterans Day Activities & Service Learning Project
We have some very exciting plans in store for Veterans Day! On Thursday, November 11, we are asking that all staff and students wear red, white and blue or patriotic clothing to show our school spirit and support for our Veterans. On Thursday the 11^th, we will also be celebrating Veterans Day by having a special car procession past all three of our CSD elementary schools. Please see the attached letter for more information on this event and fill out the form at the bottom of the letter if your child has a Veteran who would like to join us for this special procession. Forms should be returned to the Thorson office by Monday, November 1.

As part of our celebration, we would like to continue our tradition of adding a Service Learning project to the day. As a district, we would like to collect money to send a veteran on an Honor Flight trip to Washington DC. We will be collecting donations for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity from Monday, November 1 through Friday, November 5. If you would like to help, no amount is too small, please send your donation in a sealed envelope labeled “Honor Flight” to your student’s homeroom teacher. Please see the attached letter for additional information on our elementary Service Learning project.

Absent/Late Arrival-
If you are going to be late or absent, please call the Thorson attendance line at 262-376-6766 before 9:00 a.m. Please state your student's first and last name, teacher, and the reason for the absence. If you are going to be late and are taking hot lunch, please let us know your child's lunch choice by calling the school office at 262-376-6705.

Cedarburg School District News:
2021 CEF Bulldog Gala

An Evening for the Arts

November 13th 6-11 PM | The Barn at the Bog, Saukville Link

Tickets to the Annual CEF Gala are on sale NOW!

https://cefgala21.givesmart.com or www.cef4kids.org

Get your 50/50 Raffle Ticket ahead of the Gala. Win up to $10,000! Only 200 50/50 Tickets will be sold! Join Cedarburg Education Foundation in our efforts to continue to provide financial support through private funding for innovative grants to all Cedarburg School District children! For your ticket(s), text Joe Kunick at 262-388-3037.

Pawsitively PTO:

Dining for Dollars
Tuesday, November 9th
Even and Odds Pizza

Join 2021-2022 PTO- Become a member today!
https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSfMA3En.../viewform

Thorson Classroom Wish List
Thorson Giving Tree

Celebration Rock Sign Up:
Decorate the celebration rock for your special day! Sign up now! Dates fill up quickly!
Want to make a celebration extra special? Announce the occasion using the Celebration Rock outside Thorson! We have a new way to sign up and pay. Check out the details here! http://www.thorsonpto.org/celebration-rock.html Questions? Contact Amy at amy.sterkenburg@worzellaphoto.com

PTO Chair/Committee Members needed:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0f4aa8a82fa4f49-ptochairs
PTO Agenda
Meeting Minutes
Next PTO Meeting: November 8, 2021, 7:00 p.m.

YMCA before and after school programs
The YMCA will be providing Before and After School care to registered families! For information on our programs and to register, please go to www.kmymca.org/schoolage and select the applicable location. We are looking forward to an excellent school year!

Weekly Newsletter October 25-29

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Dear Families,

We are looking forward to our Halloween festivities!! We hope you are able to join us for our parade at 3:00 tomorrow!!

ELA

This week we worked on the letter sounds of u, v, w, y and z. We practiced writing the letters, found words that begin with these letters and practiced our hand motions for each letter, too. Our sight words were /he/ and /go/ - we are getting great at reading these words! Thanks for all of the extra practice from home - our little sight word Ninjas are moving along! Below is our sight word game for the week - see if he/she can read all of the words and tell you where the creepy carrots were hiding!

Our read aloud was Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds. We also listened to Creepy Pair of Underwear by the same author. While listening to the stories, we learned new vocabulary words, worked on the skills of predicting, retelling, stating our opinions and making connections - WOW!!

In Writer's Workshop, we have been working on our Show and Tell Unit. We are presently working on a Show and Tell book about our School's Playground! We know the steps for writing a Show and Tell piece and we are working hard on being a BRAVE writer (that's the hardest part)!

Math

This week we reviewed counting and making Tally Marks and we used everything we know about shapes and patterns to make this cool Halloween Quilt! Ask your child to explain the pattern to you!

*Tomorrow is our Halloween Party. Remember to send your child's costume to school in a separate bag. We will be changing into our costumes in the afternoon.

*ALL are welcome to join us for our outdoor Halloween Parade at 3:00 - see the letter from the office for more details.

*With colder weather approaching, please remember to label ALL outdoor gear

**Get out your poodle skirts and bobby socks!!! We will be celebrating 50 days in school on Friday November 12th - more info will be coming!

Have a Happy Halloween!!

💜Mrs. Neuville and Mrs. Rocky

Thursday, October 21, 2021

Weekly Newsletter-October 18-22nd

Dear Families,

This week, we have worked on the letters s, p, x, and k. Students were asked to build, sort, and read these words. We have also worked on the star words "in" and "at" Be sure that your child knows these words and the other star words that have been previously introduced. This week we read the story Pumpkin, Jack. It is a fiction story where the main character, Tim, grows a pumpkin and all the steps it takes to grow a pumpkin. During this story, we learned about new vocabulary words of mold and generous. Ask your kindergartner what these words mean. We also learned about the life cycle of a pumpkin. Do you know that pumpkins are at one-time green!?

In writing, we are working as a class to create show and tell stories. In these stories, we look and think about an object. We next draw our object, then write about it, and last we can add more. We work hard at spelling words that we don't know how to spell. Our goal is to write down all the sounds that we hear in a word. It is okay if it is not spelled correctly, we can always go back and get it fixed later. We also work on doing all star work. This means that we stay in the lines, have no white spaces, and use colors that make sense. We can make pictures the way that we want when it is free-choice time. During writing time and other times during the day, our goal is to do all-star work.

Reminders:
Tomorrow is early dismissal! Be sure your child knows the going-home plans.

Wear black and orange tomorrow!

Next week is Pumpkin Days! Your child can bring in a pumpkin that is decorated (not carved) and have it displayed in the library.

Thank you!