Sunday, December 18, 2022
Gingerbread Decorating
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Weekly Newsletter-December 12-15th
Dear Families
Wow! Our month is just flying by!
This week we worked on the word families -et and -ed. We sorted, read, and made words with these word families. Check out your child's Seesaw to see these activities! We also learned the sight words "was" and "are." We reviewed these words in the stories, poems, and writing we did this week. We continue to review all words and assess through the year! Please continue to work on these words with your child.
This week, we worked on two gingerbread stories. Our first story was The Gingerbread Man, retold by Jim Aylesworth. The children loved it when the Gingerbread Man popped out of the oven and surprised the Old Man and Old Woman. While listening to the story, students worked on visualizing, retelling, problem/solution, character traits, and stating their opinion.
Our other gingerbread story was The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst. The children really loved it when the Gingerbread Girl tamed the tricky fox. While listening to the story, students worked on making predictions, retelling, answering questions, and stating their opinion.
This week, our poem was called Gingerbread Man. Ask your kindergartner to sing it to you! We looked at rhyming words, looked for star words, and identified the three animals chasing the gingerbread man.
We continued our love of gingerbread men by labeling a giant gingerbread man during community writing. Students labeled the face, icing, buttons, and body. During reading around the room, students can go and read these words. We made our own gingerbread men to add to our labels.
In writing, we are finishing up our work on our narrative stories. We remembered to add a capital letter to start our sentences and a period to the end. We are also able to add some color to our stories.
Reminders:
1. Tomorrow, students should wear their Thorson spirit wear!
2. Tomorrow is decorating gingerbread houses day! We are starting to decorate our houses at 3:00pm
Thank you for all of your support!
From the Thorson Office
Thorson Thursday Folder
December 15, 2022
Wear Thorson Spirtwear!
A Note from the Principal
Dear Thorson Families,
Happy Snowy Thursday! Thank you for making sure that your child(ren) has appropriate winter weather gear at school each day. We do require boots and snowpants to play on the snowy grass and we want to make sure that everyone has that opportunity. Additionally, winter coats are required with the current winter temperatures. Thank you for helping us with this!
Next week, we will be having dress up theme days for students and staff as we near the winter break. Monday (12/19) is Cozy Clothes Day. Wear flannel shirts or fuzzy scarves and socks. Tuesday (12/20) is Holiday Color Day. Wear red, green, white and/or blue. Wednesday (12/21) is Ugly Sweater/Tacky Outfit day. We invite all students and staff to join in the fun!
For 5th grade band students, please note that there are NO band lessons next week! There will not be a Thursday folder next week as it is a short week. Please note that winter break is 12/22-1/1. School resumes on Monday, January 2, which will be Thorson’s annual PJ day! Have a wonderful holiday season and winter break!
Sincerely,
Angela Little, Principal
Scott May, Assistant Principal
Calendar
12/15-4th Grade Field Trip to the CPAC
12/19--Wear Cozy Clothes(flannels, scarves, socks)
12/19-21-NO BAND LESSONS
12/20--Holiday Colors(wear red, green, white)
12/21--Ugly Sweater-Tacky Outfit Day
12/22-01/1- Winter Break
01/02-Pajama Day
2/16--2nd Grade music concert 6:00 p.m.
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New and Exciting!
Bundt Cake Pick-up
Bundt cake pick-up is in the community room from 1-6 tomorrow. This will be the ONLY day for picking up, so please plan accordingly.
Lost and Found
Please come check out the lost and found located in the Thorson lobby! All items not claimed by December 23rd will be donated after winter break.
Jaguar Choir
There will be no Jaguar Choir on Monday, December 19th.
Band Lessons
Band lessons will be cancelled on 12/19-12/21 due to Mr. Aswegan and Mr. Westgate being out of town.
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 full name, teacher, and the reason for the absence. If your student will be taking hot lunch they will need to leave their lunch choice as well.
Cold Weather
With winter weather quickly approaching please remind your student(s) to dress appropriately for outdoor recesses. If possible, it would be beneficial to keep an extra pair of gloves and a hat in their backpack.
Pawsitively PTO:
Thorson Chess Club
Registration is open for Thorson's chess club!
- Open to all Thorson students 1st to 5th grade
- Club will meet on Thursdays from 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM in the Thorson community room
- No chess experience necessary
- Sessions will be led by a chess instructor from the Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Federation
- Students will participate in lessons, matches and tournaments
- ChessKid.com Gold Membership ($50 value) provided to participants at no cost
- Club size limited to 24 students - we expect registrations to fill up quickly, so don't delay!
Registrations received after club capacity is reached will be placed on a waitlist. Cost of this eight (8) session term is $50 per child. Fees pay for instructor, chess boards, chess clocks, and lesson resources.
Chess club meeting dates for 2023:
January 12
January 19
January 26
February 2
February 9
February 16
February 23
March 2
For more information and to register, follow the link: https://forms.gle/
If you have questions, please contact Chris McDonell at 262-483-6111 or ckmcdonell@gmail.com
Thorson LEGO Club
The Thorson Lego Club is back! We invite students from all grades to join us on the first and third Thursday from October 2020 to May 2023. The group will meet before school at 8:00am. The LEGO Club is a positive environment for all builders at any skill level. Join us for free building, group builds and more.
The Thorson LEGO Club is hosted by Dustin Hughes. Dustin is a lifelong fan of LEGO and the owner of an online LEGO store. “I’m here to help the student grow their building skills and pass on my 30+ years of LEGO knowledge”.
Please contact Dustin with any questions or ideas for the group. Volunteers wanted. Help is needed with organizing and cleaning LEGO pieces. Phone: 734-693-3747 Email: hughesdustin88@gmail.com
Celebration Rock Sign-Up:
Celebration Rock reservations for the 2022-23 school year are now open! Display a happy birthday message to help make a student's birthday extra special during the next school year! You can reserve the rock for a 24-hour period for $10. Details about how to request your date and pay can be found here: http://www.thorsonpto.
PTO Next Meeting: January 9, 2023
PTO Agenda
YMCA Before and after School Programs
Click Here for Information on our Before and After School Programs
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Weekly Newsletter December 5-8
Dear Families,
We have been working hard in Kindergarten! Can you believe there are only 8 school days before our Holiday break - WOW!
ELA
This week we focused on the story Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson. We also read a non-fiction book about Brown Bears. We worked on many skills including visualizing, retelling, and adding to our schema about brown bears! Be sure to ask your child to share a few brown bear facts with you.
Hibernate and Lair were our 2 new vocabulary words. Ask us what they mean!
In phonics, we worked with the /ot/ and /ob/ family. We made words, blended sounds, segmented sounds and read words with these two endings. We could practice writing words like hot, pot, cot, shot, cob, rob, job and slob!
Our new sight words were /this/ and /one/. We loved trying to find Bear's friends in our smartboard game this week. Ask us to read the words and tell you where Raven, Hare and Mouse were hiding.
Math
We played a fun game in math this week. It is called Read My Mind - and you can play it at home too. Mrs. Rocky picked a number and only told it to Mrs. Neuville. Then, we all wrote our numbers from 0-10 or 0-20 on our dry-erase boards. We took turns guessing the secret number. Mrs. Rocky would tell us if the secret number was greater or less than the number we guessed - we would then cross out the numbers on our board. We loved playing Read My Mind!
We continue to learn about the Seasons and Weather. This week our science vocabulary words were temperature and thermometer!
* ALL students go outside for recess in the winter - please make sure your child has proper snow attire.
*Extra mittens and socks is always a good idea on those wet, snowy days!
*Thank you for ALL of the Gingerbread House supplies - we are looking forward to our decorating day on Friday, December 16th at 2:50. If you will be coming in to help, please remember to check in at the office - you will need to have your driver's license and go through the Raptor screening.
*Our last day of school before Winter Break is Wednesday, Dec. 21st. We will be celebrating with our GRINCH Day!
Have a wonderful weekend!
💚💛 Mrs. Neuville and Mrs. Rocky
From the Thorson Office
Thorson Thursday Folder
December 8, 2022
A Note from the Principal
Dear Thorson Families,
Thank you to all who donated toys or money to the Kapco Kids 2 Kids Toy Drive. The generosity of our school community is truly amazing. We collected over $700 and have three large carts full of toys to contribute to this great cause. We also thank our Student Council advisors and student members. They did a great job of leading this service project.
Winter weather is officially here! Students are expected to dress for the weather. This includes winter coats, boots, snow pants, hats, and gloves/mittens. When there is snow on the ground, students must have boots, and to play off of the blacktop, they must have both boots and snow pants. We are outside for recess unless the temperature or wind chill drops below zero. Thank you for ensuring your child is prepared to be outside!
Please remember that if your child is coming to school late for any reason or is returning to school from an appointment, you need to walk your child into the office and sign them in. Students should not be dropped off without an adult outside of the normal drop-off period. Thank you for cooperation with this!
The PTO is again hosting the Thorson Chess Club, which is currently looking for participants. This club is open to Thorson students in 1st-5th grade. Details and dates are listed below. We also have the Lego Club up and running again. This club is looking for participants and volunteers. See below for more information. Additionally, the next PTO meeting is being held Monday, December 12 in the Community Room at 7:00 p.m. We hope to see you there!
There is NO SCHOOL for students tomorrow, December 9, as it is a professional development day for teaching staff. Have a wonderful extended weekend!
Sincerely,
Angela Little, Principal
Scott May, Assistant Principal
Calendar
12/9-No School
12/15-4th Grade Field Trip to the CPAC
12/19-21-NO BAND LESSONS
12/22-01/1- Winter Break
2022-2023 School Calendar
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New and Exciting!
Band Lessons
Band lessons will be cancelled on 12/19-12/21 due to Mr. Aswegan and Mr. Westgate being out of town.
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 full name, teacher, and the reason for the absence. If your student will be taking hot lunch they will need to leave their lunch choice as well.
Cold Weather
With winter weather quickly approaching please remind your student(s) to dress appropriately for outdoor recesses. If possible, it would be beneficial to keep an extra pair of gloves and a hat in their backpack.
Pawsitively PTO:
Nothing Bundt Cakes Fundraiser
We are so excited to partner again this year with Nothing Bundt Cakes! Please share this fundraiser with your family, friends, neighbors, and on social media. Keep in mind, this fundraiser is completely optional for our families, but these bundt cakes are certainly yummy and perfect for Holiday gatherings and gifts! Order forms need to be turned into your teacher no later than Friday, December 9th with one check written out to Thorson PTO. Also, be sure to include your first and last name as well as a phone number on your order form. We recommend that you make a copy/take a photograph of your order form and payment for your records.
You will be able to pick up your bundt cakes on Friday, December 16th in the community room(door 14) between 1:00-6:00 p.m. A PTO rep will help you assemble your order. Be sure to bring bags or boxes to take your bundt cakes home as we will not have these available for you. Pre Orders only--no purchases will be available the day of the delivery.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Shani at 262-689-5861.
8 Inch Cake Sell Sheet
Thorson Chess Club
Registration is open for Thorson's chess club!
- Open to all Thorson students 1st to 5th grade
- Club will meet on Thursdays from 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM in the Thorson community room
- No chess experience necessary
- Sessions will be led by a chess instructor from the Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Federation
- Students will participate in lessons, matches and tournaments
- ChessKid.com Gold Membership ($50 value) provided to participants at no cost
- Club size limited to 24 students - we expect registrations to fill up quickly, so don't delay!
Registrations received after club capacity is reached will be placed on a waitlist. Cost of this eight (8) session term is $50 per child. Fees pay for instructor, chess boards, chess clocks, and lesson resources.
Chess club meeting dates for 2023:
January 12
January 19
January 26
February 2
February 9
February 16
February 23
March 2
For more information and to register, follow the link: https://forms.gle/
If you have questions, please contact Chris McDonell at 262-483-6111 or ckmcdonell@gmail.com
Thorson LEGO Club
The Thorson Lego Club is back! We invite students from all grades to join us on the first and third Thursday from October 2020 to May 2023. The group will meet before school at 8:00am. The LEGO Club is a positive environment for all builders at any skill level. Join us for free building, group builds and more.
The Thorson LEGO Club is hosted by Dustin Hughes. Dustin is a lifelong fan of LEGO and the owner of an online LEGO store. “I’m here to help the student grow their building skills and pass on my 30+ years of LEGO knowledge”.
Please contact Dustin with any questions or ideas for the group. Volunteers wanted. Help is needed with organizing and cleaning LEGO pieces. Phone: 734-693-3747 Email: hughesdustin88@gmail.com
Celebration Rock Sign-Up:
Celebration Rock reservations for the 2022-23 school year are now open! Display a happy birthday message to help make a student's birthday extra special during the next school year! You can reserve the rock for a 24-hour period for $10. Details about how to request your date and pay can be found here: http://www.thorsonpto.
PTO Next Meeting: December 12, 2022
PTO Agenda
YMCA Before and after School Programs
Click Here for Information on our Before and After School Programs
Thursday, December 1, 2022
From the Thorson Office
Thorson Thursday Folder
December 1, 2022
Wear Thorson spiritwear and bring $1.00 to wear a hat or bring a stuffed animal or $2.00 for both!
A Note from the Principal
Dear Thorson Families,
I hope that all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving break. It was great to see all of you at Parent/Teacher conferences before Thanksgiving. We are excited to continue our work with all of you as the year goes on.
For the month of December, we are working on the character trait of kindness. We will kick off our work with this character trait at our all-school Jaguar Jumpstart tomorrow morning. We are challenging students to show kindness in both big and small ways, including participating in our annual Kapco Kids 2 Kids Toy Drive, which is being led by our Thorson Student Council. New and unwrapped toys can be brought in through December 8. Additionally, tomorrow, students may participate in a fundraiser for the toy drive by bringing $1 to wear a hat or bring a stuffed animal to school, or $2 to do both. Thank you for your consideration of supporting this great cause.
Thank you to all who supported the Thorson PTO Book Fair by purchasing or volunteering. We appreciate your support! The Thorson PTO is currently selling bundt cakes from “Nothing Bundt Cakes”, which will make wonderful holiday gifts. Please see the information that was sent home or check out the Thorson PTO facebook page for more information. Orders are due on December 9.
Looking ahead to next week, please remember that we do not have school on Friday, December 9. This is a professional development day for teachers.
Don’t forget, students and staff are encouraged to wear Thorson spiritwear or school colors to school tomorrow (12/2) for our Jaguar Jumpstart!
Have a great weekend!
Sincerely,
Angela Little, Principal
Scott May, Assistant Principal
Calendar
12/2-4&5 Grade Field Trip
12/9-No School
12/15-4th Grade Field Trip to the CPAC
12/22-01/1- Winter Break
2022-2023 School Calendar
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New and Exciting!
Kapco Kids 2 Kids Toy Drive
The Thorson Student Council will be collecting new, unwrapped toys from Tuesday, November 29-Thursday, December 8. This is the 12th year that Thorson has participated in this wonderful program that collects toys for children in our area. Please consider making a donation. Your support is very much appreciated.
Kids 2 Kids Toy Drive Events:
December 2nd-Donate 1.00 to the toy drive and your child will be able to wear a hat or bring a stuffed animal to school. Bring $2 to do both! (the stuffed animal must be able to fit into your child's backpack)
December 6th- Purchase a Student Council ornament for $1.00 to be displayed on the Student Council Bulletin Board
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 full name, teacher, and the reason for the absence. If your student will be taking hot lunch they will need to leave their lunch choice as well.
Cold Weather
With winter weather quickly approaching please remind your student(s) to dress appropriately for outdoor recesses. If possible, it would be beneficial to keep an extra pair of gloves and a hat in their backpack.
Pawsitively PTO:
Nothing Bundt Cakes Fundraiser
We are so excited to partner again this year with Nothing Bundt Cakes! Please share this fundraiser with your family, friends, neighbors, and on social media. Keep in mind, this fundraiser is completely optional for our families, but these bundt cakes are certainly yummy and perfect for Holiday gatherings and gifts! Order forms need to be turned into your teacher no later than Friday, December 9th with one check written out to Thorson PTO. Also, be sure to include your first and last name as well as a phone number on your order form. We recommend that you make a copy/take a photograph of your order form and payment for your records.
You will be able to pick up your bundt cakes on Friday, December 16th in the community room(door 14) between 1:00-6:00 p.m. A PTO rep will help you assemble your order. Be sure to bring bags or boxes to take your bundt cakes home as we will not have these available for you. Pre Orders only--no purchases will be available the day of the delivery.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Shani at 262-689-5861.
8 Inch Cake Sell Sheet
10 Inch Cake Sell Sheet
Bundlet Sell Sheet
Thorson LEGO Club
The Thorson Lego Club is back! We invite students from all grades to join us on the first and third Thursday from October 2020 to May 2023. The group will meet before school at 8:00am. The LEGO Club is a positive environment for all builders at any skill level. Join us for free building, group builds and more.
The Thorson LEGO Club is hosted by Dustin Hughes. Dustin is a lifelong fan of LEGO and the owner of an online LEGO store. “I’m here to help the student grow their building skills and pass on my 30+ years of LEGO knowledge”.
Please contact Dustin with any questions or ideas for the group. Volunteers wanted. Help is needed with organizing and cleaning LEGO pieces. Phone: 734-693-3747 Email: hughesdustin88@gmail.com
Celebration Rock Sign-Up:
Celebration Rock reservations for the 2022-23 school year are now open! Display a happy birthday message to help make a student's birthday extra special during the next school year! You can reserve the rock for a 24-hour period for $10. Details about how to request your date and pay can be found here: http://www.thorsonpto.
PTO Next Meeting: December 12, 2022
PTO Agenda
YMCA Before and after School Programs
Click Here for Information on our Before and After School Programs
Weekly Newsletter November 28-December 2
Dear Families,
This week we talked about the word families op & og. We also learned the sight words "up" and "do". We reviewed these words in the stories, poems, and writing we did this week. We continue to review all words and assess through the year! Please continue to work on these words with your child.
The story this week was Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts. In Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts, Jeremy struggles with a dilemma at school. Jeremy's Grandma tells him they can't afford the expensive high-top tennis shoes he wants, but they can get the warm winter boots he needs. All Jeremy wants are the shoes that "everyone" else has at school. When Jeremy's old shoes break, and he is forced to wear Velcro cartoon character shoes provided by the guidance counselor, he finds out who his real friends are and what he truly needs and not wants.
Here is a video link to the story to enjoy!
This week we worked on the poem Little Ole Elf. Ask your kindergartner to sing it to you! While working on this poem, we looked for words that started with the same letter and rhyming words.
We labeled a large elf during our community writing time. We will be able to go back later and practice reading the words.
During writing time, we are working on narrative stories. As a class, we wrote about 50's Day. We wrote how we celebrated the 50th Day of school, how our teachers wore poodle skirts, and how we did fun centers that Day. We ended our story by writing how we felt about the day.
https://student-activities.mathlearningcenter.org/?4d7c59dc
We continue to learn about the weather and the seasons during our science time. Ask your kindergartner what his/her favorite season is.
Reminders:
Tomorrow if you bring $1, your child can wear a hat or bring a stuffed animal to school. Can't decide which one you want to do? Bring $2! All money will be used to purchase more toys for the Kids to Kids toy drive.
Please do so if you haven't turned in the permission slip for your child to watch the new animated version of The Grinch!
Thank you for all of your support!