From the Thorson Office

 

Thorson Weekly Notes February 29, 2024 Early Release TOMORROW at 1:45 p.m. 4K AM-8:50-10:35 -PM 12:00-1:45 Follow us on Facebook! A Note from the Principal Dear Thorson Families, Happy Leap Day! We are having a great week celebrating Read Across America week. The students have been enjoying the theme days and we are looking forward to our guest readers/speakers tomorrow! We also had a successful “Donuts with your Dudes” event this morning. The event was well- attended and ran smoothly. It was great to see so many students and special guests from our community coming together. THANK YOU to the chairs of this event and all of the volunteers. Their hard work is certainly appreciated. Stay tuned for details about the girls event which is coming up in April! Tomorrow,  Friday, March 1 is an Early Release Day.  All students will be dismissed at 1:45.  The morning 4K session will end at 10:45 and the afternoon 4K session will run from 12:00-1:45.  Please let the office know if your dismissal plans are different on this day! Also, as indicated in the letter that was sent out on Tuesday,  all grades will be participating in ALICE safety drill training tomorrow. Please refer to the letter in the email  for more information and watch for a follow up email tomorrow.  Have a great weekend! Sincerely,  Angela Little, Principal Scott May, Assistant Principal   New and Exciting Read Across America Read Across America Week is coming up soon! We have some fun theme days planned to celebrate reading during the week of February 26. We are also looking for guest readers to read a book and talk about their career on Friday, March 1. Please see the attached letter from our district librarian, Michelle Neglia, for more information and to sign up to read in one of our classrooms. Thorson Read Across America Letter .pdf  Thorson Green Squad The Thorson Green Squad is looking for volunteers to help collect our maple sap from our school forest. Once collected, Mrs. Papke will boil it down to make maple syrup for the students to taste!  This yearly program is a great hands-on way for our students to get outdoors.  If you are interested in helping, please click the sign-up sheet below for more details! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904084DA9A62EA0FA7-48187398-maple#/ Attendance Policy CSD Attendance Frequently Asked Questions   Pawsitively PTO The next meeting will be on 03/11 at 7:00 PM in the Community Room.  Here is the PTO agenda.    Become a PTO member!! Your $25 membership grants access to our online directory and helps support the PTO and its mission! Thank you!! Click here for the membership. Fifth Grade Farewell Please fill out this form to leave a farewell note or best wishes for your fifth grader to be published in the yearbook.  Please submit no later than March 8th. Winter Carnival  Presale The Thorson Winter Carnival is Saturday, March 16th from 11am‐3pm! Pre order your wristbands and skip the lines! By purchasing a wristband, your child will gain access to a variety of games, face painting, the lollipop tree, cake walk and more.Adult chaperones enter for free with a participating child. Each paid admission is eligible to win prizes. Children 3 years old and younger get in for free but are not eligible for prizes.Wrist bands cost $15 per child with a family max cost of $45. Parents who volunteer at the Carnival will receive a discount of $12/child or max of $40 for thewhole family! Preordering is easy! Print and complete the following pre order form. Return it the Thorson office with cash or check (payable to Thorson PTO) by Friday, March 3rd. A packet containing your wristbands will be sent home with your child on March 15th. There is also an option to submit your order electronically.  Pre‐sale deadline is Friday March 8th at 3:30pm. Sorry, NO REFUNDS! The Thorson PTO is excited to be once again hosting the Winter Carnival on March 16, 2024, from 11 AM to 3 PM.  Bring your sweet tooth because this year we will be transforming Thorson into CandyLand!  Games, prizes, face painting, cotton candy and more!   When: March 16, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM Cost: $15 per child or $45 per family WE NEED YOU!  This event cannot happen without your support.  VOLUNTEERS! Calling all responsible middle schoolers, high schoolers, former Thorson students! Please consider volunteering for an hour or two.  Sign Up Genius  DONATIONS! Please consider making a contribution to our very popular raffle baskets. Simply follow the links embedded in the Raffle Flyer, order on Amazon, and we will do the rest. Reserve the Thorson Celebration Rock for the 2023-2024 school year Reservation requests for the Thorson Celebration Rock are now being accepted for the 2023-2024 school year. For $10, your birthday message will be displayed on the rock for a 24-hour period.  Questions? Reach out to Jamie Allison at 305-527-8006 or jjeallison@gmail.com. School District Nurses Corner Update Cold and flu season is upon us and this is the time of year when we tend to see more visitors in our health rooms, and more illness related absences. In an effort to help minimize the spread of illness in our school buildings,  please read the following information.  4K & 5K New Student Enrollment Enrollment is NOW open for students who will be new to the Cedarburg School District in 2024-25.  Follow the instructions on the district website to enroll.  We look forward to welcoming you to the Cedarburg School District.

Weekly Newsletter-February 26- March 1

 

February 29, 2024

Dear Families,

We continue to be so busy in kindergarten!  Can you believe that March is here?! We all hope to see more "lamb" days instead of "lion" in the next few weeks!

ELA

Skills: During Skills, we continue reviewing the diagraphs of sh, ch, th, qu, and ng.  We work on blending and segmenting these words.  We also practice writing these words too!  Ask your kindergartner how to write words like, ship, trash, this, rang, etc.  They can do it!  This week we also started to practice writing our tricky words.  On one side of the paper, we all practiced together; on the other, we had to write the words on our own.  It would be helpful to practice these tricky words at home!

We sent home lots of decodable stories all about Seth and his family.  Have your kindergartner read these stories to you nightly.  Ask your kindergartner who the characters are, where the setting is, and the events that happened in the story.  Remind your kindergartner to speak in complete sentences!  They can do it!

We read the story The Three Billy Goats Fluff by Rachael Mortimer this week - WE LOVED IT!! While listening to the story, we worked on the strategies of predicting, sequencing the story, retelling, and making connections.  We also listened to the original version of the Three Billy Goats Gruff.  We did a great job of comparing and contrasting the 2 stories!

Please enjoy the video link to the story "The Three Billy Goats Fluff"

Math

We continue to work on identifying 2D and 3D shapes.  We played a fun bingo game where students had to listen to clues about the attributes of the shapes.  If that particular shape was on their bingo board, they could color it in.  So fun!  Students continue to work on counting to 100 by 1s and by 10s.  Please have your kindergartners practice this at home!  Many of us need extra practice!  

Tomorrow is an Early Release Day!  Be sure to inform your teacher if your child's going-home plans change.  

Remember to send your child to school with a snack!  Many students are forgetting to have a snack in the afternoon.  The Ritz crackers and Graham crackers are for our morning snacks.  :)  Thanks!

Thanks for all of your support from home!!

💚💛Mrs. Neuville and Mrs. Rocky

From the Thorson Office

 

Thorson Weekly Notes February 22, 2024 Follow us on Facebook!

A Note from the Principal Dear Thorson Families, I hope that you are enjoying the beautiful weather we are experiencing!  Students are always excited for the days where the temperature rises above 50 degrees, which is our threshold for requiring coats and jackets outside.  As the weather continues to improve and more people get out and about, it is a good time to remind families and neighbors that our campus, including the playground, is closed between the hours of 8:35 a.m. and 3:35 p.m.  Children with supervision are welcome to enjoy the playground before or after the school day and on the weekends.  Thanks for spreading the word!  Additionally, no animals are allowed on school grounds for safety purposes.  Thank you for your support. Thank you to all who attended our PTO Fancy Dance last weekend. Thank you also to the chairs and committee who put this event together. They put a lot of time and effort into this event and we appreciate their hard work. Our next PTO event is coming up next Thursday morning, and is our NEW Donuts with Dudes event. See below for more information. Next week is Read Across America Week! We are excited to celebrate reading with all of our students next week. See the letter linked below for more information. Thank you to those who signed up to read in classrooms and talk about their career. Next Friday, March 2 is an Early Release Day.  All students will be dismissed at 1:45.  The morning 4K session will end at 10:35 and the afternoon 4K session will run from 12:00-1:45.  Please let the office know if your dismissal plans are different on this day, thank you! Have a wonderful weekend and thank you for being such supportive members of our school community! Sincerely,  Angela Little, Principal Scott May, Assistant Principal   New and Exciting Read Across America Read Across America Week is coming up soon! We have some fun theme days planned to celebrate reading during the week of February 26. We are also looking for guest readers to read a book and talk about their career on Friday, March 1. Please see the attached letter from our district librarian, Michelle Neglia, for more information and to sign up to read in one of our classrooms. Thorson Read Across America Letter .pdf  Attendance Policy CSD Attendance Frequently Asked Questions   Pawsitively PTO The next meeting will be on 03/11 at 7:00 PM in the Community Room.  Here is the PTO agenda.    Become a PTO member!! Your $25 membership grants access to our online directory and helps support the PTO and its mission! Thank you!! Click here for the membership. Fifth Grade Farewell Please fill out this form to leave a farewell note or best wishes for your fifth grader to be published in the yearbook.  Please submit no later than March 8th. Winter Carnival  Presale The Thorson Winter Carnival is Saturday, March 16th from 11am‐3pm! Pre order your wristbands and skip the lines! By purchasing a wristband, your child will gain access to a variety of games, face painting, the lollipop tree, cake walk and more.Adult chaperones enter for free with a participating child. Each paid admission is eligible to win prizes. Children 3 years old and younger get in for free but are not eligible for prizes.Wrist bands cost $15 per child with a family max cost of $45. Parents who volunteer at the Carnival will receive a discount of $12/child or max of $40 for thewhole family! Preordering is easy! Print and complete the following pre order form. Return it the Thorson office with cash or check (payable to Thorson PTO) by Friday, March 3rd. A packet containing your wristbands will be sent home with your child on March 15th. There is also an option to submit your order electronically.  Pre‐sale deadline is Friday March 8th at 3:30pm. Sorry, NO REFUNDS! The Thorson PTO is excited to be once again hosting the Winter Carnival on March 16, 2024, from 11 AM to 3 PM.  Bring your sweet tooth because this year we will be transforming Thorson into CandyLand!  Games, prizes, face painting, cotton candy and more!   When: March 16, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM Cost: $15 per child or $45 per family WE NEED YOU!  This event cannot happen without your support.  VOLUNTEERS! Calling all responsible middle schoolers, high schoolers, former Thorson students! Please consider volunteering for an hour or two.  Sign Up Genius  DONATIONS! Please consider making a contribution to our very popular raffle baskets. Simply follow the links embedded in the Raffle Flyer, order on Amazon, and we will do the rest. Donuts with Your Dude Calling all Thorson Boys to bring one special adult to enjoy donuts and refreshments on FEBRUARY 29th from 8:00-8:35 a.m.   The PTO is excited to host a fun and memorable morning.  Please RSVP HERE  to help ensure we have enough donuts for eveyone attending! We don't forget about our Jaguar Girls!  Save the date for a fun breakfast event for Thorson girls April 16th!   All special guests must exit the building by 8:35 am and no students are allowed in any classrooms during the event. Reserve the Thorson Celebration Rock for the 2023-2024 school year Reservation requests for the Thorson Celebration Rock are now being accepted for the 2023-2024 school year. For $10, your birthday message will be displayed on the rock for a 24-hour period.  Questions? Reach out to Jamie Allison at 305-527-8006 or jjeallison@gmail.com. School District Nurses Corner Update Cold and flu season is upon us and this is the time of year when we tend to see more visitors in our health rooms, and more illness related absences. In an effort to help minimize the spread of illness in our school buildings,  please read the following information.  4K & 5K New Student Enrollment Enrollment is NOW open for students who will be new to the Cedarburg School District in 2024-25.  Follow the instructions on the district website to enroll.  We look forward to welcoming you to the Cedarburg School District.