100th Day of School - Friday, Feb. 3rd - You're Invited!

Our 100th day of school will be on Friday, February 3rd. It is one of kindergarten’s biggest celebrations of the year! This day is filled with all kinds of fun activities centered around the number 100. 

• 100th Day At-Home Project - As part of the celebration, we are asking each child to bring a collection of 100 items. These items will fit inside an empty water bottle (we will not be providing the water bottle) The collection of items should all be the same. For example, 100 paper clips, dried beans, grains of rice, rocks, buttons, pom-poms, beads, marbles, cotton balls, bells, toothpicks, Q-tips, rubber bands, coins, etc. The possibilities are endless! Please label the bottle/poster with your child’s name. 

  • **Suggestion for at-home counting – group items by ten to find out  how many groups of 10 will be necessary to reach 100 items. Please let us know if you have any questions. 

• Dress-Up Fun - In addition to the project, we encourage your child to join in the fun of celebrating 100 days by dressing like they are 100 years old, wearing a shirt with 100 things, or wearing a 100th Day of School shirt. 

• Parade -To celebrate 100 days of learning and being able to count to 100 for their project, we will be having a parade for them to show off their amazing work! The parade will begin at 7:40am by the primary playground (south side of the building). Families can park on the side of the street and stand on the outside of the fence. The kids will be walking along the fence for all families to celebrate their learning! 

We hope you can join us for the parade on Friday, February 3rd if you are able. 

Rube Goldberg Machines:

• Next week, we will be starting our building of how things move and we will be making Rube Goldberg machines. Not sure what a Rube Goldberg machine is?  See the link for an example- http://bit.ly/RGDONATIONS. 

• We are looking for a variety of supplies to make our machines.  In order to make this project successful, we need help gathering supplies. Please see the list below of possible items you could donate to the class.  

• Items will be a donation to the kindergarten curriculum and will not be returned. 

• Rube Goldberg Donation Letter 

We will need these items by the end of the week so that we can start building the week of January 30th. 

Items needed:

• Masking tape

• Styrofoam Cups

• Paper cups

• Hot wheels track

• Tinkertoys/ Legos

• Lincoln Logs

• Cardboard

• Paper towel rolls

• Toilet paper tubes

• Wrapping paper tubes

• PVC pipe

• Funnels

• Toy cars

• Marbles

• Ping pong balls

• Small rubber balls

• Golf balls

• Rubber balls

• Dominos

• Plastic/foam/wood pieces that can be turned into ramps

• Shoe boxes

Book Bag Reminders

• Books sent home in the black book bag are sent home for home use but also need to come to school with your child every single day as we use them during our reading time. These books belong to the school and are the teacher's personal books. Please keep these books in the black bag to prevent the books from getting lost or damaged. 

Phonics - I can use digraphs and word parts to make new words.  

Reading - I can call on extra strength to help check my reading. 

Writing - I can plan my  how to do writing using the language of the discipline. 

Science - I can observe and create my own simple machine. 

Math - I can identify two parts on a balance that show equality

• February 3rd - 100th Day of School

• February 6th - 11th - National School Counselor Week (Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Gjonbalaj)

• February 17th - Kindness Party 1:30-2:15pm

• February 21st - Spring Pictures 

• February 20th - Student Holiday, no school

• March 10th - Early Release at 11:40 am

• March 13th - 21st - Spring Break

• March 22nd - Students return from Spring Break

January Events

School Newsletter: https://sites.google.com/nisdtx.org/lte/campus-newsletters/january 

Volunteer Opportunities:

• Library sign up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0845ACA72FA0FB6-library1