Frau Holt Kindergarten K-C/K-D: How the World Works Unit 4 Week 4

February 19- February 22, 2019

Welcome back to German week!
This is our fourth week of our fourth Unit

"How the world works"

"Weather shapes the way communities live"

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Wednesday Feb 20st- Rock'n-Run-a-thon

Complete Rock'n Run-a-thon details

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Sprachmeister

With the first third of the year over, the kids have gotten to feel comfortable around German if they are new to the language. It is now our goal to have the kids speaking as much German as possible...

To help motivate the kids to speak more German we are beginning our

"Sprachmeister" program.

The goal is to speak as much German as you can and at the end of the day, the class will reflect on whether they have spoken "a lot" of German or "a little" bit of German. After a student has gotten 10 days of "a lot" of German- they will have earned a bracelet that says "Sprachmeister!"

Ask your child if they were a "Sprachmeister" today!

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STAYING HEALTHY
2 out of the 6 kindergarten classes have reported cases of Lice. You can also follow
these directions to check your child out at home

The common cold is also going around so be sure to wash hands, eat healthy and get rest!

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Parent University: Supporting Your Beginning Writer K-1

February 28th, 6-7:30, Elementary School, Think Tank

Are you interested in learning ways to support your K-1 writer? If so, sign up to attend our "Supporting Your Beginning Writer" Parent University. Acquire knowledge about the developmental stages of writing, as well as the writing process.
You’ll also learn ways to help your child grow as a writer at home.
This session will be led by Kindergarten teacher, Kelly Roedel. Sign up here:

Supporting Your Beginning Writer K-1 Parent University

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Feeding San Diego K-8 AEA

Community Service Opportunity

Please join us on Saturday, March 9th for a “Food Sorting” volunteer shift from 9AM-11AM,
with Feeding San Diego. We have reserved this time for up to 50 volunteers from AEA, and sign up is first come first serve. This is great opportunity for our community (ages 6 and up) to come together and help those in need. Please visit this link for sign up details: Feeding San Diego Community Service

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K-2 Parent Volunteer
needed for Morning Running Club on Thursday mornings

· We need a volunteer to hand out running sticks to K-2nd graders every Thursday morning.

Please fill out this VOLUNTEER FORM if interested.

· Visit i.Run website for all the details

· K-2 Running Club Video

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DRESS CODE REMINDER RAINY,
COLD WEATHER = DRESS CODE VIOLATIONS
This is your WEEKLY reminder to label ( NAME- Class) your child's jackets and sweaters!
Outer jackets MUST be blue!! ONLY HEAVY winter jackets can be non-uniform.
This means a blue sweatshirt or sweater is NEEDED for your child to wear on the colder days....

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2019 Parent Feedback Survey

We only have feedback from a few families, Would you please take a moment to share your thought with us right now?
click here We hope you continue to add comments/ feedback whenever you might have a good idea on how we can do our jobs better!

Yes, no news is good news but if you have any feedback that could help us help parents, we would be grateful to hear it.
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Frau Holt's Updated classroom wish list

We need your help!

KC & KD Needs Science volunteers:
Mar 7th, Apr 25, May 23rd @
8:30am when KC/KD is in German
9:30am when KC/KD is in English

AND IN GERMAN WEEKS:

Every Monday/Thursday from 12-1pm for Math Centers
Every Friday from 9.30-10.30 for Language Arts Centers

I promise it is FUN!
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February's challenge is noticing nature!
Be sure to graph our weather this month on the back of the challenge!

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Monday

No School

Tuesday

PE & Music with Frau Claudia

Wednesday
Gardening with Ms Shana
Rockin-Run-Athon 9.10am-9.30am

Thursday
Music with Frau Claudia
11.45-1pm Math Centers

Friday
Library, remember your books!
Writing centers 9.30-10.30
4th grade buddies

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Coming Up:

Mon 18th- NO SCHOOL

Presidents day weekend

Wednesday Feb 20st- Rock'n-Run-a-thon

....Are you ready to rock...and run?

The Rock‘n Run-a-thon is a fun, music-energized day to celebrate fitness and our school! Students will rock out while they run or walk the playground/Running Club course with their friends. This is a fun one-day event that encourages all elementary students to take an active role in FUNdraising! Students can also earn cool prizes by raising money for AEA’s Enrichment Programs, like PE, art, music, science and gardening.

Register now online or look for a purple flyer coming home in planners Feb. 1. Earn a special Run-a-thon token just by registering online and adding 10 contacts!

Complete Rock'n Run-a-thon details

March 4th and 5th KC and KD will be performing "5 kleine Fische" for our 4th annual Theaterfest!!!
Stay tuned for details

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Unit 4 Week 4 of our new Unit of Inquiry:

Evening Red and Morning Gray.

Two Sure Signs of One Fine Day
(How the world works)

Weather patterns shape the way communities live.
We will be introduced in this unit to:

Weeks 1/2 different types of weather

We will construct a weather 'house' with different types of weather. We will identify a German city (Berlin) that we will record the weather for during this unit and compare to San Diego.
Main Vocabulary - der Regen (ray-gen) - rain; die Sonne (zon-eh - sun; der Wind (vint) - wind; der Schnee (shnay) - snow

Weeks 3/4 look at how weather is measured and

Weeks 5/6 how humans adapt to weather in different parts of the world.

Weather Video to watch

Frau Claudia's "Wie ist das Wetter" song

Frau Claudia's "das Wetter" song

German word of the week:

Weeks 1/2 das Wetter (dahs vet-tah) the weather

Weeks 3/4 messen (mess-en) to measure

Weeks 5/6 die Wetterkarte (dee veh- tair-kart-eh)

the weather map

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