For Parents & Children Entering Kindergarten August 2019
Prince William County kindergarten teachers and school counselors will share simple ideas to help your preschooler become excited about school, get ready to learn, and successfully transition to kindergarten at our kindergarten readiness presentations. Please see below for locations and times:
April 15: 11:15 a.m. at Potomac Library
April 18: 11 a.m. at Bull Run library
April 24: 11 a.m. at Montclair Library
April 25: 10:30 a.m. at Haymarket/ Gainesville Library
April 29: 7 p.m. at Chinn Library
April 30: 11:30 a.m. at Central Library
We have a field trip coming up! We will be going to the Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum on Monday May 20th. The cost of this trip is $6 for both students and chaperones. If you are interested in attending as a chaperone please contact your child's teacher. The permission slips and money are due by April 22nd. Chaperone interest forms are due by March 29th. If you have any questions please contact your child's teacher.
Check out these great sight word videos! They are Jan Richardson and Jack Hartman! It is just like how we teach sight words at guided reading!Sight word videos
Ways to make sight words fun at home!
1. Sight Word Bingo
You can find many different commercial sight-word bingo games, or you can make your own. Here is a simple post from teachmama.com that shows you how.
2. Sight Word Hide & Seek
Write sight words on index cards, and hide them around the house. Set the timer and give your child two minutes to find as many sight words as he can. At the end of the two minutes, have him read the list to you. He gets one point for every correct word. Repeat, challenging him to break his own record.
3. Sight Word Memory
Using index cards, write out pairs of sight words and place them facedown on a table. Take turns flipping over the cards and reading the words. If you make a match, you keep the cards. The person with the most cards when they are all turned over wins.
4. Meal Time Word Wall
Make a word wall with a large piece of butcher paper. Start with two words, adding a new one daily. Have your child read the whole list every mealtime. If she has trouble with the list, do not add more words until she can read them without trouble.
HMES Drama is putting on Elf Jr. Please join them Dec. 13th and 14th at 7 pm and Dec. 15th at 2:30. Admission is free but donations will be accepted to help fun the next HMES Drama production. We will also be collecting for the Haymarket Regional Food Pantry.
We are taking another field trip! We will be going to Forest Park HS to see a production of the Polar Express. The cost of the trip is $6 (cash only). Please return your child's permission slip and $6 by 11/16.
The Fun Run is coming!!
Report cards are coming home soon. Please make sure that you return the yellow folder signed to your child's teacher.
Disguise Tom the Turkey! Tom the Turkey does not want to get eaten on Thanksgiving. Please help your child disguise him and then send him back to school by Nov. 13th.
We are learning about community helpers in class. Please help your child complete the When I grow up project that was sent home.
We are planning a field trip! We will be going to Hartland Farm and Orchard on Thursday October 18th! The cost is $8 per child. If you are interested in attending please let your child's teacher know. Please send in the permission slip and $8 (cash only, no coins) as soon as you can.
Tie Dye day
Have your child wear their tie dye on Friday September 21st
Back to school PTO BBQ is Friday September 21st at 6:00
Next week on Tuesday, Kindergarten is beginning color days where students wear colors to support our learning. Our schedule of colors is listed below.
Monday, September 3-NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, September 4-Red Day
Wednesday, September 5-Orange Day
Thursday, September 6-Yellow Day
Friday, September 7-Green Day
Monday, September 10-Blue Day
Tuesday, September 11-Patriot Day-Red, White, and Blue Day
Wednesday, September 12-Purple Day
Thursday, September 13-Brown Day
Friday, September 14-Black Day
9/25 – Back to School Night (7pm-8pm)
for kindergarten and first grade
Join our classroom community by following these easy steps:
1.
Visit go.schoolmessenger.com or click messages from the My PWCS app.
2.
Click sign up.
3.
Enter the same email address the school has on record.
4.
Pick a password you will remember (you can always reset it later)
.
5.
Receive an email message at the address you provided. Click on the link in
the email
.
Join our classroom community by following these easy steps:
1.
Visit go.schoolmessenger.com or click messages from the My PWCS app.
2.
Click sign up.
3.
Enter the same email address the school has on record.
4.
Pick a password you will remember (you can always reset it later)
.
5.
Receive an email message at the address you provided. Click on the link in
the email
.
Join our classroom community by f
Visit go.schoolmessenger.com or click messages from the My PWCS app.
2.
Click sign up.
3.
Enter the same email address the school has on record.
4.
Pick a password you will remember (you can always reset it later)
.
5.
Receive an email message at the address you provided. Click on the link in
the email
.
1.
Visit go.schoolmessenger.com or click messages from the My PWCS app.
2.
Click sign up.
3.
Enter the same email address the school has on record.
4.
Pick a password you will remember (you can always reset it later)
.
5.
Receive an email message at the address you provided. Click on the link in
the email
.
Please make sure that you register for school messenger to ensure that you get emails and texts from your child's teacher.
Don't forget to take lots of pictures! #hmeskinder #haymarkettogether #pwcs1stday #backtoschool
We want to say thank you to everyone who came out to open house! It was amazing to meet all of you! We are all so excited for the first day of school!