October 30th is our character party! If your child chooses to dress up they will change into their costume at school. Do not send your child to school in their costume. They will also need a book to carry for the character parade. For example I am one of the Three Little Kittens and I am dressing as a kitten.

We are building a city this year at Westfall. We are calling it Character Under Construction. Each classroom will be a storefront in the city. We are Mrs. Shay’s Safari Shop. We will be called the Marvelous Monkeys.  Every week we will hunt for interesting facts about animals that correspond with the letter of the week. One website we will use is the National Geographic Kids website.  The kids can visit this website at home to discover many things at home also.  http://kids.nationalgeographic.com  It would be neat for the kids to do some “research” at home and show the class what they learned. We will have a bulletin board in the class that is called “Did you know?” We will display what we have learned here. I also am looking into advancing our technology in kindergarten by helping the kids work on the computer to build presentations on animals of their choice. Let’s just say… We do not ‘”monkey” around with success! It is going to be an amazing year!

Kindergarten and Pre-k parents are able to use PowerSchool for attendance checks and cafeteria balance checks. You will need your child’s user code and pass code that was provided. Click here to enter.   http://69.21.32.30:8080/Public/