You are cordially invited to our
K3 Kindergarten Promotion
Friday, May 29th, 2015
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Multipurpose Room
A small reception will be held in K3 immediately following the celebration.
We ask that you hold any balloons/flowers for celebrations at home. Thank you.
I had many parents asking me the times of Open House tomorrow so I thought I would send it out in the blog.
Thursday, April 16th Open House for C & D Tracks.
3:30-5:30 p.m. Art Show in the Multi-Purpose Room- Yes we do have art there!
4:00-5:00 p.m. Classrooms are open.
Next Tuesday, (April 7th) is our kindergarten field trip to the Harris Center at Folsom Lake College. Both classes will attend a play put on by the California Theatre Center. This will be a wonderful opportunity for our students to see a live production of the story Charlotte’s Web. If your child would like to dress for the theater (“Sunday” best), they may, but it is optional.
This will be a minimum day (8:20-11:51 a.m.). For both classes, please have students here by 8:20, ready to board the bus (please have them use the restroom just before leaving home). They will still need to bring a backpack with their snack in it, nothing else.
Please join us as we celebrate our country
Friday, April 3, 2015
8:30-9:00 a.m.
(It is a minimum day. All kindergarten students come from 8:10-11:51)
Sunrise Library
Students are encouraged to come dressed in Red, White and Blue. You may too!
On Monday, April 4th, we will be having a short performance celebrating “Our Country”. Please join us in K2 if you can – we will begin at 8:30 (This is a minimum day!). Students can wear red, white and blue for our performance. Please practice these songs and poems with your child over the next few weeks. A hard copy will be sent home in the Wednesday Folders. Thank you!
I Know a Lot About My Country (Poem)
*Mrs. Arriaga’s class:
I know a lot about my country-
Please forgive me if I brag,
But I know that it has 50 states
And a very special flag.
*Mrs. Young’s class:
I know that it has cities
And towns and farmland, too.
It is home to many people-
It is home to me and you.
*Both classes:
I know a lot about my country
And I want to say out loud,
“My country is the U.S.A.!”
This fact makes me quite proud!
The Pledge of Allegiance
I stand up to salute the flag
Before I start each day.
I place my right hand on my heart
And this is what I say…
I pledge allegiance to the flag
Of the United States of America
And to the Republic For which it stands,
One Nation under God, Indivisible, with liberty
And justice for all.
Our Flag (Poem)
by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher
I love to see the starry flag
That floats above my head.
I love to see its waving folds
With stripes of white and red.
“Be brave,” say the red stripes,
“Be pure,” say the white.
“Be true,” say the bright stars,
“And stand for the right.”
You’re a Grand Old Flag
You’re a grand old flag, You’re a high flying flag
And forever in peace may you wave.
You’re the emblem of The land I love.
The home of the free and the brave.
Ev’ry heart beats true
‘neath the Red, White and Blue,
Where there’s never a boast or brag.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
Keep your eye on the grand old flag.
The Star-Spangled Banner
O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
George Washington
George Washington was the first President of our country.
The people loved him one and all. He worked to make our land free.
He led the soldiers that was hard, for they were cold and hungry.
He said “Be brave, now don’t give up”. We’ll build a brand new country.
Old Abe Lincoln
Old Abe Lincoln came out of the wilderness, out of the wilderness, out of the wilderness.
Old Abe Lincoln came out of the wilderness, down in Illinois.
Old Abe Lincoln was our 16th president, 16th president, 16th president.
Old Abe Lincoln was our 16th president, many long days ago.
Old Abe Lincoln freed our nation from slavery, nation from slavery, nation from slavery.
Old Abe Lincoln freed our nation from slavery, many long years ago.
The Preamble
We the People of the United States,
in order to form a more perfect union,
establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defense,
promote the general welfare,
and secure the blessings of liberty
to ourselves and our posterity,
do ordain and establish this Constitution
for the United States of America
America the Beautiful
O Beautiful
For spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountains majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good
With brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
The time has come, our break is now over, and we will all meet again tomorrow to start off our last trimester in kindergarten (Can you believe it? We’re almost first graders!)
We have a great day planned for our one and only day this week. Our friends on A,B,&C tracks have been celebrating Dr. Seuss and Read Across America all week. Tomorrow, we will be celebrating with our own Read Across America Day. Dress up as your favorite book character and don’t forget to BRING THE BOOK! If you’d rather not dress up, you can bring a stuffed animal to read with (we will be reading a lot!) and your favorite book! There are so many fun activities planned to celebrate reading, you won’t want to miss it!
We are so excited to see you all again!