Kim Roberts- Kindergarten

Here's our Zoo Atlanta Gifted Unit PowerPoint!

                                           Hello my dear Students! 

Are you ready for the "premier" of our Zoo Atlanta Gifted Unit PowerPoint?  Well, here it is!  Click the link below to view the PowerPoint.  While you're watching it, ask your parents to sing or hum the song "What a Wonderful World" to you.  (Kim Possible needs tutoring to learn how to add sound to an ENTIRE PowerPoint presentation.  : ) )

Last Week of School Breakfast and Lunch Changes

Breakfast: 

5-19-08 No change 

5-20-08 Super bun w/sausage or Pancakes and Sausage

5-21-08 No change 

5-22-08 No change 

5-23-08 Chicken Biscuit served and taken back to classrooms.

Lunch:

5-19-08 Field Day: Chicken Fillet Sandwich, fries, fresh fruit, and    a Juice Bar

5-20-08 Field Day:  Pizza, salad, pears, and brownies

5-21-08 Chicken Nuggetts or Teriakki Nuggets w/roll

                Beef and Cheese Nachos or/ Grilled Chicken Salad

5-22-08 No change in menu:  Spaghetti w/Meat sauce

                Or Corn Dog or Taco Salad

5-23-08 Fifth grade Luncheon

All other classes: Hot Dogs, chips, fruit, and cookie in classrooms

Upcoming Important Dates

Dear Students and Parents,

It's that time of the year again . . . the end of a fun and fruitful year of learning.  Here are a few very important dates and events to remember:

1. Friday, May 16, 2008 - Above and Beyond Projects are due.  Remember: these are optional.
2. Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - Field Day  The students' orange class t-shirts will be sent home, after field day, with those who paid for a t-shirt at the beginning of the school year.
3. Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - Awards Ceremony in our classroom from 9:15 a.m. until the awards have been given to each student. Parents, grandparents, siblings, and other family members are invited to our ceremony.
4. Thursday, May 22, 2008 - All student work, supplies, rest mats and/or blankets will be sent home.
5. Friday, May 23, 2008 - Last Day of School Students are NOT allowed to bring book bags or lunch boxes to school with them.  These items will not be allowed on the school buses.
6. Report Cards will be mailed to you, to the current address I have on file for your family, the week after school is over. Your child will NOT receive his or her report card if:

• School pictures and/or money have not been returned.
• Library books have not been returned.
• Your child owes lunch money.
• Your child owes money for ASP.

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Read, read, read, this summer! Don't forget to join the Summer Reading Club at the Powder Springs Library.  (Many years ago the library was a different building.  Ask your child to tell you what the library was at one time, many years ago.  : )  )  Practice the skills we mastered this school year, including addition and subtraction.  Your children will be ahead in first grade if you continue to ask them questions, take them to different places and give them exciting experiences.  Learn something new every day!

Love,

Kim Possible, Rufus and GP

Mind Explosive Super Study Research Links

        Welcome my dear students!

We are about to embark upon our Mind Explosive Super Study during the last two weeks of school!  So put your Thinking Caps on, buckle your helmet straps, and turn your BRAINS ON! 

We're going to embrace Ms. Frizzle's (my best friend's) philosophy of teaching;

                take chances,

                                      make mistakes,

                             and get messy! 

Here are a few weblinks to help you with your research at home and at school:

• National Geographic - Little Kids - Animals
• National Geographic - Kids

• Desert Animals for Kids
• NASA's Kids Field Guide to Desert Animals
• Kennesaw State University's Kids Desert Webquest

• Ms. Rose's Webquest - Where do penguins live?
• National Geographic Expeditions - Arctic

• Amazon Rainforest Website
• National Geographic - Rainforest at Night

• National Geographic - Great Barrier Reef
• National Geographic - Shark Surfari

• National Geographic - Site Index - Animals
• Science News for Kids - Animals
• Ms. Frizzle's Scholastic Webpage
• PBS Kids - Kratts' Creatures
• PBS Kids - Backyard Jungle
• Dorling Kindersley - Photographic Images

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We're going to reach the top of "Bloom's Brains" (Bloom's Taxomomy) Friends!  Because WE are the BEST, from the North to the South, and the East to the West!

Of course we are the SMARTEST Kindergartners in the entire !

Continue to work on your "Above and Beyond Projects."  They are due this Friday, May 16, 2008, no later than 2:00 p.m.

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We're going to have so much fun!

Love,

Kim Possible, Rufus, and GP

Above and Beyond Projects

The students who chose to create an “Above and Beyond Project” have really put forth a great amount of effort.  I am so very pleased.  The projects are coming along nicely . . . the types of “Above and Beyond Projects” that are acceptable are:

·        A diorama

·        A poster

·        A photographic essay                  

·        A pop-up card – the animal “pops-up” when one opens the card.

·        Any other type of project you and your child would like to create.  J

Each student must include these items with his or her ABP:

1.     The student must write 3 factual sentences about the animal or animals the ABP is about – this requires a bit of research.

2.   Accurate details – correct color of animal(s), correct habitat for animal(s),  and correct factual information - written in the student’s handwriting and in the student’s own words.

Thank you for the flowers and treats.  Mrs. Foscarini and I are proud to be your child’s teachers!

Kim Roberts & Judi Foscarini : ) : )

We're zooming to Zoo Atlanta!

Rufus and I are so excited about the upcoming visit to Zoo Atlanta, to begin our M.E.S.S. (Mind Explosive Super Study), on Monday, April 5th!  We know you are too!

Let's review our field trip rules:

1. It's OUR job to stay with our chaperones.  We don't want any missing adults . . . they might cry and throw temper tantrums!
2. We sit on our bottoms on the school bus.
3. When the bus comes to a stop sign, a stoplight or to a set of railroad tracks we are QUIET as mice.
4. We ask our chaperones if we need to use the restroom.

(Look who's in the cookie jar . . . a very quiet mouse!)

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You will have 2 performance tasks (assignments) to complete during your Zoo Atlanta Safari.  Don't worry, you're ready for this assignment. : )

We are studying these habitats:

1. Desert
2. Ocean
3. Arctic
4. Amazon Rainforest

With your chaperone's help, CAN YOU find an animal from each of these habitats, take a photo of it and then write one factual sentence (non-fiction; informational) about the animal?

Here's an example of what I expect from you:

                       DKImages (C) December 29, 1997,Sikumi Forest Land, Zimbabwe, Africa

          

Here are many dung beetles feeding on elephant droppings in

Africa

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You will record your observations in your Safari Journal. : )  You will probably want to create a quick sketch of the picture you took, so you can identify which picture is yours on the roll of film . . . since you're sharing a camera with your sisters and brothers in our habitat (classroom).

Hurray for the "Above & Beyond" Kids!

I am so pleased with the "Above and Beyond Projects" the kids created during Spring Break and shared with us .  I'm hoping to have permission from a few parents to "show-case" their child's work on this blog.  : )

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I truly enjoyed telling everyone at the Powder Springs McDonald's about my fantastic students!  Many happy smiles were seen in our classroom during "Dinner and a Movie" on Friday.  Can you guess why?   Another "Above and Beyond Project is coming soon!  The topic is . . . ANIMALS around the World.    

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Important dates to remember:

• Quiet Zone in our classroom, this Wednesday, April 23 - Wednesday, April 30, from 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. due to the CRCT. 
• May 5 - Field Trip to Zoo Atlanta 
• May 8 - Field Trip (chaperones are not needed) to the Powder Springs Library.  Premission slips will be sent home soon.

Rufus and I will see you tomorrow!

Love,

Kimberly Ann Possible : )

Welcome Back!

Kim Possible has had a  fun Spring Break . . . but she sure misses all of you! 

I'm ready to see you at 7:15 a.m. on Monday, April 14.  :)

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      Did you accept my (optional) CHALLENGE???

I accepted your CHALLENGE! I can't wait to share my project, and William's project, with you!

Spring Break Project Show and Tell

1. Monday, April 14,
2. Tuesday, April 15, and
3. Wednesday, April 16

during snack time, and before and after lunch. 

Let me know if you need an LCD projector for your project.  I know some of you created PowerPoint Presentations for your projects.  :)  E-mail me at: Kim.Roberts@cobbk12.org if you need the LCD projector.  Within your e-mail, include the date you are  you need the LCD projector.  Don't forget to bring your flash drive or CD - you can e-mail the PP to me too!

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Here's a preview as to what I have been doing during my break . . . .

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(Forget the date on the photo . . . I'm still learning how to use the camera! :) )

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  GP says, "Hello friends!  I can't wait to see YOU and your CHALLENGE Projects.  I've missed you . . . although I did have a great time rolling around in my sphere and rooting around in the treasure box.  Maybe Ms. Roberts will post a few of my adventures on the Blog.  Why don't you ask her?  I'll see you soon!"

GP, Mrs. Foscarini, and I, will see you soon!

Love,

Ms. Roberts :)

Spring Break Challenge

                                 What can YOU do during YOUR

             Spring Break?                           

          (READ below for information about the -OPTIONAL- CHALLENGE!) 

Well, if Kim Possible can, then you can too!  Here are a few suggestions as to what you can do here in Metro-Atlanta during the break:

• while your parents are purchasing an ATLANTA CITY PASS
• while waiting in line for a table at a restaurant;
• while you are eating a snack at the HIGH Museum of Art
• while visiting the Atlanta History Center
• while waiting for your food at a restaurant,
• while waiting to see a show in the planetarium or gaze at the stars in the night sky through the GIGANTIC telescope at Fernbank Science Center
• while waiting for your brother or sister to finish laughing hysterically at the otters at the Georgia Aquarium,
• while waiting to see animals in the dark or watch an IMAX movie at Fernbank Museum of Natural History (You just might see Ms. Roberts and William there!  We are volunteers at the Museum. :)),
• while resting during your hike on Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park,
• while exploring the poison dart frogs, new species of plants, and wandering through the Atlanta Botanical Gardens,
• while taking a break from all the FUN you're having at Imagine It! Children's Museum of Atlanta,
• while waiting to see RUFUS, Kim Possible's and Ron's friend, the naked mole rat, at Zoo Atlanta,

*while waiting to taste all the different sodas the Coca-Cola Company creates and sells around the world World of Coca-Cola,

• *while waiting to ride your favorite roller coaster at Six Flags,

*while taking a break from reading a GREAT book in the car or at the beach,

you can practice your sight words and your number and shape skills (located in your math folder)!  Prizes will be awarded for friends who study during the break.  :)

- - - - And heeeeeeres the Optional CHALLENGE! - - - -

I, Kimberly Ann Possible Roberts, challenge you to "go above and beyond" during your break!  You can even EARN GIGANTIC Prizes!

                               Be CREATIVE!

And, as our friend, Ms. Frizzle says,

"Take chances!

Make mistakes!

Get messy!"

Here are a few ways you can achieve your goal!

• Wherever you are, find new manipulatives for your number cards.  Here's a fantastic example:

If you're at the beach, collect a few seashells or beach flotsam and put your number card next to your new and FREE manipulatives!  Bring your work to school to share with us.

   

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• Borrow a camera, or invest in an inexpensive disposable camera and take photos of your experiences.  After you have developed the film, choose 2-3 of your favorite photos.  Write a sentence for each photo you chose.  Bring your work to school with you to share with us!  Here's an example:

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William bought Legos at the Lego Store with his own money.  :)

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William (aka C-3P0) mailed postcards to his friends at the R2D2, USPS mailbox!

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This is a REAL spacesuit!

(William learned something during his vacation.  Ask him what he learned!  :) 

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• Where did you go?  How long did it take you to get there?  How did you travel to your destination? "Show and Tell" - Use a map, and/or photos or drawings, to show us HOW you arrived at your destination.  Then describe, or TELL, us how you arrived at your destination. 
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• There are many other ideas and "thinks you can think" (thanks Dr. Seuss!) to do for your above and beyond project.  Have fun!  I know I wll . . . because I have accepted YOUR challenge to "go "above and beyond" during my break.

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Have fun!

Love,

Ms. Roberts  :)

Money Egg Hunt

Dear Parents and Students,

It’s March Madness in the kindergarten classrooms!  Ms. Roberts forgot to remind everyone that the money for our Money Egg Hunt and for the prizes (including the Movie Ticket Packages) is PRETEND money! Can you imagine how funny it was when everyone brought their permission slips for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and they brought 30 cents to school too?  REAL money is NOT needed!  J  The movie packages: soda, popcorn, and candy; are being donated by Ms. Roberts.  J

Speaking of money, egg hunts, and prizes; we are going to have our Money Egg Hunt and School Store on Thursday, April 3^rd.

We will need adult volunteers for this event from 8:30-10:45.  Please let us know if you can volunteer during this event.

We are practicing our end-of-kindergarten/beginning-of-first grade positive behavior skills.  Please remind your child to listen, follow directions, and learn all he/she can; from his/her parents and teachers, so that first grade will be EASY!

After Spring Break we will begin our addition unit.  We will continue to send home math homework and sight word homework every day. 

Have a GREAT week!

Mrs. E., Mrs. F., Mrs. G., Mrs. W., and Ms. R