Dear Parents,

  I want to welcome you to Trinity Presbyterian School Kindergarten.   What an

honor it is to share this year with you. I hope your child has received my letter with an

invitation to visit our classroom.  I am excited that we are able to schedule this.  It

will be a fun time to meet you.  I will do an informal one on one assessment with each

child.  This will help me get to know them better both academically and socially.  The

dates for the visits are July 27^th and 28^th.  Please email me at

whallford@trinitywildcats.com for verification or if the time scheduled

is not convenient for your family.  I will continue to do the assessments the first few

days of school if you are unable to attend.

A FEW HELPFUL REMINDERS…

*Ice Cream Social for New Families will be Tuesday, August 2^nd.  Meet us at 7:00 in Willett Hall.  I look forward to seeing you.

*Open House and PTO night will be Monday, August 8^th.  We will meet in our room (red door) at 5:15.  During this time, I will share with you a little more about our classroom and you will have an opportunity to sign up for special events throughout the year. 

*The first day of school is Wednesday, August 10^th.  School will begin at 8:00 and dismiss at 11:30 so lunch will not be served.  However, Thursday will begin our regular full day schedule. 

*School Supply Boxes will be in the Kindergarten.  You do not need to pick them up.

     Please visit our classroom blog at http://www.reddoortrinity.blogspot.com.  Subscribe to the blog by typing your email address in the box on the top left of the blog so that you will receive an email notification each time the blog is updated. 

     God has placed us together to form a wonderful partnership.  I look forward to helping your precious child grow academically, socially and spiritually. 

 In Him,

Wendy Hallford

 We finished splashing into our Summer Session II!  What a fantastic time we had!

In Reading, we splashed into:

*A House For a Hermit Crab

*Splash-O sight word game

*ABC Order with Ocean Words

*Summer Leveled Readers

*Around The World Sight Word Relay

*Sand Digging - "and" words

In Math, we splashed into:

*Number Word Fun

*Number Relays

*Go Fishing

*Sea Creature Sorting and Graphing

*"Below The Ocean" Memory Game

In Science, we splashed into:

*Sink or Float Recordings and Predictions

*Fishing Cooking Snack

*Beach Ball Bouncing Game

*Water Bottle Games

We hope you enjoy the pictures from Summer Session II!  We enjoyed sharing this time with you!

SUMMER ENRICHMENT SESSION I

 What a fantastic time we had splashing into Summer Session I! We are so glad that you joined us.

 We dove into reading fun with: 

*"Pass The Coconut" and "OH NO" sight word games 

* digging for words-sorting items alphabetically and writing words *Build It-Stamp It-Write It-Read It- using the two vowel rule (ail family).  

 *guided reader-"Grab That Crab"  we discussed characters, settings, new words and our favorite part of the story

  Splish Splash we were doing some math:

*gummi worm addition games

*sea creature sorting and graphing

*balance weights-predicting and comparing different weights using unifix cubes

  Science:

*We loved our float or sink station, predicting whether items in the room and items from home would float or sink.

 * Sorting shells was another favorite.  

Our cooking snacks were a big splash.  We went fishing with pretzel sticks, peanut butter and swedish fish.  We also made sand with vanilla pudding and vanilla wafers.

  We ended our 3 day fun with a real splash of water fun and water relays!  

WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THE SLIDESHOW!  LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYONE AGAIN AT SUMMER SESSION II!