Words All Around Me

In reading groups next week we will be focusing on environmental print.  Please take a few minutes to read this book with your child.  I'll bet you will be surprised by how many words and symbols in which he or she is already familiar.  In order to help us with our unit of study please send in food and toy labels.  Thank you for your cooperation!

Benefit Tractor & Truck Pull

Saturday, August 18th @ 7:00 p.m. there will be a Benefit Tractor & Truck Pull at the Mayfield Fairgrounds.  All proceeds go to provide Christmas assistance to students in all our local schools.  Cuba Elementary will also be sponsoring a concession stand during the event.  Money raised at the concessions will benefit our school as well as provide a college scholarship in memory of Principal Jill McClain.  Please make an effort to attend--we hope to see you there!

Reading Groups and Sight Words

We are off to a great start with our Reading Groups this week!  Thank you so much for reading with your child each night and signing and returning their Reading Kits each day.  The kids are already making progress with letter sounds and sight words.  This week and next week we will focus on the words "I" and "am".  This video is great for helping your child memorize the word "I" and to learn to track print.  I look forward to continuing to help your child learn:)

Writing in Kindergarten

One of the things that we have started working on this week is learning how to write our names.  This skill is crucial in Kindergarten and we aim to master it the first month of school.  Many children come into school able to write some letters, but they are mostly uppercase letters.  We stress the importance of writing our names grammatically correct from the beginning (with an uppercase letter as the first letter and lowercase letters for the remaining letters).  Please help your child work on printing his/her name at home.  Click here to create and print customized tracer pages with your child's name.

Alphardy

This is a great song to help with letter and sound recognition!

School Spirit Fridays

Each Friday will be School Spirit Day.  The students are encouraged to wear their new Cuba shirts on this day.  This Friday (August 10th) we will have our picture made as a school in the gym wearing our tshirts.  Please let me know if you need any additional info--thanks for showing your Cuba Pride:)

First Day!

We had an excellent first day of school.  We spent the day discussing our families, going over classroom rules, and learning all about the weekly routines that will take place.  We went on a tour through the school, got to meet Ya-Ya, and even earned "Cub Coins" by cleaning up the room faster than the timer. 

Thank you to all of the family members who came and ate at our "BooHoo Breakfast" this morning.  It was a great kickoff for the year.  We appreciate all the school supply donations and the volunteer sign-ups.  We are looking forward to a wonderful year filled with growing, learning and fun! 

Please make sure to return all completed school forms by Wednesday of this week.  If you have any questions please contact me @ Melissa.Bazzell@Graves.kyschools.us