Dear Kindergator Parents, We are excited to announce our Parental Pedagogy Week, coming the week of May 13-17. We would like to invite our parents to come in to class and teach something unique and personal to our students. This can involve career related lessons, cultural tradition lessons, science projects, cooking lessons, art lessons or anything you think the students might enjoy. Hands-on lessons and projects are usually the most interesting, but sharing a special family story can be a wonderful experience too. This is a chance to promote the importance of education, have some fun, expand our curriculum, and show the students that everyone has something special to contribute! We welcome your ideas and can even help with some planning or materials if you need us. Here are some examples from previous years that the children seemed to enjoy, if you need some inspiration: Puppet Making, What Doctors Do, Learning Spanish, Making Mud Pudding, How to Play Baseball, What Facial Expressions Tell Us, Watercolors, Cursive Handwriting, and Theatrical Storytelling Attached you will find a schedule of times available that week. If you wish to participate, please email us what date and time you prefer and a generalized idea of what you will be teaching or presenting. This is always a fun and powerful week of learning, so we hope you can make time to be our next teacher. Thanks as always, Linda Barnwell Monday May 13 Tuesday May 14 Wednesday May 15 Thursday May 16 Friday May 17 9:00- 9:45 Field Party Animals Chess 9:45-10:30 Day Party Animals Chess 10:30-11:15 X X X X 11:15-12:00 X X X X 12:40-1:25 12:50-1:30 coding mice 12:50-1:30 coding mice 12:50-1:30 Coding 1:25- 2:10

Sharpen the Saw -- Picture Request - April 09, 2019 Dear Kindergator Parents, Our Habit of the Month for April and May is Sharpen the Saw. Sharpen the Saw means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have--you. It means having a balanced program for self-renewal in the four areas of your life: physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual. Here are some examples of activities: Physical: Beneficial eating, exercising, and resting Social/Emotional: Making social and meaningful connections with others Mental: Learning, reading, writing, and teaching Spiritual: Spending time in nature, expanding spiritual self through meditation, music, art, prayer, or service For this habit, we would like to request a printed picture of your child “Sharpening the Saw”! We will use the picture for our hallway display for the night of the Gator Gala. If you could send in a picture by April 15th of your child “Sharpening the Saw”. Thank you, Kindergarten Teachers