The Winecoff Whisper: Fall 2024 Edition

Hello Winecoff Family! It's hard to believe that we've already finished a quarter of our school year. Your children are growing and give us so many reasons to smile while working with them each day. We often get asked what's the best way to help as a parent? The best and simplest (hopefully most enjoyable) way to help is to read with your child every day for 20 minutes. You can read to your child to model what good reading sounds like or have them read to you so they can practice. Students who read for 20 minutes daily at home will grow so much more than those who don't. Doing this one thing will help our children of Winecoff reach their goals and be set up for life-long success! 

Kindergarteners completed our visits from the following Community Helpers that tie in with our Social Studies unit. 

-Post Office-Gary Crisp

-Nurse-WES Nurse Taylor

-City of Kannapolis 

-Kannapolis Fire Dept

-Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad

We also went on our first field trip to Lazy 5 Ranch. We observed and fed different kinds of animals that we will learn more about in our Science unit on animals with living vs non-living things. 

In ELA, we are learning how to use our "superpowers" to begin learning how to read and completing our Writer's Workshop unit on how to be an illustrator. In math, we are learning the many ways we can show a number 0-10. 

First grade is tracking the phases of the moon and the positions of the sun in our study of the day sky and night sky. We are also finishing up our study of natural resources with our Creek Stompers field trip at Frank Liske. 

Second grade students will take a a field trip to Tiger World where they will learn about various animals. Students use the background knowledge from the field trip to write an informational book about an animal that they select. They will incorporate a variety of text features in their book, including: table of contents, headings, bold, print, and glossary.  

In third grade, as we all continue to get into writing, we incorporated designing a book character or decorative pumpkin the way the student would like, and they had to write at least five sentences describing their pumpkin and why they chose it’s design.

4th Grade, we are studying fossils in science

ELA- We are reading Henry’s Freedom Box and the Civil War. Explaining how an author uses reasons and evidence to support points in a text. 

Math- students will practice elapsed time past the hour.

5th grade students will be finishing up their DARE course, graduating Nov 26th, and celebrating with a trip to Frye’s skating rink. 

In Science, students are learning about ecosystems and making ecosystems with live fish and snails. 

In math, students are focused on multiplying and dividing fractions. 

In ELA, students are learning about Westward Expansion and are thoroughly enjoying the classic computer game - Oregon Trail

You are invited to eat lunch with your student each day but please be mindful of the following:

1) Your students can have 1 other student sit with them at the parent lunch table.

2) We have intervals of music playing during lunch to encourage students to eat. Please be mindful of the volume of your conversations during this quiet time.

3) Please make sure that you clean up after yourself and your student.

4)If you bring outside children to lunch, please ensure you diligently monitor them in the cafeteria. Children have to be seated at all times.

5)Please ensure you arrive on time for your student's lunch time.

K- 10:40-11:15

1- 11:20-11:50

2- 10:50-11:24

3- 12:20-12:45

4- 12:00-12:31

5-11:40-12:10