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Kindergarten
Our Language Arts Theme starting next week is called "Colors All Around." We will continue learning alphabet letters and sounds, and listening to the sounds in words. We will also "read" wordless books by telling a story according to the pictures. Our Math theme is still Number Sense of numbers of one to ten. We are learning about safety, police and firefighters and hygiene in social studies.
We wish to thank all those parents who have signed up to be parent volunteers in the classroom. Your help to create small learning groups is invaluable!!
Thank you for your support and kindness. It will be a wonderfully exciting year for your children!
April Bagwell, abagwell@iusd.org Ramona Furness, rfurness@iusd.org Renee Plate, rplate@iusd.org Chee Nguyen, cgoh@iusd.org
Miss Bagwell is excited to be joining Westpark’s wonderful kindergarten team. She got her undergraduate degree from Pepperdine University and her teaching credential from National University. This is her second year at Westpark. Miss Bagwell is from Irvine and is an Irvine Unified School District Graduate (K-12). She lives with her dog Marley and loves running, reading, and spending time with family and friends.
Mrs. Furness is in her tenth year at Westpark School. She graduated from UCLA with her multiple subject credential and earned her Master's degree in Special Education from Cal State Dominguez Hills. She lives in Irvine with her husband, Greg. Her son Ryan is in college and her daughter Julie is at Woodbridge High School. She enjoys traveling, reading, being a high school volunteer and soccer mom in her free time. She loves teaching Kindergarten at Westpark School! Mrs. Plate is in her fifteenth year at Westpark School. She lives in Newport Beach with her husband Kevin and son Trent. She grew up locally in Tustin and attended Tustin High School. She received her Bachelor's Degree from Cal State Fullerton and later her Teaching Credential from National University. She enjoys outside activities, traveling, gardening and decorating. She is very happy to be teaching kindergarten with the many wonderful students, parents and staff at Westpark.
Mrs. Nguyen loves Kindergarten and Westpark! She got her undergraduate degree from Boston University, and her teaching credential from Cal State Fullerton. This is her fifth year teaching Kindergarten, and her third year at Westpark. She used to live in Irvine but now calls Ladera Ranch her home. Favorite hobbies include reading, traveling, and taking long walks with her husband and Boston Terriers Buster and Annabelle.
New Math Adoption Online Student Texts IUSD’s new K-8 student textbooks are now available online. For K-5 students this includes the Student Activity Book and the Homework and Remembering Pages. For grades 6-8 a link is provided to the student textbook as well as additional support materials. Please click here for more information. http://www.iusd.org/student_resources/Mathematics.html
8:15-9:55 Language Arts for Early Birds
9:55-10:15 Snack for Early Birds
10:15-11:35 Early Birds and Late Birds together for math, social studies, science, health, physical education, library, computer lab, buddies, assemblies
11:35-11:55 Early Birds dismissed, snack for Late Birds
11:55-1:35 Language Arts for Late Birds
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