Ms. Baker's Bunch - msbakersbunch
My Contact Info
Chaffee Trail Elementary School11400 Sam Caruso Way
Jacksonville, FL 32221
904-693-7510
Ms. Baker904-693-7510 ext. 127
tysonm@duvalschools.org
Mrs. Walker & I
Pictures
**If you have chaperoned a field trip and taken pictures, please e-mail them to me or burn cd for me so I can add them to the site & have them for the end-of-the-year slide show!**
Sensational Students of the Months
Kylee
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Important Dates
April 30-May 4 Book Fair
Monday 11:30-2:30
Tuesday 9-2:30
Wednesday 9-2:30
Thursday 9-2:30
Thursday 5:30-8:00pm Also, Spaghetti Dinner & Art Extravaganza
Friday 9-1:30
May 8 Career Day
May 10 Play Day please wear field trip shirt
May 24 Talent Show 6:30 pm
June 1 Reading Celebration please wear field trip shirt
June 5 Kindergarten Celebration 9 am in the cafeteria your child may wear something nice as they will be on stage
June 6 Kindergarten Play Day and Cookout please dress your child in clothes she/he can play in (but no spaghetti straps or flip flops)
June 7 Last Day of School Dismissal at 11:45 Have a wonderful summer! 
The Baker Bunch
Calendar
Files to Download
HW May 21-25.doc
HW May 14-18.doc
Homework Tip.doc
Show and Tell.doc
half & half writing paper.pdf
shapes.pdf
Duval Legislative Delegation.doc
Days of Week PP song.ppt
alphabet.ppt
Counting to 30.ppt
GuesstheCoveredWord.rhyming words.ppt
rhyme1.ppt
RhymeTime.ppt
rhyming with sound.ppt
monthsPPsong.ppt
Open House Powerpoint .key
Favorite links
Wish List
The supplies listed below are items that are used often in the classroom. They are NOT required for you to purchase, but greatly appreciated! Thank you!!!- Printer Paper (white and pastel colors)
- Cardstock (bright and pastel colors)
- Bandaids
- Hand Soap
- Box Tops for Education
- Campbell's labels
- Soda Can Tabs
- Play Dough
- Sharpie Markers
- Small Dry Erase Boards
- Wooden Puzzles (alphabet/numbers/shapes)
- Alphabet Beads
- Alphabet/Number Stamps
- Treasure Box Items (small wrapped candy/fruit snacks, decorative pencils/erasers, stickers, small toys--cars/kids meal toys)
Upcoming Events
Chaffee Angel Tree
This year we will have an Angel Tree at Chaffee Trail. The names on the tree will be students who attend CTE and their siblings. The tree is in the front office where anyone wanting to sponsor a child may do so. If choosing to sponsor an Angel, remove tag from tree and write your name on the clip board by the tree next to the number correlating with the number on the tag. The gifts should be brought to the school, unwrapped with the original Angel tag taken from the tree. The child's name will not be revealed to the Angel sponser.
IDENT-A-KID will be coming on Tuesday Nov. 1. IDENT-A-KID provides instant and accurate information about your child for law enforcement, security personnel, media, family and friends to help locate your child if they are lost or missing. 1 card $6, 2 cards $8, 3 cards $10, 4 cards $12, 5 cards $14.
Our 5th Annual CTE Fall Carnival will be on Friday, November 4 from 5-9PM. Each classroom is in charge of running a booth. Our booth will be the "Cactus Tree." We will need volunteers to sign up to help run our booth during the carnival. PTA is asking for students to please bring in individually wrapped bags of suckers for our booth's consolation prizes. If you are interested in working a shift or helping decorate our booth, please let me know and I will put you in contact with our room parents.
There will also be a Silent Auction at the festival. Kindergarten's basket is the Bundle of Joy. We would love donations of baby toiletries, blankets, small toys, gift certificates, or books. Thanks!
Upcoming Field Trips
We will have our second field trip to the zoo on October 26!
Chaperones: Don't forget to fill out your Volunteer Forms. The link is below. 
School Volunteers
Interested in volunteering at school? Want to chaperone your child's field trip? If so, please be aware that all volunteers are required to complete the online application 3-4 days prior to any assignment. Once approved volunteers are issued a volunteer identification card that is valid for 2 years. Please click on the link below to get a head start as a school volunteer.
Volunteer Application
Destination Success
Destination Success is now available for you to use at home! Duval County Public Schools offers all Elementary Students a FREE software suite called Destination Success. It includes dynamic Reading and Math software that can be used at home, school, library, or any location with internet access. To access this wonderful resource, please visit https://success.duvalschools.org Your child’s login information is being sent home tomorrow in their agenda. Check it out!
Class Schedule
8:30 Morning Announcements
8:45 Calendar
9:00 Read A Loud
9:15 Readers Workshop
10:15 Skills
10:40 Lunch
11:20 Read A Loud
11:45 Writers Workshop
12:35 Recess
1:00 Math Workshop
2:00 Science/Social Studies
2:30 Daily Review/Read Aloud
2:45 Dismissal
**Early Release Days--Students will be dismissed at 1:45 pm
Comments
10/10/2011 10:58:02 PM - 002029633578
Jennifer S~ I am so glad you are enjoying the pictures! It is a great way to watch as they progress through the year. Thank you so much for saving the Campbell's Soup labels! Michael is absolutely precious!!
10/8/2011 5:23:58 PM - 004040357286
Greetings from California...I'm the sister of Michael's GG. We enjoyed looking at the pictures of all the kids. Such an exciting time of their lives. I'll save all my Campbell soup labels for Michael and send them to him.
8/28/2011 7:33:23 PM - 002029633578
This is going to be a fabulous year!
Beginning of Kindergarten
We have had a great beginning of Kindergarten. We have made a lot of new friends. We read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and went on a scavenger hunt each day to find letters. We read books, explored with math manipulatives, counted, sang and began writing by drawing pictures and orally telling the story. We have learned class and school rituals and routines to be amazing students. We have also learned that we are the "Best Kindergarten Class Ever", just ask your child!! We will continue to be adjusting and learning each day! Check out our pictures tab and pictures will be added soon!
A Day in the Life of a Kindergartener
The beginning of Kindergarten is an exciting time! However, it can be daunting and overwhelming for these precious little ones. We spend the first two weeks going over our Rituals and Routines of the classroom so the students become comfortable and are able to focus their brainpower on learning instead of trying to figure out what they are supposed to do. As they arrive at school, they sit along their assigned wall reading a book from the class basket until they are called to come into the classroom.
The day begins with activities involving the Every Day Calendar. These activities are teaching the foundations of math skills. These activities lead into a Skills Block which is where the basics of Kindergarten are covered: letter and sounds, numbers, colors, shapes, sight words, etc. After Skills Block is Reader's Workshop where the students are taught the fundamentals of the reading process: reading left to right, using illustrations to determine meaning, decoding skills, etc. After lunch we have Writer's Workshop where the students are learning how to put ideas from their minds into print on paper. Then we have Math Investigations where they are able to use different manipulatives to reinforce their understanding of mathematical skills. This leads into Science and Social Studies Workshops. Add to this the different Resources: PE, Music, Art, Computer Lab, and Library. Each Workshop follows the same format: a mini-lesson, work period and closing. The district has written the first 10 lessons for Readers' and Writers' Workshops, helping the teachers institute those all-important rituals and routines including early lessons in Readers' Workshop, charting as a class how independent readers look and sound and good listeners look and sound.
These beginning days are busy as new kindergarteners learn the workings of their new classroom. Keep in touch to see how "A day in the life of a Kindergartener" is progressing! :-)
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Welcome!
Welcome to our class website. You will find lots of useful information here about things happening in our classroom and here at Chaffee Trail. I hope you enjoy taking a peek into your child's day with me. Please feel free to tell your family about our website-it's a great way for grandparents and other loved ones to keep up with the activities of your child. It is going to be a fabulous year! 
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