- Please use the pedestrian walkway when coming to get your children and when departing with your children. This walkway is located next to the school garden, with yellow metal bollards protecting the walkway.
- Please do not encourage children to walk through the parking lot and use the area by the vehicle entrance as a walkway. There is no pedestrian walkway here, forcing children to walk through bushes and brambles. Avoid this area, and please use the walkway mentioned above at all times.
- Please do not allow children to climb on or under the gates.
- Finally, even if the entrance gate happens to be open after 8:00, DO NOT ENTER THIS PARKING LOT! This lot is closed between 8:00 a.m. and 2:50 p.m. in the interest of student safety and traffic flow. Unfortunately, due to continued violations, the district had to add these gates. Thank you for everyone's efforts to protect the safety of the school community.
This Week In Class
Language Arts
Our sight word this week is for. This sight word goes along with our continued phonics focus on the r-controlled sounds: ar, er, ir, ur, and or. We will be reading books with a Spring-theme this week, and even writing a sensory poem about Spring.
We will continue with Unit 4 of Fundations, which is our final unit. A big focus of this unit is incorporating digraphs (sh, th, wh, ch, ck) into our reading and spelling. There are many valuable parent resources in Unit 4's Home Support Letter.
Math
We will continue with Module 4: Number Pairs, Addition & Subtraction to 10. We will spend the remainder of this school year on subtraction, then move to addition & subtraction word problems and fluency. Parent tips for this module can be found here.
Kimochis
This week, we will talk about how the feeling “happy” helps children remember to take turns. When children take turns, everyone feels happy. Taking turns can be difficult for young children because they need to regulate their impulses and have patience. Young children are just learning to master this as they move from the egocentric “me” stage to the more group-conscious “us” stage. Gentle reminders in the moment and acknowledgement when children take turns will help them learn about this democratic principle. Your child has learned that taking turns works best when we each name our turn. For example, when it’s your child’s turn, they can say, “My turn” and pat their hand on their chest to indicate this. You can do the same for your turn. This can also work with a sibling or friend. The hand movements (patting your own chest and pointing to your play partner) help to guide the back-and-forth action of taking turns. Your child also learned some communication scripts that can help decide who will go first during play. We practiced being kind and saying, “Would you like to go first?” and “Can I please go first next time?”
