Dear Parents,
It was great to see some of you last night at the auction! Between your donations and help with our classroom auction item, your bidding on the online auction items, and your attendance and bidding last night, thank you for supporting our school's enrichment programs. I hope you are now all getting used to the new schedule after "springing forward"!
Of course, we begin parent-teacher conferences this week. Please contact me if you need a reminder of your date or time. I am looking forward to meeting with everyone and discussing your child's progress. It's hard to believe that we are already in our last trimester of kindergarten. The time will pass quickly in this last 3 months, and before you know it, we will be moving on to first grade! After we meet over these next two weeks, please be sure to praise your children for the progress they've made, and also continue to support them in areas where they still need reinforcement to meet end-of-year standards.
I am looking forward to seeing some of the wonderful leprechaun traps tomorrow! It's exciting to see the children's creations, and they are so proud to share and talk about how there trap will work. On Monday through Thursday (on their share day, or any other day this week for Friday kids) they will have that opportunity. They will share their design with the class and tell us how it will hopefully catch a leprechaun! Then, we will all come in on Friday and see if we were successful! In addition to all the excitement with the leprechauns, we have two Spirit Days this week. On Wednesday, we have college team/sports team shirt day. Wear a shirt supporting your favorite college or other sports team. On Friday, we have green day. Wear green for St. Patrick's Day!
This week, we have another review week with letters. We are reviewing the letters t, k, and n. We do have a new high frequency word: said. Our art will center around St. Patrick's Day activities. We had fun last week with our science unit called "Wood and Paper," and will continue more with it after conferences.
We are also finishing the math topic on geometric shapes. Please continue to keep the words sphere, cone, cube, and cylinder in your child's vocabulary. These words will continue to be a big part of the math program in years to come, so it is a good idea to keep your children familiar with them.
There are no centers for the next two weeks due to parent-teacher conferences. Remember that all morning conferences will be in the library conference room. Walk into the media center (behind the kindergarten building) go past the check-in desk, and turn right. After-school conferences will be in the classroom.
Please note a few events below in the "upcoming events." On April 6th, we will have a fun celebration called Spring Fling. This is an annual kindergarten event. Children will participate in many special spring-inspired centers for the duration of their school day. There will be spin art, seed planting, outside games and activities, etc. We will need many parent volunteers to run the centers on this day, so please plan on joining us if you are able. On April 25th, we have our 2nd field trip to Emma Prusch Farm. I have already heard from several of you that you'd like to join in on this trip as a chaperone. I know space is limited, but I would love for those who are able to join us. If space restrictions prevent you from coming on the farm field trip, please consider helping with Spring Fling instead.
Please remember to send in your child's Blue Bag tomorrow amidst all the excitement of starting to bring in the leprechaun traps. The only additional homework this week was the journal.
Upcoming Events:
3/12-3/20: 2nd Trimester Parent-Teacher Conferences
3/28: March's Wacky Wednesday
4/6: Spring Fling
4/9-4/13: Spring Break
4/25: April's Wacky Wednesday
4/25: Field Trip to Emma Prusch Farm
5/4: Cinco de Mayo Hat Dance
