Dear Parents,
We enjoyed all the fun with trapping
leprechauns last week, and I thank you for your help and encouragement
with the traps! I hope that it was a fun family project-- I know that
the kids certainly seemed to enjoy sharing them and seeing what
happened after setting them up.
Thank you to all the
families who have met with me so far for conferences. I look forward
to meeting with the rest of you this week. We have one trimester left
together to prepare your children for first grade-- let's continue
working as a team to make that happen.
We have a new
consonant this week, and we did introduce another vowel last week that I
forgot to mention. Our consonant will be Xx, and our vowel was Oo.
The Alphafriends are "Mr. X-ray" and "Ozzy Octopus." Now that we have introduced another vowel, we will be able to do even more blending and
spelling on our own. Keep practicing! We also have a new sight word, the. Children should now know 25 of our 40 sight words. See the list of words on our webpage for more reinforcement, or go to http://www.spellingcity.com,
click on "find a list," and enter my last name under teacher search.
You will be able to see the full 40 word list, a 25 word kindergarten list, and the expanded
50 word list that includes more first grade words. Your children will be able to
play word games on this website to become more familiar with these
words.
The sharing this week is toy in a bag. At this
point in the year, your children can probably write a few words in the
clues, if not the entire clue. Even if they just write single words to
help them with their presentation (eg. "red" instead of "It is red."),
sharing is a great chance to encourage your children to do more writing
on their own.
We will begin our math topic on
measuring this week, and will get back to science next week. We now
have plenty of boxes to take apart-- thank you for all the donations.
We
will have a Cornerstone lesson on Tuesday and an Art Vista lesson on Thursday. We continue without centers
this week. We will return to our regular center schedule next week
when conferences are over.
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
