Dear Parents,
Happy St. Patrick's Day! 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.
It was great to see many of you at the Donate & Celebrate Auction on Friday night. Thanks again to all the parents who helped with our class project that was up for auction. It turned out great!
Thank you to all of you for meeting with me the past two weeks for conferences. 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 are back to a normal schedule now that conferences are over. We will have centers again on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Please check the schedule on the website-- I have now updated the schedule on the website through the end of the year. Let me know of any conflicts.
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 continue our math topic on
measuring this week, and will also get back to science. We could still use a few more boxes to take apart, so it's not too late to send in empty cereal boxes, cookie boxes, etc.-- thank you for all the donations so far.
Another plea again to please try and turn the Blue Bags in on Monday of each week. As the year progresses, we are getting more late blue bags, and it makes it difficult to get them ready for the upcoming week. Thank you so much for your help!
Upcoming Events:
3/27: March's Wacky Wednesday
4/2: Dining for Dollars @ Armadillo Willy's
4/5: Spring Fling
4/8-4/12: Spring Break
4/19: Muli-Cultural Family Night @ 5:00
4/24: April's Wacky Wednesday & Field Trip to Prusch Farm
5/3: Cinco de Mayo Dance
5/10: Mother's Day Celebration in Class
5/22: Open House
