Newsletter Updates for the Week of April 16th

Enjoy your Snow Day - Stay warm and safe!

This weather is unbelievable! 

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Fri., April 20th—No School for Kindergarten Students—Kindergarten Round Up

-Fri., May 4th—No School for Kindergarten Students-Kindergarten Round Up

-Sat. May 19th—Color Run

-Mon. May 21st—Delayed Start

-Fri. May 25th—Fun to Be Fit @ 1:30

-Mon. May 28th—Memorial Day—No School

-Tues., May 29th—Kindergarten Concert @ 1:30

-Fri., June 1st—Track & Field Day (K-2) - afternoon

SPECIAL DATES:

Please note some special dates/activities that we have planned as the year draws to a close. More info will be coming, but I thought you’d like to get these dates on your calendars if you’d like to join us for any of these special events. We also have a field trip planned to Kettunen Center that last week in May, but I need to confirm the exact date that our class will be going:)

STUDENT OF THE WEEK: 

Our student of the week is Gracen Short.  Gracen enjoys painting and making friends. Her favorite foods include pizza & cucumbers and her favorite movie is Descendents 2.  This year she aspires to be a good student and a great friend—which she can check off her list! Congratulations to Gracen on being our Student of the Week!

KINDERGARTEN ROUND UP: 

Just a reminder that this year’s Kindergartners will NOT be coming to school on Friday April 20th and Friday May 4th as we will be holding Kindergarten Round-Up for incoming students:) We apologize for the inconvenience!

READING:

This week our class will be reading stories about how children can be good citizens. They will learn how to listen, share, help others, respect one another, work together, and take turns. Here are some activities you can do with your child to help reinforce the skills we will be practicing:

· Vocabulary—citizen & respect —Discuss ways your child can show good citizenship and respect for others at school and in the community.

· Sightwords—play, has, & all—Keep on practicing reading and writing those sightwords from memory using flashcards and/or their fluency chart in their take-home reading folder.

· Category Words—farm animals—practice naming farm animals and their babies (cow/calf, pig/piglet, etc.)

· Phonics—Long i & ch—make a list of words with short i  - fin, pin, etc then rewrite the words with the magic e and ‘flip’ the vowel sound to make a new word—fine, pine, etc. Make a list of words that begin and end with the digraph ch.

WRITING:

This week we will begin a new unit of study for writing—informational writing. We will look at some mentor texts to find out what text features informational texts have and begin researching and collecting information about ducks, birds, & chicks. We will also complete a journal related to the weather.

MATH:

This week we will learn about the concept of time and review our 3D solid shapes by building them out of toothpicks and marshmallows. We might even email a photo of our creations to our parents. :)

SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES:

We will begin our study of lifecycles as we focus on reading and collecting information about ducks, chicks, & birds.

Please keeping saving and sending in those bottle caps:)