March 21st

March 21st,

This week flew by with our field trip on Monday and having today off. 

In literacy we have been practicing writing letters, the students have written a lot of letters lately! They have written to a person of their choice, God, the Portland Aquarium, and lastly to a Disney Land character. We are experimenting with this, Miss Jones read that if you sent a letter to a certain address at Disney land they will send back a postcard with an autograph. I hope it works, that would be exciting. We have also been doing a lot of reading. Students are working on sounding out words in their heads, and reading more fluently. They are doing amazing!

In math you may have noticed more papers coming home. Every day we practice counting to 100 on a hundreds chart, then we are progressively working up to writing our numbers to 100. If they miss more than a couple I have them repeat it the next day.  I review it with them as well. Another paper that you see coming home is addition and subtraction tests. They have one minute to finish the problems. If they don’t finish I let them try again the next day. By the end of Kindergarten students should be able to add and subtract within 5 fluently.

Here are some pictures from our field trip:

Super cute dress Mrs. Thoma! 

They were being caged having fun in a little cave. Hehe

They were able to pet manta-rays. They also had sharks, but they wouldn't come up to us=( 

Some student's were brave enough to touch the these little guys (Forgot the name!) 

Students were feeding the fish little shrimps.

Here is our focus wall and art project for next week:

Notes:

·        I sent home a field trip permission trip for OMSI on April 18^th. This was planned to be a half day, however we have decided to make this a full day so we can explore the Museum for longer. .

We have started a new little reward program. One for positive reinforcement, and because it is getting nice and picnics sound fun=) On Friday's, if a student has not clipped down at all during the week they get to have picnic with Miss Jones and myself, inside or outside. 

I hope everyone enjoys this beautiful weekend! 

Mrs. Lee

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