4/17/2015

Dear Parents,

We had a good first week back from Spring Break. The students were able to get right back into the swing things! This week we did some fun things with the Story if you give a mouse a cookie, we finished our chapter on sorting in math, and we have been learning about how to take care of our world. Below is a picture of the students painting their bird feeders and filling up our compost critter that we will be watching the next few weeks. 

Notes

·         For our classroom auction basket we will be doing an Art basket for kids. So you can send in items like watercolors, paint, crayons, paper, colored pencils, ect. Thank you everyone for your support!

·         Faith Baptist is inviting families to join us for Mother’s Day. Students who are able to come will get to do some songs for everyone, and there will be a cute video to watch!

·         On May 8^th, our Kindergarteners will be holding a Mother’s Day tea for all of our wonderful mothers, and grandmothers! I hope everyone can make it, it is a very special day.

·         As most everyone knows I will be on my maternity leave in 2 weeks. To make it easier on my sub, I am going to collect our Dr. Seuss reading bags before I leave. Please have them returned no later than Wednesday April 29^th. If you somehow lost it or can’t find a book, you can donate a book to our classroom library instead of buying the book. I buy these books with my own money normally second hand books. So if you lost them it would be much appreciated if you could donate a few back if you can’t find yours. Thank you!

·         We have another Writer’s Celebration this Friday. As always all parents are welcome to join us. What we normally do is students sit in two circles and they read their favorite writing to each other. They love when there are adults to read to too. After we have some sort of treat and juice to celebrate our hard work.

Reading

Next week we will be focusing on punctuations marks, reading fluently, and how to visualize as we are reading.

Math-

Next week we will be starting our chapter on position. You can help your child with this concept by pointing to different objects and asking is it on top of, over, under, inside of ect?

Social studies

Next week we will be finishing up our Earth day unit. I love how the students get into it! 

They are writing books about it during writing, and making sure everyone is recycling the things they are supposed to!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Mrs. Lee   

4/3/15

I hope everyone is enjoying their Good Friday! The kids had a great time learning about the Easter story this year. I hope as they enjoy their Easter egg hunts and time with family they will also be thinking about the amazing gift that God gave us.

Notes

·        On Easter Sunday we are having breakfast, service, and an Easter egg hunt at church. We would love to have everyone, and anyone you may invite.

·        We will be starting an Earth Unit in celebration of Earth Day on the April 22^nd. We will be making recycled bird feeders out of cans. If you have extra cans at home, can you wash them and send some in for us. Thank you!

Reading

The next few weeks we will be learning how to manipulate sounds. For example, I might say “what word would you have if changed the /c/ in cat to a /b/?” These are easy things to do in the car to help your child learn this concept. We will also continue to work on reading our CVC words and blending the sounds together out loud, or if they are ready inside their heads.

Math

In math we are continuing to work on sorting by shapes, sizes, color, and number.  We are also continuing to work on counting to 100 and becoming fluent in our addition facts.

Bible

Our focus next week is on believing in Jesus even though we can’t see him, just like we know there is air even though we can’t see it.

Science

As I mentioned, we will be learning about reducing, recycling, and reusing in celebration of Earth day. We will be talking about ways to do the 3 R’s, and we will be doing some crafts to go along with it.

I hope everyone has a great Spring Break!

Mrs. Lee