Week of March 28-April 1

Dear Families:

Friday is PJ day!  Please have clothes in your child’s backpack incase they want to change out of PJ’s!  Thank you for allowing your child to bring in a flashlight and stuffed animal!  They have enjoyed reading in the dark or in my tent! This has been a fun reading month!

Friday afternoon we will be watching a movie with our stuffed animals.  We will be building a trail mix.  Each child can bring a small Ziploc bag of trail mix type food (fish crackers, pretzels, M&M’s, raisins, etc.) and we will dump it all together and make a snack to go with our movie.  I will have apple juice available.

Friday is the last day of the Pizza Hut coupons!  This is the end of the book it calendars!  Send in March calendars Friday and get the coupon to use over break!!  Thanks for all who participated!

Spring break begins Friday at 3!  Hope you all have a restful week!  We will see everyone back on April 11!

RAZ KIDS notes went home!  I’m doing my best to listen to all the stories.  It’s something I have to do on my own time.  Wednesday nights I have no Internet, so any done on Wednesday will be listened to Thursday or Friday.  After I listen I can give the children stars to their account for building their robot or rocket.  Sometimes I also write them a note—it can be found at the bottom of their log in screen in the white box labeled Messages!  It’s exciting to see them excited about reading!  When they are recording at home, try to have them do it in a quiet space so there is no background noise.  Please do not allow older siblings on your kindergarteners RAZ kids login!  I want to hear what our kindergartener can do! J

Thursday April 14 is a half-day.  4:00-7:00 is parent/teacher conferences.  If you do not receive a conference note, I will try and call you the week we get back!  Report cards go home when we get back so you can see where your child is!  The last report card period is pretty busy!  We are now getting 3 sight words a week!  I will include the whole list with report cards.  The end grade level expectations on the report card are what we are shooting for from now until June!!!

This week we are working on the following:

LETTERS:  Vv, Xx

SIGHT WORDS:  said & want

VOCABULARY:  habitat, wild

CATEGORY WORDS:  Animal homes

We are reading Bear Snores On

WRITING:  March journals (these will go home with report cards or with conferences!)

MATH:  addition

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:  We are working on where we live, maps, and spring.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:  HARMONY

Harmony likes camping, waterpark, beach and Michigan Adventure.  She is 5 and has a May birthday.  Harmony likes to each chicken nuggets and mac & cheese.  Her favorite movie is Scooby Doo and she likes the book The Worm.  She wants to learn to drive a car and visit South Carolina!

Hope you have an amazing spring break!

Melissa