March 28th, 2011
Dear Parents,
Report cards are in this folder. Enjoy them and let your children know how well they are using the talents God has blessed them with! Look for those little things to work on at home to make them more well rounded and give them confidence. Working on the hardest parts just a little bit most nights can really make a difference in confidence.
Below I’ve listed most of the important dates to remember between now and the last day of school: *Next Friday - No School for Teacher In-Service
*April 7th –Spring Picture day for Kindergarten
*April 8th & 9th -PTL consignment sale with clothes and toys for sale
*April 15-Spring Concert 7pm
*April 21st-25th – Easter Break/ No School
*Friday, May 6th- We will present a circus play for you in the afternoon about 2:30pm. It is short but cute.
*Friday, May 13th – All Day Track Meet at the School of Mines Track
*Wednesday, May 25th – Kindergarten and Preschool Graduation after Chapel at 8:30AM, school out at 11:15PM – last day of school.
--We’ll have another field trip coming up – to Reptile Gardens. Needless to say, our last quarter will be a very busy one!
As we work on our Resurrection eggs the children have been learning about all the things that happened on that first Holy Week long ago, and why it is so important to us. They will bring these home, along with a little booklet, so they can share the Good News with family over Easter. We’ve completed half of them already. We learn about Jesus on trial this week. Our verse will be Acts 16:31 “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.” This is the last week for our offerings to help buy Bibles for the children of the Ukraine.
We are just reviewing the short vowels a, o, and i this week. Check their guided reading bags nightly, too. There will not always be a new book or sometimes there might be two to practice. Rereading is very important now so they can become more fluent. They should be able to remember what the book is about, telling you the plot and how it ends. Go over the tricky words, maybe covering up the pictures. We have even been doing that some to encourage using the other strategies they know for tricky words.
For math we leave geometry for a while and return to counting and addition and subtraction. Continue to try out the geometry tools on the website you have in the binder, and next week we’ll go back to our math binders with a new game. Another math game to play at night is to just get a small pile of coins and sort them, name them and how much money each is. Even try putting a couple of coins together and figuring how much money that is. Begin with a nickel, dime, or quarter and adding a penny or two.
During God’s World time we continue to work with character traits. Last week I decided to do the character trait about being different. We have had a lot of copying lately and it is definitely a confidence booster but I wanted to talk about how each of us is special in our own way. This week we will talk about being kind and cooperation. We will also begin learning about our Circus musical. It will keep us busy the last months of school. We do it with the other class. This week they’ll choose what they want to be.
Book buddies can be returned and exchanged on Thursday since there is no school on Friday. If you were able to color in a majority of your March Book-It calendar return it this Thursday for your last certificate. Remember that March is our last month, they don’t do it in April or May.
Mrs. Sayles would like everyone to know that we have an excellent series of Christian books for teaching all ages about sex education. If you would like to check them out just see Mrs. Sayles.
In gym Mrs. Winjue will have them practicing running and jumping skills for the upcoming track meet in May. It would be a good idea to have good running shoes on every day, as we will practice often. I’ll tell you more about the track meet soon.
God’s blessings on your week!
Natalie Graumann