Ms. Beth's Newsletter March 23rd, 2017

Classroom News 

This week we focused on Spring weather and Rainbows.  We listed signs of spring, water colored rainbows, made rainbow necklaces with fruit loops, jumped on puddles labeled with the ABC’s, read When Spring Comes, read our Weekly Reader about sounds of spring, watched a video about spring sounds, and did some "spring cleaning" in our pretend play area.  In our small groups we decorated U’s as umbrellas with eyedroppers and water to practice fine motor skills, played an umbrella grid game to practice counting on, and made 3D rainbows to practice sequence and counting to 20. 

 

Am class list

Pm class list

Our spring door

Important Dates

 Spring Break

March 24-April 2

Class resumes

Monday, April 3rd 

Please dress your child appropriately for the cooler spring weather.  We go outside everyday and sometimes it is still very cold in the morning. 


 Thanks to all who decorated a "lucky" clover.  They definitely brighten up our hallway!

Literacy Tip:  Repeat words that start the same to practice beginning sound awareness.

Math Tip:  Practice identifying numbers 11-20.

Ms. Beth's Newsletter March 17th, 2017

Classroom News 

This week we focused on Things that Go.  We talked about what a vehicle is, watched a video about cars, bikes, trains, and boats, made a list of things that go, listened to the song “Down by the Station”, experimented with boats and water in the sensory table, wrote about our favorite vehicles, read our class book When I Grow Up, sang nursery rhymes, and made paper airplanes and tried to see how far they could fly.  In our small groups we painted with cars, practiced writing D, B, and P, and played a race car dice game.  

Am Class

Important Dates

Spring Break

Friday, March 24th -Friday April 1st

Class resumes Monday, April 3rd

Pm Class

The Lucky clovers are looking good in our hallway!  If you have not completed the home to school project, please do so and return ASAP.

Literacy Tip:  What comes at the end of a sentence?

Math Tip:  How many wheels do different vehicles have?

Look Out Kindergarten! Summer School Program

Registration March 14th-March 24th

Summer school registration information has been sent home. Please look it over as it has all the information you should need to get your child registered for the Look Out Kindergarten! program.  Summer school is not mandatory, but I highly suggest your child attend as it will give him/her the opportunity to experience Kindergarten classrooms, routines, teachers, and give them the "big school" experience.  The Look Out Kindergarten! program is intended to make the transition into the traditional Kindergarten classroom as smooth and successful as possible.

Please note that you may register online or fill out the forms and return them to the District offices.

Ms. Beth's Newsletter March 9th, 2017

Classroom News 

This week we focused on community Helpers.  We read LMNO Peas and All Through My Town, discussed jobs that people can have, danced to “When I Grow Up”, sang a community helpers song, read our Weekly Reader about trash collectors, wrote letters and "mailed" them in our writing center, and practiced numbers on the Ipads.  In our small groups we hand printed an H, practiced writing Q, G, and S, and made a class book, When I Grow Up.

Am Hand print H's

Important Dates

No School

Friday, March 10th

Book Orders due:
Wednesday, March 14th

Spring Break

Friday, March 24^th-Sunday April 2nd

Class resumes Monday, April 3rd

Pm Hand print H's

The next home to school project went home.  Please complete and return to school by Friday March 17^th.

Literacy Tip:  Discuss what your child wants to do as a job and what  duties that means.

Math Tip:  Count incorrectly or lose track of what you have counted.  Encourage them to find your errors.

Ms. Beth's Newsletter March 3rd, 2017

Classroom News 

This week we focused on Dr. Seuss.  We had lots of fun dressing up for our different crazy days.  We read The Cat in the Hat and designed red and white patterned towers, read Wacky Wednesday and looked for wacky things, read The Foot Boot then traced and decorated our own feet, read and watched Green Eggs and Ham then made an art project by marble painting and answering if we would or would not eat green eggs and ham, and we read My Many Colored Days and made our own book.  In our small groups, we practiced writing U, T, and O, played a rhyme matching game, and read our weekly reader inspired by Dr. Seuss.  We also had our last Stars of Week and started Super Friend.  Check out the pictures of our completed Star of the Week and Proud Parent walls!

Our many, many feet

Important Dates

No School

Friday, March 10

Spring Break

March 24-April 2

Class resumes

April 3rd

Designing Cat in the Hat inspired towers

Literacy Tip: Read a Dr. Seuss book and make up your own silly rhymes.

Math Tip: Play Memory games to practice visual discrimination.