Today we earned an ice cream sundae for our good behavior! It was delicious!!

Happy Opening Day Tigers!!  Play ball  🙂  Many students wore Tigers shirts or colors even though I didn’t get out the reminder to you last night.  With the arrival of Opening Day, spring must be on its way!

Here goes our week…

READING-We wrap Unit 8 with “What’s in our Garden?”  We will read The Sunflower House and work from there.  Descriptive words as well as the cycle of a plant’s life will be lessons all week.

WRITING-The student writing in here is really impressive.  Good quality sentences and the sentences stay connected on a single topic-super!  They really enjoy “Free Writing” where they know that they can write about any topic!

MATH-We will focus on creating, drawing, and writing out story problems for addition and subtraction to reinforce those mathematical skills.  We will also continue with place value.

ie  14=  1 ten and 4 ones   36= 3 tens and 6 ones

SOCIAL STUDIES-We will reinforce the need for rules in a society, class, workplace, driving in a city, etc.

SCIENCE-We are all set on potatoes.  Thanks!  Because of your involvement I was able to put all the potatoes on skewers and get them into water last Friday night so that we can watch the roots grow.  We will be recording our observations in our Science Journal.

Monday-All of my students have earned an ice cream sundae by making good choices all month.  Yummy!  Good work Kindergarteners!

March Pizza Hut Monthly Reading Logs are due.  Also, please remember that WEDNESDAYS ARE LIBRARY DAY.

We are entering our final report card marking for the year.  Can you believe it?  I will be starting final reading, writing, and math assessments after Spring Break.  Keep reading, writing, and working on math skills at home.  Home reinforcement is so helpful and crucial.  Thanks for your continued support on the home front.

Have a great week!

Mrs. Smith

We enjoyed our last parent reader today, Mrs. Saleh, Isabella’s mom. Mrs. Sales read a special book- a book that was given to her from her mom when Mrs. Sales was pregnant with Isabella! How special!

Today we had fun reading….stretched out on our towels, shoes off, and cozy with friends and good books! Ahhhh

Reminder to send in a towel for Friday’s last day of March is Reading Month.

To go along with our SEEDS AND PLANTS unit, would you send in a potato by next Monday.  (Not too big)

Thanks

Yummy division!

Thanks for the return of pictures and/or money.  You are terrific!

Remember to mark your calendars to send in a towel on Friday for our final day of MARCH IS READING MONTH.

School Pictures…School Pictures were not paid in advance like the fall pictures.  Please send in your payment in the envelope and/or any unwanted pictures. Some have already turned in their money/pictures to me.  Thanks Trent, Tate, and Selina!

Since this Friday will be our last day of MARCH IS READING MONTH, I would like to have a read-in to celebrate!  On Friday, please send in a towel (to lie on) and a few favorite books for your child to enjoy. We’ll just enjoy reading!!

Thanks

My apologies to Mr. Denison, Mr. Hamka, and Mrs. Hansen!!!

I accidently hit “Delete” when I went to send my pictures to my blog.  I am so sorry.  If you’d like to stop in for another photo shoot, I’ll take your picture again.

READING-We move into week 2 of our unit about Plants.  This week’s theme is Seeds and Plants.  We’ll talk about how seeds travel and remind ourselves that plants grow from seeds.  Look for ways that seeds travel as the snow thaws and you can be outside.

WRITING-We will explore and write with SIMILIES!  Of course we will use our good steps of writing by writing a rough draft, revising and editing the draft, and finally publishing the writing.  This is the writing process that they will always use when they write (even in college and after) so I start them early!

LETTERS/WORDS-“U u” (Their helper word from me is “umbrella.)   Here  here  Was  was

MATH-We will review position words, work with telling time (hour and half hour), and we’ll do some skip counting (counting on from any number that I give them).  ie.   14 –,–,–,–       28–,–,–,–       53, –,–,–  Have fun with this as you drive around on errands, make beds together, etc.

Spring is on it’s way but our weather changes daily.  Please be sure that your child has boots on those rainy, soggy days.  I do try to get them outside but our playground is so muddy and soggy right now.  They need to have boots to go on the grassy area/equipment area.  If they don’t have boots then they stay on the porch.  I heard that tomorrow might bring snow and Friday might bring temperatures of 50!  Happy Spring!

REPORT CARDS-Thursday I will be sending home Report Cards.  If I am meeting with you for a conference Thursday you will receive your child’s card at that time.

1. Exceeding Expectations

2. Meets Expectations

3. Progressing

4. Concern

Have a good week.

Mrs. Smith