K-3 Newsletter

                                       

                                                Mrs. MacIntyre

January16, 2015

Dear Families,

 I appreciate you all sending in warm coats, boots, hats and gloves. Please continue to do that. The children are great at dressing themselves. I am so pleased with that. I try to continue to go outside as much as possible, even if it is just for a few minutes, so the children can get some fresh air and exercise.

In Literacy, the children are continuing to grow. We are especially working on weaving our wall words into our writing. Your child should be familiar with these words. You can even practice at home. If you need a new sight word list, please let me know and I can send one home for you and your child. We are also learning more about punctuation. We are identifying periods, exclamation points, question marks, commas and even apostrophe’s!

Our letter of the week was “Zz”. Our tongue twister was “Zach zigzagged through the zoo with Zannie.”

We continue with our Jan Brett study. The children love the illustrations that go along with the stories. Our special focus on the book The Mitten, is going very well.  It is a great book, full of lots of animal characters, which the children love. We have read many Jan Brett books this week, the children love this unit and are looking forward to the voting at the end of the month which will reveal K-3’s favorite Jan Brett book.  In Math, the children practiced the concept of subtraction. This is a very abstract concept for many kindergarteners. Continue to use  a manipulative at home to show the concept. You can use goldfish, raisins, pretzels ….. Whatever works!

 This week, we read about Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrated his birthday. We described him as a peace maker who believed in his dreams for a fair life for everyone. We talked about what it would feel like to be treated”unfairly” and what we can do to make our school a “fair place.”

Thanks to all of you for the fieldtrip slips. If you have not returned the permission slip and the money could you please do so as soon as possible? Thank you in advance. We will be leaving around 9:15 am and should be returning around 1:30. Please make sure your child has a good breakfast as we will not be having morning snack and we probably won’t eat until around 12:00. We usually eat at 11:00 during school so the children will be very hungry. Please pack their lunch in a PAPERBAG so they do not have to worry about carrying a lunchbox.  PLEASE DO NOT SEND IN PEANUT PRODCTS. I would suggest your child wear boots for the fieldtrip please. We will be walking around outside, hopefully there will be snow on the ground so we can look for animal prints.

Thank you for all the Lysol wipes!! Your child knows how much I love them. I try to keep K-3 extra clean, especially at this time of the year. We have lots of colds and coughs in the classroom. 

There is no school on Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Fondly,

Colleen MacIntyre