Friday, February 6, 2015



K-3 Newsletter

                      Mrs. MacIntyre
                                                                                                                             
Dear Families,
February 5, 2015
Gung Hay Fat Choy!  Happy New Year. Even though February is a short month, we have been very busy in our classroom. We have begun working hard on our Chinese New Year Unit. During this unit, we will make many decorations for our classroom, including; Chinese writing, Chinese dragons and dragon masks. We learned that this year in Chinese Zodiac symbols, 2015 is the year of the sheep. Chinese New Year starts on February 19th this year.
We are planning on having a Chinese New Year dinner and celebration on Thursday, March 5th here at Melrose School from 5-7pm. I sent home a paper for you to return. Once we get an estimate of how many families are able to come, I will send home a signup sheet for food. It is a Potluck style dinner and it is a wonderful time to meet with fellow kindergarten families. There will be more info to follow.  
In the Home Living Center, the children are setting up for a Chinese party. They are also serving rice and lettuce to each other. During Chinese New Year lettuce is considered to be a symbol of new life. They enjoy cooking for each other and for me. They continue to practice forming their numbers as well.  The children were very excited to take our survey of our favorite Jan Brett book in K-3and the winner was
Our letter of the week was “Qq”. Our tongue twister was “Quinton and Queenie quilt quickly and quietly.”

As long as we do not have any more snow days, Thursday, Febraury 12th  is our 100th day of school! If you have not sent in your 100 items with 3 clues, please do so. It is a fun class activity that we do and I would not want anyone to feel left out.  I really hope we don’t have any more snow days, otherwise I may have to teach class at Mackerel Cove… actual that sounds good right about now!
Thank you so much for sending in the shoe boxes. I have enough now. We are using them for a Valentine’s Day project. Since there is no school for students on Friday, February 13th, due to teacher development day, we will pass out our valentine’s on Thursday, February 12th. Please be sure that your child makes a valentine for each student. Thank you!
The children seem to be doing a nice job with their reading homework. Thank you to all of you who are instilling a love for reading and a sense of responsibility in your child with nightly reading, the children are very proud about the reading that they are doing.  Just a note about the reading books, I know that they books are very repetitious and that they may seem easy or that your child is just “memorizing.” That is in fact, what they may seem to be doing, but they are learning sight words that they can carry over into their writing and also learning reading skills such as looking left to right and one to one correspondence (by pointing to each word as the read). Please do not replace the reading books with reading to your child. Reading nightly TO your child is the best “homework” you can do with them. I just want to stress the importance of that with you. Please let me know if you have any questions.
A big thank you to Mrs. McGraw who treated each child to a little treat at the Book Fair today in honor of Booth’s birthday.. which is July 8th since he will not be here in the summer.. Thank you Thank you what a treat!
Finally, report cards will be sent out through Aspen in an on-line version only.
This is new for us here in kindergarten. If you have any questions about your child’s report card, PLEASE contact me. I am happy to meet with you.
I hope you all have a warm and fun weekend!
Fondly,

Mrs. MacIntyre
               

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