Mrs. MacIntyre

                       K-3 Newsletter

Dear Families,

February 24, 2017   

Gung Hay Fat Choy! I hope you all had a wonderful time at the Chinese Potluck Dinner. The multi-purpose room looked beautiful and so did the children! I hope you enjoyed the singing and all the delicious food. Thank you for your contributions. It was wonderful and a great way for the students to celebrate all they have learned about Chinese New Year with their families and friends! We were able to learn many different things about Chinese New Year in a fun and memorable way. The month of March is now quickly approaching.During the month of March, we will be focusing on rhyming and word families. One way we do this is emerging ourselves into Dr. Seuss books! We are very excited to be going on a fieldtrip to the VETS auditorium in Providence on March 22nd. We will see a production of the Teacher from the Black Lagoon and other children’s books. This is a first time field trip for us here at Melrose School! We will be leaving around 8:45 am and returning around 12:30 pm. I will send home a notice of the cost in the next week. Due to the fact that we had to purchase group tickets in advance I can only bring 2 chaperones. Let me know if you are interested in coming and if I get more than two names  I think I will put all the names in a hat and pick two lucky winners!!

During the month of March we will read and rhyme throughout the month. Dr. Seuss has so many wonderful books for children to enjoy and remember for a lifetime!

We have been incorporating Splash Math and Lexia into our day by alternating groups of three students to go on the kindles during rest time. They seem to be enjoying this enrichment of math and literacy skills.

In math we practiced writing and counting to ten in Chinese and we continue to practice with subtraction. The use of manipulatives is very important when learning this concept in kindergarten. Continue to practice at home with snacks or legos or small toys that you may have at home.

In Makerspace, Miss Haley helped the students construct a slope and a ramp to understand  motion, gravity, cause and effect and to show an example of the meaning of push and pull of an object . Last week, we constructed a ramp in the snow to see if we could get a object to follow the slope, which they succeeded in doing.

The students are making great progress with their writing and are becoming very proficient with their sight words we have been practicing. Keep up the great work.

It looks like the warmer weather is making its way to Jamestown . Enjoy your weekend! Thank you so much for your support this week especially and as always throughout the year!

Sincerely,

Mrs. MacIntyre

           K-3 Newsletter

           Mrs. MacIntyre

Dear Families,

February 3, 2017

The students had a great week in kindergarten,. They were so excited to see the snow and thank you all for the snow pants and snow boots. It is so much fun when they all have the right clothes to play in the snow.

We are very busy with our new science kit. It is called Materials and Motion. The first unit of this kit explores different types of wood and even teaches students what plywood and particleboard is. We compared sawdust and shavings and observed what happens to wood when it gets wet.

Our letter of the week was “Cc.” Our tongue twister was “Cindy celebrates with cider and celery.” We discussed the difference between a hard /c/ and a soft /c/ and wrote words that fit both type.

We are also working hard on sight words and trying to incorporate them into our writing. I have sent home a list with your child. Practice as much as you can in a fun way.. Let me know if you have any questions.

Report cards will be available on Aspen on February 10th. The report cards is standards based and grading is done on a scale of 1-4.

If your student receives a 1 this means they are working toward the standard, a  2 this means they are meeting the standard with some assistance, a 3 would mean the consistently and independently meet the standard, a 4 would mean the consistently exceed the standard.

It is different than the graded system I grew up with so please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

I have the pleasure of teaching an amazing group of kind, thoughtful, curious and happy group of students.. that ‘s the best report you could get!

We have a few important dates and events coming up in K-3.

Friday, February 10th 100th Day of School

To celebrate this please send 100 items in a brown paper bag with 3 clues written on the outside of the bag. Please be sure to write your child’s name on the bag also. You can send the bags anytime. Be creative… have fun… maybe use something from nature?????

Tuesday,February 14th

Valentine’s Day Exchange

Please send in valentines with your child. I have attached a class list to this paper. Also if you have any extra shoe boxes, I need about 5 more!( If not no worries.. It will give me a reason to go shoe shopping!) Thank you in advance.

PLEASE SAVE THE DATE

Thursday February 23rd at 5:00pm we will have a Kindergarten Chinese Potluck Dinner in the Melrose School Multi-Purpose Room.

Students should arrive at 4:45 so they can get ready to do a quick song and parade for their families before we eat!                    Gung Hay Fat Choy!!!

Thank you,

Mrs.MacIntyre