Mrs. MacIntyre

                       K-3 Newsletter

Dear Families,

March 2, 2018

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.

Today, we quickly moved forward and celebrated Dr. Seuss’s Birthday along with making our own party hats! Please check my school blog for photos. 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 our field trip to the VETS auditorium in Providence on Monday, March 5th. Your child must bring a lunch from home and if you could stay clear of peanut products I would appreciate it. We will be eating in the classroom upon our return and we have a student with a peanut allergy.

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 their own paper collages with various types of paper. They love being creative and we are very lucky to have this space and time with Miss Haley.

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.

Please continue with the nightly reading bags but do not replace it with reading to you child every night. This is the  best way to create a love of reading. Make it a relaxing time for you and your child and you will be benefiting them in many ways.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me at

macintyre.colleen@jamestownschools.org

Have a great weekend,

Mrs. MacIntyre