K-3 Newsletter

                             Mrs. MacIntyre

November 7, 2014

Dear families,

This week, we began our Native American unit. We began by reading literature about Plymouth Plantation and what life was like for the children back then. Everyone had a job to do even as young children. We also read learned and discussed how Pilgrims and Native Americans became friends and how the First Thanksgiving came to be right in our neighboring Massachusetts.

I hope you had a nice day off for Election Day. I was happy to hear that many of the students were able to tell me who was running for governor and who the winner was.

In Writer’s Workshop, we are encouraging the children to work independently and sound out words. They are doing a great job. Their goal is to match their writing to their picture. They are using their alphabet cards to help them in their writing. Our letter of the week was “Hh”. Our tongue twister was “Hannah hugs Harry the happy hound.” We also brainstormed a list of H words.

In Math, the children have been working on writing numerals in order from 0-5. We have also been practicing number recognition 0-20 as well as sorting geometrical shapes. The children are becoming very good at identifying 2-D and 3-D shapes, please continue to practice these skills with your child at home.

We are planning a trip to McQuades sometime in November to purchase items for the Food Bank in Jamestown.  I am tentatively planning the trip for Wednesday the 19^th. I am attaching a permission slip with an open date in case I have to change it due to the weather. If you could send in a bag of coins for your child to buy a food item I would appreciate it. I do not need more than $2.00 maximum for each child. Before we go to McQuades, we will use a flyer to see how much the items cost and each child will have a shopping list with one item to buy. This way, they know what they looking for and buying when they get there. There will be more details to follow, as the trip gets closer. It is a great way to get the children involved in the community. I am really only in need of one volunteer at this point to help with the fieldtrip. Some fieldtrips are fine for younger siblings to come along with but in this case it does not usually work. I really encourage the students to purchase the product and carry it back to school themselves t just seems to make it more meaningful.

In the meantime, if you would like to send in a non-perishable food item for o our K-3 food basket, I will be giving it to Kathy Brownell to donate to the Jamestown Food Bank. Thank you so much!

    I am also attaching confirmation for your Parent/Teacher conference, if you did not sign up for one at Open House please let me know and we can schedule one.

Have a weekend,

Mrs.  MacIntyre