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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