K-3 Newsletter

                     Mrs. MacIntyre      March 20, 2015

Dear Families,

Spring is here! K-3 welcomed spring today on March 20^th. Let’s hope that the warm weather is headed our way… it sure has been a long winter and still feels like winter!

I can guarantee you and your child that they will be getting extra recess on our first warm and sunny spring day!

I hope everyone is feeling well and the germs are moving on. We have had a lot of absences this week, including my own, can’t wait to open the windows and let the fresh air in.

The children are enjoying our Dr. Seuss unit. They are getting very good at identifying the rhyming patterns in many of his books. I have multiple copies of a few Dr. Seuss books in our library center and many children are pairing up and taking turns reading a page together. They did this on their own and it is just wonderful to see!! They are also so excited to bring in books from home. I have a pile near my rocking chair to read. I am trying to read anything they bring in. We are even reading a few pages of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas every day! When a child is that excited about a story how can I say no?

Remember, the best thing you can do for your child to encourage a love of reading is to read to them every night. Make it a relaxing and enjoyable experience that your child and you look forward to.

In Writer’s Workshop this week we are continuing to grow. We are using different types of punctuation. The children love the exclamation point. We practiced how you would read a sentence with an exclamation point versus with a period. We also are beginning to read and answer questions while we learn about the question mark. The children are using periods and exclamation points and even commas appropriately during their writing. They are also becoming very good at lowercase letters. You should all be so proud.

In math, we continued to practice with subtraction with linking cubes. We also worked on making different combinations on our ten frames. Then frames are something your child will be using in 1^st grade so what they are doing and learning in kindergarten is giving them a strong foundation.

Our letter of the week was “Tt”. Our tongue twister was “Tori tells Tommy about tacos and tomatoes.”

In science, we are observing two goldfish; Salt and Pepper. We are observing them in their habitat, learning the parts of the fish and learning about what they need to survive.

Children may bring in one stuffed animal to rest with at rest time and of course books are always welcome. Thank you in advance.

Have a wonderful weekend.

HAPPY SPRING!!

Fondly,

Colleen MacIntyre