K-3 Newsletter

                        Mrs. MacIntyre

Dear Families,

September 18,2015

We had a nice full week of school here in K-3. It is nice getting into the routine of things and all of the students seem to be adjusting very well. We have begun our Unit Study of Eric Carle. We will read many books by Mr. Carle, paying particular attention to The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We are learning about sequence and days of the week from this book and the students made their own hungry caterpillars to hang in the classroom. We also read some books by other authors this week. We read Chicka-Chicka Boom Boom, Chrysanthemum,Wemberly Worried and The Kissing Hand. Many of the students seemed familiar with these. It is nice to see the class enjoying read alouds so much, especially since it is one of my favorite things to do with the class.

We are doing Writer’s Workshop everyday now. The students are doing well. I encourage them to use “good kid’s spelling”, and write the sounds they hear when they say a word, not worrying if it is right or wrong. When they draw a picture, I also encourage them to use five colors or more to add detail.

Our letter of the week was “Ff” and our tongue twister was ;”Felicia and Freddy follow funny footsteps.”

In math, we began writing our numbers 0-5 and we also practice naming simple 2-D and 3-D shapes.

I sent home a book order and forgot to write the on-line code on the flyer. If you would like to order on-line the code is HJH4J.

That is the code for the entire year. I apologize for not writing it on the flyer. I usually send home flyers every 6 weeks or so.

I hope your child is enjoying kindergarten and please feel free to contact me at anytime if you have any concerns.

                            SPECIAL EVENTS

OPEN HOUSE is on Wednesday September 30th from 7-8p.m.

The first day of Autumn is September 23rd

I hope you have a nice weekend. If anyone sees any signs of autumn outside in nature this weekend, your child is welcome to bring them into school and we will put them on our Autumn table.

Sincerely,

Mrs. MacIntyre