K-3 Newsletter

                   Mrs. MacIntyre

Dear Families,

September 25,2015

Happy Autumn!

We welcomed in the first day of fall here in K-3 by going on an acorn hunt. The students had a great afternoon searching for acorns outside and up on the ball field. We are beginning our science unit Trees and Weather so that was a perfect introduction to the unit. If you have time, discuss with your child what you notice about the trees this fall. Maybe you have a tree in your yard that you could pay special attention to. Observe its trunk and branches and the changing color of the leaves if you can.

On Wednesday we also visited Maker’s Space. Maker’s Space is a room upstairs that has many different materials that the students can explore and create with. There are markers and white boards where students can make plans of what they are going to create if they want. There are blocks and nuts and bolts that the students can use to create a variety of structures and moving creations. Students experiment and figure out how to put things together on their own  with no specific goal in mind other than to just create. It is a great opportunity for learning.We will go up every Wednesday throughout the year.

In math, we worked on writing our numbers 0-5. We also learned what it means to put things in sequence by make our own Very Hungry Caterpillar cards. Hopefully your child can retell the story with their cards while you read the summary that I am sending home.

Our letter of the week was “Ee”. Our tongue twister was “Elizabeth and Ethan eat eclairs.”

We began our Sipps phonics program this week. It is a systematic instructional program to promote phonological awareness and sight word recognition.

Please remember to come to Open House on Wednesday, September 30th 7:00-8:00 pm.

I hope your child is enjoying kindergarten and that if you have any questions you know that I am here.

I know many of you signed your child up for the after school programs. They start next week, if your child is going please remind them in the morning and if you could write me a reminder in the blue book that would be great! If your child did not get into the class they wanted this time, they usually offer it again in the winter or spring and they students who did not get in the first time are taken. Unfortunately, they fill up quickly and not everyone is able to get in.

Keep sending in your signs of fall.. our fall table looks great!

Have a nice weekend.

Sincerely,

Mrs. MacIntyre